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Excerpt from The Houmas Land Claim: A Letter From John Claiborne, Esq., To the Hon. C. T. Bemiss, Accompanied by a Letter From the Hon. John Slidell to Mr. Claiborne Mr. Slidell, the assessors of Ascension parish for years past have valued it at the moderate snm of fifteen thousand dollars and fixed its area at ten thousand superficial arpents. If any one wishes to make a Speculation by buying Mr. Slidell's interest, I learn that he will cheerfully sell it for forty thousand dollars, on a long credit, which sum does not approach the 1 amount it cost him in principal, interest and taxes. In justice to that gentleman, I enclose you a Copy of the letter which he wrote in answer to my note addressed to him, because you will see from it what has been his entire course in Congress with regard to the claim, and how little he is amenable to censure, in the matter, from fair and impartial men. 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.