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A. The same thing. 



Q. Henry Bradley, Minerva, Essex county, 160 acres at $1.50, 

 August!, 1890? 



A. Yes, the same thing. 



Q. H. Summer, June 3, 1890, 130 acres, at $1.50 ? 



A. The same thing. 



Q. A. H. Munger, August 6, 1889, for $1.50, a large number of 

 acres ? . 



A. Filed June 2, 1890. 



Q. That is in the north part of the Adirondack region ? 



A. Yes, sir; I say the same thing as to that. 



Q. P. J. Marsh, 1,000 acres at $1.50 an acre, November 10, 1890? 

 '■ A. The same thing. 



Q. John H. Millard, 1,241 acres, at $1.50? 



A. October 24, 1890. 



Q. George Parmenter, 480 acres, at $1.25, in Hamilton county, 

 November 25, 1890 ? 



A. That was November 25, 1890. 



Q. Thurston & Parker, 2,366 acres at twenty -five cents per acre ? 



A. Yes, sir; it was offered at twenty-five cents an acre, subject to 

 taxes ; we asked Mr. Thurston to give us the amount of taxes, and 

 when he gave us the amount of the taxes at a subsequent meeting 

 they amounted, to something like eighteen shillings an acre above the 

 twenty-five cents, and we told him we couldn't buy any land that we 

 couldn't get a clear title to, and that under the resolution we could 

 not pay more than $1.50 an acre. 



Q. Ostrander and Marsh, of Albany, did they ever file a proposition 

 in your office to sell about 25,000 acres ? 



A. I have no recollection of that. 



Q. Was no such paper as that filed in your office ? 



A. I don't think so ; I don't think there was any such paper filed in 

 the office. 



Q. Have you any such proposition filed with you ? 



A. No, sir. 



Q. Did ever any such proposition from Ostrander and Marsh come 

 to you? 



A. No, sir; 



Q. What is there about that Ostrander and Marsh matter? 



A. I have no recollection of any Ostrander and Marsh; a copy of 

 the proposition was sent to me by the clerk for my inspection upon 

 my asking for it, a proposition by P. J. Marsh. 



Q. Where does he live ? 

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