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Q. The tax title or claim of the State on those three lots has been 

 cancelled since you paid the money ? 



A. Part of lot 7 I don't think has been cancelled. 



Q. Lots 30 and 37, 1 think it is township 9? 



A. I don't know anything about 37. 



Q. One hundred and eighty-two lot ? 



A. I understand that has been cancelled. 



Q. Eighteenth township settled for $150, same mistake; was your 

 land? 



A. I never cut a stick of timber on State lot; I only cut it on lot 15, 

 Macomb purchase, and I owned it. 



Q. And the payment of $150 ?, 



A. I paid $150 to settle it. 



Q. The claim was wrong and you lost your money ? 



A. Yes. 



Q. There was no trespass on that lot as it turned out afterwards ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. You cut on your own land ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. You stated generally, as I understand, that upon all these lots 

 where trespasses had been claimed and where you had arranged with 

 the State authorities, that subsequently the title of the State had 

 been cancelled and came back to you ? 



A. Had been cancelled, no matter who it went to. 



Q. So the State title was extinguished ? 



A. Yes; I would like to explain to these people the relation of lot 

 219; the State sued me for taking logs off lot 219, Van Buren Miller 

 was the State agent; Van Buren Miller wrote the Comptroller's office 

 a letter and in' about thirty minutes before we went into trial, Van Buren ' 

 Miller talked with me and my two attorneys what he was going to 

 swear to; a few minutes after the State attorney took him out one side 

 and showed him the letter he wrote the Comptroller's office, and in 

 order to substantiate what he wrote the Comptroller's office, he went 

 on the stand and swore to what was an absolute lie and I can prove 

 it too. 



Q. You were indicted ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. For directing men to take-timber off certain lots ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. That was lot No. 255, township 9 ? 

 . A. That is what I understood. 



Q. What were the circumstances about their cutting there? 



