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But although that title was held to be good even after the abandonment of their original occupation, and the establishment of shops, offices, and dwellings on the site of the deserted places, the suburbs of the town and outlying districts were more precariously held by squatters, under the presumption of their being public land open to preemption, or the settlement of school-land warrants upon them.
The Commissioner stepped to the door and spoke to a clerk in the other room spoke as he always did, as if he were addressing a prince of the blood: "Mr. Weldon, will you be kind enough to ask Mr. Ashe, the state school-land appraiser, to please come to my office as soon as convenient?" Ashe came quickly from the big table where he was arranging his reports. "Mr.
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