# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/23rd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 68

Chap. LXVIII.—An Act for the continuation and repair of the Cumberland road.
Appropriations for continuing the road in the state of Ohio; Indiana;Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of two hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the purpose of continuing the Cumberland road in the state of Ohio; also, that the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for continuing the Cumberland road in the state of Indiana; and that the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be appropriated for continuing said road in the state of Illinois;Illinois. which said sums shall be paid ​out of any money not otherwise appropriated, and replaced out of the fund reserved for laying out and making roads under the direction of Congress, by the several acts passed for the admission of the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states.
Officer of engineer corps to superintend the road in Indiana and Illinois. Proviso.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That an officer of the corps of engineers, to be selected by the Department of War, shall be charged with the disbursements of the moneys appropriated for the construction of the Cumberland road through the states of Indiana and Illinois; and that said officer shall have, under the direction of the engineer department, a general control over the operations of the said road, and over all persons employed thereon: Provided, That no per centage shall be allowed to such officer for disbursing moneys appropriated for the construction of said road.
Appropriation to carry into effect Pennsylvania act of April 4, 1831; Maryland act of January 23, 1832; and Virginia act of February 7, 1832. Vol. iv. 553. Vol. iv. 655.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That for the entire completion of the repairs of the Cumberland road, east of the Ohio river, and other needful improvements on said road, to carry into effect the provisions of an act of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, entitled “An act for the preservation and repair of the Cumberland road,” passed the fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one; and of an act of the General Assembly of the state of Maryland, entitled “An act for the preservation and repair of that part of the United States road, within the limits of the state of Maryland,” passed the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; also, an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, entitled “An act concerning the Cumberland road,” passed February the seventh, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; the sum of three hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War: the money to be drawn out of the treasury in such sums, and at such times as may be required for the performance of the work.
Road to be surrendered to the states through which it passes.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That as soon as the sum by this act appropriated, or so much thereof as is necessary, shall be expended in the repair of said road, agreeably to the provisions of this act, the same shall be surrendered to the states, respectively, through which said road passes: and the United States shall not thereafter be subject to any expense for repairing said road.
Approved, June 24, 1834.