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the terms herein stated provided the Land Board sanction and approve the same, and have directed 

 this committee to confer with the Comptroller, Attorney-General and State Engineer as to form and 

 substance of a contract to be made if the Commissioners of the Land Office concur for the purchase 

 of said lands described and settlement of the claim referred to. 



WILLIAM R. WEED, 

 H. H. LYMAN, 

 B. H. DAVIS. 

 Tinted, Dtri»/di-r 6, 1895. 



Upon motion of Commissioner Babcock, seconded by Commissioner Thompson, 



and upon a yea and nay vote, all the commissioners voting yea, it was 



Resolved, That the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests approve of the recommenda- 

 tion of the special committee on the purchase of lands of Dr. W. S. Webb and the Ne-Ha-Sa-Ne 

 Park Association. 



Pursuant to law the recommendation of the Fisheries, Game and Forest Commis- 

 sion was transmitted to the Commissioners of the Land Office for their further 

 approval, without which no purchase of forest land could be made. 



At a special meeting of the Commissioners of the Land L)fifice, held at the office of 

 the Secretary of State, on Friday, the 6th day of December, 1895, ^t '2 o'clock, M., 

 there were present: John Palmer, Secretary of State; James A. Roberts, Comptroller; 

 Theodore E. Hancock, Attorney-General; Campbell W. Adams, State Engineer and 

 Surveyor; Hamilton Fish, Speaker of the Assembly. The Speaker of the Assembly 

 was in the chair. 



The Attorney-General, chairman of the committee of the Commissioners of the 

 Land Office appointed to examine into and consider the question of the value of the 

 lands mentioned in the proposition of Dr. W. S. Webb and the Ne-Ha-Sa-Ne Park 

 Association, and to determine and report a proper form of contract for the purchase 

 of said lands, reported verbally, concurring in the report of the committee of the 

 Fisheries, Game and Forest Commission above set iorth. 



The action of the Fisheries, Game and Forest Commission was presented for 



appro\"al, whereupon the Secretary of State offered the following: 



Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Land Office approve of the action of the Fisheries, 

 Game and Forest Commission to contract with Dr. W. S. Webb and the Ne-Ha-Sa-Ne Park 

 Association for the purchase of certain lands in the Forest Preserve, described in said contract, and 

 that the details of the contract and deeds shall be drawn under the direction of the Fisheries, Game 

 and Forest Commissioners and the Attorney-General, and that said contract and deeds be submitted 

 to the Commissioners of the Land Office at a future meeting for action. 



On calling the ayes and noes the above resolution was adopted by the following 

 vote : 



Ayes — Secretary of State, Comptroller, Attorney-General, State Engineer and Surveyor. 



The Speaker of the Assembly was excused from voting. 



At a meeting of the Commissioners of the Land Office, iield at the office of the 

 Secretary of State, on Tuesday, the 31st day of December, 1895, ^^t 10 o'clock, .\. M., 



