United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/25th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 101

United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5
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Public Acts of the Twenty-Fifth Congress, Second Session, Chapter 101
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June 12, 1838.

Chap. CI.An Act to ascertain and designate the boundary line between the State of Michigan and Territory of Wisconsin.[1]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,The boundary line between Michigan and Wisconsin, as established by act 15 June 1836, ch. 99, to be surveyed, marked, and designated. That the Surveyor General of the Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin land districts, under the direction of the President of the United States, be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to cause to be surveyed, marked, and designated, the boundary line between the State of Michigan and the Territory of Wisconsin, agreeably to the boundary as established by the act entitled “An act to establish the northern boundary line of the State of Ohio, and to provide for the admission of the State of Michigan into the Union, upon the conditions, therein expressed,” approved June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six; and to cause to be made a plat or plan of the boundary between the said State of Michigan and the said Territory of Wisconsin, and return the same to Congress at its next annual session, and that the sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to carry into effect this act: Provided, That the whole expense of surveying, marking and designating the said boundary line shall not exceed that sum.

Approved, June 12, 1838.