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commissioners ? You have been five years in office, and you don't 

 seem to know what your duties are, or else you have failed to per- 

 form them. 



A. In what respect, may I ask ? 



Q. The questions that have been put to you, you have either evaded 

 or given no answer to that has made the slightest impression upon 

 the committee ; for your own sake I will say that it would be much 

 better for you to clear that up and show the committee that you know 

 something about the duties of the office; so far you have displayed 

 alarming ignorance. 



A. I expected I had performed the duties to the best of my ability, 

 and that I had fulfilled all of the duties required by the office, but if 

 there is anything in which I have been derelict, I will endeavor to 

 explain if I can. 



Q. Why don't you know something about the lands; you, evidently 

 have not performed some of the duties; will you tell us if any of the 

 other commissioners know about them if you don't know ? 



A. Iri regard to what lands ? 



Q. Lands mentioned by the counsel; he has drawn you out as well 

 as any lawyer could, and I am only saying that we want to get some 

 light, and so far we are completely in the dark; we would like to get 

 you out of the fog? 



A. I will do all in my limited capacity to help you out of the fog; 

 my knowledge of the Adirondack lands I believe is fairly good; as to 

 my remembering lot lines and the location of any particular spot 

 from memory, that is something that it seems to me no man could do 

 exactly. 



By Mr. Adams: 



Q. There was a piece of fifty acres in Essex county, of Jeannette 

 Russell ? 



A. That was made October twenty-ninth, and comes under the same 

 explanation. ' 



Q. Melvin Warner, Hamilton county, about 165 acres, for one dol- 

 lar an acre? 



A. That was October 3, 1890. 



Q. Was there an application from James A. Baldwin, Warren county, 

 November 24, 1890, to sell 160 acres at $1.50 an acre? 



A. I don't find any such on this record here. 



Q. A. D. Buskirk, June 16, 1890, 610 acres, at $1.50? 



A. Presented October 20, 1890. 



Q. What do you Bay to that ? 



