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acqueduct acres aforesaid bank board of canal board of commissioners boats Calamic Calumet river canal commissioners canal lands chains channel chargeable to ordinary Chicago river chief engineer commenced completion construction contract contractors Cook county Copperas Creek cost court cubic feet cubic yards culvert distance earth excavation east embankment estimates examination Expense as foreman feet wide Fox river feeder George Woodruff Governor hereby Illinois and Michigan Illinois river Indiana James Barron Joliet Lake Michigan Lanfear LaSalle LaSalle county Legislature Leon McDonald lock lockage Lockport Michigan canal miles navigation Ottawa Pay roll perches Plaines river plat present railroad repairs respectfully rock excavation roll for labor route Saganaskee sanitary district stone street Summit division Summit Level supply survey swamp tion town of Chicago towpath trustees W. L. Sackett wharfing privileges
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Page 7 - Judge holding the Circuit Court of the United States in and for the Northern District of Illinois...
Page 229 - That sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in every township of public lands in said State, and where either of said sections, or any part thereof, has been sold or otherwise disposed of, other lands, equivalent thereto, and as contiguous as may be, shall be granted to said State for the use of schools.
Page 261 - mineral land,' wherever the same occurs in this act, and the act to which this is an amendment, shall not be construed to include coal and iron land. And any lands granted by this act, or the act to which this is an amendment, shall not defeat or impair any preemption, homestead, swamp land, or other lawful claim...
Page 216 - In testimony, whereof I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States of America, have caused these Letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.
Page 234 - Together with all and singular the hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof...
Page 105 - 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...
Page 11 - When it shall be necessary in making any improvements, which any district is authorized by this Act to make, to enter upon any public property, or property held for public use, such district shall have the power so to do and may acquire the necessary right of way over such property held for public use in the same manner as is above provided for acquiring private property, and may enter upon, use, widen, deepen and improve any navigable or other waters, waterways, canal or lake; provided, the public...
Page 230 - The Board of Commissioners of the Illinois and Michigan Canal," and by the thirty-second section of the same Act the commissioners are required "to examine the whole canal route and select such places thereon as may be eligible for town sites and cause the same to be laid off into town lots...
Page 234 - ... may remain on hand to sale at such times and in such manner as they may deem proper. The said board of trustees are authorized to convey lands and water powers sold by them as aforesaid, after the purchase for the same be fully paid, but not before; and the said lands and lots shall be exempt from taxation of every description by and under the authority of any law of this State until after the same shall have been sold and conveyed by the said trustees as aforesaid...
Page 261 - Judge, have the same power to administer oaths or affirmations required, or authorized to be administered by the provisions of this act, or the act to which this is a supplement...