Chapter LVI. *to give the Consent of Congress to the Sale of certain Salt Spring Lands heretofore granted to the States of Michigan, Illinois, and Arkansas.* March 3, 1847. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the State of Sale of
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Chap. LVI.— An Act *to give the Consent of Congress to the Sale of certain Salt Spring Lands heretofore granted to the States of Michigan, Illinois, and Arkansas.* March 3, 1847. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the State of Sale of salt spring lands granted to State of Michigan authorized.Michigan shall be, and hereby is, authorized and empowered to sell, in such manner as the Legislature of said State shall by law direct, 182TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 57. 1847.the salt spring lands granted to said State for its use, by an act entitled “An Act supplementary to the Act entitled an Act to establish the northern Boundary Line of the State of Ohio, and to provide for 1836 ch. 121.the Admission of the State of Michigan into the Union on certain Conditions,” approved June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and thirty-six. Sale of saline lands granted to State of Illinois authorized. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the State of Illinois shall be, and hereby is, authorized and empowered to sell, in such manner as the Legislature of said State shall by law direct, the whole or any part of the saline lands lying in Jackson county, in said State, which were granted to the State of Illinois, by virtue of “An Act to enable 1818, ch. 67.the People of the Illinois Territory to form a Constitution and State Government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal Footing with the original States,” approved April eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighteen.
Sale of saline lands granted to Suite of Arkansas authorized. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the State of Arkansas shall be, and hereby is, authorized to sell, in such manner as the Legislature of said State shall by law direct, the whole or any part of the saline lands, granted to said State by virtue of an act supplementary to the 1836, ch. 100.act entitled “An Act for the Admission of the State of Arkansas into the Union, and to Provide for the due Execution of the Laws of the United States within the same, and for other Purposes,” approved June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.
Approved, March 3, 1847.