Michigan Swamp Lands

Wasiiington, June 5. - Commissioner Sparks has recommended snit to set aside patents issued to the State of Michigan for about 5,000 acres of land on Bois BLanc Isl and, patented to the State as swamp land. The Commissioner holds that, as the land in question was in a reservation at the date of the passage of the Swamp-Land act, it could not have been included with that grant to the State by the act.