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-nted, the purchaser shall have no claim upon the State, for the deficiency. here is a loss in the outset; if such uncertainly exists in consequences of imperfect surveys, no prudent man will give so high a price for land, as he would, were it otherwise. Neither the Government nor its agents appear ever to have had a proper knowledge of the lands granted, or offered for sale, nor have been able give correct information to those who were disposed to purchase. On the plans deposited in the officer of the Secretary of State, by the commissioners under the act of separation, are delineated the exterior lines of the township and the rivers; but it does not appear by this field notes of the surveyors. also there deposited, that any surveys have been made. other than those of the exterior lines of the townships. It does not appear by what survey the courses of the streams are laid down, nor what is their capacity for floating down timber, for giving motion to machinery, nor what the quality of land on their banks. and the agreements of the commissioners in the several divisions of public lands with Massachusetts, are almost the only documents which have been by them deposited in the office of the Secretary of State, I would suggest to the Legislature the enquiry, whether the commissioners have complied with the provisions of the act of separations which requires that "copies of their records authenticated by them shall be deposited from time to time in the archives of the respective States." | -nted, the purchaser shall have no claim upon the State, for the deficiency. here is a loss in the outset; if such uncertainly exists in consequences of imperfect surveys, no prudent man will give so high a price for land, as he would, were it otherwise. Neither the Government nor its agents appear ever to have had a proper knowledge of the lands granted, or offered for sale, nor have been able give correct information to those who were disposed to purchase. On the plans deposited in the officer of the Secretary of State, by the commissioners under the act of separation, are delineated the exterior lines of the township and the rivers; but it does not appear by this field notes of the surveyors. also there deposited, that any surveys have been made. other than those of the exterior lines of the townships. It does not appear by what survey the courses of the streams are laid down, nor what is their capacity for floating down timber, for giving motion to machinery, nor what the quality of land on their banks. and the agreements of the commissioners in the several divisions of public lands with Massachusetts, are almost the only documents which have been by them deposited in the office of the Secretary of State, I would suggest to the Legislature the enquiry, whether the commissioners have complied with the provisions of the act of separations which requires that "copies of their records authenticated by them shall be deposited from time to time in the archives of the respective States." | ||
Original surveys should never be partial and imperfect, nor be farmed out by the job, to the lowest bidder; increased cau and expense in the beginning is in the end, the greatest economy. In the public lands, the present generation is entrusted with a fund of great value, and case must be taken that we do not leave to posterity little else but lawsuits to settle the boundaries of their farms, instead of those accumulated benefits which might be reasonable expected from so rich a patrimony. | Original surveys should never be partial and imperfect, nor be farmed out by the job, to the lowest bidder; increased cau and expense in the beginning is in the end, the greatest economy. In the public lands, the present generation is entrusted with a fund of great value, and case must be taken that we do not leave to posterity little else but lawsuits to settle the boundaries of their farms, instead of those accumulated benefits which might be reasonable expected from so rich a patrimony. | ||
| − | The appropriations made by the State, as well as the avails of the township assigned to Maine by the | + | The appropriations made by the State, as well as the avails of the township assigned to Maine by the Commonwealth |
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244 -nted, the purchaser shall have no claim upon the State, for the deficiency. here is a loss in the outset; if such uncertainly exists in consequences of imperfect surveys, no prudent man will give so high a price for land, as he would, were it otherwise. Neither the Government nor its agents appear ever to have had a proper knowledge of the lands granted, or offered for sale, nor have been able give correct information to those who were disposed to purchase. On the plans deposited in the officer of the Secretary of State, by the commissioners under the act of separation, are delineated the exterior lines of the township and the rivers; but it does not appear by this field notes of the surveyors. also there deposited, that any surveys have been made. other than those of the exterior lines of the townships. It does not appear by what survey the courses of the streams are laid down, nor what is their capacity for floating down timber, for giving motion to machinery, nor what the quality of land on their banks. and the agreements of the commissioners in the several divisions of public lands with Massachusetts, are almost the only documents which have been by them deposited in the office of the Secretary of State, I would suggest to the Legislature the enquiry, whether the commissioners have complied with the provisions of the act of separations which requires that "copies of their records authenticated by them shall be deposited from time to time in the archives of the respective States."
Original surveys should never be partial and imperfect, nor be farmed out by the job, to the lowest bidder; increased cau and expense in the beginning is in the end, the greatest economy. In the public lands, the present generation is entrusted with a fund of great value, and case must be taken that we do not leave to posterity little else but lawsuits to settle the boundaries of their farms, instead of those accumulated benefits which might be reasonable expected from so rich a patrimony. The appropriations made by the State, as well as the avails of the township assigned to Maine by the Commonwealth