1To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 6 March 1815 (Madison Papers)
The act of Congress of 6th May 1812, entitled “an Act to provide for designating, surveying and granting the military bounty Lands,” authorizes the President of the U States to cause to be surveyed a quantity of the public Lands fit for cultivation, not otherwise appropriated, and to which the Indian title is extinguished, not exceeding Six millions of Acres, vizt In Michigan Territory...