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 382 THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 26, 27, 28. 1859. and the privilege of constructing depots and workshops on the public lands of the United States lying in the county of St. Clair, State of Michigan, commonly called the Fort Gratiot military reservation, be, and the same is hereby, granted to any railroad company or companies which may construct a railroad or railroads from the city of Detroit, or any other place Proviso. in said State, to or near the village of Port Huron, in said State : Provided,` That in the opinion of the President of the United States such grant or grants be not injurious to the purposes of public defence, and that the.I0cation of said buildings 0n, and such road or roads as to position and width through said reservation, and the price of the land to be so occupied, being first determined by the Secretary of WVar, be approved by Proviso, in the President: Andpravided, further, That if the price of such grant or what 0*;*5 *h° grants be not paid within thirty days after the approval of the President, gzgfluizgal b° or if either of said roads shall not be completed within three years, or if, at any time after its completion, it shall be discontinued, the grant shall Proviso, as to cease and determine as to such road: And provided, further, That all the b““di“SS- buildings to be erected upon said reservation shall be of wood, and if, at any time, it should be deemed expedient by the commanding officer of Fort Gratiot, or by any other higher military authority, to destroy such buildings by fire or otherwise, no claim shall be made against the United States for damages. APPROVED, February 8, 1859. Feb. 9, 1859. CHAP. XXVII.—-An Act to provide for the Payment of the Claims of the State of lllainc, ’_"*"‘* {pr Expenses incurred by t/wt Stale in argamhng a Regiment of Volunteers for the mean War. Be it enacted ky the Senate and House of Representatives of the United A°°°““*S 9m‘° States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounts of the State State of Maine to. . . . . . be audited and of Mame for expenses incurred by that State in organizing a regiment settled. of volunteers for the Mexican war, in the year eighteen hundred and forty- six, upon the requisition of the President of the United States, shall be audited and settled by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department, pursuant to the provisions of an act approved June second, 1842}, ch. 60· eighteen hundred and forty-eight, to “ refund money for expenses incurred, '°l‘ lx' P‘ 236* subsistence, or transportation furnished for the use of volunteers during the present war, upon being mustered into the service of the United States," in the same manner in all respects as if the said regiment had been mustered and received in the service of the United States ; and the amount found to be due to the State of Maine shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, February 9, 1859. Feb 9, 1859- CHAP. XXVIII.—An Act to authorize the Attcrn -General to represent the United States U"' in the Proceeding in Equity, now pending in m Supreme Court between the Commonwealth ey" Massachusetts and the State of Rhode Island and Providence Planlations. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Matted The Attomey. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Attorney-General is G6¤¤r¤l_ author- hereby authorized and directed to intervene and represent the United
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&c.between the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and to consent on behalf' of the United States, to the adjustment of said suit by a. conventional line to be agreed upon by the parties, and confirmed by a decree of said court, if, in his judgment, the rights and interests of the United States will not be prejudiced thereby. _ Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in case such suit shall be ad- HnE°Q;'°’f;°“$m justed as aforesaid and a conventional line shall be agreed upon, and boundary um, confirmed by a decree of the court as aforesaid, such line shall be taken