Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—SECOND SESSION.
H. R. 801.
(No Report.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
February 28, 1849.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the
state of the Union.
Mr. Robert Smith, from the Committee on Roads and
Canals, reported the following bill:
A BILL
To provide for opening a road from Lake Superior by the way of the falls of St. Croix, Marine mills, Stillwater, and St. Pauls to Point Douglass, on the Mississippi river.

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8 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That the sum of twelve thousand dollars be,
and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended
under the direction of the Secretary of War in laying out
and opening a road from the most elegible point on Lake
Superior, on the navigable waters of the St. Louis river, to

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the falls of St. Croix, Marine mills, Stillwater, and St.
Pauls.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of twelve thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War in laying out and opening a road from the most elegible point on Lake Superior, on the navigable waters of the St. Louis river, to
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9 10 11	Point Douglass, on the Mississippi river, by the way of the falls of St. Croix, Marine mills, Stillwater, and St. Pauls.