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for unpaid taxes, said John Anderson claiming to be the owner thereof; and the said Comp- 

 troller is hereby authorized to act upon said application in the same manner and with the same 

 effect as if the application were made by the purchaser at the tax sale. 



Sec. 2. Prior to the hearing upon said application the said John Anderson shall cause to be 

 served upon the Attorney-General of the State a notice of said hearing. Said notice shall be 

 served at least fourteen days before the date of hearing. 



Sec. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 



Chapter 927, Laws of 1896. 



AN ACT to authorize the Comptroller to hear and determine the application of Andrew C. 

 Thurston and William H. Parker for cancellation of the sale of Lot Number 8, Range 

 6, Great Tract, Dartmouth Patent, Warren County, for unpaid taxes. 



The People of the State of NeiL< York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : 



Section i. Jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Comptroller of this State to hear and 

 determine the application of Andrew C. Thurston and William H. Parker for cancellation of the 

 sale of Lot Number 8, Range 6, Great Tract, Dartmouth Patent, Warren County, for 

 unpaid taxes, said Thtu-ston and Parker claiming to be the owners thereof; and the said 

 Comptroller is hereby authorized to act upon said application in the same manner and with thf 

 same effect as if the application were made by the purchaser at the tax sale. 



Sec. 2. Prior to the hearing upon said application, the said Andrew C. Thurston and 

 William H. Parker shall cause to be served upon the Attorney-General of the State a notice of 

 said hearing. Said notice shall be served at least fourteen days before the date of hearing. 

 Sec. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 



In compliance with these laws, the Comptroller granted hearings in the various 

 cases. The applicants were represented by counsel. The State, on its part, was 

 represented at each hearing by the Superintendent of Forests and by Mr. Edward H. 

 Leggett, of the Attorney-General's office. Evidence was offered on both sides and 

 arguments were made by the attorneys. A cancellation was granted in each case, 

 except that of John Anderson (Chapter 926), in which no hearing has been held as yet. 



The first case involved the title of the State to Lots 102 and 103, Township 14, 

 Pond's Survey, Totten & Crossfield Purchase, Town of Minerva, Essex County, N. Y. 

 The applicants, who were acting as executors of the estate of James Ordway, late of 

 Glens Falls, N. Y., alleged, in support of their application for a cancellation of the 

 tax sale under which the State obtained its title, that the land was assessed as non- 

 resident at a time when it was occupied and used as a farm, and that, consequently, 

 the taxes were improperly levied and the tax sale was invalid. The Comptroller 

 granted the application on these grounds. These two lots, embracing 438 acres, were 

 accordingly stricken from the land list of the Preserve. 



