Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05

ed by the proprietors were provloea'
The superior order, the landgraves:
were to be granted the baroness. ano
the next lower order, called caciques.
were to be granted manors. The plan
was drawn up by Locke in 1869. and the
remainder of the century was to oe
allowed for experiments and Tor the
selection of proper persons TO become
the progenitors of long line OF hereui-
tary nobility. After 1900, the persons
then in possession of the lands ana
titles were not to be permitted to alien
ate them, but we're to be required 10 re-
tain them intact for the benefit of their
posterity 1t was contemplated that
one person might, by descent. acquire
more than one honor or body OF land
during his lifetime, and this plurality
vas to be corrected by allowing the
eldest son to take the most important.
the remainder going 10 the heiis III
order.
The size of fee simple holdings was
limited to 5000 acres and at least one
third of the land held with title conid
not be leased. but must be held TO sup
port the dignity of the position The
remainder could be leased, out Only
for a limited period.
The logic of this plan would seem TO
involve it's arbitrary imposition on the
settlers of the Carolinas. 1t was I'M
philosophical benefit on them as the
charter provided for the consent of the
people to any plan of government and
the adoption of Locke's scheme was
made conditional on its adoption ny
the Carolinians Although it was
strongly urged upon them, and al
though honors and grants We're dis
tributed in advance to secure adher-
ence they were unable to appreciate us
advantages and refused to adopt TINS ana
several notifications of the plan, final
" adopting laws of their own. suited
to their conditions.
The colony of Georgia. which is
unique among the colonies of North
America, was I'M
Georgia Unique planted on a por-
Among Colonies. 1iu lima which be-
cause of it's proximity to the Spanish
possessions. had not been settled. The
colony was not chartered until 1732
in the reign of George II and was an
attempt to create a home for the Eng
lish poor. The charter created cor
poration for twenty-one years to hold
the territory in trust.
At the expiration of twenty-one Years
the lands included in the Georgia grant
reverted to the crown, which. after
affirming the titles which had vested
established a crown land Office and is
sued titles upon first payment and quit
rents after the plan of the other crown
colonies. The crown lands were taken
over by the people of the state in The
revolutionary period and, as there were
large amounts of unoccupied lands, eff
forts were made to attract new set
tiers. Free grants were made on con-
dition Of settlement and legislation was
passed requiring former grantees to
occupy lands as condition of con-
tinued title.
AS the lands were taken up, the ex-
tinguishment of the title of the Chero-
KEGS and other Indians who have since
come to be known as the Civilized
tribes was a serious problem and it
was finally necessary to invoke the aid
of the United States, with the result
that the tribes were ultimately re-
moved west of the Mississippi.
The lands south of the Ohio, now
Tennessee, and the Mississippi terri
tory, now included in the states of
Mississippi and Alabama, were parts of
the colonies of North Carolina and
Georgia, respectively, and were coded
with the remainder of western lands
to the United States to form part of
the common stock of public lands with
which the federal government began
it's operations