Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-10-04
Total
37,7s6.s9

The value Of these lands will average
from two to four dollars the acre, and tbs
demand for them is such, at the present
time, rs to induce the committee to believe
that no more favorable time could be selec.
ted for putting them into market than the
present. The committee believe that it Is
due to the settlers in the immediate neigh.
borhood of these lands, that they should be
appraised and sold Mt fair valuation
Those interested in these lands, will at once
see the injustice OF Withholding them from
sale and taxation in these sparsely popula
ted counties, eniaiAing bad roads and bur
donsome taxes upon the inhabitants who
have settled in their neighborhood; npe
further, that it is due to the citizens Of the
State at large, that so large an amount o.
lands should not be Withheld from taxation
for State purposes, and consequently fail
ing TO contribute TO the general revenue
derived from transportation of their pro.
ductions upon our public works, in the i'm.
mediate neighborhood of which they are 10.
Gated. The income to be derived from the
money ssarising from their sale is needed
in the support Of schools, which has now
been Withheld more than fourteen years.
Your committee has become satisfied that
depredations are continually nude upon
the timber on the tract, which must neces.
sarily increase with the increase Of popula.
tiou in their neighborhood, by means Of
which their value is constantly deprecia.
ting These lands are remote from those
Immediately interested in them, dispersed
over large extent Of territory, and the
employment Of agents to look after and
protect them would soon eat up their value
in expenses. Your committee, therefore,
feel authorized IN repeating, from the best
authority, that the present is propitous
time to put these lands into market, and
would recommend the passage of a law
providing for the submission Of the ques-
ton Of "sale' or s'no sale'' to the inhabit-
ants Of the Connecticut Western Reserve,
at the next annual State election, and that
hereafter law be passed providing for the
sale of the lands nt not less than their ap.
praisal, TO be made ty some competent
person or persons appointed by the proper
authority for that purpose.
All which is respectfully submitted.
f D. POTTER,
ABEL KIMBAL[.,
JOHN HARRINGTON.
January %, ls4s.
This report, we are informed, was made
after full and most thorough investigation
of the whole subject, and all the circum.
stances and evidence relating thereto at
their command; and that before the report
was made to the House, it was submitted
TO the members from the Reserve counties
and of the counties in which these lands
are situated, and that i, me. with their de.
clded approval.
Dos Dos.-This is the attitude in which
the Buffalo nominees stand in regard to the
Mexican war. On what question Of pub.
lie policy have they ever agreed?
The Mexican War. The Mexican War.
-''lt is due to the iu' 1.-THE present war
ture fame, as we'll MS with Mexico is un-
the present prosperi- constitutional in its
ty Of this great ma origin, unjust in its
lion, that it be trium- character. and de-
phantly susiaided.' testable in its OBJ
Martin Van b. jects.' Charles F.
ten. adams.
What beautiful pair? But this is not
all. Here is Charles Francis Adam. opin.
ion Of Martin Van Buren:
"Let no man delude himself with the be
lief that Mr.. Van Buren, is fixed to any,
thing but his own interest. ."-Charles
Francis adams.