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Q. Explain how it is made up and make a statement about it. 



A. The exhibit has been made up from taking the last payment of 

 taxes upon those sales as recorded in the Comptroller's books, 

 also from our last book of tax sales showing who- are the owners 

 of the lands, and to some extent the names of the parties who bid in 

 the lands at the last tax sale; I have purposely avoided naming the 

 parties who bid in the lands at the tax sales because it did not know 

 they were the owners; the exhibit is entirely made up from 

 records of payments made, either of taxes or redemption and 

 from tax sales, or parties who acquired title through tax sales; 

 those are the only records that can be relied upon as show- 

 ing the owners of lands; I have also consulted the assessment- 

 rolls, and my exhibit is partly made up from information gained 

 from the study of those assessment-rolls. I can state, and in detail, 

 the owners of the 1 various townships, going through on the map; 

 or else I can give a summary of it, as would be preferable. 



Q. Have you the schedule showing the owners by townships and 

 also another schedule showing the summary ? 



A." I have, certainly. 



Chairman Ryan. — The summary will be sufficient. 



The Witness.— Shall I read it off? 



Mr. Adams. — Yes, if you please. 



Summary. 



Acjres. 



Eliza Carter 3,254 



A. A. Smith 6,000 



N. Strause 9 j 913 



Dodge, Meigs & Co 49,258 



Benton Turner . . *. 7, 500 



Emerson, Patten & Hall 4 000 



M V. B. Turner 940 



Miller and others , 3 200 



Upper Saranac Lake Association 6 770 



S. A. Whitney 5, 067 



R. C. Gilchrist 3 654 



M. A. Herrick , 33, 840 



Henry L. Sprague 5,423 



Kildare Club 3, 213. 



Luke Usher 6,000 



Ellen Saxe, guardian 4, 456 



B. B. Webster 2,441 



