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586.51 market at seventy-five cents, $439.88; by John Coates, lot 103, 

 township 26, 18.38 markets at seventy-five cents, $13.79; Powers & 

 Coates,' lots 22 and 23, township 30, 1,267 markets. 



Chairman Ryan. — Who was this party that paid that $5,000 ? 



A. D. W. Sherman of Glens Falls. 



Q. As attorney or what ? 



A. No, sir; he is a lumberman; he paid this because the logs were 

 in his possession. 



Q. He had all the logs that had been cut by these parties that you 

 name there ? 



A. Yes; these were the jobbers who had cut the logs and the 

 amount is divided up for our own information, and these different 

 lots specified so they wouldn't be confounded with any other trespass 

 or any other man cutting on the same lots. 



Chairman Ryan. — That will do, I think. 



Mr. Adams. — Let me ask one question with your permission; this 

 settlement, I thought you said, was seventy-five cents a log that 

 $5,000, is that so, colonel ? 



A. Some of them were seventy-five cents, yes, sir; these were 

 settled for at seventy-five cents. 



Q. Do you know how that price came to be fixed, what there is of 

 that, and when they fixed the price of one dollar and twenty-five 

 cents 1 



A. I don't remember the exact time or which logs for the reason 

 some were settled for at one dollar and twenty-five cents, and some 

 were paid for at seventy-five cents. 



Mr. Adams. — What date was that? 



A. October 26, 1886; that was fully explained in Mr. Gannon's 

 testimony; I couldn't improve on Mr. Garmon's description of that. 



Mr. Adams. — I am only asking what appears on the book, you are 

 not supposed to have any responsibility in it. 



Q. Now, I show you this map accompanying the special report of 

 the commission which shows the lines of the proposed park; will you 

 state by whom those lines were drawn and by what direction of the 

 commission they were drawn as they appear upon that map ? 



A. The lines as shown there in the details, I attended to them and 

 drew them; the general outlines of the park«and its size was estab- 

 lished by a vote of the commission or by orders from the commission, 

 and working under those orders I drew these lines. 



Q. What directions did they give in a general way ? 



A. They furnished me a map upon which they had drawn in a 

 general way outlines corresponding in the main to those lines, to the 

 blue line. 



