Completing road $285,000.00
(To be paid from reserved funds, acts admitting Ohio, Indiana, and
Illinois.)
11. Act of May 15, 1820, appropriates for laying out the road
between Wheeling, Virginia, and a point on the left bank of the
Mississippi River, between St. Louis and the mouth of the Illinois
River, road to be eighty feet wide and on a straight line, and
authorizes the President to appoint commissioners. To be paid out
of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated $10,000.00
12. Act of April 11, 1820, appropriates for completing contract for
road from Washington, Pennsylvania, to Wheeling, out of any money in
the treasury not otherwise appropriated $141,000.00
13. Act of February 28, 1823, appropriates for repairs between
Cumberland and Wheeling, and authorizes the President to appoint a
superintendent at a compensation of three dollars per day. To be
paid out of any money not otherwise appropriated $25,000.00
14. Act of March 3, 1825, appropriates for opening and making a road
from the town of Canton, in the state of Ohio, opposite Wheeling, to
Zanesville, and for the completion of the surveys of the road,
directed to be made by the act of May 15, 1820, and orders its
extension to the permanent seat of government of Missouri, and to
pass by the seats of government of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, said
road to commence at Zanesville, Ohio; also authorizes the
appointment of a superintendent by the President, at a salary of
fifteen hundred dollars per annum, who shall make all contracts,
receive and disburse all moneys, etc.; also authorizes the
appointment of one commissioner, who shall have power according to
provisions of the act of May 15, 1820; ten thousand dollars of the
money appropriated by this act is to be expended in completing the
survey mentioned. The whole sum appropriated to be advanced from
moneys not otherwise appropriated, and replaced from reserve
fund provided in acts admitting Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and
Missouri $150,000.00
15. Act of March 14, 1826 (General Appropriation Bill), appropriates
for balance due to the superintendent, $3,000; assistant
superintendent, $158.90; contractor, $252.13 $3,411.03
16. Act of March 25, 1826 (Military Service), appropriates for the
continuation of the Cumberland Road during the year 1825 $110,749.00
17. Act of March 2, 1827 (Military Service), appropriates for
construction of road from Canton to Zanesville, and continuing and
completing the survey from Zanesville to the seat of government of
Missouri, to be paid from reserve fund, provided in acts admitting
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri $170,000.00
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