Note 1492 — Chapter X
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For the first two decades of the National Government land frauds were general. See, for example, letter of Governor Harrison of Indiana, Jan. 19, 1802, Am. State Papers, Public Lands, i, 123; report of Michael Leib, Feb. 14, 1804, ib. 189; and letter of Amos Stoddard, Jan. 10, 1804, ib. 193-94.