The Old Pike: A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and Anecdotes ThereonSearight, Thomas B. (Thomas Brownfield)
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The Old Pike: A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and Anecdotes Thereon
Searight, Thomas B. (Thomas Brownfield)
Cumberland Road; Pennsylvania -- Biography
20. Act of March 2, 1829, appropriates for opening
road westwardly, from Zanesville, Ohio, to be paid
from fund, acts admitting Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
and Missouri 100,000 00
21. Act of March 2, 1829, appropriates for opening
road eighty feet wide in Indiana, east and west
from Indianapolis, and to appoint two
superintendents, at $800 each per annum, to be paid
from fund, acts admitting Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
and Missouri 51,600 00
22. Act of March 3, 1829, appropriates for repairing
bridges, &c., on road east of Wheeling 100,000 00
23. Act of May 31, 1830 (Internal Improvements),
appropriates for opening and grading road west of
Zanesville, Ohio, $100,000; for opening and grading
road in Indiana, $60,000, commencing at
Indianapolis, and progressing with the work to the
eastern and western boundaries of said State; for
opening, grading, &c., in Illinois, $40,000, to be
paid from reserve fund, acts admitting Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri; for claims due and
remaining unpaid on account of road east of
Wheeling, $15,000; to be paid from moneys in
the treasury not otherwise appropriated 215,000 00
To this act is appended the following note:
"I approve this bill, and ask a reference to my
communication to Congress of this date in relation
thereto.
"ANDREW JACKSON."[B]
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_Carried forward_ $2,844,041 23
[Footnote B: The following is the communication referred to by
President Jackson:
SPECIAL MESSAGE.
MAY 30, 1830. _To the Senate of the United States_:
_Gentlemen_: I have approved and signed the bill entitled
"An act making appropriations for examinations and
surveys, and also for certain works of internal
improvement," but as the phraseology of the section,
which appropriates the sum of eight thousand dollars for
the road from Detroit to Chicago, may be construed to
authorize the application of the appropriation for the
continuance of the road beyond the limits of the
territory of Michigan, I desire to be understood as
having approved this bill with the understanding that the
road, authorized by this section, is not to be extended
beyond the limits of the said territory.
ANDREW JACKSON.]
_Brought forward_ $2,844,041 23
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