Underwood's Counterfeit Detector, Vol. 4

Download or read book Underwood's Counterfeit Detector, Vol. 4 written by B. G. Underwood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-12 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Underwood's Counterfeit Detector, Vol. 4: December 1881 By act of Congress this division was prohibited from spending any portion of its appropriation in said investigation, hence our operative was compelled to transfer his services to the Interior Department, in order to complete the cases in hand. The result of his work, as far as developed, show the rankest perjury and forgery, by Which parties have wrongfully appropriated nearly two million acres of the pub lic land. Up to present writing over one hundred indictments have been found against the conspirators, and several of the parties have been tried, convicted, and a penal servitude of seven years each meted out to them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.