Chapter XIV. *for the Relief of the Heirs of James Bawdin*
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CHAP. XIV.— An Act *for the Relief of the Heirs of James Bawdin*. March 8, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That on payment to the United States of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre therefor, the Commissioner Patent to heirs of James Bawdin for land at Eagle Harbor.of the General Land Office shall cause a patent to be issued to the heirs of James Bawdin for that tract of land lying and being at Eaglo Harbor, on Lake Superior, situate upon the north part of section number six, in township number fifty-eight north, of range number thirty west, in the Sault Ste.
Marie land district, State of Michigan, containing about six and fifty-four hundredths acres of land, and being all that part of the lands known as the light-house reservation at Eagle Harbor, which lies east of the dotted line marked “S. 86° 45′ E. 12.76 chains,” as shown on the plat of “Bawd[i]n’s Survey” of said reservation in the office of said Commissioner of the General Land Office, except so much of said lands as may be required for the use of a road four rods wide, from the light-house across said six and fifty-four hundredths acres to the waters of said harbor, as the same is now laid out and used for that purpose:
Proviso.*Provided*, That this act shall only be construed to be a relinquishment of the title of the United States, and shall not interfere with the rights of third persons. Approved, March 8, 1866.