Chapter CCVII. *to authorize the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company to change their projected Line of Railway in the State of Michigan.*May 23, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Chicago and Northwestern Railway company may
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CHAP. CCVII.— An Act *to authorize the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company to change their projected Line of Railway in the State of Michigan.*May 23, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Chicago and Northwestern Railway company may change part of its line of road.That the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company are hereby authorized to change and relocate that part of their projected line of railway “from the city of Fond du Lac, in the State of Wisconsin, northerly to Esconaba, in the State of Michigan,” which lies in said State of Michigan, so as to run said line from “at or near the mouth of the Menomonee river to Esconaba,” on such line within the limits of the land grant reserved for the use of said company, now on file in the office of the commissioner of the general laud office, as they may deem most advantageous, and shall cause a plat of their line, as relocated, to be filed in said office within six months of Former grants of lands not affectcd.the passage of this act : *Provided*, That the grant of lands heretofore made to aid in the construction of said railroad shall not be increased or changed in any respect whatever by the change of line hereby authorized.
Approved, May 23, 1872.