The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1906-06-22
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT LANDS
SOLD AT Il 2.3 CENTS An AcRE.

Of Internal Improvement, lands at the
ridiculously low price Of al 2-3 cents per
acre, and History has repeated ITSELF
again in that the Broward l. /. Board
have followed in the footsteps Of and
played a similar trick to the jennings
Barrs land-sale trick, the difference per
acre in price received by them being
only liz cents per acre more, and below
the True Democrat gives its readers
some startling information, gathered,
too, from the record books Of Monroe
county, and which we believe will open
the eyes Of our readers to the desperate
straits Governor Napoleon Bonaparte
Browsrd and his clouded Internal I'm
prOvement Board have at last worked
themselves into, in that they have, on
very recent date-the 18th day of
April, 1906 &C. sold 20 one Joseph Jennings
50, 9S9 acres of land at 4l8 cents per
acre, and which tract of land said JeH-
HiHgs, on the 4th day of May, resOld TO
the Palgrove Land Company at 81 per
acre, making in this |. l. land transac-
ton, for himself and perhaps his allies,
$34, 98S "a, which sum and more should,
clearly and very reasonably and very
properly, have gone into the |. l. Fund
instead of into private pockets, as the
information gathered herein clearly
shows that an offer of still more 81. 25
per acre-had been turned down and re.
fused by that same Funny-Dealing-in-
PubIc-Affairs Board, by bona fide cti-
zens Of Monroe county.
Below we copy a letter we received
this week and some information from
the records of Monroe county. Read
it, that you may form a clear idea of
how the gentlemen who are attending
to public affairs are dealing with the
public in Internal Improvement Fund
and drainage matters;
Key West, Fla, June Is, 1906.
Mr.. John G.. Collins, Tallahassee, Fla. ::
My Dear Sir Recently the Trustees
Of the |. |. Fund sold TO one Joseph
jennings, of Miami, SO, $3.50 acres of
acre. Jennings then sold the same land
to the Paigrove Company, a New Jer-
sey corporation, at 81 per acre, making
a clean profit OF $34 1853
Nothing like standing in with the
powers that be, is there?
The first deed is recorded in Book V,
page 568, ana the Palgrove deco is re-
corded on the next page of the same
book. Both deeds came TO the clerk 8
office at the same time
Citizens of Monroe county have tried
to buy lanus or the |. | Fund, and have
offered Sis per acre, and their appli- |
cations nave been turned GOWN with the !
statement that the lands were not for
sale.
Can you tell me how it is that out
slders can buy tor 4la cents, and our
own people cannot buy for 81 %?
enclose memorandum that may
also be or interest
Very truly, A SUBSCRIBER.
In Book "B," Miscellaneous Record, |
page b7S, OF Monroe county, Florida, |
appears the following, viz:
Resolved, That ali the lands granted |
to the State Of Florida by the Act of |
Cong ress Of September 2S, 1850, lying |
ahu beng south Of Township IS south
and situated on the mainland of this !
State, be and the same are hereby re- |
served for the benefit of the Florida |
East Coast Railway Company, reserving |
the rights of actual settlers now on the
land so set apart and reserved.
Il hereby certify that the above and |
foregoing Is a true copy OF a resolution .
adopted by the Board OF Trustees OF |
the Internal Improvement Fund of the |
State of lorlda, at meeting held on
the sixteenth day of February, A, ID /
1898
IT ;igned. W M MCINTOSH.
81 Sc re.ary Board of Trustees Of Inter- .
nal Improvement Fund of Florida.
Duly recorded August LIST, 1898.
Signed GEO. W. REYNOLDS,
Clerk "
On the 18th day of April. 1906. the
Trustees of the |. I. Fund sold to Oseph .
Jennings 81 $50 acres of land in Monroe
county, on the mainland south of Town
ship 6S, at 4lR cents per acre. See
Book ~, " $50 and $40
On the 4th day Of May, 1905, the
said Joseph Jennings sold the same
and to Palgrove Company, q corpora
lion organized under the laws OF the
State OF New Jersey, at $l.OO per acre.
See Book Nv, pages $40 and 57l, Of
Monroe County Records.
Now, after the exposure of the sale
of lands by that same board under the
VIM. Sherman Jennings administration
.o Bars at 30 cents per acre, does IL