People ex rel. County of Houghton v. Commissioner of the State Land Office

This is an application for a mandamus, to compel the commissioner of the state land office to cause patents to be issued to the county for certain selections of swamp lands, appropriated to the county by the act of March 20, 1863, for the construction of the Mineral Range State Road.

The third section of the act provides “that whenever any ten consecutive miles of said road shall be completed and approved of by the board of supervisors of the county in which said road shall have been built, and such approval certified to by the chairman of such board of supervisors, the clerk thereof shall…