PIONEER HUNTERS OF THE KANKAKEE 

 selves for the drainage besides. Article Eight, 

 Section Two of the Constitution for the State of 

 Indiana which is as follows: "All lands that have 

 been or may be hereafter gianted to the State 

 where no special purpose is expressed in the 

 grant and the proceeds of the sale thereof, in- 

 cluding the proceeds of the sale of the swamp 

 land granted to the State of Indiana by the act 

 of Congress on the 28th day of September, 

 1850." In the same section implies that the 

 swamp lands were granted to the state on con- 

 dition that the money derived from the sale oi 

 those lands be used in the drainage of the same. 

 That part of the contract, sorry to say, has never 

 been carried out. As I have said, all great 

 movements have their beginning. So it was 

 with the drainage of the Kankakee Swamps. In 

 the early fifties a bunch of men, afterwards 

 known as the Kankakee Swamp Land Swind- 

 lers, went into an agreement with the State 

 Authorities at Indianapolis to drain a certain 

 amount of the Kankakee marshes by digging 



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