140 THIRTY-—EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 136, 137. 1864. Consular olerks. clerk shall be made, it shall be satisfactorily shown to the Secretary of Ex,min,{,;,,¤_ State, after due examination and report by examining board, that the applicant is qualified and Bt for the duties to which he shall be assigned; and such report shall be laid before the President. And no NOW) haw clerk so appointed shall be removed from office except for cause stm,] moved except for in writing, which shall be submitted to congress at the session first fol- °°“”°· lowin such removal. Re ea1of§8of Sn?. 3. And be it further enacted, That the third section of an act
- 0* ¤¥1859» °h· entitled “An act making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic
75Q;01_xi_p_404_ expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of Jung, eighteen hundred and sixty," approved March third, eighteen hundred Fees of consul- and fifty-nine, is hereby repealed. And the fee for certifying invoices to $¤¤¤¤¤l for BYW be charged by the consuhgencral for the British North American Prov.
gf;,?:;;: inces, and his subordinate consular officers and agents, for goods not
ordinhtesfor cer- exceeding one hundred dollars in value, shall be one dollar, and the same gyms ““'°‘°°“• fee shall be charged for certifying the growth or production of goods (§8,-mmf, of made duty free by the reciprocity treaty: Provtdcd, however, That no gr<3w¢1¤_¤¤¤ rv-_ such certiticate of growth or production shall be required for goods not 3;*;:flm mmm exceeding in value the sum of two hundred dollars. Omg Ofcom_ Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the office of commercial agent mei-cinlagsntat at Hakodadi,_Japan, may, at the discretion of the Secretary of State, be §L“;‘,;’g;g;d"l‘;Y changed to that of consul, to be classed with consuls other than those that Ofcongul, named in schedule B and C in the act approved August eighteen, 1856t 9*1- 127— eighteen hundred and fifty-six. "°‘· XL P· ““· Approves, June 20, 1sc4. JVM 20w 18% Crux-. OXXXVII. — An Act granting Lands to the State Z Michigan for the Construction of certain Wagon-Roads for Military and ostal Purposes. Bc it enacted by the Senate and Hama of Representatives of the United States of America in Ocmgress assembled, That there be, and hereby is, Lands granted granted to the State of Michigan, for the construction of a wagon—road
- >°Mi¤hi€¤¤g>; for military and postal purposes, from Saginaw City, in said state, by
gégxygthem the shortest and most feasible route to the Straits of Mackinaw, every Straits or Macki- alternate or odd section of public land not mineral, for three miles in “'“'i width on each side of said road to the extent of three sections to the mile. Egg; 2)“‘“‘i Also for a road from Grand Rapids, in said state, through Newaygo, Straits of Mask- Traverse City, and Little Traverse, to the Straits of Mackinaw, every mw- alternate or odd section of public land, not mineral, for three sections in width on each side of said road to the extent of three sections to the mile. Ifanty lands And it is hereby provided that in case it shall appear that the United gs o':;;;:' States shall have (when the lines or routes of said roads are definitely _,,,, b,, émn 5,, established) sold or reserved any sections or parts of sections, granted as lieu thereof aforesaid, or that the rights of preemption or homestead have attached to the same, so as to leave a deficiency in the amount to_ be selected within the limits designated, then it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to select such lands from the odd sections, or parts of sections, nearest to the three-mile limits aforesaid, such quantity as shall be necessarytomake up the deficiency thus created: Provided, further, That Lands, how to the lands hereby granted shall be exclusively reserved, held, and applied l£s°P£:1°gf’“d in the construction of said roads, and shall be appropriated and disposed P°of only as the work progresses, in quantities and under such regulations and restrictions as the state shall provide; and in no event shall they be appropriated or disposed of for any other purpose whatsoever. Lands hereto- Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any and all lands heretofore
- '¢1‘¢r¢¤¤W¢d,¤x- reserved to the United States by any act of congress, or in any other
wmE°';.ttg?· manner by competent authority, for any public work, or for any other set. purpose whatsoever, be, and the same are hereby, reserved to the United States from the operation of this act, except so far as it may be necessary
