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Retrieval Number: 7740/2/3/1
Letter from J. A. Roberts, Chairman, Maritime Marshland Reclamation Commission to Donald Harper, Secretary, Tantramar West Body of Marsh, 13 September 1949.
Mount Allison University Archives, Donald Harper fonds.
May be reproduced only with permission of Mount Allison University Archives.
letter, sept. 13, 1949.

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In this letter the Chairman of the Maritime Marshlands Reclamation Commission confirms the power of expropriation available to the marsh bodies under the new provincial legislation and suggests that the best way to transfer title of land is by having the affected farmers simply sign over any claim to title to the provincial government. What is not clear from this group of documents is whether there was any opposition to these new mechanisms for dyked marsh maintenance and development. Presumably, the prospect of provincial government funding, to replace local taxes and labour, was sufficient inducement for farmers to support the changes.

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