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spent a day and a half, I think, trying to find just where that corner 

 was, the trespass was inconsiderable it is true, but it was an uninten- 

 tional trespass, the man had done everything he could to find out the 

 lines, and thinking they had gone far enough stopped at the point 

 where it left a trespass. 



Q. In what localities has your examination of the forest been made, 

 has your work been done ? 



A. I have been mostly in Essex county and some in Hamilton. 



Q. Warren? 



A. Not very much in Warren, some in Fulton. 



Q. Were you with Mr. Powers investigating some trespasses that 

 he spoke of? 



A. Yes sir; I was. 



Q. Were there a number of those ? 



A. There were quite a number. 



Q. Do you recollect about how many, in a general way ? 



A. I should think, large and small, twenty-four or twenty-five; I 

 should think there were as many names as we reported, which we had 

 some information that had been cutting; I know we spent two days 

 and a half in looking over one man's lumber jobs, and found that he 

 hadn't cut a single tree; he was reported as having out, and we went 

 there with a surveyor; of course the report was made to us, and he 

 had done his lumber jobs on two or three different lots, and there was 

 State land in that vicinity; the only way we could tell whether he had 

 committed a trespass in that vicinity was to go there and make an 

 examination; the lots were two and three miles apart, and we spent, 

 as I say, two or three days examining those lines in the vicinity of 

 where he had been cutting, and we found in cutting, I think, there 

 was one or two trees which we were uncertain about; we didn't 

 determine he had cut a single tree. 



Q. When a trespass was reported which needed investigation in the 

 locality of which you had charge, was it your custom to go there 

 upon the ground and examine it ? 



A. Yes, sir; it was usually. 



Q. In connection with the forester ? 



A. In connection with the forester. 



Q. In whatever locality you might be sent? 



A. I was under the direction of the warden and I went wherever he 

 directed. 



Q. It was upon that you were sent mainly to these localities which 

 you have mentioned ? 



