Chapter CLXXVII. *for the relief of the heirs or the assignees of the heirs, of Isaac Todd and James McGill.* March 3, 1843. *Be it enacted, &c*., That all the right, title, interest, claim, and demand of the United States in, over, and to the following described tractRight of U
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Chap. CLXXVII.— An Act *for the relief of the heirs or the assignees of the heirs, of Isaac Todd and James McGill.* March 3, 1843. *Be it enacted, &c*., That all the right, title, interest, claim, and demand of the United States in, over, and to the following described tractRight of U. S. to certain land relinquished to J. McGill, his heirs. &c. or parcel of land, situate, lying, and being in the state of Michigan, known as claim two hundred and seventy, as entered upon the records of the land board at Detroit, under the act of twenty-sixth of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and four, be, and the same is hereby, relinquished to James McGill, his heirs, and legal representatives, and to those legally holding under him or them; and all the right,Right of U.
S. to certain land relinquished to Isaac Todd, his heirs, &c. title, interest, claim, and demand of the United States in, over, and to the following described tracts or parcels of land situate, lying and being in the state of Michigan; that is to say, those certain tracts numbered two hundred and sixty-seven and two hundred and sixty-eight, as entered on the records aforesaid, under the act aforesaid, be, and the same is hereby, relinquished to Isaac Todd, his heirs and legal representatives, and to those legally holding under him or them: *Provided*, That saidProviso. relinquishment on the part of the United States shall not take effect until the said James McGill and Isaac Todd, their heirs, or those holding and claiming the said land through them, for a consideration to be fixed by the valuation, upon oath, of three disinterested men, to be selected by the Secretary of War, and paid by the United States out of the sum of fifty thousand dollars appropriated by the act of September the ninth, A.
D. eighteen hundred and forty-one, entitled “An act makingAct of Sept. 9, 1841, ch. 17. appropriations for various fortifications for ordnance, and for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities,” shall execute to the United States in such form and with such covenants, as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War, a good and sufficient deed to the following described 114 4a2 906 TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 178, 179, 180, 181, 182. 1843. part of said tracts, that is to say, a tract adjoining on the south-west side, the land lately purchased by the United States from B.
B. Kerchivell, bounded as follows: beginning at the north-west corner of said public land, thence south thirty-five degrees, west twenty-five chains, thence south twenty-eight degrees sixteen minutes east, twenty chains, more or less to the Detroit river, thence along the shore of said river in a north-easterly direction to the south-west corner of said public land; thence along the south-westerly boundary of the same to the place of beginning, containing forty acres more or less, which is hereby reserved to the United States for military purposes.
Approved, March 3, 1843.