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Q. Was there also furnished to each of the wardens, the foresters 

 and fire wardens, blanks for reports such .as I have in'my hand here ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. Did they make their reports and have you a great number, a 

 package of them, in the office ? 



A, A very large quantity of them in the office. 



Q. They are filed up almost ceiling high in the office, the reports of 

 the different fire wardens and foresters; here I have some printed 

 instructions, printed upon linen and also some upon pasteboard, what 

 was done each year with regard to those ? 



A. Foresters and fire wardens were instructed to go over their 

 territory and post up, keep posted up those rules and regulations and 

 instructions; I myself saw a large number of them, it was done to a 

 large extent. 



Q. Were the colors of these posters that were posted up in this form 

 changed each year so as to attract attention of the persons in the 

 woods ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. That has been done each year successively ? 



A. Yes. 



Mr. Hitt. — Did I understand you to say you keep a big pile of those 

 in the office ? 



Mr. Antbai* — They have a big pile of reports there. 



Mr. Hitt. — I beg your pardon, I thought you said you had kept a 

 pile of those there; where were the wardens and foresters instructed , 

 to keep these ? 



A. In the most conspicuous places; everywhere where people going 

 through the woods were liable to see them; in hotels, on carries; in 

 fact everywhere where they could be seen, where they would attract 

 attention. 



Q. Were they posted by the wardens and foresters ? 



A. They were. 



Mr. Anibal. — I want to offer in evidence and call your attention 

 especially to it, to that part of the report of the Comptroller of the 

 State of New York. I have a set of the reports furnished to the 

 Legislature by the Comptroller of this State,, which each year reported 

 in detail the amount of moneys received from the hands of the forest 

 commission for trespasses upon lands, and so reported by the Comp- 

 troller under the section that was read by the counselor, and in regard 

 to reports* of the finances of the commissioners, and call the commit- 

 tee's attention to this question of law in regard .to the matter. I see, 

 from this report of 1888 of the forest commission : " A strict account 



