Section 2.221 - Wisconsin - Michigan boundary commission; creation. - Michigan Statutes

WISCONSIN - MICHIGAN BOUNDARY COMMISSION (EXCERPT)
Act 282 of 1927

2.221 Wisconsin - Michigan boundary commission; creation.

Sec. 1.

There is hereby created a special commission consisting of 3 members to be appointed by the governor, which commission shall, in co-operation with the attorney general of this state and with any similar commission or proper officers of the state of Wisconsin, proceed to designate and mark the overland boundary between the state of Michigan and the state of Wisconsin in accordance with the order and decree of the supreme court of the United States entered November twenty-second, 1926.

History: 1927, Act 282, Imd. Eff. May 31, 1927 ;-- CL 1929, 424 ;-- CL 1948, 2.221
Compiler's Notes: Long acquiescence by one state in the possession of territory by another and in the exercise of sovereignty and dominion over it is conclusive of the latter's title and rightful authority. Michigan v. Wisconsin, 270 U.S. 295, 46 S. Ct. 290. Possession of part of territory under claim to whole and color of title extends state's possession to entire tract in absence of actual adverse possession. Michigan v. Wisconsin, supra.Act 15 of 1919 (Ex. Sess.) as amended by Act 276 of 1921 and Act 30 of 1921 (1st Ex. Sess.) created the Wisconsin-Michigan boundary commission to cooperate with a like commission of Wisconsin to investigate and fully establish a permanent boundary line between the two states.