450 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF 



First. — The said William Seward Webb and tlie Ne-ha-sa-ne Park Association for a valuable 

 consideration to them duly paid for themselves, their heirs and assigns, jointly and severally covenant 

 and agree to and with the party of the second part, its successors and assigns, that none of the 

 remaining lands in said Township eight (8), John Brown's Tract, belonging to the parties of the first 

 part, or either of them, which have not been heretofore contracted by them to be sold, shall be used 

 or sold for commercial, agricultural, manufacturing or other purposes except as mentioned in said 

 Thomson contracts, but the same shall by the parties of the first part, their heirs and assigns, be used 

 and sold exclusively for permanent forestry, hotel, camp and cottage purposes, and all deeds of the 

 same frorn said parties of the first part or either of them, their heirs, successors or assigns, shall 

 contain a clause as to said remaining lands in said Township eight (8), binding the purchaser thereof, 

 his heirs and assigns, to a perpetual use of said lands for permanent forestry, hotel, camp and cottage 

 purposes, it being understood and agreed that the parties with whom contracts are now outstanding 

 for the sale of lands in said Township eight (8), are John B. Ehrehart, covering all that part thereof 

 situate west of the railway of the Mohawk and Malone Railway Company in or about the centre of the 

 west line of the township; Dwight B. Sperry, covering one hundred five (105) acres, five acres 

 thereof situated near the Big Moose Station, so-called, and the remaining one hundred acres (100) 

 near Eagle Bay, adjoining the Fulton Chain Allotment ; Mary Ann Powers, lots i and 2 of the 

 Fulton Claim Allotment ; and Mary Sprague, ten acres near lot twenty-eight (28), Third Lake of the 

 Fulton Chain Allotment. 



It is also, for a valuable consideration, jointly and severally agreed by the said Webb and the 

 Ne-ha-sa-ne Park Association of the first part, their heirs, successors and assigns, that they or either 

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

 under water and immediately surrounding a lake in any of the portions in said Township eight (8), 

 retained by them, but that such remaining lands in said Township eight (8) shall be sold by them at 

 such times as they may elect, in the same manner and for the same purposes as lands surrounding the 

 Fulton Chain of Lakes have heretofore or are now being sold by said Webb of the first part; the 

 intent of this agreement being that the parties of the first part, their heirs or assigns, will not dispose of 

 their land in said Township eight (8) so as to afford any individual or club or association of individuals, 

 or any corporation or corporations an opportunity to control the exclusive use of any lake in said 

 Township eight (8) for a private preserve or the exclusive hunting or fishing privileges of any land 

 beyond their individual camp site or hotel sites, it being agreed and understood that no camp sites 

 sold shall exceed twenty-five acres in amount and no hotel site shall exceed two hundred and fifty 

 acies in amount. It is further promised, understood and agreed that the public shall have the 

 unrestricted right to hunt and fish upon all the lands in said Township eight (8) which have not 

 heretofore been sold or which in the future may not be sold for camp sites or hotel sites ; it being 

 expressly agreed and understood that this hunting and fishing privilege shall not apply to any camp 

 or hotel sites that the parties of the first part, or either of them, their heirs or assigns, have heretofore 

 sold or hereafter may sell or convey. 



6V<:o«;/.— The party of the second part covenants and agrees to and with the parties of the first 

 part, and this deed is accepted upon the express condition that the parties of the first part, their heirs 

 or assigns, do not release or relinquish the right to use any present established ways, highways, trails 

 or ways of communication by land or by water from or to any of their lands in said Township 

 eight (8) ; it being expressly agreed and understood that the parties of the first part, their heirs and 

 assigns, shall have the same highway rights of every kind and nature or means of communication 

 upon, across or over said Township eight (8), the same as if this conveyance had not been made or 

 executed. 



Third. — The parties of the first part for themselves, their heirs and assigns, covenant and agree to 

 and with the party of the second part that all trails and ways of communication of whatsoever kind or 

 nature, whether by land or by water, across and over the lands in said Township eight (8) belonging 

 to the parties of the first part, or either of them, not herein conveyed or heretofore contracted to be 

 conveyed, shall forever remain open and free to the People of the State of New York. 



