The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1875-09-25

Of thcn poor persons, and moe OF Them
ore absolutely ignorant of their ancestry.
Mr.. Duryca, in taking hold of th,r
claims found both the original order aud
the report of the survey, hat WAS not able
to find the final grant On this depended
the whole value ct the claim, which, I'm.
der the appraisal Of the urentcred lands
of the govcrnmcn;-ramly ~, 81 so an
acre-amountcd to Sic, 100000 All the
old parchmcnts and records in New
Orleans land office were searched, but
in vain. AT length it was traced to the
royal archives at Havana, and the Sp H.
ISL authorities furnished Duryea with
an authenticated copy of the original
and final grant of the land to Captain
Nallicre. After describing the tract of
land as reported in Trudcau's survey,
the grant concludes:
sin consequence of the power which
has been conferred on me by our Lord
in the King God prcscrvc), grant, in
his royal name, to the said Don Joseph
VALERIE, Captain of the Regiment of
Infantry of Louisiana, the said portion
described above, in order that he may
dispose of it, he and his legitimate sue
cessor>, as property belonging to him.
Ell BARON DE CARO\DELET.
Done in New Orleans, Dec. -,
1893"
The original grant was written in the
Governors book, as was the custom,
the grantee holding copy as his deed.
One third of the contested lands have
been owned BY private citizens for sew
eral wears, under the grant from the
United States. -Four millions of acres
are still unentcred. The inhabited part
is filled with towns, iutcrscctcd by rail
roads, built up in villages and laid out
in farms. If the heirs We're wealthy
enough, they might bring proceedings
to disposscss the inhabitants of six coun
ties in Missouri, and other counties i'll
Arkansas, but the proceedings have
been begun to recover land warrants or
patents by which the claimants may en-
ter the same amount of land anywhere
else in the public domain. lndcr an
act passed in 1860, claimants to land
grants, if successful, have right to
choose the same amount of land as they
claim from other spots, or take land
warrants, on which they may speculate
the same as on bonds. There are about
forty claimants who have thus far re-
corded, and others are expected. The
claim is looked upon as perfectly valid,
the lawyers for the plaintiffs will hold
that by the provisions OF the great
treaty in the ccssion of the province
from France to the United States, in
1909, the grant of Captain Don oscph
Nallicrc was fully protected and Sc
cured to him, as well as by the law of
nations. The case will be tried in eff
tcrson City, Mo-, in September.
The Social Science Association, ut its
recent session in Detroit had much to
say on the subject of The destruction of
the Western crops by the rlvagcs of til.
Chirch bug, the army and cotton
worms, and the Colorado beetle \
petition was ordered to sc presented at
the next session OF Congress, asking the
ravagcs of these animals be made the
subject of scientific investigation hy
that body. Ii further asks that, y til a
view to the adoption of definite $ stem
tor the prevention of further destruction
of the crops, the Department of -\gri-
culture be organized, on scientific ba-
sis, under the charge of practical mem
or that, in default of auch rcorganiza-
ton, Il commission of five persons, in
GLIDING one chemist, one botanist, and
three cntomologi,ts, be appointed, on
the recommendation of the Council of
the National Academy of Science.
The duty of this commission is to be |
the making of investigations into the en-
tire subject of the ravagcs of insects or
worms on the crops of the country, and |
preparation and publication, at brief in
tcrvals, of the reports of their researches
and practical instructions derived there
from.