Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1824-03-16
NATIONAL ROAD.


The foitoapt,tg is the biH rebo,ted BY NJ. eosy
in tie House Of Representatives. mentioned in our
last.
BILL to authorize the laving out and open
ing a road from Wheeling in the state of
Virginia, to the seat OF Government OF Mis-
sour
Be 10 enacted BY the Senate and House
Of Representatives. Of the United STATES
Of .4mer7ca in Congress- assembled That
the President The United S ales be,
and he is hereby, authorized and en-
powered TO appoint one judicious and
impartial person, moi being citizen Of
either OF the states through which the
road hereinai cr mentioned shall pass, to
be commissioner, and, in case of the
death, Resignation, elusal TO act, or any
disability, OF such commissioner, to
appoint another IN his stead, who shall
have power, according to the provisions
OF the act, entitled - An ait t. authorize
t'e appointment of missioners to
lay out the lad therein mentioned" APP
proved Nav the fifteenth, one thousand
eleht hundred and twenty, to complete
the examination ard survey heretofore
commenced by virtue OF the provisions
OF SAID act, and TO extend the same 10
the permanent seat OF Government Of
the state OF Missouri the said road to
c0Wnrnl, in all respects, 10 the provi-
sious ii the sand reciied acr, except that
i Sail pass by the seats OF Government
0i The states oil Ohio, Indiana. and Hi
nos ; and the saId commissioner AID
the persons en,pio, ed under him, shall
receive the same compensation for their
services, respectively, as is allowed by
the said reri.d act.
scr. 2 ind be II farther enacted, That
so CD as The plan ana report oil the
commissioner, so appointed, shall he
madc To the President of the Uhiled
ot'tes, aud approved by him, he shall
cause the SAID Commissioner, as soon as
may hs, 10 is-ue notice, to be printed
il al least tnrge OF the pNbic neWspa-
pcrs published within the states aiore-
sad, ana Tor st least three months pre-
v'ouet To r Giving the same, that propo-
sals will be received by him, at the
places therein specified, and in such
manner Is the Prssideni may deem it
most advisable to order them TO be re-
ceived, for opening said road, and
bridging WITH wooden bridges, such
streams as il may cross as thall be d.
rected by the President To be brdged,
or such part or parts thereof, within
such I'M, aud IN such manner, as shall
be specified N SAID nuute, which shall
/ be IN all cases, let to the lowest bidder:
ProUided. ho7veUer, That nothing here
in contained shall be construed to au-
tnorile the construction of {, IN Ike
road
Sec. 3. ind be Hfu11her enacted, That
tor the purpose o pay ing the said COM
ms ioner, aud those employed under
hiu, Tor their services i'll laying out, sur
veyng, and marking the said road, aud
tor coo,peh3atng the said conmission-
er Tor supcrln ending the constructs
thereof, there shall be, and is hereby
appropriated the sum Of six thousand
dollars, 10 be paid ont of any money in
The Treasury, not otherwise appropliat-
Ell.
Sec. 4. IND be ii farther enactsd. That
for the purpose OF detraylng the expense
OF making aud blidging said road, there
s1ll be issued, nnder the direction Of
The President OF The United S ates, in
certificates or scrip, The said certificates
or script, to be OF the nominal value Of
one hundred dollars each, al amount
not exceeding Two hundred thousand
dollars, to be receivable only in payn,nt
for public lands, al the land offices in
the United States; which said cerilf-
Gates, or scrip, shall be paid 10 the con-
tractors employed in making the said
road, so soon as their several contracts
shall be complied with, and not Def ire.
Sec. 5. lind be il. Purifier enacted, That
the money hereby appropriated, and the
certificates, or scrip, hereby authorized
TO be issued, shall be a charge upon The
two per cent. fund, heretofore Set apart
and pledged by the several acts oil Con-
sress authorizing the admission OF the
states OF Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri,
into the Union, Tor the construction of
roads and canals leading to those states,
and shall be retained by the United
States out of the first money coming in
The Treasury, and applicable to those OBJ
lects.
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