Chapter CXXXIV. *extending the Time for the Completion of the Marquette and Ontonagon Railroad, of the State of Michigan.* June 18, 1864
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Chap. CXXXIV.— An Act *extending the Time for the Completion of the Marquette and Ontonagon Railroad, of the State of Michigan.* June 18, 1864.Pub. Res. No. 43, *Post*, p. 409. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the time limited for theTime for completing the Marquette and Ontonagon railroad extended. completion of the Marquette and Ontonagon railroad, of the State of Michigan, be, and the same is hereby, extended for the term of five years beyond the time fixed for its completion by the act of congress of June third, A.
D. eighteen hundred and fifty-six, entitled “An act making a1856, ch. 44.Vol. xi. p. 21. 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:” *Provided*, That the State of Michigan shall have the sameProviso. control over the said grant of lands hereby extended for five years, for the benefit of said railroad, which was given to said state under said original act of congress; and said state may prescribe the time within which the several sections of said road shall be completed.
Approved, June 18, 1864.