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either of them, will not sell to any individual or corporation any lake or substantially the whole of 

 the land under and immediately surrounding a lake in any of the portions of said township retained 

 by them ; but that such remaining lands in said township shall be sold by them in the same manner 

 and for the same purposes as lots surrounding the Fulton Chain of lakes, ns have heretofore been or 

 now are being sold by William Seward Webb, the intent being that they will not dispose of their 

 lands so as to afford any individual, or club, or association of individuals or any corporation or 

 corporations any opportunity to control the exclusive use of any lake in said township for a private 

 preserve, or the exclusive hunting or fishing privileges of any land beyond their individual camp site 

 or hotel site. 



Reserving also to said Webb and said association the right to cut the decaying timber standing 

 witliin the present flowed ground of said Beaver River reservoir. 



Reserving also for the benefit of the Mohawk and Malone Railway Company the right to cut and 

 remove trees along the east side of their right of way on Township No. 8 and clear the ground for the 

 sole purpose of ailording to passengers on said railroad a view from the car windows of the mountain 

 scenery in the valley to the east ; said cutting and clearing to be under the supervision of the 

 Fisheries, Game and Forest Commission and with their permission and to an extent no greater than 

 they sanction. 



Said Webb and said association offer to cut a trail from Big Crooked Lake in Township 43 down 

 through the valley of the outlet of said lake to the junction of said outlet with the trail leading from 

 Gull Lake across the triangle north of Township 35. 



Also to cut out a wagon road from Beaver River station on said road across Township 32 on lands 

 hereby offered to be sold, which said road shall join the road known as the State Road crossing 

 Township 39, said trail and road to be cut at their expense. 



They further agree to furnish to the State a complete abstract of title, with official searches, down 

 to the date of the delivery of the deed to the State. 



Deed to be delivered upon the payment by the State of $50,000 in cash, and certificates of 

 indebtedness, signed by the Comptroller for the balance of the purchase money. The certificates of 

 indebtedness to' be ten in number, and payable in ten equal annual installments, with interest thereon 

 at three per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually. 



No timber shall be cut or removed after eight years from the date of the deed of conveyance, and 

 the Ouderkirk and Moynehan contracts will be ter?ninated within two years from the date hereof. 

 (Signed) W. SEWARD WEBB, 



NE-HA-SA-NE PARK ASSOCIATION, 

 By Edw.'^rd M. Burns, 



Attoriii-y in F,nt and Manager. 



At a meeting of the Fisheries, Game and Forest Commission iiekl on December 6, 

 1895, the special committee appointed to consider the offer of Dr. WiUiam Seward 

 Webb submitted the following report : 



This committee was appointed to confer with a committee from the Land Board upon the matter 

 of the purchase of certa'n lands offered for sale by Dr. W. S. Webb, and the settlement, through said 

 purchase, of damages claimed to have been done to lands affected by the Beaver River dam and 

 reservoir, and Fulton Chain or Moose River reservoir. 



The duty of considering and acting upon the proposed purchase and settlement has come to this 

 Board through an act of the Legislature passed February 21, 1895, chapter 561, Laws 1895, which 

 was introduced and passed with special reference to Dr. Webb's case now pending in the Court of 

 Claims, and gives authority to the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests, with the approval 

 of the Commissioners of the Land Oiifice, to buy at a fair valuation lands not exceeding 80,000 acres 

 for the uses and purposes of the Adirondack Park and Forest preserve, and to restore waters taken 



