499 



A. I don't know anything about it. 



Q. That is all. 



Mr. Anibal. — That is all from him. 



Mr. Adams — While the gentlemen are waiting, I desire to submit a 



letter from the Comptroller's office, a letter handed me by Mr. Turner 



after the examination closed on Friday. 



March 6, 1,891. 

 Benton Turner, Plattsburgh, N. Y. : 



Sir.^t Tours of the fifth instant received. The lands enumerated 

 by you in township 9, Old Military tract, Franklin county, viz. : , Lot 

 30, N. 2-3 of 114a. W. p't; lot 147; lot 176, S. B. 1-4; lot 177, N. W. 

 1-4; lot 182, S. W. 1-4; lot 184, S. W. 1-4; lots 213, 214 and 255 do not 

 belong to the State. 



I Respectfully yours. 



EDWARD WEMPLE, 



Comptroller. 



Mr. Adams. — The letter I submitted before, while Mr. Turner was on 

 the stand, embraced one of the lots, and this embraces all the lots 

 referred to by him in his testimony. 



Mr. Cameron. — Are those the lots on which they said he trespassed ? 



Mr. Adams. — Yes; he paid on all of them, and the State determined 

 he had no title. 



Mr. Fiero. — That doesn't follow; the State — it hasn't any title now; 

 that is one of Turner's schemes to buy up claims and get them 

 cancelled. 



John H. Burke, recalled: 



Mr. Anibal. — I offer in evidence, a memorandum taken from the 

 trespass book at the Comptroller's office. These were for trespasses 

 prior to the forest commission coming into office and taking charge 1 of 

 the lands. 



Mr. Adams. — I object to this. It has nothing to do with this ques- 

 tion to show how this commission has administered the laws. 



Mr. Anibal. — Tes, it has; it is one of the things that is part of our 

 evidence in the case. What does the committee say ? 



Chairman Ryan. — You design to show how the commission found 

 the situation was. * 



Mr. Anibal. — No, it isn't that; this is a statement from the Comp- 

 troller's office of certain settlements made by Van Buren Miller with 

 Mr. Hart well; he said Mr. Garmon told him that he had settled 

 with Mr. Hartwell for fifteen cents a log at a certain time; this is 

 simply to show that he was mistaken in that, the settlements were 

 made while this matter was in th.e bands f tlie Comptroller; was 



