Chapter LXVIII. *to provide for the Sale of a Part of the Light-house Reservation at Fort Gratiot, Part Huron, in the State of Michigan*
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CHAP. LXVIII.— An Act *to provide for the Sale of a Part of the Light-house Reservation at Fort Gratiot, Part Huron, in the State of Michigan*. Jan. 24, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Portion of the Fort Gratiot light-house reservation to be sold. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be platted and sold at public auction so much of the Fort Gratiot light-house reservation, at Port Huron, in the State of Michigan, as is comprised within the following Boundaries.metes and bounds, to wit:
Beginning at a point which is one thousand ninety-two and one-half feet north eighty degrees and forty-four minutes east
(true)from monument number one of the survey of Fort Gratiot military reservation made by W. H. Hearing in April, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and the position of which is indicated upon the map of the same reservation made under the direction of Major O. M. Poe, corps of engineers, United States army, in eighteen hundred and seventy; thence north nine degrees and sixteen minutes west
(true)three thousand one hundred and thirty-five feet; thence north eighty degrees and forty-four minutes east
(true)five hundred and thirty-two feet; thence south nine degrees and sixteen minutes east
(true)one thousand one hundred and eighty-four feet; thence north eighty degrees and forty-four minutes east
(true)to the shore of lake, to the place of beginning, save and except that right of way is expressly reserved over a strip of land sixty-six feet wide and extending in a direct line from the light-house tower, either in its present or any future position, to the present western boundary of the reservation; and that the subdivision of the same be made to correspond, as far as may be, to the plat of the village of Fort Gratiot; and that a Record.record thereof be filed in the office of register of deeds for the county of Saint Clair; and that the money received for such lands be paid into the Money received to be paid into the treasury.treasury, except so much as may be necessary to repay the expenses of survey and sale. Approved, January 24, 1873.