The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-09-11
Public Resoiution-No. as,

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JOINT RESOLUTION relative to q certain grant
of lands for railroad purposes made to the State
Of Michigan In eighteen hundred and fifty six.
Resolred By tie Senate aud House Of Representatives
of The United States Of america n Congress assembled
That the words Wisconsin State line," in. the
FIRST section of act entitled " An act making
grant Of lands to the State Of Michigan, in alter
nate sections to aid in the construction railroads
In ssid State, approved June third, eighteen hun
bred and MY elk shall without forfeiture to said
State or its assigns Of any rights or benefits under
said act, OF exemption from any of the conditions
or obligations imposed thereby. be construed to
authorize the location of the line Of railroad prov-
ded for in said act from Marquette, on Lake Supe-
ror, to the Wisconsin State line upon any eligible
route from the township Of Marquette aforesaid to
point onthe Wisconsin State line, near the mouth
Of the Meuomonee river, and touching at favorable
points on Green bay, with view of securing
railroad available for military purposes from Green
bay 20 tile waters Of Lake Superior. And the line
of railroad as now located in pursuance of said
act from Marquette to the Wisconsin State line, ac-
cording to the records of the General Land Office,
Is hereby authorized to be changed to conform
to tins Ivuse above indicated: which line. when
surveyed and the maps and plans thereof filed in
the proper Office required under said act of June
third, eighteen hundred and fifth six shall confer
the same rights upon and benefits to the State Of
Michigan and Its assigns in said new line as though
the Same had been originally located under said
act.
SEC. 2. And be &c further resolved, That the pro-
visions Of an act Of Congress, approved August
fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty two, entitled
plank roads and macadamized turnpikes passing
through the public lands belonging to the United
States, be and the same are herel SO as
above 10 he located -Syovided, The same shall be
= commence Ttnin two years from the fourth day
Of august, eighteen hundred and sixty two and
shall be completed within five years thereafter.
SEC. 3. AHd be Il further rcsolred That the Secre-
tary Of the Interior be and he is hereby authorized
to cause all even sections parts of sections
Of public lands that may be brought within six
miles of the new line Of Railroad as herein provid-
ed for TO be sold at the price and in the same
manner those have might have bean, accor-
ding to the said act of June third, eighteen hum
bred and fifty six, upon the originally located
route Of railroad. And all purchasers, or their
heirs assigns, within the six mile limits of said
originally located route, who shall be more than
six miles from the line of route hereby author
ized and who have paid the sum of two dollars and
fifty cents shall have the right either to
exchange their locations upon the line first
tablshed to the new line upon the sans TERMS in
like quantities, and in the same manner, as on the
line first established, aforesaid, or at their OPP
tion to enter, without further payment, any where
within the Marquette land district, in the State of
Michigan, or that Of the Grand Traverse land dis
triet, in said State, lying north or west of Lake
Michigan, an additional quantity of public lands
subject to private entry, at dollar and twenty
five cents acre. equal to the quantity entered by
them at two dollars and fifty cents pe- acre SO that
the lands originally entered by them shall be thus
reduced to the rate Of one dollar and twenty five
cents acre.
SEC 4. And be Il further resoIred, That the even
sections of public lands reserved to tho United
States by the aforesaid act of June third eighteen
hundred and fifty six, along the originally located
route of the Marquette aud Wisconsin State Line
Railroad Company, except where such sections
shall TALL within six miles Of the new line of road
so as aforesaid proposed to be located, and along
which no railroad has been constructed shall here
after be subject to sale at dollar and twenty five
cents per acre.
SEC 8. And be Il further resolved, That upon the
Ming in the General Land Office of the lists of said
railroad lands, in whole in part as now selected
and certified in the General Land Office, with the
certificate of the Governor OF the State of Michi.
gam under the seal of the State that said State
its assigns surrender all claim to the Iands a
aforesaid set forth and described in the lists there
of thus certified and that the have never beer
pledged or sold in anywisc encumbercsi then thu
State of Michigan its assigns shall be entitled tc
receive like quantity ofand, selected in like mai
ner, upon the new line of road thus surrendered
upon the first line, and to the extent of six section
per milo in the aggregate for every mile Of the
line, according to the general provisions OF the
ofJune third, eighteen hundred and fifty six Ans
it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of tn
General Land Office TO reofer for public sale in tn
usual manner, the lands embraced in the lists o
surrendered lands aforesaid, when duly filed in hi
Office, as herein directed.
Approved, July 5, 1862