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Q. What more difficulty would there be or more expense in fixing 

 the exterior lines of the preserve so as to include the State lands, or 

 such as they desired to keep, or fixing the exterior lines for a park ? 



A. I think.it would be more expensive; I think it would involve the 

 State in a larger acquisition of land, and I don't see any advantage 

 over the present system; I suppose there is some, or should be some 

 meaning, technical meaning attached to the word "park." 



Q. If a park were determined on and exterior lines fixed for that, 

 would not that involve, according to some views, some act that had 

 been prepared, a separate and distinct administration from the pre- 

 serve, have two kings instead of one over this territory ? 



A. It is undoubtedly so in regard to the only other act than ours 

 that I have seen. 



Q. What advantage would there be in having two administrations ? 



A. I don't think there would be any; I am decidedly in favor, if an 

 independent park commission is created, I am in favor of crushing 

 the forest commission; I wouldn't have two bodies; there would be 

 nothing but confusion and conflict and unnecessary expense. 



Q. Then it is not the main thing to get the outside boundaries fixed, 

 and then to correct, if it is necessary, the administration of the State 

 land within these boundaries, whether it is under the name of forest 

 preserve or park ? 



A. That certainly is one view of it. 



Mr. Adams. — That is all. 



Bedirect examination : ' 



By Mr. Fiebo: 



Q. Let me suggest, in that connection, was there any way in which 

 the boundaries could be defined any better than they are now, by 

 county lines, for the purpose of taking in all the State lands that 

 might exist in all the counties in the Adirondack region; wouldn't 

 that practically be the result of it ? 



A. Yes, I think so. 



Q. That, I take it, is practically accomplished by the present pre- 

 serve; that is all. 



Mr. Hitt.— That is all there is, Mr. Chairman, 1 to-night. 



Chairman Byan. — That is all. 



Mr. Hessberg. — Pardon us while we confer a moment. 



Mr. Fiebo. — We have nothing more to-night; we have one other 

 witness, possibly two, that will take half or three quarters of an hour 

 possibly, that we will have to-morrow night. 

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