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the application of Mr. Marsh of November 18, 1890; John Murtaughj 

 December 19; George Schamberger, December; Wales Parsons, with- 

 out date, and Sullivan of August 9, 1889, and Underwood of October 

 29, 1887, and those are the only two; the Hurd application and the 

 Underwood application and the Sullivan application were in time — 

 were all the applications they had filed in the office prior to some time 

 in the latter part of 1890. Those were propositions to exchange. 



Chairman Evan. — But the committee understand that you didn't 

 invite propositions to exchange. You passed a resolution you would not 

 exchange; that may have been the means of deterring people from mak- 

 ing efforts, knowing that such a resolution passed your commission, and 

 that was the policy you intended to adopt, therefore it would be 

 natural to suppose you wouldn't have many applications to exchange 

 while such was the policy of your commission ; are we right ? 



Mr. Anibal. — If the applications were all of the kind that the Hurd 

 application was I think the policy was very good, on whatever ground 

 they put it, because it was an application to get good lots and an 

 offer to exchange acre for acre. 



Chairman Eyan. — That was that particular application. 



Mr. Anibal. — There isn't any application to the others, except 

 ^merely a letter without description of the lands, and didn't comply 

 with the statute in a single particular. I was speaking specifically 

 when the chairman called our attention to the Hurd application, or 

 the exchanges, to the propositions to sell the State lands under the 

 act of last winter appropriating the $25,000, and had read the J. Leslie 

 Cary application in pursuance of that, so we offer in evidence the 

 application of A, H. Munger, June 2, 1890 ; H. Sumner, June 13, 1890 ; 

 Henry Bradley, August 1, 1890 ; A. D. Buskirk, October 20, 1890 ; 

 James A. Balcom, November 24, 1890 ; George Parmenter, November 

 25, 1890 ; Janet Eussell, October 29, 1890 ; James H. Millard, October 

 29,1890; Melville Warner, October 29, 1890; Danker, November 9, 1890; 

 John M. Peck, November 20, 1890; P. J. Marsh, November 20, 1890; 

 Ostrander & Merritt, November 18, 1890; and an application from a 

 man by the name of Turner, which I haven't any date of; these are 

 the dates taken from the applications. 



Mr. Adams.— Does that list contain any other name than those I 

 examined about and put in evidence ? 



Mr. Anibal. — I think not; I think you examined generally upon all 

 the applications; I think there are some in here you did not go 

 through; I think you asked if those were all there were, and the com- 

 missioner answered they were all he had in his mind at the time; I 

 think it does contain some further names tb,at he did not mention,' 



