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An act to authorize the surveying and ma

 king a road from La Plasance Bay, in

 the Territory of Michigan, tointerseet

 the Chicago road

 Be II enacted by the Senate and House of RepreseatatiUes of the Unaed States of .Ame- yiea ia Congress assembled, That the Pre- sident Of tine United States be, and ire is hereby authorized to appoint three Com missioners, who shall explore, survey and mark. ia the most eligible course, road from La Plaisance Bay, in the Territory of Michigan, to lntersect, at some suitable point, the road from Detroit to Chicago, established under the provisions ofthe act 0s :ii ssl ef March, one thousand tight hundred and twenty five; and said Com missioners shall make out accurate plats of such surveys, accompanied with field notes, and certify and transmit the same to the President of the United States, who, if he approve of said surveys, shall cause the piats thereof to be deposited in the office of the Treasury of the United States, and the said road shall be considered as estab. lshed and accepted: Prouided That said Commissioners shall be disinterested per- sons, not residents of the counties of Mon roe or Lenewee, i'll said Territory.

 Sec ,. find De II further enacted, That - the said Commissioners shall, each, be en- titled to receive three dollars, and their assistants one dollar and fifty cents, for each and every day they shall be necessa- Tily employed in the surveying, exploring, ~and nl arking ofsaid road and making their returns thereof: Provided, That the " iloie expense thereof shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars.

 Sec. 3. And De | further enacted, That for the purpose of eompensat,ng the said Commissioners and their assistants, and for opening and making said road, there shall be, and is hereby, appropriated, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, te be paid out of any money in the Treasury not oth 'crwiso appropriated to be expended un- der the direction of the President of the United States, for the purposes aforesaid Prooided, howeuer, That the money applied to the making of said road, shall be laid out first in making such parts of it from La Piaisance Bay, to the crossing of the river 'eaisin, at or near leonmseh, as have not heretofore been improved; and the residue. if any, upon such parts of it as in the judgment of the superintendent, the public good may most require.

 Approved July 1, 1882. .6l 