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Duane, Ebanklin Co., New York State. 



Q. I will only read one other; here is another application which was 

 received at your office, was it ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Blkeokee, October 21, '90. 

 Forest Commissioners, Albany, N. Y. : 



Dear Sib. — I see the State trades and buys land this fall; if so, I 

 would like to trade with you. I own lots 54 and 55 in Chase's Pt. 

 that is nearly all surrounded with State land, for which I would like 

 to trade you for lot 9 in which joins my mother's land, and the east 

 half of lot 37 in Chase's Pt., if we can make a bargain that will 

 make the State Jand more together and will fetch mine and my 

 mother's closer together. I would like to hear from you soon in 

 regard to this. 



Eespt. yours, 



GEO. SHAMBERGER. 



Post-office address, Gloversville, N. Y. 



Q. There is but one other application I want to call attention to and 

 that was one where there was a body of land spoken of by the coun- 

 sel on the other side, of several acres, and I can't rembember the 

 per son's name, the one in St. Lawrence county of 6,000 acres. 



Chairman Ryan. — Is that one of those spoken of by Mr. Sanger ? 



Mr. Anibal. — This is the one that was spoken of by Mr. Adams 

 specially. 



Chairman Ryan. — What do you propose to show by the letter ? . 



Mr. Anibal.— I want to show to the committee the class of applica- 

 tions these were. A question has been made against the commission 

 by the other side, or pointed in that direction as we assume, that they 

 didn't act upon other applications, but acted simply upon the Everton 

 company application, and to argue from that because some person 

 connected with the Everton company was lately, and after that matter 

 was before them, interested with Mr. Basselin in business, that 

 favoritism was shown to the Everton company. I want to show the 

 applications to show the utter worthlessness of them, the utter 

 unreliability. 



Mr. Adams. — Perhaps it would save time for me to state definitely 

 the point I had in mind in giving this evidence. The first resolution 

 passed on the Hurd application laid down a settled policy on the part 

 of the forest commission, that they wouldn't exchange land with any- 

 body; that they are going to preserve and keep all they have; I under- 

 stood Mr. Basselin to say that was the policy. That continued for 



