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By Chairman Ryan: 



Q. The fact there were liens or claims against that wasn't a reason 

 you rejected it? 



A. Yes, sir; that was the reason, as I stated, why we rejected the 

 exchange. 



Q. But you had already passed a resolution which was in force at 

 that time ? 



A. I think not. 



Mr. Anibal. — The resolution was passed directly upon the Hurd 

 application. The Hurd application came into the office, which was 

 the first one. 



Chairman Rtan, — Then they passed a resolution that they wouldn't 

 make any exchanges under the Hadley bill. 



Mr. Adams. — That is the resolution they passed on the application. 



Mr. Anibal. — The date of these applications are dated all of them, 

 nearly, in December of 1890, after the passage of this resolution, the 

 rescinding of this resolution, all of them I think but two, as my record 

 shows, as I took from the dates. The applications that I have intro- 

 duced in evidence will show each particular fact; that is why I wanted 

 them in evidence. 



Mr. Adams — These applications you produce now are applications 



to sell to the State to be paid out of the $25,000 fund appropriated by 



' the Legislature a year ago ? , 



Mr. Basselin. — You referred to the 6,000 acre matter and this was 

 in explanation of the non-action. 



Q. Some of the committee understood, the other evening, you to say 

 that shortly after the formation of this commission and while you 

 were supposed to be empowered by the Hadley bill to make 

 exchanges, you passed a resolution that you would not make 

 exchanges in accordance with the Hadley bill, and during that time, 

 or about the time you passed that resolution, this application came in 

 from Hurd; now, I would infer, from what you testify to-day, that 

 the reason why you didn't make the exchange as offered by Mr. Hurd 

 was because you understood his title to the property wasn't good? 



A. That was one of the reasons. 



Q. Was that supposed to apply to other applications ? 



A. No, sir; not at all. 



Q. You laid that down as a general policy of the commission ? 



A. We did at that time. 



Mr. Anibal. — Those applications to exchange, as the. chairman of 

 the committee has called special attention, I call the attention to those 

 particular dates. The Hurd application was dated as stated; then 

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