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 THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. IOS, 109, 110. 1864. 119 CHAP. CVIII.·-An Act to repeal the frsi Section of the Joint Resolutzan relative -to the June 3, 1864. Tran.¤ resolution entitled a “Joint resolution relative to the transfer of persons in $£;g£E;:?;;al the military service to the naval service," approved February twenty- to enlist into the four, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. §;V’*}_;°g{§§» Approved, June 3, 1864. “P ` CHAP. CIX. —An Act to reestablish the principal Port of Entry for the District of June 3, 1864. Champlain at Plattsburgh, and for other Purposes. 'X"-"L" Be it enacted by the Senate and House ¢p" Representatives of the United States of Amer1Ica in Congress assembled, That the third section of an act Plattsburgh ra entitled “An act to equalize and establish the compensation of the col- °2:E}‘s£"d0‘;f gl? lectors of the customs on the northern, northeastern, and northwestern Entry? P frontiers, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hun- 184;;;,.;;,, 37,ga, dred and sixty-three, changing the port of entry for the district of Cham- V<>l·Xii· P- 761· plain from Plattsburgh to Rouse’s Point, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and that Plattsburgh be,and the same is hereby, reestahlished as the principal port of entry for said district, at which the collector of customs shall reside. And a deputy collector shall reside at Rouse’s Point, Residence of and be vested with all the power and authority given to deputy collectors oO11B6m Tat b law. deputy co ec or. YAPPROVED, June 3, 1864. CHAP. CX.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act making a Grant of alternate Jung 7, 1864, Sectztms of.[the}51?ubZic Lands to the State of Michigan to aid in the Construction of certam Razlroa m sazd State, and far other Purposes. V01_’xi_ p_ 2L Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United }§65» °h51g8~ States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled "An act A°St’n$;m3 éof making a grant of alternate sections of [the] public lands to the State of fo,mi;1:,wt gan;- Michigan to aid in the construction of certain railroads in said state, and ingland fq Michifor other purposes,” be and the same is hereby, amended as follows, g" f°r “*"]r°“dS‘ 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 Location the southern boundary line of the State of Michigan, in the township of °ha¤g€d· 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 section 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 foregoing amendment, these words : Provided, That the lands so to be selected shall in no case Lgmgt of Sembe further than twenty miles from the line of said road: Provided, fur- fi¤¤ of landsther, That the time specified in the 4th section of the act hereby amended Tgme not to be for the completion of said road shall not be extended. ¢Xf¤¤d¤d· Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the lands granted by the act Lands granted, amended by this act, and also by the provisions of this act, to aid in the g?;'0‘;;‘}1Y0Q° be construction of the railroad described in the foregoing section, shall be P ` disposed 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 ti_me for each completed section of ten miles of said road until the whole shall be completed. Armzovisn, June 7, 1864.