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by the minutes there more than one year anterior to that time, also a 

 written application had been filed there for the exchange of these 

 lands several months prior to that time, and the minutes so show 

 and the application shows so. 



Mr. Adams. — My friend entirely mistakes; I made reference to the 

 minutes which were already taken before this committee, and in the 

 minutes were carried the papers produced from the Comptroller's 

 office, and those papers 1 desire to call the attention of the com- 

 mittee to were dated on the seventh day of August; there were three 

 applications, two of them the seventh day of August and the other 

 the twenty-eighth of August. 



Chairman Ryan. — Those were the ones that were read ? 



Mr. Adams. — Yes, calling the attention of the committee to; the past 

 testimony. 



Mr. Anibal. — There were no applications prior to that time; there 

 was a verbal application appearing by counsel, also an application for 

 exchange of land; the application on the seventh of August was 

 largely amended, including more lands than what were included 

 in the first application, it took three applications to cover the 

 land. One of them was a duplicate of the one that had been filed 

 anterior to the seventh of August; the other was for lands asked in 

 excess of what had been asked in the first application, and the other 

 was embodying the two, and also exchanging several thousand acres 

 in addition. 



Mr. Adams. — My friend is asking the committee to do what he 

 refused me to do. 



Mr. Fieeo. — The minutes will show what the fact is. 



Mr. Adams. — There isn't a word of evidence to back up my friend's 

 statement; I referred to the evidence already gone in. 



Mr. Fieeo. — Don't let us examine it now. 



Chairman Ryan. — The committee understood the counsel to refer to 

 the testimony that has been taken here. 



Mr. Anibal. — The counsel makes the statement in regard to this 

 and which goes upon the records of the proceedings before this com- 

 mittee, and it is hardly fair tp the commission, under the resolution 

 under which we are all acting here, to furnish information in regard 

 to this thing; it is hardly fair the counsel's one-sided statement should 

 be taken as a concession, or that we sit by and have it taken as a con- 

 cession, when the facts will not warrant that conclusion to be placed 

 upon it. 



Mr. Adams. — I don't ask the commission to take my word for any- 

 thing; I simply refer to the evidence already in in reference to those 



