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out of any money not otherwise appropriated, and replaced out of thefund reserved for laying out and making roads under the direction ofCongress , by the several acts passed for the admission of the states ofOhio, Indiana, and Illinois into the Union, on an equal footing with theoriginal states.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That an officer of the corps of engi-neers, to be selected by the Department of War , shall be charged withthe disbursements of the moneys appropriated for the construction of theCumberland road through the states of Indiana and Illinois ; and thatsaid officer shall have, under the direction of the engineer department, ageneral control over the operations of the said road, and over all personsemployed thereon: Provided, That no per centage shall be allowed tosuch officer for disbursing moneys appropriated for the construction ofsaid road.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That for the entire completion ofrepairs of the Cumberland road, east of the Ohio river, and other needfulimprovements on said road, to carry into effect the provisions of an actof the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, entitled “ An act for the pre-servation and repair of the Cumberland road,” passed the fourth day ofApril, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one; and of an act of theGenera] Assembly of the state of Maryland , entitled “ An act for thepreservation and repair of that part of the United States road, within thelimits of the state of Maryland, ” passed the twenty-third day of January,one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; also, an act of the GeneralAssembly of Virginia , entitled “ An act concerning the Cumberlandroad,” passed February the seventh, one thousand eight hundred andthirty-two; the sum of three hundred thousand dollars be, and the sameis hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury nototherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secre-tary of War: the money to be drawn out of the treasury in such sums,and at such times as may be required for the performance of the work.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That as soon as the sum by this actappropriated, or so much thereof as is necessary, shall be expended inthe repair of said road, agreeably to the provisions of this act, the sameshall be surrendered to the states, respectively, through which said roadpasses; and the United States shall not thereafter be subject to anyexpense for repairing said road.
Approved, June 24, 1834.
Proviso.
Appropriationto carry into ef-fect Pennsylva-nia act of April4, 1831; Mary-land act of Jan-uary 23, 1832;and Virginia actof February 7,1832.
Vol. iv. 553.
Vol. iv. 655.
Road to be sur-rendered to thestates throughwhich it passes.
Statute I.
Chap. LXXI.— An Act regulating the value of cei'tain foreign silver coins withinthe United States . ( a )
Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the passageof this act, the following silver coins shall be of the legal value, and shallpass current as money within the United States , by tale, for the paymentof all debts and demands, at the rate of one hundred cents the dollar,that is to say, the dollars of Mexico, Peru, Chili, and Central America ,of not less weight than four hundred and fifteen grains each, and thosere-stamped in Brazil of the like weight, of not less fineness than tenounces fifteen pennyweights of pure silver, in the troy pound of twelveounces of standard silver: and the five franc pieces of France , when ofnot less fineness than ten ounces and sixteen pennyweights in twelveounces troy weight of standard silver, and weighing not less than threehundred and eighty-four grains each at the rate of ninety-three cents each.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be [the] duty of theSecretary of the Treasury to cause assays of the aforesaid silver coins,
June 25, 1834.
Act of June28,1834, ch. 96.
Certain silvercoin to pass bytale.
Assays of suchcoin to be made