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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 Dear Sir, - In accordance with your request, made several weeks ago, that I would furnish you with authentic information as to the nature and history of the Houmas Land Claim, and its present condition, I have examined into the official archives at the Land Office in this city, as also into other official documents, and shall proceed, as briefly as may be compatible with a full and fair view of the subject, to state the result of my labors. The French and Spanish laws for the government of the Colony of Louisiana, as those Powers successively held it, permitted to the Indian tribes the occupation of the lands upon which their villages and fields were situated, but the Crown reserved to itself the title to the soil. Previous to the year 1174 the Houmas and Bayagoulas, together occupied a considerable tract fronting on the Mississippi, in what is now the parish of Ascension. About that date three gentlemen, Messrs. Maurice Conway, Latil and McNamara, with the consent of the Colonial authorities, bought of the Indians their rights to a tract occupied by them, about twenty-two leagues above this city, on the left bank of the river, with the customary depth of forty arpents, by a river front of ninety-six arpents. Subsequently, Maurice Conway purchased the rights of his associates, and became thus the sole proprietor of the land. 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.
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