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1 Plattsbtjrgh, N. T., August 30, 1888. 

 Forest Commission: 



I hereby make application to your board to purchase, under the law 

 passed in 1887, a parcel of land which seems to me is properly a 

 detaohed parcel. 



I will give for lot No. 45, township No. 9, Old Military Tract, 

 Franklin county, two dollars per acre, and for lot No. 144, township 

 No. 10, Old Military Tract, one dollar per acre. This first lot has been 

 trespassed on by lumbermen, and the second piece has all been lum- 

 bered on, and is.still being run over for small limbs by trespassers. 

 Or, if the commission prefers, I will exchange* lands for this lot. I 

 understand the State now only owns about 1,200 acres of land in said 

 township No. 10, and if so dispersed I would buy the whole, as there 

 is no probability of the State getting more there. 



I understand the following comprise all the lands claimed by the 

 State at this time in township No. 9, Old Military Tract, and, if correct, 

 will offer one dollar per acre for the lot, good and bad together. 

 Many of these are burned and lumbered over : 



A.Cl'88 



Lot 7, N. W. 1-4.. 40 



Lot 45 ,.:..• 160 



Lot 81 .' 160 



Lot 138, S. W. 1-4 40 



Lot 273 160 



Lot 296 : 160 



Lot 300 160 



Lot 308, E. 1-2 Ex. 130 W. side. . .' 67 



Lot 309, S. W. 1-4 . . - , 40 



Lot 310 160 



Lot 338, S. W. 1-4 40 



Total 1,187 



Eespectfully. 



M. V. B. TUENER. 



Wales Parsons wants the State to exchange lot 296, township 10, O. 

 M. T., one-half under water (Round pond), for lot 151, same town- 

 ship, adjoining other State land. 



Lot 296 is entirely detached from other State lands, being on oppo- 

 site side of Round pond from State lots. 



Both lots were lumbered several years since. 



Lot 151 contains at least 100 acres more of land out of water, and 

 has more timber than 296. 



