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Rights Of Settlers

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
December
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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On Oct. 18 Secretary Lanar submitted three questions uuder sectious I-i, 4, and 5 of the act oL Mareh IS, 18S7, "to provide for the mljustment of land grants made by eongress to nid in the construotiou of railroad and for tlie forfeiture of nnsarned !ands and lor other purposes" to Attorney-Ueneral Garland, asking his upiuiou on thetame. ThO general has made known his decisión Ue bolds that the fir.it saetion directa the ndjustraent of the grant-i, the second aeetion to the restoration of Litle to the United Stnte3 and tlie third provides for the re-instatement of any nomesteader whose pre-emption shall liave been erroneousiy cancelled on account of railroai (trant, or withdrawa'. in auwer to the secoud ouestion of Secretaiy Lamar - "Can llif depa trnent af ter ailju-tineut of tli9 rant by tlie departuiont., is,ue a patont to the purchaser ot such land beture the said land has been reconveyed by the road, or title recovere.t by judicial proceedin;-í'' - Mr. darlaud says that the persons or person so purchasing in good faith shall be entitle 1 to land o purchased after the grants respoctively sliaü have been adj usted. The third iiuestion is as folio w: 'The fifth sectíon provides that vluTe a railroad coiupany h is soid lands not conveyed to or lor lbo u-e of such company, and where such lands are for any roason except frora the oporatious oí the grant of naid-coiupany, it slinll Le lawiulfor the bona fide purehaser thereof trom said company to make payment to the United for said land, and thereupou jatenti shall issue therei'or to the said bona tide purchaser. or his heir or as.signs." .Vr. daiiand decides the intent of the act shows that to carry out its purpose the word "grant" w nerever use i in the tecond, thinl and fourth eections, must include lands in both primary and indemnity limits, and in order that the remedy may be adequate to rearess the wrong the word 'granf in the fifth section must be construed to iuclude, as it does in preceding .--ections of the act, both primary and indemnity limits. Immediateiy upon the receipt of this decisión ciecretary i.amar directed the commissioner of the general land ollit;e to proceed at once and with as niuch dispatch as possible to adjust all land grants under the act of March 8, 1S7. In accordunce with the opinión of the attorney-general in regard to the same. Prohibitionists De-feated. After the most heated contest on record in the state of Georgia, Atlanta voted against prohibition Nov. 20. The fight has been a peculiarly bitter one. For over a month the uitizens have been engaged in the contesf . Meetings have been held almost every nigut and local speakers and foreigu statesmen have stumped the country from almost every curbstone in the city and every cross road in the i try. Early in the campaign the prohibitionists leased the largest warehouse in the city and fitted it up with seating capacity for S.ÜOÍ) people. Almost nightly that building has been tilled aud such scènes of wild enthusiasm are rarely witnessed. Almost every minister in the city preached prohibition from his pulpit Kunday after Suuday. Both sides had full cumpa a f muis and managed their respective cause-, for all they were worth. 1hé Negro vote was the bone of contontion and was the balance of power, iiach sid ■ made tlift most strenuous endeavora to secure it in every way possible. The Negroes were considérably divided on the subject, though a majority of theni voted with the anti-prohibitionists. One of the features of the coatest has been the activo part taken by many omen of the city. fcSeveral of the churches organized committeos from among their teníale members who took an active part in the canipaign. They organized the women of the colored cliurclies into societies and met with them aud prayed with tliem day after day. The result of their work was shown tiy the appearance of large numbers of women at the polls with blue . adges. They served hot coffee and sandwiches at every polling place and cohducted prayer meetings and singing crusades in tiie open air. Tlie auti-prohibitionists claim a majority of from 1.20J to 1,500, and tbe prohibïtion8tá concede the victory.

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Ann Arbor Democrat