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Miami of LakeErie may beconnected.
The reserva-tion and grantto be void, if acanal be notcompleted intwelve years.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Each sectionof land throughwhich said ca-nal may pass, tobe reservedfrom future sale.
Statute I.Ma y 26, 1824.
[Obsolete.]
The secretaryof the navy au-thorized to havesurveyed theharbours ofCharleston ,South Carolina ,and St. Mary’sin Georgia, forcertain purpo-ses.
Statute I.May 26, 1824.
Counties tocompose a partof the western,instead of the
of land, on each side of said canal, shall be reserved from sale on the partof the United States , and the use thereof, forever, be vested in the stateaforesaid, for a canal, and for no other purpose whatever.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, if the said state shall notsurvey, and direct by law said canal to be opened, and furnish the com-missioner of the general land office a map thereof, within three yearsfrom and after the date of this act; or, if the said canal be not completed,suitable for navigation, within twelve years thereafter; or, if said land,hereby granted, shall ever cease to be used and occupied for the purposeof constructing and keeping in repair a canal, suitable for navigation ;the reservation and grant aforesaid shall be void, and of none effect:Provided, That nothing in this act contained, or [that] shall be done inpursuance thereof, shall be deemed to imply any obligation on the partof the United States , to appropriate money to defray the expense of sur-veying or opening said canal: And provided, likewise, That the saidcanal, when completed, shall be, and forever remain, a public highway,for the use of the government of the United States , free from any toll orcharge whatever, for any property of the United States , or persons in theirservice, on public business, passing through the same.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That every section of land throughwhich said canal route may pass, shall be, and the same is hereby, re-served from future sale, under the direction of the commissioner of thegeneral land office, until hereafter specially directed by law; and the saidstate is hereby authorized, without waste, to use any materials on the pub-lic lands adjacent to said canal, that may be necessary for its construc-tion.
Approved, May 26, 1824.
Chap. CLXVI .—An Act authorizing an examination and survey of the harbourof Charleston, in South Carolina , of St. Mary's in Georgia, and of the coast ofFlorida , and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of theNavy be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be made, an exami-nation and survey of the harbours of Charleston, in South Carolina , andSt. Mary’s, in Georgia, in reference to the expediency of establishing anavy yard at either of those places, for the building and repairing sloopsof war and other vessels of an inferior class; and, also, to cause to bemade and perfected an examination and survey of the harbour of Pensa-cola, and the coast of Florida , in order to ascertain the expediency ofestablishing a naval depot at Pensacola , or at such place in the vicinity ofit, as may be most advantageous to the United States ; and that the sumof five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, for thepurposes aforesaid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise ap-propriated.
Approved, May 26, 1824.
Chap. CLXVII .—An Act to alter the judicial districts of Virginia , and for other
purposes, (a)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the following counties inthe state of Virginia shall cease to be a part of the eastern judicial dis-
(a) See notes to act of February 4, 1819, ch. 12.