Volume 6
Private Law 22–CXLII
for the benefit of the Alexandria Canal Company.
Approved June 25, 1832
Statutory text
An Act
for the benefit of the Alexandria Canal Company.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he
Payment towards constructing an aqueduct.
is hereby, required to pay to the President and Directors of the Alexandria Canal Company, or to such officer of said Company as they may empower to receive it, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, to be applied to the construction of an aqueduct across the river Potomac, at or near Georgetown, in the District of Columbia; which sum shall be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, at such times and in such proportions, (having a due regard to the progress of the work,) as the President of the United States may, from time to time, direct.
Approved, .