Chapter 2449. To provide for the settlement of a claim of the United States against the State of Michigan for moneys held by said State as trustee for the United States in connection with the Saint Marys Falls Ship Canal
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CHAP. 2449.— An Act To provide for the settlement of a claim of the United States against the State of Michigan for moneys held by said State as trustee for the United States in connection with the Saint Marys Falls Ship Canal. May 11, 1906. [[S. 3436](/us/bill/34/s/3436).] [[Public, No. 154](/us/pl/34/154).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That upon the payment byMichigan.Saint Marys Falls Ship Canal, settlement of claim on account of. the State of Michigan of sixty-eight thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twelve cents into the Treasury of the United States, the Attorney-General be, and is hereby, authorized to settle and dismiss from the Supreme Court of the United States a suit in equity now pending therein in which the United States is complainant and the State of Michigan is defendant, and to relinquish all further claims against said State, including interest upon said amount, which have arisen by reason of its trust in constructing and operating Saint Marys Falls Ship Canal and locks: *Provided,* That such payment is made within*Proviso.*Payment. ninety days from the passage and approval of this Act.
Approved, May 11, 1906.