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the law which provides that it " shall include the lands owned or 

 hereafter acquired by the State." The Commission, however, has 

 excepted this tract in its administrative work, for the land was 

 deeded in trust to Cornell University for thirty years, during 

 which time the university, as provided by law, " shall have the 

 title, possession, management, and control of such land," for the 

 purpose of maintaining the State College of Forestry. 



A list of the various parcels in the St. Lawrence Reservation or 

 International park is appended for convenient reference, but it is 

 not included in the schedules of the Preserve; for some of these 

 reservation lots are situated in Jefferson county which is not one 

 of the sixteen counties mentioned in the law constituting the For- 

 est Preserve. These lots, which were purchased by the State in 

 1897 and 1898 through a special appropriation for that purpose, 

 are situated on various points or islands in the St. Lawrence river 

 in the vicinity of the Thousand Islands. They are under the 

 care and control of the Commission, and though not wild or forest 

 lands are properly a part of the Preserve. 



For further reference and information there is appended also 

 a list of the lands owned by the State in the towns of Altona and 

 Dannemora, Clinton county. In the forestry law these lands are 

 excluded from the Forest Preserve, it being understood at the time 

 this law was framed, in 1885, that the timber on them would be 

 needed for the use of the State prison at Dannemora. 



It is doubtful whether some of the State lands in the adjoining 

 towns are properly a part of the Forest Preserve, owing to a provi- 

 sion in section 67, chapter 208, Laws of 1894, which reads as 

 follows : 



"All uncultivated lands belonging to the State of New York, or 

 which may hereafter become the property of said State, and which 

 shall be situated within ten miles of the Clinton prison, shall be 

 withdrawn from sale, and shall be retained by the State for the use 

 of said prison." 



