Chapter CXCV. to authorize the State of Illinois to select the residue of the Lands to which she is entitled under the act of second of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, granting Land to aid that State in opening a Canal to connect the waters of the Illinois River with those of Lake Michigan
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Chap. CXCV.— An Act to authorize the State of Illinois to select the residue of the Lands to which she is entitled under the act of second of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, granting Land to aid that State in opening a Canal to connect the waters of the Illinois River with those of Lake Michigan. August 3, 1854.1827, ch. 51. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Residue of land granted by act of 1827, ch. 51, how selected.
That the Governor of the State of Illinois 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 second of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, granting land to aid that State in opening a canal to connect the waters of the Illinois River with those of Lake Michigan, out of any of the unsold publie land in the State subject to private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and not claimed by preemption, 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 1848, ch. 30.the provisions of the act of Congress approved the ninth of May, eighteen hundred and forty-eight.
Approved, August 3, 1854.