United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 56
Chap. LVI.—An Act to alter the lines between the land districts in the territory of Michigan.
Boundaries of the southern land district, in Michigan, established by the act of March 3, 1823, ch. 52, to be altered.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the boundaries of the southern land district, in the territory of Michigan, as established by the act passed the third of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, entitled “An act to establish an additional land office in the territory of Michigan,” shall be so altered, as that, from the point where the present boundary line between the third and fourth townships south intersects the meridian line, the boundary of the said district shall run north with the meridian line until it shall intersect the base line, and thence with the said line west to Lake Michigan.
Approved, May 16, 1826.