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 THIRTY—EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 137,138. 1864. 141 to locate the routes of said roads through such reserved lands; in which case the rights of Way shall be, and are hereby, granted, subject to the Rights of way approval of the President of the United States. g""“°°d‘ Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That said roads shall be located, lV¤e<>¤·¤;>¤d¤& surveyed, and constructed, under the direction of such agents or commis- ;‘gg;J:;§tfd_ an sioners as the governor may appoint, and shall be chopped out a uniform width of at least six rods. The road-bed proper to be not less than thirty-two feet wide, and constructed with ample ditches on both sides, so as to afford sufficient drains, with good and substantial bridges and proper culverts and sluices where necessary. All stumps and roots to he thoroughly grubbed out between the ditches the entire length of said road, the central portion of which to be sufficiently raised to afford a dry road-bed by means of drainage from the centre to the side ditches; the hills to be levelled and valleys raised so as to make as easy a grade as practicable. Ssc. 4. And be it further enacted, That when the governor of the State of Michigan shall furnish the Secretary of the Interior with maps and charts showing the definite location of the line of each of said roads, it shall be his duty to have the land granted to each of said roads with- Land granted, held from market, and reserved exclusively for the purposes aforesaid. ;'1;g’}r“b°“§hL And when the said governor shall certify to the Secretary of the Interior 8 °m mu e that any ten consecutive miles of either of said roads have been completed under the provisions of this act, and in accordance with the third section thereof; stating definitely where said completed section of road commences and where it terminates, it shall be the duty of the said secretary to cause patents to issue to said state for three sections of land for gr&::§?a;°g¤ each mile of road thus completed, as aforesaid, and so on until the whole when to issue: of said roads is completed: Provided, That no patents shall be given for Proviso. any of the aforesaid lands before the completion of ten consecutive miles of road, or for any road, or for any part of any road, made before the passage of this act, or for any greater quantity than thirty sections for each ten miles completed according to the provisions of this act. Nothing in this proviso, however, shall be construed so as to prevent the application of so much of the said three sections per mile as may be necessary to Hnish any part of said roads partly made before the passage of this act. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That this grant is made upon the _E¤<pr¤SS ¤¤¤diexpress conditions that the roads shall be and remain public highways, mgs °fg”“° free from all toll and other charges ; and that if any portion of said roads Pub§:dfi§,;°,°;y,’ shall remain uncompleted for a period of more than five years from the and be completed approval of this act by the President, the lands granted for such portion ‘“ BW Y°°"’“· shall revert to the United States. Approved, June 20, 1864. Cnr. CXXXVIII. —An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the Jung 20, 1864, Payment of the Claims of Peruvian Citizens, under the Convention between the United ·j·—— States an  of the twel_fth‘do/' January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three," approved 1864. Ch- 101- June first, eighteen hundred a sixtyfour. Amb P' 95* 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 to Am°=¤$i*P¤¤*;_ of provide for the payment of the claims of Peruvian citizens, under the   ggglgilxggogt convention between the United States and, Peru of the twelfth of Jan- claims of Peruviuary, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, approved June first, eighteen ““°‘°‘““" hundred and sixty-four, be amended as follows: after the word January strike out the word last, and insert in lieu thereof the words eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and said law be, and is hereby, further amended so as to authorize the Secretary of State to pay to each of the persons mentioned in said act the interest that may be found due in accordance