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The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
Commonwealth's Lands.--The General Assembly, in May, 1780, passed an act which may be found in Henning's Statutes at Large, ch. 2, page 226, for the purpose of securing "to the public certain lands held as common. " The lands referred to were "unappropriated lands on the bay, sea and river shores, in the Eastern parts of this Commonwealth." It is further stated, that in the "act establishing a land office, and ascertaining the terms and manner of granting waste and unappropriated lands," no reservation thereof is made, but the same "is now subject to be entered for and appropriated by any person or persons, whereby the benefits formerly derived to the public therefrom will be monopolized by a few individuals, and the poor laid under contribution for exercising the accustomed privilege of fishing." For the reason stated, the lands so referred to which remained "ungranted by the former covenant," (meaning that of the English,) were excepted out of said act, and it was declar