Chapter 123.
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CHAP. 123.— An act to authorize the Secretary of War to convey to Jacob A. T. Wendell, Henry Van Allen, and John R. Bailey, a part of the military reservation of Fort Mackinac. March 1, 1879. *Be it enacted-by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Fort Mackinac military reservation.Part of, to be conveyed to J. A. T. Wendell and others. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to convey, by proper deed, to Jacob.
A. T. Wendell, Henry Van Allen, and John It Bailey, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the following described part of the military reservation of Fort Mackinac, Michigan, of which the said Jacob A. T. Wendell shall be entitled to one-fourth, Henry Van Allen two-fourths, and John R Bailey one-fourth: Beginning at a stone monument marking a corner of the military reservation, and standing between the said military reservation and property of Jacob A.
T. Wendell, and running in continuation of a line now between said properties north one degree east fifty-eight feet six inches; thence east two hundred and forty-one and five-tenths feet; thence south one degree west parallel with the first line, fifty-eight feet six inches, to a stone monument marking a corner of the military reservation, and standing between the said military reservation and property of John It Bailey; thence west parallel with the second line, along a line of the official survey made by Major G.
Weitzel, United States Army, in eighteen hundred and seventy-five, two hundred and forty-one and five-tenths feet, to the stone Monument at the place of beginning. Approved, March 1, 1879.