Chapter 68. In relation to the location of a navigable channel of the Calumet River in Illinois
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CHAP. 68.— An Act In relation to the location of a navigable channel of the Calumet River in Illinois. February 27, 1915.[[H. R. 18745](/us/bill/63/hr/18745).][[Public, No. 260](/us/pl/63/250).] Calumet River, Ill.Preamble.Whereas by deeds dated May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and recorded in the recorder’s office of Cook County, Illinois, on April sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, in book two thousand four hundred and ninety-seven of records, at page two hundred and nineteen, and on April eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, in book two thousand four hundred and eighty-one of records, at page two hundred and seventy-one, respectively, the owners of the north quarter of fractional section seven, township thirty-seven north, range fifteen, east of the third principal meridian, south of the Indian boundary line 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 theVol. 23, p. 143.
Calumet River, in accordance with the provisions of the 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 numbered one million one hundred and two thousand two hundred and eighty-four, entitled817 “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-four” (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 deeds 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”; and Whereas a navigable channel has been cut through said north quarter of said fractional section seven within the new channel lines of the Calumet River as shown on said map:
Therefore *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the portion of the oldPortion of old channel abandoned. channel of the Calumet River in the north quarter of fractional section seven, township thirty-seven north, range fifteen, east of the third principal meridian, south of the Indian boundary fine, 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 improvement of said river, under act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,” is hereby abandoned as navigable water. Approved, February 27, 1915.