United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/24th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 264
July 2, 1836.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of two hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the purpose of continuing the Cumberland Road in the State of Ohio;State of Ohio. that the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for continuing the Cumberland Road in the State of Indiana, including materials for erecting a bridge across the Wabash river;State of Indiana.
State of Illinois. and that the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for continuing the Cumberland Road in the State of Illinois; which sums shall be paid out of any money not otherwise appropriated, and replaced out of the fund reserved for laying out and making roads under the direction of Congress, by the several acts passed for the admission of the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri into the Union on an equal footing with the original States: Provided,Proviso. That the expenditure of the appropriation herein made for the state of Illinois shall be limited to the graduation and bridging of the road therein, and shall not be construed as pledging Congress to future appropriations for the purpose of McAdamizing the same.
Chap. CCLXIV.—An act for the continuation of the Cumberland Road in the States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.[1]
State of Illinois. and that the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for continuing the Cumberland Road in the State of Illinois; which sums shall be paid out of any money not otherwise appropriated, and replaced out of the fund reserved for laying out and making roads under the direction of Congress, by the several acts passed for the admission of the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri into the Union on an equal footing with the original States: Provided,Proviso. That the expenditure of the appropriation herein made for the state of Illinois shall be limited to the graduation and bridging of the road therein, and shall not be construed as pledging Congress to future appropriations for the purpose of McAdamizing the same.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the moneys hereby appropriated for the construction of the said road in the States of Ohio and Indiana, be expended in completing the greatest possible continuous portion of said road in the said States, so that such finished parts thereof may be surrendered to the said States, respectively.
Approved, July 2, 1836.[2]