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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 13 STAT. · Jan. 16, 1864 · Chapter I

Chapter I. *declaring the Assent of Congress to an Act of the Legislature of the State, of Illinois, therein named.* Jan. 16, 1864.1865, ch. 41.*Post*, p. 431. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the consent of congressThe city

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Chap. I.— An Act *declaring the Assent of Congress to an Act of the Legislature of the State, of Illinois, therein named.* Jan. 16, 1864.1865, ch. 41.*Post*, p. 431. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the consent of congressThe city of Chicago may erect piers in the navigable waters of Luke Michigan, to protect aqueduct-pipes. is hereby given to the operation of the eleventh section, chapter fifteen, of the act. of the general assembly of the State of Illinois, approved February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, entitled “An act to reduce the charter of the city of Chicago, and the several acts amendatory thereof, into one act, and to revise the same,”—which section is as follows:
“Said city shall have the power to extend aqueducts or inlet-pipes into Lake Michigan, so far as may be deemed necessary to insure a supply of pure water, and to erect a pier or piers in the navigable waters of said lake, for the making, preserving, and working of said pipes or aqueducts: *Provided,* That such piers shall be furnished with a beacon-light,Tiers to be lighted. which shall be lighted at all such seasons and hours as the light on the pier at the entrance of Chicago river.
” Approved, January 16, 1864. Chapter II: to authorize the President to appoint a Second Assistant Secretary of War. 13 Stat. 1 1864-01-22 Chapter II Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-01-27 38 2 public
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