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Q. What were the magnitude of these trespasses you went to look 

 after ? 



A. In what locality ? 



Q. You say you went in three counties; in Essex county what was 

 the magnitude of the trespasses you found there, how many trees or 

 logs ? 



A. They varied from half a dozen trees to several hundred trees. 



Q. In how many of the cases did you take proceeding or force 

 setlements ? 



A. I think in nearly all. 



Q. Did they result in the receipt of money ? > 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. What was the amount; to what amount; give the committee 

 some idea? 



A. One receipt of $1,300 and some odd cents, another on one occa- 

 sion of $557, another of $443 and another of $990, 1 think. 



Q. Were these all the cases that you call to mind that were settled 

 and money received from in Essex county ? 



A. There were some others; those embraced, when I mentioned 

 those, the case of Paxton & Knapp; covered a great number of these 

 trespasses which were reported and investigated by me in Essex 

 county. 



Q. Timber found its way into their hands and you made claim of 

 them? 



A. Yes. 



Q. And you collected it of Knapp & Co. and that settled for all the 

 men they had bought of ? 



A. That settled for the timber; trespass still stands against those 

 parties. 



Q. You settled for the, timber; the timber has been paid for; have 

 the men been sued for the trespass; anything been done with that; 

 those in Essex county ? 



A Suit was begun against Paxton & Knapp for the penalty. 



Q, You settled with them ? 



A. Yes. 



Q. I mean the men from whom they got timber; any of those men 

 sued ? 



A. Not in that particular locality, I think. 



Q. How many cases in Hamilton county did you go to investigate ? 



A. Well, there were some cases at Long Lake, 



Q. About how many ? 



