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Q. What was the next? 



A. A letter of June 25, 1887, from Badger, Cantwell & Badger, of 

 Malone, N. T. ; the application was to exchange land in Franklin 

 county; they wanted to obtain lot 219, township 10, in the old mili- 

 tary tract, and offered lot 184 and lot 219 of the same township; that 

 is, they wanted to obtain lbt 219 and offered lot 184," which adjoined 

 State- lands, lot 219 being detached; those are all the applications I 

 have. 



By Mr. Byan: 



Q. Will you please read the resolution again ? 



A. (Beading) : " That in the opinion of the commission it is inex- 

 pedient to sell any State land, and that the commissioners hereby 

 express their entire disapproval of the sale of any State land, as pro- 

 vided for in chapter 475 of the laws of New York, commonly known as 

 the Hadley bill.'; 



By Mr. Adams: 



Q. Were there other applications to the Comptroller's office which 

 were sent to the office of the forest commission ? 



A. The only application that I remember of that was referred to the 

 forest commission was the one that I first read, which was read by 

 John Hurd; upon receiving the reply and receiving official notification 

 of the resolution that had been passed, we filed the other applications 

 in the office and communicated to them , the action that had been 

 taken by the forest commission. 



Q. Beferring to this resolution you have just read ? , 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. And so matters stood in the Comptroller's office down to tha 

 time of the application of the Everton Land Company ? 



A Yes, sir. 



Q. Have you the papers in that case ? 



A These are the papers in the application of the Everton Land 

 Company. 



Q. Was that application brought to the Comptroller's office (made 

 there) or to the forest commission, and referred by the forest com- 

 mission office to the Comptroller's office, with their action ? 



A. This application was received at the Comptroller's office with the 

 indorsement of the forest commission attached. 



Q. What papers came down from the forest commission ? 



A. All these papers which I hold in my hand. 



Q, What is the first paper ? 



