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Q. You stated you were a member of the Legislature, from what 

 county 1 



A. Saratoga county. 



Q. What experience have you had as a surveyor and Woodsman, or 

 did you have before coming into the office of the forest commission ? 



A. Not very much experience-as a surveyor. 



Q. Or as a woodsman ? 



A. Or as a woodsman. 



Q. How many times have ever you been out, detailed from the office 

 to go into the woods and personally look up trespasses ? 



A. A great many times. 



Q. How many times; give some idea ? 



A. There were so many I couldn't at. present give any idea of the 

 number; very often. 



Q. Several times detailed ? 



A. A great many times. , 



Q. When people sent in complaints against those with whom they 

 were angry, did you pay. any attention to those ? 



A. Paid attention to every complaint that came in. 



Q. »I understood you to say you first wrote, when a complaint came 

 in, you wrote to some reliable man, and a good many of those com- 

 plaints were the result of anger, some of them you knew; when you 

 found that a person sent them in to gratify his anger, did you pay 

 any attention to such complaint ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. Where you faund a man angry did you find out anything about 

 the trespass; he wasn't so friendly with his neighbors that he 

 wouldn't give you information ? 



A. Let me understand your question. 



Q. Where a man was angry with his neighbor and sent in a com- 

 plaint, you went down to investigate it, you found no difficulty in 

 getting information in the locality ? 



A. Not so much difficulty; no, sir. 



Q. In what proportion of the cases that you went out to examine 

 did you find that the complaints had been made as the result of 

 anger ? 



A. I couldn't always tell that. 



Q. How many of the complaints that you went to investigate did 

 you find were Berious complaints, trespass had actually been 

 committed ? 



A. I couldn't say that; we found, of course, the trespass might bf 

 large pr small, 



