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LANDS FOR NAVY TO PROTECT THE?-' FRO!' TRESPASSERS
March - 1870 »
’’Bay St. Louis Gazette" of March 12, 1870
in N.C. Daily Picayune - Tuesday, March 15* 1870
IIVE OAK IANDT; ^OR NAVAL PURPOSES An Arry officer, on ap:ent for the Navy Department, is traveling around our seacoast at present, to examine all live oak lands reserved for naval purpose?.
Tie is instructed, v/hrrever he find? trespassers on such lands, to h"ve their; arrested and punished, and take nil neeflful steps for the preservation of those noble trees — the live oaks.