United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/25th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 72
[Obsolete.]
Chap. LXXII.—An Act to authorize the construction of certain improvements in the Territory of Wisconsin and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,For the further survey, &c. of the Neenah and Wisconsin. That for the further survey and estimate of the cost of improving the navigation of the Neenah and Wisconsin rivers and connecting the same by a navigable canal or water communication, two thousand dollars be, and the same are hereby appropriated; and that the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the construction of roads in the Territory of Wisconsin, to wit:
Appropriations for roads.For the construction of a road from Racine, by Janesville, to Sinipee, on the Mississippi, ten thousand dollars;
For the survey and construction of a road from Sauk harbor, on Lake Michigan, to Dekorree, on the Wisconsin river, five thousand dollars;
From Fond du Lac to Wisconsin river.For the construction of a road from Fond du Lac, on lake Winnebago, by Fox lake, to the Wisconsin river, five thousand dollars.
Appropriation by act 7th July, 1838, ch. 190, for a railroad, to be applied to the survey for a railroad from Milwaukee to the Mississippi.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of two thousand dollars, appropriated by the act of the seventh of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, entitled “An act making appropriations for certain roads in the Territory of Wisconsin,” for a railroad, shall be applied by the Secretary of War to the survey of the most eligible route for a railroad from the town of Milwaukee, on lake Michigan, to such point on the Mississippi river as may be deemed most expedient.
Approved, March 3, 1839.