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Q. Mr. Basselih has spoken on that subject, so I don't -wish to go 

 over what he spoke of on the direct examination; I speak specially of 

 the one of J. Leslie Crary, to which his special attention Was called 

 by the counsel for the committee. 



Mr. Adams.— To be paid out of the $25,000 fund? 



Mr. Anibal. — Yes, sir. 



Q. What is your recollection with reference to the Crary application, 

 whether it wished to reserve the timber upon the lands or not ? 



A. That I couldn't remember; if I had the letter here I could tell. 



Q. Were some of those applications, * their proposition to sell, 

 accompanied with a reservation to reserve the timber upon the lands? 



A. Yes; quite a number of those applications were such. 



Q. Were there one or more of the applications that they were to be 

 sold to the State subject to the taxes upon them ? 



A. Yes. 



Q. Do you remember an instance when it was investigated to find 

 what the amount of taxes were upon any particular lands, and if so, 

 what amount of taxes' did you find upon investigation were against 

 them? 



A. The only instance I remember was the one I spoke of before the ' 

 committee, that the lands were offered, and when we investigated the 

 matter we found the taxes were a great deal more than the one dollar 

 and fifty cents an acre would be; the taxes amounted to about two 

 dollars and twenty-five cents an acre, and we argued that at the tax 

 sale the State would acquire that piece of land without a purchase, 

 which the State did do, so that the State acquired possession without 

 paying the twenty-five cents, and we refused to pay the twenty five 

 cents. 



Q. Calling the committee's attention specially to the Crary applica- 

 tion, I wish you would read what there was of that application ? 



Crabt's Mills, December 10, 1890. 

 Mr. Fox: 



Dear Sir.— - 1 just arrived from the south woods, as we call it here, 

 and 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 squatter 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 rapids; below, including one mile or 

 so of stony brooks, which runs through the lot on north-east side, 



