The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1858-03-05
swamp Lands.

We are in receipt Of the annual report
of the Commissioner of the State Land
Office, by which it appears that there was
given to the State of Michigan by the
General Government, the amt of D, $780,,
05l II acres, which had been returned
as Swamp Land. OF these lands, 4,SSl,-
SIS, have been patented and the balance,
1925 have not yet been. One hun
drcd and forty-siX thousand nine hundred
and eighty acres have been already sold,
leaving the enormous amt 1888 ,074,Ol,
20 be disposed of under the present law
BY referring again to the table we find
that there was originally given to this
county 21,076,37 acres, Of which u 1873,
SS have been sold under the old Locofoco
Law, at minimum price Of six shillings
an acre, and only one fourth of that pitt
fol sum paid down, and no taxes paid on
them from that time to this, leaving as we
see but ,, ~, 40 acres to be sold, for drain
age and educational purposes.
by the provisions of the law stfty days
are allowed for presumption claims to be
secured after which, the remainder Will
be advertised and sold. One half of the
proceeds to be put into .S,ramP Lond
Fuaa to be applied by the Board Of Su-
pervisors of each of the counties in which
the lands are situated, and in the proper
ton to the amount sold in each county, to
the drainage of the same; the other half
is to be put into the primary school fFHd
to educate the children Of the State.
The division of the proceeds, and its
appropriation to hco distinct .faads, was
the result Of compromise, as we under
stand it, as nearly all matters Of great Inter
est are, usually, finally adjusted upon
compromise principles Tho feeling that
entered into the discussion was not party,
if we excer. the little Kantcr dutchcy,
clique whe were determined to be sore
headed at any thing that was done, but
seciioBoE the north part of the State
where mort of all the swamp lands lie want
cd to have the uhoIc amount Of the in
come received thcrefrom, put into a
swamp land fund while the So0h which
had bu; little, and with country improv-
ed, rich, and able to drain its swamps by
individual effort alone, were strenuous to
constitute the whole a primary school
fund. The matter was finally settled up
Oh the basis Of the present law in which
both sections are satisfied, and which docs
equal justice to both.
The little minority Bogus Democracy
faction in this State are getting up one of
their peculiar hocis over this matter, as
usual, with anything that is done contrary
10 thrir dictum. They are now assuming
for once the mask of honesty, ud WITH
peculiarly sanctimonlous rhine are asking
with mock solemnty if these lands were
not given exclusively for the purpose Of
drainage? and if, in appropriating part
Tor school purposes, the republican party
is not guilty Of a breach IF firth with the
general government? Oh . the lying sane
'imopioH dypocyites! Oh . the plotting,
public pin idcrcra Of the State for seven
teen years. let them look to hcir o,rn
l2V, which they made tor tho sale Gf these I
lands and which they actually sold to their :
own party favor,tes, the amount of One |
Uea,lrcd aad .tory si1 thousand aiac
hoa,'rcH 0a3 eighty ocreS at eightccn pence
n, ARE, coSh form, and never used n
s'a2ie doli1r far drGiRage, sd0caiioa, or
any other work Of public benefit. We re-
peat it--aot Il single doii1r for drainage
or ANYTHING else, Under Hcir law; and
now these beautiful pinks of a byc-gonc,
rotten and corrupt administration come up
and talk about keeping faith with the gen
cral government, as though hey had ever
been introduced, or kept company, for a
single moment, with the faintest ghost Of
moral honesty or good faith to any body.
Thcy rcbuking others for not kscpiag
faith Truly Bcelzebub has turned NOR
alist-and Nloloch, pcacsmskcr. Let
tae'u frs. reimburse to tic treasury the
aye, the millions that they
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