United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/2nd Session/Resolution 2
II. Resolution in relation to the survey and laying out a military road, in the state of Maine.
President authorized, under certain restrictions, to cause a military road to be laid out in Maine.Resolved, 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 hereby is, authorized, if it shall seem to him necessary for maintaining the rights, and not inconsistent with the engagements of the United States, to cause to be surveyed and laid out, a military road, to be continued from Mars hill, or such other point on the military road already laid out in the state of Maine, as he may think proper, to the mouth of the river Madawaska, in the state of Maine.
Approved, March 2, 1829.