[or-roots] Swamp Act of 1850

[glenkc7mbm at comcast.net]

Hi Les
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.
Glen

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Glen A. Jones

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From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net> 

> Glad you brought that up Glen; 
> 
> I had never heard of it til the PLSO con this year at Vancouver, it came up 
> in one of our case studys of resurveying and how to allot property against 
> previous surveys with errors in them. 
> 
> It seems this act was sort of a loophole for states to distribute land for 
> $1 an acre on a 20 cents up front and the rest on time deal that had holes 
> in it you could fly the moon through, it seems that all that was required to 
> designate "swamp" was the sworn testimony of a "local official" that the 
> pertinent land flooded annually, I gather from the case laws and tenor of 
> some of the stuff I see when I google that term that some of this sworn 
> testimony must have been based on condensation of heavy dew, they talk about 
> large tracts of the Sierra Nevada mtns going under that act and desert land 
> and such. 
> 
> I couldn't find a clear definition of it, but the basis apparently was to 
> get "useless" swamp land in private hands so it could be drained and become 
> "productive" which given the history of massive flood damage caused by 
> draining this land in the last fifty years is in hind sight one of the 
> stupidest government programs ever. 
> 
> Les C 
> 
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Donation Land Claims-land patents 
> 
> 
> Les 
> Do not forget the Swamp Act was also in there also. 
> Glen 
> 
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> Glen A. Jones 
> 
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