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Q. Will you produce it at the next meeting ? 



A. I will endeavor to. 



Q. Are the minutes of your proceedings in the room ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Adams. — I desire to read to the committee from page 125 of the 

 book of minutes, under date of January 21, 1891. 

 . Chairman Ryan. — Those are the minutes of the forest commission? 



Mr. Adams. — Yes, sir; that was after the appraisal of the land in 

 Franklin county and the land of Piseco lake had been made and filed 

 in the Comptroller's office. It seems there was a meeting of the 

 forest commission, and this is a minute of the proceedings: 



" January 21, 1891. 



" A meeting of the forest commission was held this day in Albany. It 

 was voted that as the proposed exchange of lands with the Everton 

 Lumber Company is the first transaction of that nature under chapter 

 475 of the Laws of 1887, and as no mode of procedure in making such 

 exchanges is established, in order to establish a precedent it is respect- 

 fully requested that the Comptroller submit to the forest commission 

 for its formal approval the terms upon which said exchange is pro- 

 posed to be effected before final action be taken. An application from 

 P. J. Marsh for an exchange of land was received, and in view of the 

 fact that all the lands included in said proposal might possibly come 

 within the limits of the proposed State park when established, it was 

 voted to let it lie on the table until the Legislature had defined the 

 park b oun dary lines. Another proposition- from G. W. & W. W. 

 Hartwell was tabled on the same ground." % 



Q. Have rules and regulations under the statute of 1885 been 

 made by the commission? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. Is there a record of thorite rules and regulations ? 



A. I think there has been a record of those. 



Q. Have they been published ? 



A. Yes, sir; I think so. t 



Q. Were they ever printed in any annual report of the Legislature ?, 



A. That is more than I can tell; here [indicating] are some-of the 

 rules and regulations. 



Q. You have answered my question that there were rules and regu- 

 lations and they were not put into the annual report ? 



A. I didn't say they were not put there; I had no recollection 

 whether they were put in or not. , 



Q. You have no recollection upon that subject? 



