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A. The larger part of the applications were made at our office; in 

 looking over during the fall the applications that were sent to us, we 

 found that only about 500 acres were lands within this proposed park, 

 and as we were anxious to purchase lands out of this $25,000 we sent 

 some of our employes to men whom we knew had lands to sell, 

 asking them to submit a list to us of the lands they were willing to 

 sell at one dollar and fifty cents, an acre; in compliance with that 

 request Peck, Ostrander and Merritt presented the larger quantity of 

 lands we have now under consideration. 



Q. Those, as you understand it, were presented in November ? 



A. November sixteenth and twentieth. 



Q. Attention has been called and you were asked if you had a tres- 

 pass book in which was entered the trespasses, such as had been com- 

 mitted upon the lands, or a reference to the trespasses; have you 

 glanced over that to see about how many separate trespasses there 

 are entered in that book ? 



A. My recollection is, somewhere around 296; somewhere along 

 there. 



Q. Who keeps the account of the finances in your office ? 



A. The assistant warden keeps the finances, William F. Pox. l , 



Q. Did he keep an account of every dollar received from any tres- 

 passes, or any sales of acres, or any of the funds that came into the 

 hands of the forest commission, either by appropriation of the Legis- 

 lature or otherwise ? 



A. ,Yes, sir; I think he did; I so understand it. 



Q. Have you a book that you understand contains all of them ? 



A. We have. 



Q. Have you a book also which contains the, moneys received from 

 every individual that has paid money to the State on account of tres- 

 passes or otherwise? 



A. Tes, sir. 



Q. Has that account book any entries, as you understand it, which 

 shows' upon what lot the trespasses were made, and that this person 

 settled for, upon what particular lot, entered in the book ? 



A. My understanding of that is that the trespasses, the moneys 

 received, are entered, and the recent survey of the premises, and in 

 what manner settlement was made, and the entire detail of the 

 transaction. ' 



Q. Both the number of logs they took off the lot, and the price per 

 log and all that ? 



A. Yes. 



Mr. Adams. — Is that a book separate from the trespass book? , 



