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It is not a mistake merely, but a great misfortune, that our laws touching so delicate and vital a question as the ownership and transfer of mineral lands were not so framed as to avert these frightful evils.
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Julian critiques the inadequacies of laws governing mineral land ownership, highlighting their severe consequences.
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