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of it, but they were made to comply -with the statute more fully and 

 the three applications which I hold in my hands are duplicates of the 

 one contained and made up in the proposed case sent to the Comp- 

 . troller, read from page 14, September 14, 1890. This was the act 

 upon the three applications which are considered as one : 



" Application of the Everton Lumber Company, for the exchange 

 of lands which have been theretofore under consideration were again 

 taken up and the commission voted to recommend an exchange of 

 lands with that company, as proposed in their application, provided 

 that in affecting such exchange the State shall acquire a legal title to 

 at least 26,000 acres, in return for 12,000 acres, thereby, intending, in 

 affecting such exchange, to acquire three acres for one in the 12th 

 "township, two acres for one in the east one-half of the 14th township, 

 and one acre for one in the southwest one-fourth of the 14th town- 

 ship. The title to which the State is asked to convey to the said 

 Everton Lumber Company." 



Chairman Ryan. — We had that testimony before, didn't we ? 



Mr. Anibal. — No; that resolution was not in at all; in the Everton 

 Land Company the first application contained, as you understand, the 

 lands in the 12th township, did it not ? 



A. Yes. 



Q. The second and third application contained lands, also those in 

 the 14th township which was known as the east one-half ? 



A. East one-half and southwest one-fourth. 



Q. Those were in the 14th township ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. I wish to call the committee's attention to this large map, right 

 in this connection, where these lands that were asked for in this 14th 

 township, what part of the lands, as you understand, on that map 

 indicate the lands that was required by the Everton Lumber Company 

 in the 14th township ? , ' * 



Ai, The lands of the 14th township, as I understand it, embrace 

 all of the State lands and they were as you see them there, 

 in small, detached parcels. 



Q. These lands in the fourteenth township which are asked for 

 belonging to the State, which are asked for in the applications of the 

 Everton Land Company, are a portion of those lands, or nearly all of 

 them; the very lands that the state commenced an action against Mr. 

 Hurd, or the Northern Adirondack Railroad Company, and recovered 

 $5,000 for trespasses upon, as you understand it ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



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