# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 153

Chap. CLIII.—An Act making appropriations for certain internal improvements for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
Appropriations.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be appropriated for the purpose of making the improvements hereinafter enumerated, viz:
Maine.For removing obstructions to the navigation of Kennebeck river, at Lovejoy’s Narrows, Maine, including a balance of former appropriations, of two thousand five hundred and seventy-nine dollars and sixty-eight hundredths, carried to the surplus fund, two thousand six hundred dollars.
Massachusetts.For repairing Plymouth Beach, Massachusetts, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the further protection and preservation of the Beach at Provincetown, Massachusetts, four thousand six hundred dollars.
Alabama. 1828, ch. 73.For deepening the channel through the Pass au Heron, Alabama, being the balance of the appropriation of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, carried to the surplus fund, first January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, six thousand and fifty dollars.
For deepening the channel at Pascagoula river, being the balance of the appropriation of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, carried to the surplus fund the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars.
Louisiana. Arkansas. 1828, ch. 73.For improving the navigation of the Red river, Louisiana, and Arkansas, being the balance of the appropriation of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, carried to the surplus fund, two thousand six hundred and twenty-eight dollars, and the further sum of twenty thousand dollars.
Delaware.For carrying on the work of the Delaware breakwater, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
Cumberland road.To enable the Secretary of War to pay Lucius W. Stockton the ​amount expended by him on the repairs of the Cumberland road, during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, five thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars.
Florida.For completing the repairs of the United States’ military road between Pensacola and Tallahassee, four thousand dollars.
For completing the same from St. Augustine to Tallahassee, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the completion of the improvement of the harbour and river Saint Marks, in Florida, as recommended by the chief engineer, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Maine.For completing repairs to piers at the entrance of the Kennebunk river, Maine, one thousand seven hundred dollars.
For removing obstructions in the Berwick branch of the Piscataqua river, two hundred and fifty dollars.
Massachusetts.For completing the sea-wall for the preservation of Deer Island, Boston harbour, sixty thousand dollars.
For completing the breakwater at Hyannis harbour, Massachusetts, seven thousand six hundred dollars.
For removing the bar at the mouth of Nantucket harbour, six thousand dollars.
Connecticut.For completing the breakwater and dyke, and deepening the channel, in the harbour of Mill river, in Connecticut, four thousand four hundred and ninety dollars and forty-three cents.
New York.For completing the pier and mole at Oswego, New York, nineteen thousand dollars.
For removing obstructions at the mouth of Big Sodus bay, New York, seventeen thousand dollars.
For improving the entrance of Genessee river, sixteen thousand dollars.
For completing the pier at the mouth of Buffalo harbour, ten thousand three hundred dollars.
For the work at Black Rock harbour, New York, five thousand one hundred dollars.
For securing and completing the work at Dunkirk harbour, New York, ten thousand two hundred dollars.
Pennsylvania.For completing the improvement of the harbour at Presque Isle, Pennsylvania, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For improving the harbours of New Castle, Marcus Hook, Chester, and Port Penn, on the Delaware, ten thousand dollars.
North Carolina.For carrying on the work for the improvement of Ocracoke inlet, North Carolina, twenty-two thousand dollars.
For improving Cape Fear river, below Wilmington, North Carolina, twenty-eight thousand dollars.
For improving the navigation of the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi rivers, fifty thousand dollars.
The President of the United States authorized to improve the steam-boat navigation from Pittsburg to Brownsville, and to extend the provisions of the act of 24th May, 1824, ch. 139, so as to embrace certain parts of the rivers Missouri and Mississippi.And the President of the United States is hereby authorized to extend the improvement of the steamboat navigation from Pittsburg to the Cumberland road, at Brownsville, upon such plan as he may approve, under the provisions of the act of May twenty-four, eighteen hundred and twenty-four: and that the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to extend the provisions of the act of twenty-fourth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, entitled “An act to improve the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers,” so as to embrace in its operations the river Missouri, from its junction with the Mississippi to the mouth of the Kansas river; and, also, the Upper Mississippi river from St. Louis, in Missouri, to Galena, in Illinois, with power to remove all obstructions in the channel of said river between those points; and that the provisions of the act, approved twenty-fourth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty four-entitled ​“An act to improve the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers,” be extended so as to include, in its operation, the improvement of the Mississippi from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico, and the deepening of the bar at the mouth of the Mississippi.
