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Public Law 22–CCCI

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

Approved July 16, 1832

Statutory text

An Act

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

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 lawfulTWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1832. for the state of Alabama to alter the plan for the improvement on the

Plan for improvement of Tennessee river authorized to be altered.

Proviso.

Tennessee river below Florence, by canal ling instead of sluicing, so as to accomplish the object which Congress had in view in making the appropriation: Provided, That not more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, including the sum already expended on that part of the river, shall be expended below the said town of Florence.

Approved, .

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