United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 57
Chap. LVII.—An Act to authorize the President of the United States to ascertain and designate the northern boundary of the state of Indiana.
April 19, 1816, ch. 57.
Surveyor general, under the direction of the President, authorized and required to cause to be surveyed, &c., the northern boundary line of said state, dividing said state from the territory of Michigan.
April 19, 1816, ch. 57.
Proviso.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the surveyor general, under the direction of the President of the United States, be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to cause to be surveyed, marked, and designated, the northern boundary line of the state of Indiana, as divides said state from the territory of Michigan, agreeably to the boundary as established by the act, entitled “An act to enable the people of the Indiana 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 April the nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen; and to cause to be made a plat or plan of the said northern boundary of the state, particularly noting the place where the boundary line intersects or touches the margin of Lake Michigan, and return the same, when made, to Congress: Provided, That the whole expense of surveying and marking said boundary line shall not exceed five dollars for every mile that shall be actually surveyed and marked, which shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated for defraying the expense of surveying public lands.
Approved, March 2, 1827.