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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 4 STAT. · March 30, 1822 · Chapter LI

Chapter LI. *to grant a quantity of land to the state of Illinois, for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of the Illinois river with those of Lake Michigan.*(*a*)(*a*) An act to authorize the state of Illinois to open a canal through the public lands to connect the Illinois river wit

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Chap. LI.— An Act *to grant a quantity of land to the state of Illinois, for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of the Illinois river with those of Lake Michigan.*(*a*)(*a*) An act to authorize the state of Illinois to open a canal through the public lands to connect the Illinois river with Lake Michigan. March 30, 1822, ch. 14. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to grant a quantity of land to the state of Illinois for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of the Illinois river with those of Lake Michigan and to allow further time to the state of Ohio, for commencing the Miami canal from Dayton, to Lake Erie,” March 2, 1833, ch. 87.
March 2, 1827. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * That the general assembly of the state of Indiana shall be, and the same are hereby, authorized to locate and make a road from Lake Michigan, by the way of Indianapolis, NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 53, 55. 1827. 235 to some convenient point on the Ohio river, agreeably to the second articleMichigan, by the way of Indianapolis to some convenient point on the Ohio river. of a treaty made and concluded near the mouth of the Mississinowa, upon the Wabash, in the state of Indiana, the sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twentysix, between the commissioners on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and warriors of the Potawatamie tribe of Indians; and the said general assembly are hereby authorized to apply the strip of land and the sections of land, by said article ceded to the United States, or the proceeds thereof, to the making of the same; and the said grant shall be at their sole disposal.
Approved, March 2, 1827.
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