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Message: <blockquote data-quote="db-2" data-source="post: 245503" data-attributes="member: 4743">I have an abstract in front of me and I go back to Doc dated 8/85.It refers to 2/22/89 and writes about the feds making us a state.  In there it states " did grant statehood and the state did accept for the support of the common school, section 16 and 36 in every township or other lands equivalent for the use and support of schools".  The wording spells out 590,000 acres of other land.At that time a portion of section 16 in this one township was already own by another so not sure what other land the state put into school land.  As I look at the various section 16 and 36 in townships a lot of that land is own privately. So I assume it was already own by someone prior to statehood.My feeling is we need to not sell this land for a moment gain while losing the long term gain, why would someone in Bismarck want to do that, makes no sense for me right now or in the past.  At the same time I am not sure why if we have the land in savings with its rental income why we continue to save the earnings from that land and not spent some at least on schools as it was intend to be if it is really needed for the schools.  At the same time for me I do not need to have my property tax for schools reduce (but I am old, my kids got their education and why do I need to pay for your kids schooling (heard that all the time when I had kids in school)  dbif there are 36 townships in every county and there are 53 counties at 640 acres/section times 2 then there was 2,442,240 acres own by the state for schools at statehood.  no/yes help me on that.Well the 36 townships is wrong so can someone tell me the right number?I will try this number of 1317 townships in ND at 1280 acres equals 1,685,760 acres at statehood for schools.  no/yesMy internet tells me 2,495,000 at statehood and now 723,000.  I guess I would like someone to tell me the answer as I do not know where to find and where the land went and why.  db</blockquote>

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