Chapter XCII. granting certain grounds in the city of Detroit to the Mayor, Recorder, Aidermen, and freemen of that city
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Chap. XCII.— An Act granting certain grounds in the city of Detroit to the Mayor, Recorder, Aidermen, and freemen of that city. May 20, 1826. *Be it enacted, &c., * That all the right and claim of the United States Certain public grounds in Detroit vested in the mayor, &c. of said city.Proviso.in and to the public grounds within the limits of the city of Detroit, heretofore occupied for military purposes, excepting as hereinafter provided, be, and the same are hereby, granted to, and vested in, the Mayor, Recorder, Aidermen, and freemen of the city, for the use of said freemen: *Provided,* There be reserved and excepted from this grant the following lots: one lot, upon which the public store-house is situate, bounded one hundred and fifty feet in front upon Jefferson avenue, and extending the same width to the channel of the river; one other lot, upon which the public arsenal is situate, containing one hundred and fifty feet front upon Jefferson avenue, and extending the same width, by parallel lines, at right angles, with said avenue, in a north-western course, two hundred feet; and one other lot, upon which the building occupied by the military store-keeper is situate, containing one hundred and twenty-five feet in front upon Jefferson avenue, and extending back, in a north-western direction, by parallel lines, at right angles with that avenue, Proviso.two hundred feet: *And provided also,* That the grant expressed in this act shall not take effect, until the said Mayor, Recorder, Aidermen, and freemen, in their corporate capacity, shall have secured to the United States a sum of money, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, sufficient for the erection of a magazine, at a place without the limits of the city, to be designated by the war department.
Approved, May 20, 1826.