Volume 75
Public Law 87–119
To create the Wyandotte National Wildlife Refuge.
Approved August 3, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To create the Wyandotte National Wildlife Refuge.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the islands
Wyandotte National Wildlife Refuge.
more specifically referred to in section 2 of this Act in the Detroit River are hereby established and designated as the Wyandotte National Wildlife Refuge. The Wyandotte National Wildlife Refuge shall be administered by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the laws and regulations relating to national wildlife refuges, and shall be maintained as a refuge and breeding place for migratory birds and other wildlife in connection therewith.
Sec. 2.
The lands referred to in the first section of this Act are more specifically described as follows:
In township 3 south, range 11 east, Michigan meridian, those federally owned islands in the Detroit River known as Grassy and Mammy Juda (or Mammajuda) Islands, together with all accretion and reliction and all soil of the bed of the Detroit River bordering on the meander lines of said islands and appurtenant thereto by reason of riparian ownership.
Approved August 3, 1961.