United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/24th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 119
Chap. CXIX.—An Act to amend an act to grant certain relinquished and unappropriated lands to the State of Alabama, for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Tennessee, Coosa, Cahaba and Black Warrior river.
Act of May 23, 1828, ch. 75.
Part of the former act repealed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the second section of the act above recited as restricts the State of Alabama from having the power to sell, dispose of, or grant the residue of the lands granted by the act to which this is a supplement, at a price not less than the minimum price of the public lands, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
State of Alabama may impose tolls on canals, &c.
Proviso.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the assent of the United States is hereby given, to any act which the Legislature of the State of Alabama may pass for imposing a toll on the use of such parts of the canal or canals, which have been or may be, constructed at or around the Muscle and Colbert’s shoals of the river Tennessee: Provided, That such tolls shall be expended exclusively on the said canals, and shall not exceed in amount, the sum required to keep them in repair, and to defray the expenses of lock tenders, collectors, superintendents, and managers; and that no part of this act shall be construed as a repeal of the exemption, contained in the seventh section of the said act, of the property of the United States, and all persons in their service, from any toll whatever:Proviso. And provided further, That an annual report shall be made to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, of the rate and amount of tolls charged or collected on said canals, and their application.
Approved, June 23, 1836.