Chapter X: Appendix: A

APPROPRIATIONS BY CONGRESS AT VARIOUS TIMES FOR MAKING, REPAIRING, AND CONTINUING THE ROAD

1. Act of March 29, 1806, authorizes the President to appoint a
commission of three citizens to lay out a road four rods in width
"from Cumberland or a point on the northern bank of the river
Potomac in the State of Maryland, between Cumberland and the place
where the main road leading from Gwynn's to Winchester, in Virginia,
crosses the river, ... to strike the river Ohio at the most
convenient place between a point on its eastern bank, opposite the
northern boundary of Steubenville and the mouth of Grave creek,
which empties into the said river a little below Wheeling, in
Virginia." Provides for obtaining the consent of the states through
which the road passes, and appropriates for the expense, to be paid
from the reserve fund under the act of April 30, 1802, $30,000.00

2. Act of February 14, 1810, appropriates to be expended under the
direction of the President in making the road between Cumberland and
Brownsville, to be paid from fund act of April 30, 1802, $60,000.00

3. Act of March 3, 1811, appropriates to be expended under the
direction of the President in making the road between Cumberland and
Brownsville, and authorizes the President to permit deviation from a
line established by the commissioners under the original act as may
be expedient; _Provided_, that no deviation shall be made from the
principal points established on said road between Cumberland and
Brownsville; to be paid from fund act of April 30, 1802 $50,000.00

4. Act of February 26, 1812, appropriates balance of a former
appropriation not used, but carried to surplus fund, $3,786.60

5. Act of May 6, 1812, appropriates to be expended under direction
of the President, for making the road from Cumberland to
Brownsville, to be paid from fund act of April 30, 1802 $30,000.00

6. Act of March 3, 1813 (General Appropriation Bill), appropriates
for making the road from Cumberland to the state of Ohio, to be
paid from fund act of April 30, 1802 $140,000.00

7. Act of February 14, 1815, appropriates to be expended under
the direction of the President, for making the road between
Cumberland and Brownsville, to be paid from fund act of April 30,
1802, $100,000.00

8. Act of April 16, 1816 (General Appropriation Bill), appropriates
for making the road from Cumberland to the state of Ohio, to be paid
from the fund act April 30, 1802 $300,000.00

9. Act of April 14, 1818, appropriates to meet claims due and
unpaid $52,984.60

Demands under existing contracts $260,000.00

(From money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.)

10. Act of March 3, 1819, appropriates for existing claims and
contracts $250,000.00

Completing road $285,000.00

(To be paid from reserved funds, acts admitting Ohio, Indiana, and
Illinois.)

11. Act of May 15, 1820, appropriates for laying out the road
between Wheeling, Virginia, and a point on the left bank of the
Mississippi River, between St. Louis and the mouth of the Illinois
River, road to be eighty feet wide and on a straight line, and
authorizes the President to appoint commissioners. To be paid out
of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated $10,000.00

12. Act of April 11, 1820, appropriates for completing contract for
road from Washington, Pennsylvania, to Wheeling, out of any money in
the treasury not otherwise appropriated $141,000.00

13. Act of February 28, 1823, appropriates for repairs between
Cumberland and Wheeling, and authorizes the President to appoint a
superintendent at a compensation of three dollars per day. To be
paid out of any money not otherwise appropriated $25,000.00

14. Act of March 3, 1825, appropriates for opening and making a road
from the town of Canton, in the state of Ohio, opposite Wheeling, to
Zanesville, and for the completion of the surveys of the road,
directed to be made by the act of May 15, 1820, and orders its
extension to the permanent seat of government of Missouri, and to
pass by the seats of government of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, said
road to commence at Zanesville, Ohio; also authorizes the
appointment of a superintendent by the President, at a salary of
fifteen hundred dollars per annum, who shall make all contracts,
receive and disburse all moneys, etc.; also authorizes the
appointment of one commissioner, who shall have power according to
provisions of the act of May 15, 1820; ten thousand dollars of the
money appropriated by this act is to be expended in completing the
survey mentioned. The whole sum appropriated to be advanced from
moneys not otherwise appropriated, and replaced from reserve
fund provided in acts admitting Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and
Missouri $150,000.00

15. Act of March 14, 1826 (General Appropriation Bill), appropriates
for balance due to the superintendent, $3,000; assistant
superintendent, $158.90; contractor, $252.13 $3,411.03

16. Act of March 25, 1826 (Military Service), appropriates for the
continuation of the Cumberland Road during the year 1825 $110,749.00

17. Act of March 2, 1827 (Military Service), appropriates for
construction of road from Canton to Zanesville, and continuing and
completing the survey from Zanesville to the seat of government of
Missouri, to be paid from reserve fund, provided in acts admitting
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri $170,000.00

For balance due superintendent, from moneys not otherwise
appropriated, $510.00

18. Act of March 2, 1827, appropriates for repairs between
Cumberland and Wheeling, and authorizes the appointment of a
superintendent of repairs, at a compensation to be fixed by the
President. To be paid from moneys not otherwise appropriated.
The language of this act is: "For repairing the public road
from Cumberland to Wheeling" $30,000.00

19. Act of May 19, 1828, appropriates for the completion of the road
to Zanesville, Ohio, to be paid from fund provided in acts admitting
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri $175,000.00

20. Act of March 2, 1829, appropriates for opening road westwardly,
from Zanesville, Ohio, to be paid from fund provided in acts
admitting Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri $100,000.00

