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Q. Did he say how he came to be there? 



A. I understood in a general way the commission sent him; yes, he 

 told me the commission sent him to investigate. 



Q. All he proposed to investigate was this trespass your brother 

 had made two or three years before, which was already reported ? 



A. He might have gone other places. 



Q. That, I believe, is all I desire to ask you; is there anything else 

 that I have omitted ? 



A. I do not know of anything in regard to my work. 



Q. One other subject in regard to the settlements that were made 

 with trespassers, was there any discrimination, some being charged 

 more for settling than others ? 



A. I never understood there was any settled price; as I understood 

 it there were all prices from twenty-five cents up to one dollar and 

 twenty-five cents. 



Q. You mean per market log ? 



A. Yes. 



Q. Some cases twenty-five cents ? 



A. So I understood it; some, I know, were twenty-five cents, 

 because the money was paid to me, and I sent it on. 



Q. Who made these settlements? 



A. I do not know of any only these two I have just spoken of; one 

 was my cousin, John Lynch; had cut 125 market logs; I reported it; 

 Mr. Garmon told me to tell John Lynch he could settle for seventy- 

 five cents a market log, and the cost of looking it up, and I so told 

 him and he sent the money; it came to $102.50. 



Q. Whose cost of reporting was this ? 



A. My working of looking it up and the assistant. 



Q. And the whole thing was sent to the office ? 



A. The whole thing was sent to the office. 



Q. What cases were settled for twenty-five cents a log, as you 

 understand it ? 



A. I understood there was one of these very cases I reported the 

 last winter; William Keays cut the logs, Lemon Thomson had them; 

 this is my understanding; it was settled partly for twenty-five cents 

 a log, perhaps more. 



Q. What difference was there in these logs and those where settle- 

 ments were one dollar and twenty-five cents required ? 



A. I do not know. 



Q. Do you know of any difference between them? 



A. I do not. 



Q. That is all ? 



