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Q. Were those applications filed in the office ? 



A. I so understand it. 



Q. Do they remain on file now ? 



A. I presume so. 



Q. Were any qf them sent to the Comptroller's office from your 

 office? 



A. I think there was one of them. 



Q. Which one of them ? 



A. The proposition of the Everton Lumber Company. 



Q. Was there not another ? 



A. Not that I remember of. 



Q. Didn't a man by the name of Hurd, pretty soon after the act of 

 "1887, file an' application which you sent over to the Comptroller's 

 office? 



A. I don't remember. 



Q. Were any such applications filed, as you understand it,' in the 

 Comptroller's office and from there sent over to your office ? 



A. That is a matter I couldn't tell you about. 



Q. Those applications are on file and can be had there ? 



A. I presume so. 



Q. Don't you recollect of it being suggested that Mr. Hurd, who 

 lived in Franklin county, sent in a proposition to make an exchange 

 of individual land for State land, and that was filed in your office and 

 and action was had, and it was sent to the Comptroller's office ? 



A. I am not positive; I remember something about an application 

 for land by Mr. Hurd^but just what it was I don't remember ; if an 

 application was sent why action was taken upon it by[the board and it 

 was a matter of record. 



Q. Did you ever take action upon any application sent to the board 

 for an exchange prior to this Everton Lumber Company application ; 

 did you ever take action upon any application to exchange lands for 

 State lands that you recollect of — I mean your board ? 



A. I don't remember any. 



Q. You don't recollect the passage of the resolution in the case of 

 Mr. Hurd's application ? 



A. I don't remember; if Mr. Hurd made an application I certainly 

 would have rejected it. 



Q. That is getting a little ahead; do you recollect any action ? 



A. I couldn't tell you; ijfc is a matter of record in the office if 

 there was. 



Q. When official action was taken by your board was it entered in 

 the minutes ? 



