Volume 4

Public Law 21–XXIII

to amend the act granting “certain relinquished and unappropriated lands to the state of Alabama, for the purpose of improving the navigation if the Tennessee, Coosa, Cahawba, and Blackwarrior rivers,” approved the twenty-third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.

Approved February 12, 1831

Statutory text

An Act

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,

That it shall and may be lawful for the state of Alabama, by the board of canal commissioners appointed by her for that purpose, to contract for and construct that part of the canal round the Muscle shoals, beginning at Campbell’s ferry, and running up the river to Lamb’s ferry, before they contract for, or complete that part of the said contemplated canal between Campbell’s ferry and Florence; any thing in the act to which this is an amendment to the contrary notwithstanding.

Sec. 2.

And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the

United States engineers to furnish plan.

engineers of the United States who have this matter in charge, to furnish to said board of commissioners, as soon as practicable, a plan of that section of the canal above contemplated first to be executed, connecting it with the river at or near to Campbell’s ferry, and at the most eligible point at, or immediately below Lamb’s ferry, on the cheapest practicable plan, in conformity with said original act, to be approved by the President of the United States.

Sec. 3.

And be it further enacted, That the section of said canal above

Plan prescribed

Lamb’s ferry, shall, by said engineers, be so planned as to connect it with the deep water in the river at or above Lamb’s ferry; and the section below Campbell’s ferry, shall, in like manner, be connected with the deep water at or below said last-mentioned ferry.

Approved, February 12, 1831.