If that is true, why don't they just come in and say, ``Look, we bought this land that had already been developed by somebody else who patented it and it is not fair for us to take this because it originally belonged to landowners and we want to pay a royalty on it.'' Would that be fair?
Discussing land ownership and royalties in a legislative context.
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