THE SEIZURE OF PRIVATE PROPERTY.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "i3PECTATOR."]
Sum,—Some little time ago you published a letter of mine on the subject of Government appropriation of •private property, and I quoted the oases of two ladies who had been wronged in this way. One of these has since died after waiting over three years for the restoration of her property. The rent formerly derived from it formed some three-fourths of her small income, and the property could have been sold to advantage several time over, but she never received a penny from the Government in spite of numerous applications, and one high official declared that she had not been harshly treated. Her death may well have been hastened, if not indirectly caused, by the worry an trouble this infringement of her legal rights caused her.--I
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