Chapter XXVIII. *to amend an Act entitled “An Act providing for the Sale of a Portion of the Fort Gratiot military Reservation in St
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CHAP. XXVIII.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled “An Act providing for the Sale of a Portion of the Fort Gratiot military Reservation in St. Clair County, in the State of Michigan,” approved July twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight*. March 18, 1870.1868, ch. 183.Vol. xv. p. 123. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That an act entitled “An act Fort Gratiot military reservation.providing for the sale of a portion of the Fort Gratiot military reservation in St.
Clair county, in the State of Michigan,” approved July twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding to the end of the second section thereof the following, to wit: Grant to Port Huron for a public park.“*Provided*, That there shall be, and is hereby, granted to the city of Port Huron, in perpetuity, for public grounds, to be designated and known as ‘Pine Grove Park,’ all that portion of said military reserve known and described as follows, to wit: commencing at a point on the St.
Clair river bank, being north sixty degrees and fifty-five minutes east, one chain and seventy-five links from the southeast corner of Fort Gratiot military cemetery; thence south sixty degrees and fifty-five minutes west, eleven chains and fifteen links, at right angles with and to intersect the east line of Harrington Avenue, so called; thence south twenty-nine degrees and five minutes east, along the east line of said avenue, twenty chains; thence north sixty degrees and fifty-five minutes east, at right angles with said avenue, to the United States boundary line in the St Clair river; thence northerly along said boundary line to a point at which the northerly line of the above-described ‘Pine Grove Park’ extended in a right line easterly would intersect the same ; thence westerly along said extended northerly line to the place of beginning.
Containing twenty and ninety-hundredth acres of land, together with the river front adjoining thereto.” Approved, March 18, 1870.