[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1963 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1963

To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the route taken by 
   American soldier and frontiersman George Rogers Clark and his men 
during the Revolutionary War to capture the British forts at Kaskaskia 
and Cahokia, Illinois, and Vincennes, Indiana, for study for potential 
                addition to the National Trails System.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 23, 2001

 Mr. Costello introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the route taken by 
   American soldier and frontiersman George Rogers Clark and his men 
during the Revolutionary War to capture the British forts at Kaskaskia 
and Cahokia, Illinois, and Vincennes, Indiana, for study for potential 
                addition to the National Trails System.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. DESIGNATION OF GEORGE ROGERS CLARK NORTHWEST CAMPAIGN TRAIL 
              FOR STUDY FOR POTENTIAL ADDITION TO THE NATIONAL TRAILS 
              SYSTEM.

    Section 5(c) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(c)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(41) George Rogers Clark Northwest Campaign Trail.--The George 
Rogers Clark Northwest Campaign Trail, tracing the water route and 
overland route of the 1778 and 1779 expedition of Lieutenant Colonel 
George Rogers Clark and his Virginia militia against the British in 
which he captured the British forts at Kaskaskia and Cahokia, in what 
is now Illinois, and twice captured Vincennes, in what is now 
Indiana.''.
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