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Public Law 20–CI
to provide for opening and making a military road in the state of Maine.
Approved May 24, 1828
Statutory text
An Act
to provide for opening and making a military road in the state of Maine.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause a military road to be TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 102, 103, 104, 105. 1828. opened and made in the state of Maine, from the mouth of the river Matanawcook, where it enters into the Penobscot river, to MarsHill, near the north-eastern boundary line of the state of Maine.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ such part of the troops of the United States as he may think proper, to survey and construct said road; and, for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, .