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
SEC. 6. _And be it further enacted_, That the sum of thirty thousand
dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to defray the expense
of laying out and making said road. And the President is hereby
authorized to draw, from time to time, on the treasury for such parts,
or at any one time, for the whole of said sum, as he shall judge the
service requires. Which sum of thirty thousand dollars shall be paid,
first, out of the fund of two per cent, reserved for laying out and
making roads _to_ the State of Ohio, by virtue of the seventh section of
an act passed on the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred
and two, entitled, "An act to enable the people of the eastern division
of the territory northwest of the river Ohio to form a constitution and
State government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on
an equal footing with the original States, and for other purposes."
Three per cent. of the appropriation contained in said seventh section
being directed by a subsequent law to the laying out, opening and
making roads _within_ the said State of Ohio; and secondly, out of any
money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, chargeable upon, and
reimbursable at the treasury by said fund of two per cent. as the same
shall accrue.
SEC. 7. _And be it further enacted_, That the President be, and he is
hereby requested, to cause to be laid before Congress, as soon as
convenience will permit, after the commencement of each session, a
statement of the proceedings under this act, that Congress may be
enabled to adopt such further measures as may from time to time be
proper under existing circumstances.
_Approved, March 29, 1806._ TH. JEFFERSON.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, }
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.}
_To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting_:
I certify that hereto annexed is a true copy of an Act of Congress,
approved March 29, 1806, the original of which is on file in this
Department, entitled: "An Act to regulate the laying out and making a
road from Cumberland, in the State of Maryland, to the State of Ohio."
In testimony whereof, I, James G. Blaine, Secretary of State of the
United States, have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of
the Department of State to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this seventh day of March, A. D. 1891,
and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and
fifteenth.
JAMES G. BLAINE.
CHAPTER IV.
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