Chapter CLXI. granting Lands to the State of Michigan to aid in the Construction of a Harbor and Ship Canal at Portage Lake, Keewenaw Point, Lake Superior, in said State
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CHAP. CLXI.— An Act granting Lands to the State of Michigan to aid in the Construction of a Harbor and Ship Canal at Portage Lake, Keewenaw Point, Lake Superior, in said State.July 3, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That there be, and hereby is,Lands granted to Michigan for a harbor and ship canal at Portage Lake.Amount. granted to the State of Michigan, to aid in the building of a harbor and ship canal at Portage lake, Keewenaw Point, Lake Superior, in addition to a former grant for that purpose, approved March the third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, two hundred thousand acres of land in the upper peninsula of the State of Michigan, and from land to which the right of homestead or pre-emption has not attached: *Provided,* That one hundredHow to be selected. and fifty thousand acres of said lands shall be selected from alternate odd-numbered sections, and fifty thousand acres from even-numbered sections of the lands of the United States.
Said grant of lands shall inure to theTo whose use to inure. use and benefit of the Portage Lake and Lake Superior Ship Canal Company, in accordance with an act of the legislature of the State of Michigan, conferring the land granted to the said State, by the act herein referred to, on said company: *And provided further,* That the time allowedTime for completing work extended.1865, ch. 102, § 5.Vol. xiii. p. 520. for the completion of said work and the right of reversion to the United States, under the said act of Congress, approved March the third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, be extended three additional years: *And provided further,* That no lands designated by the United States as “mineral”Mineral lands not granted. before the passage of this act shall be included within this grant.
Approved, July 3, 1866.