21. Act of March 2, 1829, appropriates for opening road eighty feet
wide in Indiana, east and west from Indianapolis, and to appoint two
superintendents, at eight hundred dollars each per annum, to be paid
from fund provided in acts admitting Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and
Missouri, $51,600.00

22. Act of March 3, 1829, appropriates for repairing bridges, etc.,
on road east of Wheeling $100,000.00

23. Act of May 31, 1830 (Internal Improvements), appropriates for
opening and grading road west of Zanesville, Ohio, $100,000; for
opening and grading road in Indiana, $60,000; commencing at
Indianapolis, and progressing with the work to the eastern and
western boundaries of said state; for opening, grading, etc., in
Illinois, $40,000, to be paid from reserve fund provided in acts
admitting Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri; for claims due
and remaining unpaid on account of road east of Wheeling,
$15,000; to be paid from moneys in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated $215,000.00

24. Act of March 2, 1831, appropriates $100,000 for opening,
grading, and so forth, west of Zanesville, Ohio; $950 for repairs
during the year 1830; $2,700 for work heretofore done east of
Zanesville; $265.85 for arrearages for the survey from Zanesville to
the capital of Missouri; and $75,000 for opening, grading, and so
forth, in the state of Indiana, including bridge over White River,
near Indianapolis, and progressing to eastern and western
boundaries; $66,000 for opening, grading and bridging in Illinois;
to be paid from the fund provided in acts admitting Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, and Missouri $244,915.85

25. Act of July 3, 1832, appropriates $150,000 for repairs east of
the Ohio River; $100,000 for continuing the road west of Zanesville;
$100,000 for continuing the road in Indiana, including bridge over
east and west branch of White River; $70,000 for continuing road in
Illinois; to be paid from the fund provided in acts admitting Ohio,
Indiana, and Illinois $420,000.00

26. Act of March 2, 1833, appropriates to carry on certain
improvements east of the Ohio River, $125,000; in Ohio, west of
Zanesville, $130,000; in Indiana, $100,000; in Illinois, $70,000;
and in Virginia, $34,440 $459,440.00

27. Act of June 24, 1834, appropriates $200,000 for continuing the
road in Ohio; $150,000 for continuing the road in Indiana; $100,000
for continuing the road in Illinois, and $300,000 for the entire
completion of repairs east of Ohio, to meet provisions of the acts
of Pennsylvania (April 4, 1831), Maryland (Jan. 23, 1832), and
Virginia (Feb. 7, 1832), accepting the road surrendered to the
states, the United States not thereafter to be subject to any
expense for repairs. Places engineer officer of army in control of
road through Indiana and Illinois, and in charge of all
appropriations; $300,000 to be paid out of any money in the Treasury
not otherwise appropriated, balance from that provided in acts
admitting Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, $750,000.00

28. Act of June 27, 1837 (General Appropriation), for arrearages due
to the contractors $1,609.36

29. Act of March 3, 1835, appropriates $200,000 for continuing the
road in the state of Ohio; $100,000 for continuing road in the
state of Indiana; to be out of fund provided in acts admitting Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois, and $346,186.58 for the entire completion of
repairs in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia; but before any part
of this sum can be expended east of the Ohio River, the road shall
be surrendered to and accepted by the states through which it
passes, and the United States shall not thereafter be subject to any
expense in relation to said road. Out of any money in the Treasury
not otherwise appropriated $646,186.58

30. Act of March 3, 1835 (Repair of Roads), appropriates to pay for
work heretofore done by Isaiah Frost on the Cumberland Road, $320;
to pay late superintendent of road a salary, $862.87 $1,182.87

31. Act of July 2, 1836, appropriates for continuing the road in
Ohio, $200,000; for continuing road in Indiana, $250,000, including
materials for a bridge over the Wabash River; $150,000 for
continuing the road in Illinois, provided that the appropriation for
Illinois shall be limited to grading and bridging, and shall not be
construed as pledging Congress to future appropriations for the
purpose of macadamizing the road, and the moneys herein appropriated
for said road in Ohio and Indiana must be expended in completing the
greatest possible continuous portion of said road in said states so
that said finished part thereof may be surrendered to the states
respectively; to be paid from fund provided in acts admitting Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri $600,000.00

32. Act of March 3, 1837, appropriates $190,000 for continuing the
road in Ohio; $100,000 for continuing the road in Indiana; $100,000
for continuing the road in Illinois, provided the road in Illinois
shall not be stoned or graveled, unless it can be done at a cost not
greater than the average cost of stoning and graveling the road in
Ohio and Indiana, and provided that in all cases where it can be
done the work to be laid off in sections and let to the lowest
substantial bidder. Sec. 2 of the act provides that Sec. 2 of act of
July 2, 1836, shall not be applicable to expenditures hereafter made
on the road, and $7,183.63 is appropriated by this act for repairs
east of the Ohio River; to be paid from fund provided in acts
admitting Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois $397,183.63

33. Act of May 25, 1838, appropriates for continuing the road in
Ohio, $150,000; for continuing it in Indiana, including bridges,
$150,000; for continuing it in Illinois, $9,000; for the completion
of a bridge over Dunlap's Creek at Brownsville; to be paid from
moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and subject to
provisions and conditions of act of March 3, 1837 $459,000.00

34. Act of June 17, 1844 (Civil and Diplomatic), appropriates for
arrearages on account of survey to Jefferson, Missouri $1,359.81

Total $6,824,919.33