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for the logs somewhere between ($50 and $60) fifty and sixty dollars, 

 and at the next purchase and only other purchase deponent paid 

 somewhere between one hundred and fifty and one hundred and sixty 

 dollars. That in each purchase of logs as aforesaid stated and as 

 aforesaid stated he, paid for the same with his own check, taking from, 

 said Van Buren Miller a correct bill of sale stating the date, amount 

 of money paid and quantity of logs purchased. That after such pur- 

 chase he turned over to said Benton Turner the bill of sale and the said 

 Turner returned deponent just what he paid said Van BurenMiller. 



Deponent further states that said, Van Buren Miller has informed 

 deponent that he returned to his employer, the Comptroller's office of 

 the State of New York,' the exact sums and amounts he received from 

 deponent upon the sales aforesaid mentioned and stated, together 

 with his report of such sales, and deponent further states that he is 

 informed and believes that the Comptroller's books show at Albany 

 that Van Buren Miller paid for trespasses on lots at one time fifty- 

 seven dollars and fifty cents, and at another time $150, which deponent 

 believes to be identical amounts paid by deponent to Van Buren 

 Miller, as aforesaid stated, and for which Benton Turner reimbursed 

 deponent Deponent further states that he has known said Van 

 Buren Miller for a good many years, and during all that time he had 

 borne a first-class reputation for uprightness, honesty and integrity, 

 and that any and all moneys received by him while acting for the State 

 of New York, deponent believes he honestly and faithfully turned 

 over to the State of New York. Deponent further states that the two 

 transactions above mentioned and set forth are the only ones in which 

 he ever bought from Van Buren fqr Benton Turner, logs cut on State 

 lands or logs claimed by the State of New York, and that was before 

 the forest commission took charge of the State lands, or that Mr. 

 Garmon had anything to do with State lands to the knowledge of 

 deponent. 



That attached thereto are the two checks given by me for the pur- 

 chase 'of the only logs I bought of Van Buren Miller for Benton 

 Turner, one for fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents, dated April 2nd, 

 1885, and the other for $150, dated May 4th, 1885. 



WALES PARSONS. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me, i 



this 7th day of March, 1891. j 



C. W. M. Johnson, 

 Notary PvMic, Clinton Co., N. Y. 



