Chapter 1409. In relation to the location of the navigable channel of the Calumet River, Illinois and Indiana
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CHAP. 1409.— An Act In relation to the location of the navigable channel of the Calumet River, Illinois and Indiana. April 21, 1904. [[H. R. 13742](/us/bill/58/hr/13742).] [[Public, No. 132](/us/pl/58/132).] Whereas by deed dated the thirtieth day of April, eighteen hundred Preamble. and eighty-six, and recorded in the recorder’s office of Cook County, Illinois, on the eighth day of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, in book twenty-five hundred and twelve of records, at page four hundred and eighty, the owners of the northwest quarter of section thirty, township thirty-seven north, range fifteen east, of the third principal meridian, in Cook County, Illinois, gave and granted unto the United States of America free and unobstructed right of way in and through the above-described ground, two hundred feet in width, for purposes of a channel for the Calumet River, in accordance with the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and in order to enable the United States to straighten the channel of the said Calumet River and conform to a survey and realignment of the channel lines of said river as adopted, established, and shown by plat approved by the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army and filed for record in the office of the recorder of deeds of Cook County, Illinois, on the seventeenth day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as document one million one hundred and two thousand two hundred and eighty-four, entitled “Map of the Calumet River, Illinois, from Lake Michigan to Calumet Lake, to accompany report of W.
G. Ewing, United States attorney, to the Attorney-General respecting cession of right of way for improvement of said river under Act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-Vol. 23, p. 143.240four” (report dated January twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and report dated February twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, William G. Ewing, United States attorney, northern district of Illinois); and Whereas it is provided in the said deed above referred to that “the shore or dock lines of said river as so established and shown on said plat shall hereafter for all purposes be taken as the true meandered lines of said stream:
” Therefore *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Calumet River, Ill. and Ind. Abandonment of old channel of. That the portion of the old channel of the Calumet River in the northwest quarter of section thirty, township thirty-seven north, range fifteen east, of the third principal meridian, in Cook County, Illinois, which lies outside of the new channel lines as established by the United States and shown on “Map of the Calumet River, Illinois, from Lake Michigan to Calumet Lake, to accompany report of W.
G. Ewing, United States attorney to the Attorney-General, respecting cession of right of way for Vol. 23, p. 143. improvement of said river under Act of Congress approved July fifth, New channel. eighteen hundred and eighty-four,” is hereby abandoned as navigable water from and after the time that a navigable channel shall be cut through said quarter section within the new channel lines of the river as shown on the said map. Approved, April 21, 1904.