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 582 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 127-129. 1871. Section added to reduce the expenses of the survey and sale of the public lands in the. be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following additional section, to be numbered as section eleven, viz? :— Depnsits made “Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That in all 08568 where settlers i’Kb'j‘?m°" f°' shall make deposits in accordance with this act, to the credit of the ribgyidruylglis United States, for public surveys, such amounts so deposited shall ge in K°Y¤*°¤* °Y part payment for their lands situated in the townships, the surveying nw of which is paid for out of said deposits; and effect shall. be given to this act by regulations to be prescribed by the commissioner of the general land office. Ar-raovmw, March 3, 1871. March 8, 1871- CHAP. CXXVIII. —-An Act lo mend the Time f>r the Reueysion to the United States `_—`——`" gte Lands granted Aly Congress to the Stale;' Mzdzzgan to atd in the Construcuon of a lroad from Pere anquette to F lml, an sat Stale, and for other Purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Time for re- States of America in Congress assembled, That the time specified in the '°,‘2,;%‘;_;l§£g;_ fourth section of the act of Congress, approved June third, eighteen Fan for railroad hundred and fifty-six, entitled "An act making a grant of alternate years. the reversion to the United States of the lands granted by said act to $2; **-2% *‘ aid in the construction of a railroad from Pere Marquette to Flint, and ` `PIfor the completion of said road, be, and the same is hereby, further extended for the period of five years from and after the passage of this act. Tim $*¤*¤m¤Y Sec. 2. That the State of Michigan may authorize the sale of sixty
 * °f°"“°" "°”· United States," approved May thirty, eighteen hundred and suny-two,
 * §°*¤ P°'°Fi;l“*`· sections of the public lands to the State of Michigan to aid in the conggiggigg g,;;" struction of certain railroads in said State, and for other purp0ses," for
 * ghg;':2,.ii:?n of sections of the land granted to aid the construction of said railroad from

the Lands, when, Pere Marquette to Flint, whenever and as often as the governor of said &°- State shall certify that ten additional miles of said railroad is completed P¤Wi¤¤- and in running order as a first-class railroad: Provided, That said lands authorized to be sold as aforesaid shall include only lands situated opposite to and coterminous with the completed sections: Andprovided, That in case said railroad shall not be fully completed from Flint to Lake Michigan within the time as extended by this act, all the lands included in said grant to which the right to sell shall not then have attached shall revert to the United States. Approved, March 3, 1871. Hatch 8, 1871. CHAP. CXXIX.-·An Act cor;/irming the Title to certain Lamls. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Matted Title to certain States of America in Congress assembled, That the title to the land certified }:¤w*;P::;g§:2£° to the State of Iowa by the commissioner of the general land office of ' the United States, under an act of Congress entitled "An act confirm- 1862, ch.101. ing a land claim in the State of Iowa. and for other purposes," approved V°i"‘“‘P·°“" July twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, in accordance with the adjustment made by the authorized agent of the State of Iowa and the commissioner of the general land office, on the twenty-first day of May, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and approved by the Secretary of the Interior on the twenty-second day of May, anno Dominl eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and which adjustment was ratified and confirmed by act of the general assembly of the State of Iowa, approved March thirty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, ratified and confirmed to the State · Iowa and its grantees in accordance with said adjustment and said act of the general assembly lstés! of the State of Iowa: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be so
 * §°m;d_ ‘“ construed as to affect adversely any existing legal rights or the rights of