United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 87
Chap. LXXXVII.—An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act to grant a quantity of land to the state of Illinois, for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of the Illinois river with those of Lake Michigan,” and to allow further time to the state of Ohio for commencing the Miami canal from Dayton to Lake Erie.[1]
Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 56.
Lands granted to Illinois.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the lands granted to the state of Illinois by the act to which this is an amendment, may be used and disposed of by said state, for the purpose of making a railroad instead of a canal as in said act contemplated; and that the time for commencing and completing said canal or railroad, whichever the state of Illinois may choose to make, be and is extended five years; Provided, That if a railroad is made in place of a canal, the state of Illinois shall be subject to the same duties and obligations, and the government of the United States shall be entitled to, and have the same privileges on said railroad, which they would have had through the canal, if it had been opened.
Ohio canal.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the further time of five years be allowed the state of Ohio to commence the Miami canal from Dayton to Lake Erie, in addition to the time now allowed therefor by law.
Approved, March 2, 1833.
- ↑ An act to authorize the state of Illinois to open a canal through the public lands to connect the Illinois river with Lake Michigan, March 30, 1822, ch. 14.An act to authorize the selection of certain Wabash and Erie Canal lands in the state of Ohio, June 30, 1834, ch. 137.An act to grant certain lands to the state of Indiana, the better to enable the said state to extend and complete the Wabash and Erie Canal from Terre Haute to the Ohio river, March 3, 1845, ch. 42.