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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · March 27, 1872 · Chapter LXVI

Chapter LXVI. extending the Time for the Completion of the Portage Lake and Lake Superior Ship Canal

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CHAP. LXVI.— An Act extending the Time for the Completion of the Portage Lake and Lake Superior Ship Canal.March 27, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatTime for completion of Portage Lake and Lake Superior ship canal extended.Vol. xiii. p. 520.Vol. xiv. p. 81.Vol. xvi. p. 599. time for the completion of the Portage Lake and Lake Superior Ship Canal be, and the same is hereby, extended to the third day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-three. Approved, March 27, 1872.
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