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1861 July 17 Letter to Judge Phelps

Title

1861 July 17 Letter to Judge Phelps

Description

The law states that if you do not fence claimed property within a year than others may survey and fence the land themselves.

Type

Correspondence

Sender

Brigham Young

Recipient

Judge Phelps

Date

1861 July 17

Location

Great Salt Lake City

Subject

Property
Legal Matters

Item sets

Letterbook v. 5

 

G. S. L. City, July 17, 1861.

Judge Phelps:-

In regard to the question in your note of even date, if you have fenced the land you claim, and kept it fenced from within a year from the time you made your claim, the laws and customs of the Territory award it to you; but if you neglected to fence it as the law requires, thereby causing your claim to become void, it was open to be surveyed and fenced by others, as other public domain. If the latter be the case, and others have had it lawfully surveyed to them and fenced it, no better way, for you and all parties, occurs to me than for you to leave the unlawful claimants and possessors in the peaceful possession of their rights.

Your Brother in the Gospel,

Brigham Young