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forest lands in those two towns or in so much of those two towns as is 

 included within the pioposed park line. 



Q. (Mr. Adams.) Within the blue line on the map? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. I show you a book, cash account trespass cases, who is that book 

 kept by ? 



A. I kept that book. 



Q. Will you state to the committee in a general way how it is kept, 

 what it shows ? 



A. In the office of the commission there is a regular set of large, 

 canvas-bound account books and the books are kept double entry 

 system, and they show every dollar that has been received by the 

 commission since it was organized; they also show that every dollar 

 of that money has been turned oyer and is accounted for on another 

 page which is headed " State Treasurer," but as it was inconvenient 

 sometimes to turn to the large, heavy account books to hunt for every 

 item, for my own convenience I made a petty account book in which 

 every sum is recorded, together with a detailed description of the cir- 

 cumstances from which — and of the parties and of the trespasses or 

 sale, whatever it was from which the money was received, details 

 which couldn't be entered up in the ordinary journal or ledger. 



Chairman Evan. — Merely memorandums of each case ? 



Mr. Anibal. — It is little more than that. 



Chairman Ryan.— More than memorandum of each particular case ? 



Mr. Anibal. — No, it isn't any more than that, but it comes in such a 

 form that each explains each particular trespass and what it was 

 settled for and how. 



Q. Just read one statement there with two or three items; it will 

 show the manner in which it is kept, and that they are able to show 

 what is obtained from each person and the number of logs. 



Chairman Evan. — Will the witness read a specimen ? 



A. On the first page there is an entry which reads, June 23, 1886, State 

 Treasurer debtor to cash, with an explanatory word D. W. Sherman; 

 Mr. Sherman paid over $5,000 to the commission for trespasses and it 

 was divided into different amounts because he drew different checks, 

 some of which belonged to one account and some to another; corres- 

 ponding to his own prhtate business, this one check of $2,582.08, this 

 one amount was also given in two checks for logs that were cut by 

 eight different parties. 



Mr. Anibal. — Eead the account right along. 



A. Logs cut by J. Champine on lot 13, township 16, 66 market at 

 seventy-five cents, $49.50; by Eobert Beebe on lot 71, township 26j 

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