Chapter CC. to authorize the State of Wisconsin to select the residue of the Lands to which she is entitled under the act of eighth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, for the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers
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Chap. CC.— An Act to authorize the State of Wisconsin to select the residue of the Lands to which she is entitled under the act of eighth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, for the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers. August 3, 1854.1840 ch. 170. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, *Post*, p. 724. That the Governor of the StateSelection of the balance of land granted by act of 1846, ch. 170. of Wisconsin is hereby authorized to cause to be selected the balance of the land to which that State is entitled under the provisions of the act of the eighth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, granting land to aid theTHIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 201, 202. 1854.346 Territory of Wisconsin in the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers and to connect the same by a canal, out of any of the unsold public lands in said State, subject to private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and not claimed by preëmption; the quantity to be ascertained upon the principles which governed the final adjustment of the grant to the State of Indiana for the Wabash and Erie Canal, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved the ninth of May, 1848, ch. 88.eighteen, hundred and forty-eight.
Approved, August 3, 1854.