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upon the express condition stated in the contract of purchase that the land owner from whom the 

 purchase is made should release to the State all claims for damages to lands not purchased and owned 

 and retained by him, said act providing that the Treasurer of the State shall pay on the warrant of 

 the Comptroller from the moneys now in the hands of said Treasurer to the credit of the Forest 

 Commission, and known as the Forest Preserve Fund, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much 

 thereof as may be necessary, and appropriating said sum for the purposes of the act, and authorizing 

 such Commission to provide for the payment of the residue of such purchase price in ten equal 

 annual installments with interest at the rate of three per centum per annum payable semi-annually ; 

 and 



Whereas, In pursuance of another act of the Legislature aforesaid, entitled " An Act to amend 

 the game law and to repeal Chapter 332 of the Laws of 1893, entitled ' An act in relation to the 

 forest preserve and Adirondack Park,' " constituting articles 6 and 7 of Chapter 43 of the General Laws, 

 which became a law April 25, 1895, with the approval of the Governor, being Chapter 395 of the 

 Laws of 1895, the said Barnet H. Davis, Henry H. Lyman, William R. Weed, Charles H. Babcock 

 and Edward Thompson of the second part were, by the Governor of the State of New York, under 

 said Laws of 1895, Chapter 395, duly appointed as Commissioners of the Board of Fisheries, Game 

 and Forests, and succeeded to all the rights, powers and duties of said Forest Commission ; and said 

 Board of Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests thereby became charged with the care of the 

 Forest Preserv'e and became vested with authority to contract for the purchase of lands within the 

 bounds of the Adirondack Park, and under the provisions of Chapter 561, Laws 1895, to purchase, 

 with the approval of the Commissioners of the Land Office, the lands hereinafter described ; and 



Whereas, The premises hereinafter described form portions of townships or great lots, within 

 the boundaries of the Forest Preserve, the owners of which have sustained damage by the construction 

 of reservoirs as aforesaid ; 



Now Therefore, in consideration of the premises and the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) 

 to be paid to the parties of the first part by the Treasurer of the State of New York upon the warrant 

 of the Comptroller of the State of New York from the moneys now in the hands of the Treasurer of 

 the State of New York to the credit of the Forest Commission and known as the Forest Preserve Fund, 

 upon the 29th day of January, 1896, and of the sum of five hundred and fifty thousand dollars 

 ($550,000) to be paid as hereinafter provided, this agreement, made pursuant to Laws 1895, Chapter 



561, WITNESSETH : 



First. — The said parties of the first part agree to sell and convey to the People of the State of New 

 York and the party of the second part agrees to purchase for the sum of six hundred thousand dollars 

 ($600,000), to be paid as hereinafter provided, the following lands and parcels of lands situate in the 

 Adirondack Park, so-called, in the Town of Long Lake, Hamilton County, New York, and in the 

 Town of Wilmurt, Herkimer County, New York, amounting to seventy-five thousand (75,000) acres 

 or more subject to the following exceptions and reservations. Said lands so agreed to be sold and 

 purchased are described as follows : 



First Parcel. — All that piece or parcel of land situate in the north-east and north-west quarters of 

 Township Number thirty-eight (38) Totten & Crossfield's Purchase, situate in the Towns of Long 

 Lake, Hamilton County, and Wilmurt, Herkimer County, New York, bounded and described as 

 follows: Beginning on the north line of Township thirty-eight (38) Totten & Crossfield's Purchase 

 at the south-easterly corner of Lot Number twenty-nine (29) in the triangle north of said Township 

 number thirty-eight (38) ; thence easterly along the northerly line of said Township number thirty- 

 eight (38), four hundred and ten and seventy-seven hundredths (410.77) chains to the south-east 

 corner of said triangle north of Township thirty-eight (38) which is a hemlock tree ; thence south 

 eighty-six (86) degrees, east seven and sixty-five hundredths (7.65) chains to a cedar post on the east 

 line of said Township thirty-eight (38) and the westerly line of Township thirty-seven (37) ; thence 

 southerly along the line between said Townships thirty-seven (37) and thirty-eight (38), one hundred 

 and seventy-two (172) chains more or less to the north-east corner of a small tract of land 

 surrounding the west end of Bog Lake heretofore sold and conveyed by said William Seward Webb - 

 to Charles A. Tatum and Edmund C. Converse; thence westerly at right angles to said township 



