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dollars and forty-five centB; also that said Talbot told him to cut the 

 timber on lot 120 in township 26, and to cut all the logs he could find 

 no matter where it was, on the State or not, that it would be all right. 



JOSEPH MURPHY. 

 Subscribed and sworn to before me, ) 

 this 2d day of March, 1891. f 



Michael Lynch, 



Justice of the Peace. 

 Mr. Adams. — The other affidavit. 



!• «s. ; 



ESSEX COUNTY, 

 Town of Minerva. 



Joseph Borrimer, beingduly sworn, deposes and says, he was with 

 Daniel Lynch and Orson P. Morse on the 2d day of March, 1891; that 

 said Morse showed him the lot line between the lots 68 and 69, in the 

 twenty-fifth township of Totten and Crossfield's purchase, Bailey's 

 patent; that he examined the timber then. cut, and that he found tim- 

 ber cut on said lot 69, cut by him for Joseph Murphy in the fall of 



1889. 



JOSEPH H. LORRIMER. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me, ) 

 this 2d day of March, 1891. I 



Michael Lynch, 



Justice of the Peace. 



Mr. Adams.— I want also to put in a statement from the Treasurer's 

 office. 



Mr. Fiebo. — Pardon me a moment, Mr. Adams. We ask, on the 

 part of the commissioners that these men be produced here for 

 examination, and cross-examination, Mr. Chairman. These affidavits 

 are very vague and very unsatisfactory, and it is very apparent from the 

 form in which they are drawn that those men don't dare present them- 

 selves here to be examined in regard to it. All there is in one of them is 

 a statement he believes the other man cut; all there is of the other 

 affidavit is a mere statement with regard to the matter which isn't 

 evidence at all, that somebody showed him the lines, and that he cut 

 over what this man showed him to be the lines; now, it is apparent 

 those men don't know where the lines are, and their notion and ideas 

 in regard to the matter are such they don't dare come here to be 

 cross-examined, and we ask subpoenas be issued for them, and those 

 men brought here. 



Chairman Ryan. — The affidavits will be received, and the committee 

 will receive the request of counsel afterwards. 



