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By Chairman Ryan: 



Q. How long since your connection was severed finally with the 

 forest commission ? 



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



Q. Are these four lots all that you have since seen yourself from 

 which timber has been cut that belongs to the State? 



A. £ think not; in my travels through the wood I saw a good deal 

 more timber that I thought and think was cut on State land, but a 

 man in going through these woods, no matter how well he is 

 acquainted with them, can not always tell what lot he is on; I took 

 no surveys of them; I thought they were State lots; I couldn't tell 

 without making a survey. 



Q. Tou had been in the employ of this commission and got familiar 

 with the localities about there? 



A. I am as familiar with the lines, I think, as any man up there. 



Q. You had a pretty good idea which were State lands and which 

 were not? * 



A. My idea was this was only a small part of the trespass, but as I 

 wasn't certain this was State lands I couldn't say it. 

 , Q. With that knowledge you saw in several other places, you say, 

 tracts of what you supposed to be State lands from which the timber 

 had been cut since you severed your connection with the commission ? 



A. Yes; that is the fact. 



Q. How many such tracts and what was the size of those tracts ? 



A. Lots about the same size as the others; and I have named four, 

 I think, of what I saw there would have been three or four more right 

 in that immediate vicinity from which the timber had been cut; that 

 was my judgment, on the ground that they were such and such lots, 

 but I couldn't say positively so for that reason; I couldn't name the 

 lots. 



Q. About four other pieces besides this tract you spoke of first ? 



A. Yes, according to my judgment that had been cut on State land? 



Q. Is that all? 



A. That is all. 



Q. You haven't been at Long Lake ? 



A. Not since I was to work for the commission. 



Mr. Adams. — We will call Mr. Theodore B. Basselin. 



Theodore B. Basselin, recalled : 

 Examination continued : 



Mr. Adams. — I desire to call the attention of the committee to the 

 book of minutes of the commission at page 81. 

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