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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · Feb. 17, 1873 · Chapter CXLVII

Chapter CXLVII. *to readjust the western Boundary of Dakota Territory*

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CHAP. CXLVII.— An Act *to readjust the western Boundary of Dakota Territory*. Feb. 17, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Certain portion of Dakota Territory attached to Montana Territory. That all that portion of Dakota Territory lying west of the one hundred and eleventh meridian of longitude which, by an erroneous definition of the boundaries of said Territory by a former act of Congress, remains detached and distant from Dakota proper some two hundred miles, be, and the same is hereby, attached to the adjoining territory of Montana. Approved, February 17, 1873.
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