Chapter 306. Providing for the disposal of certain lands on Crooked and Pickerel Lakes, Michigan, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 306.— An Act Providing for the disposal of certain lands on Crooked and Pickerel Lakes, Michigan, and for other purposes. June 7, 1924.[[S. 697](/us/bill/68/s/697).][[Public, No. 228](/us/pl/68/228).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Public lands.Disposal of erroneously surveyed, in Michigan. That upon the survey of any public lands erroneously omitted from the original survey found to exist within the area heretofore surveyed and represented upon the official plat of township 35 north, range 4 west, Michigan meridian, Michigan, approved February 9, 1841, on file in the General Land Office as a meandered lake, and said lake Preference to adjacent owners.now appearing as two lakes, locally known as Crooked Lake and Pickerel Lake, in sections 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, and 29, the owners of adjacent lands shall have a preference right to purchase such lands so surveyed for a period of ninety days after the filing of the approved plat of State swamp land selection.such survey in the United States land office at Marquette, Michigan, to be appraised at not less than $1.25 per acre, and that the State Vol. 9, p. 520.of Michigan be allowed to select such of the lands as may have inured to the State under the Act of September 28, 1850 (Ninth Statutes *Proviso*.Prior rights not affected.at Large, page 519): *Provided*, That nothing herein contained shall have the effect of defeating the rights of any person or the State of Michigan which may have attached to such lands or any part thereof.
Sec. 2. Regulations. That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make all necessary regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act. Approved, June 7, 1924.