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their disputed titles cannot be stricken off the schedule except by 
order of the courts or action of the legislature 
The large tract in Franklin county, bought by the Forest 
Preserve Board, but now in use by the State College of Forestry, 
is included here as a part of the Forest Preserve in accordance with 
the law which provides that it “shall include the lands owned or 
hereafter acquired by the State.” The Commission, however, has 
excepted this tract in its administrative work, for the land was 
deeded in trust to Cornell University for thirty years, during which 
time the university, as provided by law, “shall have the title, 
possession, management, and control of such land,” for the purpose 
of maintaining the State College of Forestry. 
A list of the various parcels in the St. Lawrence Reservation or 
International park is appended for convenient reference, but it is 
not included in the schedules of the Preserve; for some of these 
Reservation lots are situated in Jefferson county which is not one 
of the sixteen counties mentioned in the Jaw constituting the Forest 
Preserve. These lots, which were purchased by the State in 1897 
and 1898 through a special appropriation for that purpose, are 
situated on various points or islands in the St. Lawrence river in 
the vicinity of the Thousand Islands. They are under the care and 
control of the Commission, and though not wild or forest lands are 
properly a part of the Preserve. 
For further reference and information there is appended also a 
list of the lands owned by the State in the towns of Altona and 
Dannemora, Clinton county. In the forestry law these lands are 
excluded from the Forest Preserve, it being understood at the time 
this law was framed, in 1885, that the timber on them would be 
needed for the use of the State prison at Dannemora. 
It is doubtful whether some of the State lands in the adjoining 
towns are properly a part of the Forest Preserve, owing to a 
