United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 101
Chap. CI.—An Act to provide for opening and making a military road in the state of Maine.
President to cause a military road to be opened.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause a military road to be opened and made in the state of Maine, from the mouth of the river Matanawcook, where it enters into the Penobscot river, to Mars Hill, near the north-eastern boundary line of the state of Maine.
Troops of the United States to be employed to carry into effect the provisions of this act.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ such part of the troops of the United States as he may think proper, to survey and construct said road; and, for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, May 24, 1828.