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lose no time in dispatching a messenger to the Commissioner of the Land office, then at Marshall, 1 think. He did so; and instructed the commissioner to withold the school section of Lansing from sale, and, I was afterward informed, that very soon thereafter an application was made by some of the Seymour parties to purchase that section. There were no telegraphs in those days.
I should have before stated that I had the full and constant assistance of Hon. A. N. Hart in my efforts, and who had promised his support to the Seymour bill when Owosso should have withdrawn from the contest; and, also, that we at Owosso had secured titles at a nominal price to about 1,600 acres of land in and adjacent to Owosso; one-half of which was to be donated to the State in case the capitol should be located there, besides four forty-acre lots within the present limits of the city, from which the State was to select one for the capitol buildings.
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