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October 18, 1845.

Sm:-In reply to your letter of the 25th ultimo, I have to inform you that I have caused an examination to be made of all the township plats which have been returned to this office, for the state of Michigan; also, the files, &c., having relation to Indian reservations, and that the office is unable to find any other townships than those mentioned below, in which the sixteenth section is covered, in part, by an Indian reservation :

Township 6 South, Range 7 East.

A portion of the sixteenth section in this township is covered by the "Indian reservation at Macon," for. the Catholic Church at St. Anne. Reserved by treaty of 29th September, 1817.

Township 9 South, Range 8 East.

On the sixteenth section, in this township, is the reservation for Wansonoquette, (160 acres,)-Ottawa treaty, 18th Feb., 1833; also, a small portion of the reservation for L. Guion, under same treaty; a part, also, covered by the private claim of A. Lamar, No. 439. Township 7 North, Range 6 East.

96 89-100th acres of the sixteenth section, covered by the reservation of the "Eleven sections at and near the Grand Traverse of Flint River." Reserved by the 3rd Article of Saginaw Treaty, 24th September, 1819.

Very Respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

JA'S SHIELDS, Comm'r. M. E. VAN BUREN, ESQ, Office of State Geologist, Detroit, Mich.

NOTE.-One of the reservations mentioned in the foregoing letter, viz: that lying in town 9 south, of range 8 east, is within the state of Ohio. There are other cases besides those given, in which section sixteen is in part covered by reservations.

M. E. V. B.

DEAR SIR :-Herewith, I transmit a copy of the list of school lands selected in lieu of the 16th section, and for fractional townships as reported to this office by the Commissioner General Land Office.

The list comprises, most probably, all the selections made of the kind; at all events, it contains all the information that this office possesses on the subject, and I think it will be found such as is requested in yours of yesterday.

School Lands in the State of Michigan, selected under the provisions of the act of Congress, May 20th, 1826, and 23d June, 1836, and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury.

(Copy.)

GENERAL LAND OFFICE,

I hereby certify that the foregoing on pages 1, 2 and 3[of the original list] are correct lists of the tracts of land in Michigan, selected by order of the Secretary of the Treasury, and approved by him under the provisions of the act of 20th May, 1826, entitled "an act to appropriate lands for the support of schools in certain townships, and fractional townships not before provided for," and the act of 23d June 1836, entitled "an act supplementary to the act entitled 'an act to establish the Northern boundary line of the State of Ohio, and to provide for the admission of the State of Michigan into the Union, on certain conditions."

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name (L. s.) and caused the seal of the General Land Office to be affixed at the city of Washington, this twenty-seventh day of March, 1844.

(Signed)

THO. H. BLAKE,

Commissioner.