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that was the policy, and I read yesterday from the book of minutes 

 along in the summer before August, before the date of the formal 

 application on the part of the Bverton company, the meeting in New 

 Tort in July, I think, they rescinded the former resolution in the 

 Hurd case changing the policy; then were filed the two applications 

 on the seventh of August on the part of the Evertbn company, and 

 subsequently another the twenty-eighth of August, three applications 

 being taken as one, and a few days afterward, in early September' 

 they passed a resolution recommending this' exchange. The point I 

 make is, that this commission laid down a settled line of policy imme- 

 diately after 1887, adhered to it for three years or more and then 

 changed their policy by a rescision of that resolution and in a short 

 time recommending this exchange. 



Mr. Fiero. — The .tendency of this evidence is to show there wasn't 

 anybody hurt by it. 



Chairman Ryan. — I seel didn't save much time by interrupting. 

 Perhaps if we had the letter read we would have got on to something 

 else by this time. 



Mr. Anibal. — I will find it and put it in with the balance. I offer 

 in evidence the various applications, without stopping to read them in 

 detail, so that they may be referred to by the, committee, and we can 

 refer to them subsequently withou t taking your time in regard to them. 



Chart's Mills, December 10, 1890. 

 Mr. Fox: 



Dear Sib. — I just arrived from the south woods, as we call it down 

 here, and I find yours of October seventeenth; in reply would say I 

 have not as much land to sell as I had when I wrote you before; I 

 have 900 acres to ■ sell for other parties, it is one and one-half section, 

 lying on north side of middle branch of River Degrass, in the town of 

 Clair, nine miles from settlement, save one lone cabin with small 

 clearing, two miles a squater hunter it takes part and some of the 

 way all of the river for a distance of about two miles along still water 

 at the foot about a fifty-foot falls and rappeds below, including one 

 mile or so of stony brooks which runs through the lot on northeast 

 side, both brooks and river chuck full, as the fishers term it, of 

 specked trout, from one or two pounds down to a little fry. You 

 asked for a map; I have no map, But have sent to owners for same. 

 I am familiar with every foot of it, however, having been a guide for 

 the last twenty-eight years. All fishing and hunting grounds are 

 familiar with me. I know this is one of the best. It has been lum- 

 bered of spruce and pine once. It is estimated one dollar per acre is 



