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I do hereby certify that I have verified the computations of acreage of lands as described in the 

 foreCToinff sworn survey of D. C. Wood, surveyor, and find that the acreage of land contracted to be 

 sold to the State by W. S. Webb and the Ne-ha-sa-ne Park Association equals at least the sum of 

 seventy-five thousand three hundred and seventy-seven (75,377) acres. 



Herschel Roberts, 

 Deputy State Engineer and Surveyor. 1 

 Albany, December -^l, 1895. 



The following offered by the Attorney-General was unanimously adopted: 



It appearing from a statement made by Major Edward M. Burns at the present meeting of the 

 Board of Land Commissioners that the following premises, to wit : 



East third of Township five and also Township eight, John Brown's Tract (consisting of about 

 26,479 acres of land), are held and owned by the Ne-ha-sa-ne Park Association and William Seward 

 Webb subject to the rights of previous grantors to remove minerals and fossils ; and that said associ- 

 ation and said Webb are willing to warrant the title of said lands as against said rights and to 

 indemnify the People of the State in the deed of conveyance against any injury and damage which may 

 be sustained by the People of the State by the exercise of any such rights for the removal of any 

 such minerals and fossils ; 



Resoh'ed, That the Attorney-General be authorized to approve the search and abstracts of title to 

 be furnished by the grantors, notwithstanding such reserved rights to remove minerals and fossils, 

 provided the deed of conveyance shall warrant and defend the title of the grantors as against said 

 rights of removal and shall contain an agreement to indemnify the People of the State as aforesaid. 



On motion of the State Engineer and Surveyor it was unanimously resolved tiiat 

 the Commissioners of the Land Office of the State of New York approx-e the forego- 

 ing contract dated December 16, 1895, between William Seward Webb and the 

 Ne-ha-sa-ne Park Association and the Commissioners of the Board of Fisheries, Game 

 and Forests of the State of New York, and agree to and approve of the form of deed 

 thereto annexed and forms a part of said contract, and that the same be entered at 

 length upon the book and records of the office of the Commissioners of the Land 

 Office of the State of New York. 



For convenient reference we subjoin a summary of the lands purchased of Dr. 

 William S. Webb : 



Hamilton County, Broivii (Jo/in) Tract, Township 8. 



ACRES. 



All in Long Lake of a parcel beg. on E. line of Township 35 c. S. E'ly from S. shore 

 of Big Moose Lake at high-water mark, th. S. E'ly 205 c. along Township 

 line, etc., ............. 443 



Totten &-> CrossfiehV s Purchase, Township 38. 



B'd N. by Township line, E. 172 c. by Township line to a small tract of land sold to 

 Chas. A. Tatum and Edmund C. Converse, and surrounding the W. end of 

 Bog Lake, S. by the following line, 45 c. by, etc., ..... 2.996 



Triangle North of Township 38. 



26, all in Long Lake, ............ 20 



27, same, .............. 140 



34, same, ............. 80 



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