A bill to pay to the State of Missouri the two per cent. upon the proceeds of the sales of the public lands which have been sold within the limits of said State and which has been reserved for the purpose of constructing a road leading to said State.

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

That the two per cent. of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands which have been sold by the United States within the State of Missouri since the 1^st day of January 1821 or which may hereafter be sold in said State and which by the act entitled “An act to authorize the people of the Missouri Territory to form a constitution and state government and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states and to prohibit slavery in certain territories” approved

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March 6, 1820 was reserved to repay the expenses in making of a road or roads canal or canals leading to the said State be and the same is hereby relinquished to the State of Missouri and shall payable in two equal amounts—the first to be paid on or before the first day of September 1849—the other by the first day of September 1850 so far as the same may then have accrued and annually thereafter as the same may accrue.

Provided the Legislature of said State shall first pass an act unalterable without the consent of Congress that the whole of said two per cent. shall be faithfully applied by said State to objects of internal improvement within said State and that not more than one work the expenses of which either in whole or part shall be

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be defrayed from said fund shall be prosecuted by the State at the same time, nor shall any portion of said fund be applied to any other work until the one which may be commenced shall be completed.