of the State of Ohio shall be established by, and extend to, a direct line running from the southern extremity of Lake Michigan to the most northerly cape of the Miami bay; thence, northeast, to the northern boundary line of the United States; thence, with said line, to the Pennsylvania line.
Which line shall be deemed the east and west line.
Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 57.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the boundary line surveyed, marked, and designated, agreeably to “An act to authorize the President of the United States to ascertain and designate the northern boundary of the State of Indiana,” approved March the second, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, shall be deemed and taken as the east and west line mentioned in the constitution of the State of Indiana, drawn through a point ten miles north of the southern extreme of Lake Michigan, and shall be and for ever remain the northern boundary of said State.
Which line shall be taken as the line west from the middle of Lake Michigan.
Act of March 2, 1831, ch. 86.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the northern boundary line, ascertained, surveyed, and marked, agreeably to a law of Congress entitled “An act to ascertain and mark the line between the State of Alabama and the Territory of Florida, and the northern boundary of the State of Illinois, and for other purposes,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, shall be deemed and taken as the line west from the middle of Lake Michigan, in north latitude forty-two degrees thirty minutes, to the middle of the Mississippi river, as defined in the act of Congress entitledAct of April 18, 1818, ch. 67. “An act to enable the people of the Illinois Territory to form a constitution and State Government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States,” approved eighteenth of April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and shall be and for ever remain the northern boundary line of said state.
Approved, June 23, 1836.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CXVIII.—An Act to remove the Land Office from Clinton to Jackson, in the State of Mississippi.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Land Office at present established at Clinton in the State of Mississippi be hereafter kept at Jackson, in the same State.
Approved, June 23, 1836.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CXIX.—An Act to amend an act to grant certain relinquished and unappropriated lands to the State of Alabama, for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Tennessee, Coosa, Cahaba and Black Warrior river.
Act of May 23, 1828, ch. 75.
Part of the former act repealed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the second section of the act above recited as restricts the State of Alabama from having the power to sell, dispose of, or grant the residue of the lands granted by the act to which this is a supplement, at a price not less than the minimum price of the public lands, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Proviso.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the assent of the United States is hereby given, to any act which the Legislature of the State of Alabama may pass for imposing a toll on the use of such parts of the canal or canals, which have been or may be, constructed at or around the Muscle and Colbert’s shoals of the river Tennessee: Provided, That such tolls shall be expended exclusively on the said canals, and shall not exceed in amount, the sum required to keep them in repair, and to defray the expenses of lock tenders, collectors, superintendents, and managers; and that no part of this act shall be construed as a repeal of the exemption, contained in the seventh section of the afore-
