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Q. It was officially transmitted from the Attorney-General's office 

 o your office ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. x What is the date of the Attorney-General's letter ? 



A. December 29, 1890, he transmitted the appraisal with a letter of 

 bat date. 



Q. Please read the appraisal ? 



Mr. Fieeo. — I would like to have it noted that the appearance on 

 tie motion was Edward D. Ronan for the Attorney-General. 



Mr. Adams. — Mr. Ronan was the special attorney; that is conceded. 



Q. Read the appraisal of the land by the three commissioners, 

 •ansmitted by the Attorney-General's office to the Comptroller's 

 ffice.? 



A. (Reading): 



b the Hon. Edward "Wemple, Comptroller: 



We, the undersigned appraisers, appointed pursuant to chapter 475 

 f the Laws of 1887, to appraise the value of certain lands belonging 

 ) the State of New York, situated in townships Nos. 12, 14, 15 and 18 

 E Franklin county, apd of certain other lands situated in Hamilton 

 aunty, and offered by the Everton Lumber Company, from which to 

 jlect lands in exchange for State lands in Franklin county, beg to 

 ibmit the following report : 



In township 12, Macomb's purchase, great tract 1, Franklin 

 aunty, Ue the most desirable lots of timber land in possession of the 

 tate appraised or viewed by us. The size and shape of the lots and 

 leir location within tolerably convenient distance from the east 

 ranch of the St. Regis river, down which the timber from this town- 

 iip will naturally go, gives these lots a commercial value largely in 

 scess of the lots in townships 14 and 15. The east branch of the 

 t. Regis river takes its rise in the outlet of Osgood pond and flows 

 i a northerly direction through Meacham lake, from which point it 

 ows in a more westerly course through the southwestern corner of 

 >wnship 12/ 



Lots 9, 10 and 17 were long since cut over by lumbermen. These 

 its contain respectively 619, 636 and 650 acres, aggregating 1,905 

 3res, which we valued at one dollar per acre. Lots 25 and 26 are 

 larked on the sheet herewith as " partially lumbered " and valued at 

 ue dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, while the real fact is the 

 )ft-sawing timber was several years since almost wholly removed, 

 id when these lots fell under the supervision of the forest com- 

 ission even the available hop-poles had been removed. Since 



