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Q. Have you any other information with regard to it ? 

 A. I have not with regard to that. 



By Chairman Ryan: • 



Q. How long since you were out where those lots are ? 



A. Just before snow come this winter was the last time I was on 

 any of them. 



Q. From the evidence you saw there of the timber being cut, it was 

 how long since ? 

 , A. It was cut last winter. ' 



Q About a thousand acres in this tract that you speak of ? 



A. This largest lot, the one I named to Mr. Gannon, was a 236 acre 

 lot, lot 90 in 26th township. 



Q. Were the logs on the ground when you were there? 



A. They had been removed as far as I saw. 



Q. Is that all ? 



Mr. Adams. — That is all. 



By Mr. Fiiro: 



Q. Let me ask a single question, you know of the policy of the 

 Comptrollers' office in regard to settling for trespasses at the time the 

 Comptroller had charge of this matter ? 



A. I don't know except as I might hear accidentally the way people 

 settle up; I understood it was left largely to the county agents to 

 settle on their own judgments. 



Q. Are you aware of the fact a new policy was adopted by the 

 forest commission ? 



A. I couldn't say it was a new policy as far as I knew it; these agents 

 before appeared to settle according to circumstances as far as I knew 

 it; at different prices. 



Q. Isn't it a fact, within your knowledge, that the settlements that 

 have been made by the forest commission have been more just to the 

 State than those that were made previous to that time ? 



A. Yes. 



Q. What is the difference in the price that was charged during the 

 time the Comptroller had charge of it and the forest commission ? 



A. I didn't know of the Comptroller's agents making any settlements 

 and charging more than fifty cents for market logs, and from that 

 down the forest commission agents on com mission as far as I have 

 known to settle a great many at one dollar and twenty-five cents 

 some at seventy-five cents. 



Q. Isn't it a fact that the trespassers are very much less than they 

 were at the time the forest commission commenced ? 



