United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/23rd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 72
Chap. LXXII.—An Act to change the boundary between the south-eastern the western land districts in the territory of Michigan, and for other purposes.
Certain lands to form part of the western, and others of south-eastern land district.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the public lands of the United States within the limits of the counties of Calhoun and Branch, in the territory of Michigan, which are now subject to sale at the land office at Monroe, shall, from and after the passage of this act, be set off to, and form a part of, the western land district in said territory; and all that part of said territory lying east of the aforesaid counties, and south of the base line and west of the principal meridian, and, also, all the country east of the principal meridian and south of the line between townships numbered three and four south, except so much thereof as lies north of the river Huron of Lake Erie, shall continue to belong to, and form a part of, the south-eastern land district in said territory, the land office for which is now located at Monroe, but shall be subject to be removed from time to time to such place as the President of the United States may order and direct.
Approved, June 25, 1834.