Chapter CXXVIII. *to extend the Time for the Reversion to the United States of the Lands granted by Congress to the State of Michigan to aid in the Construction of a Railroad from Pere Marquette to Flint, in said State, and for other Purposes*
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CHAP. CXXVIII.— An Act *to extend the Time for the Reversion to the United States of the Lands granted by Congress to the State of Michigan to aid in the Construction of a Railroad from Pere Marquette to Flint, in said State, and for other Purposes*. March 3, 1871. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Time for reversion of lands granted to Michigan for railroad from Pere Marquette to Flint extended five years.1856, ch. 44, § 4.Vol. xi. p. 22.
That the time specified in the fourth section of the act of Congress, approved June third, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, 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,” for the reversion to the United States of the lands granted by said act to aid in the construction of a railroad from Pere Marquette to Flint, and for the completion of said road, be, and the same is hereby, further extended for the period of five years from and after the passage of this act.
Sec. 2. The State may authorize the sale of certain of the lands, when, &c. That the State of Michigan may authorize the sale of sixty sections of the land granted to aid the construction of said railroad from Pere Marquette to Flint, whenever and as often as the governor of said State shall certify that ten additional miles of said railroad is completed Proviso.and in running order as a first-class railroad: *Provided*, That said lands authorized to be sold as aforesaid shall include only lands situated opposite to and coterminous with the completed sections : *And provided*, That in case said railroad shall not be fully completed from Flint to Lake Michigan within the time as extended by this act, all the lands included in said grant to which the right to sell shall not then have attached shall revert to the United States.
Approved, March 3, 1871.