Arkansas. Proviso.For improving the navigation of the Arkansas river, fifteen thousand dollars; Provided, The engineer department, after due examination, is satisfied that, during a portion of the ensuing year, the men and machine now employed in removing obstructions in the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, can be more usefully employed in removing those of the Arkansas river:Proviso. Compensation to the superintendent not to exceed $3000. Provided, That the compensation of the superintendent of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, shall be the sum of three thousand dollars per annum, in full for all his services; and he shall not hereafter be allowed any thing in the shape of commissions in his disbursements.
Ohio.For improving the mouth of Conneaut creek, Ohio, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For completing the removal of obstructions at the mouth of Ashtabula creek, Ohio, three thousand eight hundred dollars.
For a pier head at Cunningham creek, Ohio, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For completing the removal of obstructions at the mouth of Grand river, Ohio, two thousand six hundred dollars.
For completing the improvement of Cleveland harbour, Ohio, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For removing a sand bar at the mouth of Black river, Ohio, eight thousand dollars.
For removing obstructions at the mouth of Huron river, Ohio, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Michigan.For piers at La Plaisance bay, Michigan, eight thousand dollars.
Cumberland, Tennessee.For the improvement of the navigation of the Cumberland river, thirty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the War Department.
Georgia.For the removal of the obstructions to the navigation of the Savannah river, between the mouth thereof and the city of Savannah, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, including the balance of the former appropriation to the same object, to be expended according to a plan and an estimate of the Department of War.
Surveys. Act of April 30, 1824, ch. 46.For defraying the expenses incidental to making examinations and surveys under the act of thirtieth April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, thirty thousand dollars.
Cumberland road. Act of March 2, 1831, ch. 97.For 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 ​Assent to acts of Pennsylvania and Maryland.January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, to which said acts the assent of the United States is hereby given, to remain in force during the pleasure of Congress, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the War Department, under the ​Acts to be appended to laws of present session.superintendence of an officer of the engineers; and which said acts are hereby directed to be printed and appended to the laws of the present session of Congress.
Maine.For repairing and building bridges on the military road leading from ​Mattanawcook to Mars’ hill, in Maine, for widening said road, and for contingencies, twenty-one thousand dollars.
Michigan.For continuing the road from Detroit to Chicago, fifteen thousand dollars. ​Secretary of War authorized to change direction of road.For continuing the road from Detroit to fort Gratiot in Michigan, fifteen thousand dollars; and authority is hereby given to the Secretary of War, to change the direction in which the road shall be continued, agreeably to the report of the superintendent of the War Department, of the eighteenth of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.
For continuing the road form Detroit to Saganaw, ten thousand dollars.
Arkansas.For the repair of the Little Rock and Memphis road, from Little Rock to the St. Francis river, under the superintendence of the governor of said territory, twenty thousand dollars.
To complete the Washington and Jackson road, at the two extremes thereof, in the territory of Arkansas, in addition to the unexpended balance, two thousand dollars.
Ohio.For continuing the Cumberland road in the state of Ohio, west of Zanesville, one hundred thousand dollars.
Indiana.For continuing the Cumberland road in the state of Indiana, including the erection of bridges over the east and west branches of White Water, and other small streams, with a view to bring the road into immediate use, one hundred thousand dollars.
Illinois.For continuing the Cumberland road in the state of Illinois, seventy thousand dollars.
To be paid from the treasury.Which sums shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and replaced out of the fund reserved for the laying out and making of 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.
Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 98. Cumberland road. Office of superintendent discontinued. Work to be prosecuted, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of the second section of the act for the continuation of the Cumberland road, approved March third, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, as authorizes the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint a superintendent thereof, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and that the work in the state of Ohio be continued by the War Department, under the superintendence of an officer of engineers.
Approved, July 3, 1832.