United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/24th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 117
Chap. CXVII.—An Act to settle and establish the northern boundary line of the State of Ohio.[1]
Act of June 23, 1836, ch. 121.
Northern boundary.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the northern boundary 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.
- ↑ See notes relating to the Territory of Michigan; act of February 16, 1819, chap. 22.