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REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF 



LESSEE. 



William P. Mason, 

 Mrs. Ann H. Manierre, 

 Edward Manierre, 



Thomas P. Wickes, 



LOWER SARANAC LAKE. 



LOCATION. 



Eagle Island, 

 Hocum Bay, 

 Hocum Bay, 



CHAPEL POND. 



Rocky Point, . 



ANNUAL RENT. 

 $150 



15° 

 15° 



30 



Dr. Delevan Bloodgood, 

 Hon. Jerome Lapham, 

 Mrs. Agnes Ranger, 

 Col. William D. Mann, 

 Mrs. Cecil Gabbett, 

 Albert L. Judson, 

 William A. Wait, . 

 Oberon Lapham, . 

 L. H. Fillmore, 



The amount of land leased to each of these persons varies from a small camp site 

 to five acres. The lease granted Henry Bradley calls for two acres, to be used as a 

 steamboat landing at the terminus of tlie highway leading from Fourth to Raquette 

 Lake, and was deemed necessary for the accommodation of travelers. The lease 

 granted L. H. Fillmore on Lake George is for a small plot on which there is a little 

 one-story building containing a single room, and one or two tents, where he carried 

 on a photograph business during the summer months. He was occupying this place 

 prior to the establishment of the first Forest Coinmission. 



All of these leases, each of which was drawn for five years, were executed at 

 various dates between July i, 1893, and July I, 1894. They will, consequently, 

 expire in 1898 and 1899. Owing to a clause in the new State Constitution, they 

 cannot be renewed. 



These leases were granted pursuant to the forestry law of 1891, which authorized 

 the F'orest Commission — 



" To lease from time to time, for a term not longer than five years, land within the Forest 

 Preserve, not more than five acres in one parcel to any one person, for the erection of camps or 

 cottages for the use and accommodation of campers. Such leases shall contain strict conditions as to 

 the cutting and protectio/t of timber and the prevention of fire, a reservation for travelers of the 

 right of passage over the land leased at all proper and reasonable times, and a covenant on the 

 part of the lessee to observe all ordinances or regulations of the Forest Commission thereto, for, 

 or thereafter to be prescribed ; and ;/(;' exclusive privilege of fishing or hunting shall be granted 



