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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Surveyor General for the Year Ending November 30, 1857 If the act of the 25th January, 1816, was oppressive to the people at a period of universal distress throughout the whole country, when the currency was in the most deplorable condition, and real estate had depreciated more, than one-half, and at a time when the agricultural interests suffered more than any other, and no relief granted until the act of 1828 was passed, then, on the contrary, the act of 1835 goes to the other extreme, and has proved most disastrous to the interests of the Commonwealth; This can be illustrated by a reference to lands which had been originally surveyed on the same warrant, but owned by different persons - one thinking that the State ought to be paid for her land, and paying at the rate of from two to three dollars per acre to obtain his patent, the other taking a different view of the case, made a profitable investment of his funds in some other way, until the act of 1835 enabled him to patent his land at about thirty cents an acre, or as is more probable, from some cause not easily explained, has never yet paid the State one cent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.