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<DIV>Hi Les</DIV>
<DIV>Well it does not name names,but over in the Malhuer and Harney lake areas when my Grt Grandfather had his ranch there was a story about how some men claimed several thousand acres under the swamp act, they swore they rowed accross the land in a boat, they just did not say the boat was on the back of a buckboard.</DIV>
<DIV>Glen</DIV>
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<DIV class=signature id=signature>--<BR>Glen A. Jones</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans@verizon.net> <BR><BR>> Glad you brought that up Glen; <BR>> <BR>> I had never heard of it til the PLSO con this year at Vancouver, it came up <BR>> in one of our case studys of resurveying and how to allot property against <BR>> previous surveys with errors in them. <BR>> <BR>> It seems this act was sort of a loophole for states to distribute land for <BR>> $1 an acre on a 20 cents up front and the rest on time deal that had holes <BR>> in it you could fly the moon through, it seems that all that was required to <BR>> designate "swamp" was the sworn testimony of a "local official" that the <BR>> pertinent land flooded annually, I gather from the case laws and tenor of <BR>> some of the stuff I see when I google that term that some of this sworn <BR>> testimony must have been based on condensation of heavy dew, they talk about <BR>> large tracts of the Sierra Nevada mtns going under that act and desert land <BR>> and such. <BR>> <BR>> I couldn't find a clear definition of it, but the basis apparently was to <BR>> get "useless" swamp land in private hands so it could be drained and become <BR>> "productive" which given the history of massive flood damage caused by <BR>> draining this land in the last fifty years is in hind sight one of the <BR>> stupidest government programs ever. <BR>> <BR>> Les C <BR>> <BR>> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Donation Land Claims-land patents <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Les <BR>> Do not forget the Swamp Act was also in there also. <BR>> Glen <BR>> <BR>> -- <BR>> Glen A. Jones <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________ <BR>> or-roots mailing list <BR>> or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us <BR>> http://sosinet.sos.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots </BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>