Chapter CX. **to amend an Act entitled “An Act making a Grant of alternate Sections of* [*the*] *Public Lands to the State of Michigan to aid in the Construction of certain Railroads in said State, and for other Purposes*.* June 7, 1864.1856. ch. 44
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Chap. CX.— An Act **to amend an Act entitled “An Act making a Grant of alternate Sections of* [*the*] *Public Lands to the State of Michigan to aid in the Construction of certain Railroads in said State, and for other Purposes*.* June 7, 1864.1856. ch. 44.Vol. xi. p. 21. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, 1865, ch. 108.*Post*, p. 530. That the act entitled “An act making a grant of alternate sections of [the] public lands to the State ofAmendment of former act granting land to Michigan for railroads.
Michigan to aid in the construction of certain railroads in said state, and for other purposes,” be and the same is hereby, amended as follows, namely: Substitute for the words “and from Grand Rapids to some point on or near Traverse Bay,” contained in the first section of said act, these words: And from Fort Wayne, in the State of Indiana, to a point onLocation changed. the southern boundary line of the State of Michigan, in the township of Sturgis, thence, by way of Grand Rapids, to some point on or near Traverse Bay.
And the said act shall be, and is hereby, so amended as to substitute for the first clause of the first proviso in the first section thereof, so far as the same shalf be applicable to the grant of lands made to aid in the construction of the railroad described by the foregoing amendment, these words: *Provided*, That the lands so to be selected shall in no caseLimit of selection of lands. be further than twenty miles from the line of said road: *Provided, further*, That the time specified in the 4th section of the act hereby amendedTime not to be extended. for the completion of said road shall not be extended.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the lands granted by the actLands granted, how only to be disposed of. amended by this act, and also by the provisions of this act, to aid in the construction of the railroad described in the foregoing section, shall be disposed of only in the following manner, that is to say, when the governor of the State of Michigan shall certify to the Secretary of the Interior that ten consecutive miles of said road have been completed in a good and substantial manner as a first-class railroad, indicating definitely where said completed section commences and where the same terminates, the said secretary shall cause patents to issue to said state for so much of said lands as are located opposite to, and coterminous with, said completed section of said road, and so from time to time for each completed section of ten miles of said road until the whole shall be completed.
Approved, June 7, 1864.