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THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 160, 161, 162. 1866. 81 stantial, and workmanlike manner, in all respects in conformity with the wlgtfgw wh" provisions of this act, and to his satisfaction, then it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents to the said State of Michivan for the lands hereby granted. b Sec. 3. And Ibeiit further enacted, That if the said ship canal- shall not c05p<;:-:18*:} ;:¤°* be completed within two years from and after the passage of this act, the ,,,0 ye,,.,, hud, lands hereby granted shall revert to the United States. to revert. Approved, July 3, 1866. CHAP. CLXI. —An Act mpranting Lands to the State of Michigan to aid in the Con- Jul? 8i 1866- struction of 1; garbor a Shao Canal at Portage Lake, Keewenaw Point, Lake Superior, in said tate. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and hereby is, Land, g,.,,,,,,,,; granted to the State of Michivan to aid in the building of a harbor and to Michigan for ship canal at Portage lake, Kgewenaw Point, Lake Superior, in addition Qhffsssuizi to a former grant for that purpose, approved March the third, eighteen portage Lak., hundred and sixty-five, two hundred thousand acres of land in the upper Am°¤¤*~ peninsula of the State of Michigan, and from land to which the right of homestead or pre-emption has not attached : Provided, That one hundred Mig; f¤ b¤ M- _ and fifty thousand acres of said lands shall be selected from alternate oddnnmbered sections, and fifty thousand acres from even-numbered sections of the lands of the United States. Said grant of lands shall inurc to the t0'}`sm_*;h¤¤¤ ¤¤¤ use and benefit of the Portage Lake and Lake Superior Ship Canal Com- ' pany, in accordance with an act of the legislature of the State of Michigan, conferringlthe land granted to the said State, by the act herein re- O terred to, on said company: And provzded further, That the time allowed T}m¤ for <><>¤· for the completion of said work and the right of reversion to the United lggggi w°rk °x` States, under the sand act of Congress, approved March the third, eigh- iiprpob. 102,§5. teen hundred and sixty-five be extended three additional years : And ° · xm·P·52°· provided further, That no larids designated by the United States as " min- M,,,.,,.,] 1,,,,1, eral " before the passage of this act shall be included within this grant. not granted- Approved, July 3, 1866. CHAP. CLXH. -An tpnzeyuodhéeéblewllziacrgpplrgggpnnpypeltyho-Glycerine, or Glynoin July 3, 1866. Be lt enacted by the Senate and Lbuse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter it shall not be _Th¤ havsmfw lawful to transport, carry or convey, ship, deliver on board, or cause to be §g{'é,€,‘;;Q;“" delivered on board, the- substance or article known or designated as nitro- &c., thrbiddeh. glycerineé or gllynom oil, nitroleum or blasting oil, or nitrated oil, or powder mixe wit any suc oil or Gbre saturated with any such [article] or snbszmce ppgn or ilu any sihfp, séeamship, steamboat, vessel, car, yvagon, or other ve ic e use or employe 1H transporting passengers y and or water betweenh place or places in any foreign country and a place or places within the limits of. any State, territory, or district of the United States, or between a place in one State, territory, or district of the United States, and a place m any other State, termtory, or district thereof; and Penal, any person, company, or corporation who shall knowingly violate the pro- one bag}, Em visions of this section, shall be liable to a Hue of not less than one thou- to the informer. sapfd nor more thpnlfen tpousand dollars, at the discretion of the court, one ha to the use othe in ormer. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in case the death of any per- Ifthe death or son shall be caused, directly or indirectly, by an explosion of any quantity ***3* §3”°¤ is of said substances or art1cles,‘or either of them, while the same is being gggsmbgyolilzi placed upon or in any such ship, steamship, steamboat, vessel, car, wagon u-o-glyeerine, pr other-vehicle, to be tratnsported, carried, or conveyed thereon or therein ‘lme'5hg‘·;"”::‘ in vngation of the forcgoing section, or while the same is being so trans- gong k{,Ow{{,§y` v L. xiv.