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didn't allow me to make any statement, but said they had decided to 

 drop me, and that was all there was of it. 



Q. That was in February of what year? 



A. That was about the 1st of March, 1889. 



Q. Afterwards who was appointed in your place ? 



A. As I understood it, the appointee in my place was a Mr. Burke, 

 of Mechanicville; that is in my office, but in my place, taking care of 

 the land in that vicinity; I understood it was a Mr. Powers, of 

 Minerva. ' • 



Q. Have they continued from that time until this ? 



A. I do not know; I have understood so. 



Q. Had complaints been made against either or both of these men 

 previous to their appointment, for being trespassers upon the State 

 land? 



A. With regard to Mr. Burke, I never knew anything about him 

 until then; in regard to Mr. Powers, he was reported with a number 

 of others. 



Q. Beported by you ? 



A. During the first term by me to the Comptroller and to the 

 commission. 

 \ Q. Were his trespasses ever settled for to your knowledge ? 



A. Not that I know of; I can't say it that way; there was one 

 trespass that I reported; the first one I looked up Mr. Sherman 

 settled; that is all that I know about being settled. 



Q. Was there a man by the name of Kline, from Croghan, who 

 came over to your place during your term of service? 



A. Yes. 



Q. About what time was that? 



A. I can't state that date exactly, but it was. about this same time, 

 probably in February; it was in February of that same year, and 

 after I had got this second appointment. 



Q. While you were running on this month ? 



A. While I was running on this last month. 



Q. How long before you came to Albany and went to New York did 

 Kline appear? 



A. It was just before; I think he was down with me; I think he got 

 this notice at the same time I did. , 



Q. What did he do over there ? 



A. In the first place, as far as I knew, he got Mr. Morse, a surveyor, 

 of Minerva, and went to Newcomb to look up" a trespass that I had 

 reported two years before of my brothers; then he went one day with 

 me to look up a trespass of James Lindsay on the Boreas river. 



