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Q. That the applicant must pay those expenses; I call your atten- 

 tion to page 95 of those same minutes, December 26, 1889: read that, 

 if you please ? 



A. " On motion of Commissioner Cox the application of the Everton 

 Lumber Company was made a special order for the first meeting in 

 February.'' 



Q. I call your attention to page 107, of July 17, 1890 ? 



A. " The warden is instructed to investigate the facts in regard to the 

 proposition of the Everton Lumber Company, to exchange lands with 

 the State, and report the same to the commission at the next meeting 

 with his opinion." 



Q. That was the date of July 17, 1890 ?„ 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. Pages 107 and 108? 



A. Yes. 



Q. Now, I call your attention again to the page that was read by 

 the counsel, at page 110 and 111, and ask you to read all that was said 

 there by the acts of the commission, which is of July twenty-first? 



A. "The following resolution was passed: Eesolved, that the reso- 

 lution previously passed by the commissioners to the effect that the 

 State will not exchange lands "with private individuals or rescind, and 

 the report of the warden in regard to the proposition to exchange 

 lands with the Everton Lumber Company, was read, fully discussed, 

 and the propriety of an exchange of the nature and general character 

 as proposed by the Everton Lumber Company was approved, and it 

 was the opinion of the commission that the offer of two acres for one 

 was not a fair one for the State, and therefore the following resolution 

 was adopted: Eesolved, if the Everton Lumber Company will amend 

 their offer so as to give the State three acres for one in the exchange 

 proposed, this commission will recommend to the Attorney-General 

 for his consideration the acceptance of the proposal and do recom- 

 mend to the extent of the lands owned by said company, so far as they 

 are available in the laying out of the State park." 



Afterwards, on August 7th, follows these other two applications 

 which are identically like the one that was presented baek a year 

 before, but it includes more lands both in the application and both 

 in the offer to exchange and convey to the State. Also another 

 application was on August 28th, of 1890, filed in the forest com- 

 mission office, addressed to the forest commission, which embodies 

 this 13,000 and some odd acres; taking these three applications 

 together they embody it all; the first application upon which they 

 passed a favorable resolution for the exchange embraced but a portion 



