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
29. Act of March 3, 1835, appropriates $200,000 for
continuing the road in the State of Ohio; $100,000
for continuing road in the State of Indiana; to be
out of fund acts admitting Ohio, Indiana and Illinois,
and $346,186.58 for the entire completion of
repairs in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia;
but before any part of this sum can be expended
east of the Ohio river, the road shall be
surrendered to and accepted by the States through
which it passes, and the United States shall not
thereafter be subject to any expense in relation
to said road. Out of any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated 646,186 58
30. Act of March 3, 1835, (Repair of Roads)
appropriates to pay for work heretofore done by
Isaiah Frost on the Cumberland Road, $320; to pay
late Superintendent of road a salary, $862.87
1,182 87
31. Act of July 2, 1836, appropriates for continuing
the road in Ohio, $200,000; for continuing road in
Indiana, $250,000, including materials for a
bridge over the Wabash river; $150,000 for
continuing the road in Illinois, provided that the
appropriation for Illinois shall be limited to
grading and bridging, and shall not be construed
as pledging Congress to future appropriations for
the purpose of macadamizing the road, and the
moneys herein appropriated for said road in Ohio
and Indiana must be expended in completing the
greatest possible continuous portion of said road
in said States so that said finished part thereof
may be surrendered to the States respectively; to
be paid from acts admitting Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois and Missouri 600,000 00
32. Act of March 3, 1837, appropriates $190,000 for
continuing the road in Ohio; $100,000 for
continuing the road in Indiana; $100,000 for
continuing road in Illinois, provided the road in
Illinois shall not be stoned or graveled, unless
it can be done at a cost not greater than the
average cost of stoning and graveling the road in
Ohio and Indiana, and provided that in all cases
where it can be done the work to be laid off in
sections and let to the lowest substantial bidder.
Sec. 2 of the act provides that Sec. 2 of act of
July 2, 1836, shall not be applicable to
expenditures hereafter made on the road, and
$7,183.63 is appropriated by this act for repairs
east of the Ohio river; to be paid from the acts
admitting Ohio, Indiana and Illinois 397,183 63
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_Carried forward_ $6,364,559 52
_Brought forward_ $6,364,559 52
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