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missioner or commissioners, and before the report shall be transmitted tothe said Secretary, shall pay his or her respective proportions of thesame: and it shall be the duty of the said commissioner or commissionersto transmit, with his or their report, in each case, a statement, under oathor affirmation, to the said Secretary, of the time actually occupied in theinvestigation thereof, and the amount which they shall have receivedfrom the said applicant.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the compensation to be paidto the district attorney of each district and territory shall be five dollarsfor each day he shall be actually employed under the provisions of thisact.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of theSecretary of the Treasury to report annually to Congress the names ofthe applicants under this act, and the nature and amount of the debt ordebts due from each to the United States ; and, also, the names of thosewho shall have obtained releases, together with the terms of compromisein each case.

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five thousand dol-lars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of anymoney not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying into effectthe provisions of this act.

Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue in forcefor three years and no longer.

Approved, March 2, 1831.

Compensationof district attor-neys.

Annual reportof Secretary ofTreasury.

5,000 dollarsappropriated.

Act limited.

Statute II.

Chap. LXIII.— Jin Act fur the continuation if the Cumberland road in the states March 2, 1831.of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois , (a)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of one hundredthousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, for the purposeof opening, grading, and making the Cumberland road, westwardly ofZanesville, in the state of Ohio ; and that the sum of nine hundred andfifty dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for repairs on thesaid road during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty; andalso the further sum of two thousand seven hundred dollars to be ex-pended under the directions of the Secretary of War, in completing thepayments to individuals for work heretofore done on the Cumberlandroad, east of Zanesville, in the state of Ohio , under the directions of thesuperintendent of said road, or so much of said sum as may be foundnecessary for that purpose; also for the payment of arrearages for thesurvey of the said road from Zanesville to the capital of Missouri , twohundred and sixty-five dollars and eighty-five cents; and that the sum ofseventy-five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated,for the purpose of opening, grading and bridging the Cumberland road,in the state of Indiana, including a bridge over White river, near Indian-apolis , and progressing with the work to the eastern and western boun-daries of said state; and that the sum of sixty-six thousand dollars be,and the same is hereby appropriated, for the purpose of opening, grading,and bridging the Cumberland road, in the state of Illinois ; which sumsshall be paid out of any money not otherwise appropriated, and replaced outof the fund reserved for laying out and making roads under the direc-tion of Congress , by the several acts passed for the admission of thestates of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois into the Union, on an equal footingwith the original states.

Sec, 2. And be it further enacted, That, for the immediate accomplish-

Cumberland

road.

Repairs.

Arrearages.

Sum to be re-placed, &c.

To be dis-bursed by, &c.

See notes of acts which have been passed relating to the Cumberland road, vol. ii. p. 357.

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