The Original Public Domain

[palani]

From SPECIFICATIONS FOR DESCRIPTIONS OF TRACTS OF LAND for Use in Land Orders and Proclamations

found here at Google Books

http://books.google.com/books?id=lYFWVm1k9NsC&pg=PP10&dq=%22style+manual%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pN0vVNBllq_IBL27grgJ&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBDge#v=onepage&q=%22style%20manual%22&f=false


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Note this is based upon an executive order from JFK in 1962, LBJ saw fit to amend JFKs order in 1967 by adding that Proclamations issued by the President shall conclude with "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand ... , etc, and of the independence of the United States of America the _____". LBJ also removed the requirement for the great seal of the United States from being affixed to the originals of proclamations.

In any case ... kindly note that the ORIGINAL PUBLIC DOMAIN comprises only 30 of the several States. Now I always heard that when admitted to the union all states were to have the same status as the original thirteen states.

Missing from the original public domain of the United States are

Hawaii
Texas
Georgia
N Carolina
S Carolina
Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Delaware
New York
Massachusetts
Vermont
Maine
New Hampshire
Connecticut
New Jersey
Rhode Island

[palani]

This link is to LOOTERS OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN by S.A.D. Puter King of the Oregon Land Fraud Ring

http://books.google.com/books?id=gmuEAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22public+domain%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lW8wVIe8MpCfyASLioKABQ&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22public%20domain%22&f=false

I haven't read it all yet but from what I have read it seems to do a reasonable job exposing many land frauds in Oregon. Railroad scandals. Using strawmen to obtain government land. Bribes. etc.

Written in 1908.