Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-03-19

which shall remain unsold ct the passage OF
this act, shall be, and the same are hereby
granted to said State" (Arkansasl The Atm
section of the same act reads A. follows
THAT the provisions Of this act be extended
to. and their benefits be conferred upon,
each of the other States Of the Union, In
which such swamp and overfowed lands
known and designated as aforesaid may be
situated" The Railroad grant dates some
six years subsequent, after which comes
again the act Of Congress of March. 1857,
specially comforting to the States all the
lands selected under the grant Of 1850, so
far as they were vacant. ANY one can see
that there could be no conflict with
the Des Moines Grant, and If there ever had
been conflict with the Railroad grant, it
was entirely settled by the act OF March 3D..
1851
Mr.. T. has sent circulars to all the coun-
ties in the State, with the view Of making
nice thing out Of his appointment. He
did 80 Of course at the suggestion Of others,
among them myself After he had received
his appointment proposed to him that We
might best subserve the interests of all con-
cerned by joint action. Fair promises and
Appointments were made to me by Mr.. /.
to that end. For reasons best known to
himself he has not only seen fit to utterly
disregard them, but sought to invalidate
nv contracts with the different counties
by creating others for himself. The evil
dent intention of Mr. rs last letter was to
frighten the different County Judges into
his appointment. 1t is the merest moon
shine IN the world. the representation that
Mr. T. should be appointed by the different
counties as tn cir agent, and nobody knows
it better than himself. 1t is purely pri-
vate speculation of his own The counties
Of Iowa have nothing to do at Washington
The Swamp lands have been given by the
General Government to the State OF Iowa
not the counties. Whenever the proper
time comes it will issue Patent, including
all the Swamp Lands that are vacant, to thu
State of Iowa, and will also furnish thu
Governor with an abstract setting fortl
precisely what has been done in the ont
prepared fer Scott county, but on large
scale, embracing all the Swamp Lands il
the State The Governor will then issue
| Patent to the different counties for all tn
vacant Swamp Land therein, and will als'
furnish to each Ct the counties copy OF tn
abstract for as much Of the lands as are sit
uated in the same, when the counties wi
90 to work to secure the testimony required
by Congress, as to their character, which i
returned to the Governor, and by him sen
to the Department at Washington, and
satisfactory there, for all the lands tina
have been entered with warrants, Xix
amount Of Scrip will be issued to the Stat
of Iowa, authorizing the location Of othe
lands in liew thereof, and for all that hay
been entered with cash. the same will b
refunded the State, when the Governor il
the manner prescribed will proceed to as
certain what amount of said scrip and cas-
is due the different counties, when he vii
pay over the same.
In all this, Mr.. T. is of just as much Der
eft to the counties as q fifth wheel is to
wagon. HENRY ALTMAN, Jr
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