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Q. Did the State dp some surveying up there? 



A. It did. 



Q. With reference to what lines and what • lots ? 



A. Went there for the purpose of subdividing the northeast quarter 

 of township 18, which had been generally understood to have been 

 only a lithographed or paper survey prior to that time; Mr. Stanton, 

 who was a surveyor residing in Malone and who was the former State 

 agent, was sent' there for the purpose of surveying it, and* as I had 

 owned an undivided quarter in it and. been over it a good deal and 

 familiar with it, they employed me to go with him; 1 was there on 

 that survey. < 



Q. Did that survey, survey any of your lands? 



A. At that time I had parted with all the interest that I had in that 

 land; I was not an owner in at all. 



Q. A^ ou t when was the time when this survey was made ? 



A. That survey was made in 1885, wasn't it ? I don't "know as I can 

 remember exactly now when it was. 



Q. Was it before the forest commission came in ? 



A. Mr. Miller was the agent and he acted a short time for the 

 forest commission. 



Q. He acted for the Comptroller at that time ? 



A. For the Comptroller previous. 



Mr. Davie.— What date does he fix this ? 



Mr. Anibal — He don't remember; he thinks the time was 1885. 



The Witness.— I sold my interest in 1883 to W. W. and G. W. 

 Hartwell of Plattsburgh; I lived at the time I went there in Malone. 



Q. Was it any part of the condition of your selling to the Messrs. 

 W. W. and G. W. Hartwell, that you were to survey out those lands? 



A. No, sir. 



Q. Were you requested by Mr. Hartwell to survey it out, by them, 

 to get the State to survey it out ? 



A. No, sir; I think I could inform you probably how that was 

 brought about; I didn't know it was to be done until about a week 

 before they were going on the survey. 



Q. Tell this committee just what there was about that survey, in 

 your own words; just how it came about and all about it? 



A. How it was started ? 



Q. Yes, all about it. 



A. The suit was brought against Chauncey Turner, who owned an 

 interest in that land and who had petitioned, with myself, to recover 

 for him some six or seven thousand standard logs'that had been taken 

 off the land which he owned jointly with the State; that suit, wag 



