each year thereafter, until the remainder is completed. Approved March 17, 1863.

[Laws of 1863, p. 186.]

AN ACT supplementary to an act entitled "an act disposing of certain grants of land made to the State of Michigan for railroad purposes, by act of Congress, approved June third, eightoen hundred and fifty-six," approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and acts amendatory thereto.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the grant of lands conferred by the Board of Control upon the Peninsula railroad company, under authority of an act approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and upon the re-located route authorized for military purposes by resolution of Congress, approved July fifth, eighteen hundred sixty-two, is hereby confirmed unto said Peninsula railroad company Provided, It shall construct the railroad referred to according to the requirements of the act and resolution of Congress herein referred to.

Approved March 18, 1863.

[Laws of 1863, p. 360.]

AN ACT to authorize the Amboy, Lansing and Traverse Bay railroad company to acquire the rights of the Grand River Valley railroad.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the Amboy, Lansing and Traverse Bay railroad company be and it is hereby authorized and empowered to purchase and acquire all the rights, privileges and immunities of the Grand River Valley railroad company, and the latter company is hereby authorized to sell the same; and by virtue of such purchase or acquisition the said Amboy, Lansing and Traverse Bay railroad company shall be invested with all the rights, privileges and immunities owned by said Grand River Valley railroad company, and the rights, privileges and immunities con

tained in the original act of incorporation of said Grand River Valley railroad company, and may locate and construct their line of railroad from the city of Lansing to the city of Jackson, over and upon the line of the Grand River Valley railroad company, or such other line as they may see fit, not materially varying from the said line of the Grand River Valley railroad company, and shall be entitled to the same rights, on constructing their road upon said line, as if it had been originally lecated thereon.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of said railroad company, in case they accept the provisions of this act to locate the line of their railroad from Jackson to Lansing on or before the first day of December next, and file the necessary maps required by sections five and six of said act, approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.

Approved March 20, 1863.

AN ACT supplementary to section nineteen of an act entitled "an act disposing of certain grants of land made to the State of Michigan for railroad purposes, by act of Congress, approved June third, eighteen hundred and fifty-six," approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and to an act approved January fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the time within which the corporation known as the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad company was required to complete and put in good running order at least twenty continuous miles of its road, be and the same is hereby extended for the term of two years from and after the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four; and that the time within which it was required to put in good running order at least twenty additional continuous miles of its road be and the same is hereby extended for the term of

one year from and after the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. Approved February 5, 1864.

[Act of June 7, 1864-13 U. S. Statutes at Large, 119.] AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "An act making a Grant of alternate Sections of [the] Public Lands to the State of Michigan to aid in the Construction of certain Railroads in said State, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the act entitled "An act making a grant of alternate sections of [the] public lands to the State of Michigan to aid in the construction of certain railroads in said State, and for other purposes," be and the same is hereby, amended as follows, namely: Substitute for the words "and from Grand Rapids to some point on or near Traverse Bay," contained in the first section of said act, these words: And from Fort Wayne, in the State of Indiana, to a point on the southern boundary line of the State of Michigan, in the township of Sturgis, thence, by way of Grand Rapids, to some point on or near Traverse Bay. And the said act shall be, and is hereby, so amended as to substitute for the first clause of the first proviso in the first secsion thereof, so far as the same shall be applicable to the grant of lands made to aid in the construction of the railroad described by the forogoing amendment, these words: Provided, That the lands so to be selected shall in no case be further than twenty miles from the line of said road: Provided, further, That the time specified in the fourth section of the act hereby amended for the completion of said road shall not be extended.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the lands granted by the act amended by this act, and also by the provisions of this act, to aid in the construction of the railroad described in the foregoing section, shall be dis

posed of only in the following manner, that is to say, when the Governor of the State of Michigan shall certify to the Secretary of the Interior that ten consecutive miles of said road have been completed in a good and substantial manner as a first class railroad, indicating definitely where said completed section commences and where the same terminates, the said secretary shall cause patents to issue to said State for so much of said lands as are located opposite to, and coterminous with, said completed section of said road, and so from time to time for each completed section of ten miles of said road until the whole shall be completed. Approved June 7, 1864.

[Act of March 3, 1865— U. S. Statutes at Large, 530.]

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act making a grant of alternate sections of public land to the State of Michigan, to aid in the construction of certain Railroads in said State, and for other purposes.'

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That section one of an act entitled "an act to amend an act entitled 'an act making a grant of alternate sections of public lands to the State of Michigan, to aid in the construction of certain railroads in said State, and for other purposes,'" which said amendatory act was approved June 7th, 1864, be, and the same is hereby amended, so as to make the last proviso in said section read as follows, to wit: Provided, further, That the time specified in the fourth section of the act hereby amended, for the completion of said road, shall be and the same is hereby extended eight years.

Approved March 3, 1865.

[Laws of 1865, p.-241.]

AN ACT to confer an additional grant of public lands upon the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad company. (See Laws of 1867, p. 17; extends time to complete twenty miles to January, 1868, and twenty till July, 1869.) Whereas, By an act of Congress, approved June 3d, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, a grant of public land was conferred upon the State of Michigan, from Grand Rapids to some point on or near Traverse Bay: And whereas, Said grant of lands was enlarged and extended from Fort Wayne, in the State of Indiana, via Sturgis township, to Grand Rapids, in the State of Michigan, by an act of Congress, approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-four; And whereas, Said original grant was conferred upon the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad company, by an act of the State Legislature, approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven: And whereas, The above mentioned extension of said grant is made upon, and describes the line of road occupied by said company; therefore

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That said enlarged and extended grant of public lands be and it is hereby conferred upon the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad company, upon the same terms, and under the same restrictions and regulations, as are prescribed by the act of February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and all subsequent acts relating thereto, so far as they are now in force. Approved March 10, 1865.

[Laws of 1865, p. 257.]

AN ACT to authorize the Marquette and Ontonagon railroad company to transfer their interest in a portion of their land grant to the L'Anse and Ontonagon railroad company, and to facilitate the construction of said road.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the Marquette and Ontonagon railroad com