Petition of Amboy, Lansing and Traverse Bay Railroad Company for a grant of lands.

[Michigan?] : [publisher not identified], [1857]

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House doc. (Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives) ; 1857, no. 11.

"The undersigned, in behalf of the Amboy, Lansing and Traverse Bay Railroad Company, respectfully represent that they with others applied to the Congress of the United States at its late session for an act granting lands to aid in the construction of railroads in this State. That since the passage of said act and in the hope of obtaining a portion of the lands granted thereby to aid in the building of the same, they have taken part in the organization of the above named Company under the general railroad law of this State, for the purpose of constructing and equiping a railroad from 'Amboy to Hillsdale and Lansing to some point on or near Traverse Bay' in this State. ... Your petitioners therefore respectfully pray that an act may be passed granting to the said 'Amboy, Lansing and Traverse Bay Railroad Company' the lands lying within fifteen miles of the line of their proposed route..." (Pages 1, 2-3).

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