United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/21st Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 23
Chap. XXIII.—An Act to amend the act granting “certain relinquished and unappropriated lands to the state of Alabama, for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Tennessee, Coosa, Cahawba, and Blacwarrior rivers,” approved the twenty-third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
Act of May 23, 1828, ch. 75.
State of Alabama authorized to contract, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for the state of Alabama, by the board of canal commissioners appointed by her for that purpose, to contract for and construct that part of the canal round the Muscle shoals, beginning at Campbell’s ferry, and running up the river to Lamb’s ferry, before they contract for, or complete that part of the said contemplated canal between Campbell’s ferry and Florence; any thing in the act to which this is an amendment to the contrary notwithstanding.
United States engineers to furnish plan.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the engineers of the United States who have this matter in charge, to furnish to said board of commissioners, as soon as practicable, a plan of that section of the canal above contemplated first to be executed, connecting it with the river at or near to Campbell’s ferry, and at the most eligible point at, or immediately below Lamb’s ferry, on the cheapest practicable plan, in conformity with said original act, to be approved by the President of the United States.
Plan prescribed.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the section of said canal above Lamb’s ferry, shall, by said engineers, be so planned as to connect it with the deep water in the river at or above Lamb’s ferry; and the section below Campbell’s ferry, in like manner, be connected with the deep water at or below said last-mentioned ferry.
Approved, February 12, 1831.