Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-12-22

which they desired, at a price that
woull be agreeable to the said Tally.
no Club. This was done by Mr..
Michsl.
New Orleans, La.-John T. Michel,
candidate for Governor, Monday sent
the Safes the following letter:
New Orleans, La, Oct. 9, 1911.
Mr.. Robert Ewing, City:
Sir+Some weeks ago you made
chargss against me- These charges
answered fully. frankly and in the
opinios of all fair-minded men, sue
cessfuiy Wednesday night l left
the city to conduct my campaign in
the country. Immediately upon my
departure you renewed the same
charges in another form. / returned
to town this morning and this is
my rely thereto / request that
you give it the same publicity and
the SANE position of prominence in
your psier that you gave to your ar
ticle.
The wamp land grant acts of
Congress- and particularly the one
approved March 2, IS4o, gave over
to this State all the swamp land with
in the Site subject to overflow and
found unit for cultivation at that
time.
According to these acts of Con-
gress, townships Ia and L, south of
range ans west, in the Southwest
ern Land District of Louisiana in
Vermilion Parish, were listed as
swamp and overflow lands by J. p.
Taylor, Tilted States Deputy Sur
veyor and Agent of Louisiana. on
October co. 1850, and were approved
by R. w. Boyd, surveyor general of
the State, december ?. of the same
yeard, and reported as such to the
general land office in Washington.
d. c.
I These selections on may 6, 1852,
were approved by the Secretary of
the Interior, and then the State of
Louisiana took these lands in fee
simple, and could dispose of them
through its Legislature according to
these acts of Congress.
Thus, all the lands in townships IA
and IS south Of ranges and west,
in the Southwestern District of Lou
isiana, with few exceptions, which
exemptions are not involved in the
purchase you refer to, became the
property of this State fifty-nine years
ago. and were open to purchase by
anyone so desiring, in accordance
with the acts OF the Legislature au-
thorizing the sale of such lands.
These lands therefore were shown
as swamp lands belonging to the
State, and could be so entered and
sold.
There was nothing to indicate thai
this land was covered By lake, to
the contrary, it was selected and
approved to the State as land sub
ject to overflow, and it was SO shown
by plats on file in the Surveyor Gen
erals office.
The land was bought by me under
Act IS of the General Assembly Of
1880. This act divided this land into
two classes:
Ist. Swamp and overflow land
that had timber on it;
end. Swamp and overflow land
that had no timber on it, but which
was sea marsh or prairie.
The swamp and overflow LAND
that had timber on it sold at ?:
cents an acre. The swamp and over
flow land which was sea marsh OF
prairie, and which had no timber OF
it, sold for IL Ia cents an acre.
In order that the Register of tn.
! Land Office sell this land, the ac'
! did not require, nor was it necessar,
that affidavits be obtained as 70 III.
character of the land. The only rea
son for the furnishing of an .affida
Wit at all was in order to dettrmin,
into which class the land should b,
placed and there was no other rea
son. In other words. if the land hae
timber on it, it sold for IS cents
an acre, and if the land had no tim
Der on it, it sold for IL Ia cents al
acre.
4 In order to find, out whether tn,
land was timber land or not. variou
affidavits were obtained The asses
sor of the parish, Mr.. Broussard
certified that this was marsh lans
subject to overflow. and this appear
ed by his certificate on file in tn,
Land office.
Roman Francez. United State