General Survey Act
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general-survey-act-287-6716143
title:
General Survey Act
text:
The General Survey Act was a law passed by the United States Congress in April 1824, which authorized the president to have surveys made of routes for transport roads and canals "of national importance, in a commercial or military point of view, or necessary for the transportation of public mail." While such infrastructure of national scope had been discussed and shown wanting for years, its passage shortly followed the landmark US Supreme Court ruling, Gibbons v. Ogden, which first established
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1824 Act of the United States Congress
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Survey_Act
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2023-09-30T15:37:59Z
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