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Q. Who was the agent ? 



A. He has been employed more or less by the State; his name is 

 Albert Turner; he was told at Bloomingdale they were cutting these 

 logs on State land, and he wouldn't go and look at it; I afterwards 

 reported* it to Mr. Garmon and Wrote to the forest commission 

 demanding an investigation; I have the letters here now. 



Q. Was anything done after that ? 



A. Not to my knowledge or anybody else, I guess; also they lum- 

 bered on lot 91, township 11; I reported that to Mr. Garmon 

 personally. 



Q. What do you mean by that ? / 



A. Hartwell and this man Putman. 



Q. Any attention ever paid to that? 



A. ■ I don't think they ever went near it ? 



Chairman Evan. — You reported that to Turner ? 



A. To Mr. Garmon. 



Chairman Ryan. — Did you say anything to Turner about that ? 



A. No, sir; nor the other either; men at Bloomingdale did; I can 

 have them here to-morrow or next day, as soon as they can get here. 



Q. What do you know about Albert Turner by management pro- 

 curing a survey of lands at the expense of the State ? 



A. He has done so. 



Q. State what there was about that ? 



A. He and some other subs, reported a trespass against me on 

 lot 15, township 18, Macomb purchase, Great Tract 1. 



Q. What was the name of the person ? 



A. Van Buren Miller or Dan Stanton, I don't know which. 



Q. In the employ of the State ? 



A. Yes; for the purpose of making a survey with a man personally 

 in the sale of a piece of land, agreeing to make himself to other 

 parties establishing lines of a quarter of a township. 



Q. What was done about the survey? 



A. The survey was ordered made by the State people, and was 

 made at the expense of the State. 



Q. When it should have been made by an individual ? 



Mr. Fieeo. — That we object to; let us have the facts in regard to 

 it. Is this witness to be allowed to give his opinion whether thiB 

 shonld have been made ? 



Mr. Adams. — Don't work yourself up. 



Mr. Fieeo. — I don't mean to, but we had better have somewhere 

 near a reasonable fair examination. What this man knows. 



