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twenty-first day of December, 1898. The deed was recorded in Book 108, page 

 53 ff., in the Recorder's office of Franklin county, the duplicate and original 

 copies being deposited with the State Department and the Forest Preserve Board 

 respectively. 



The purchase, including determination of price ($165,000) and formulating of 

 deed, was negotiated entirely by the Forest Preserve Board, without any voice on 

 the part of the Trustees in whom the title is vested, except as to the selection of the 

 tract. The selection of the tract was made by the writer after examination of all 

 the available tracts offered, special regard being had to the accessibility to market 

 and to the public, besides the physical character. 



Title and Proprietary Rights. 



The conditions of the ownership are expressed in the law prescribing the pur- 

 chase, Chapter 122, Laws of 1898, as follows : 



" For the purposes of such school and for carrying out the objects of this act, 

 the Board of Trustees of said University are hereby authorized and empowered, by 

 and with the consent and approval and under the direction of the Forest Preserve 

 Board of this State, to contract for the purchase of, and to purchase and acquire by 

 purchase title to not more than thirty thousand acres of land in the Adirondack 

 forests. The University shall have the title, possession, management and control of 

 such land, and by its Board of Trustees through the aforesaid College of Forestry 

 shall conduct upon said land such experiments in forestry as it may deem most 

 advantageous to the interests of the State and the advancement of the science of 

 forestry, and may plant, raise, cut and sell timber of such species and quantities and 

 in such manner as it may deem best, with a view to obtaining and imparting knowl- 

 edge concerning the scientific management and use of forests, their regulation and 

 administration, the production, harvesting and reproducing of wood crops and 

 earning a revenue * " ;< " " :< ". 



" Every deed or conveyance of lands acquired under the provisions of this act by 

 said University shall contain in the habendum clause thereof a condition and cove- 

 nant that the same, and the title to the land conveyed therein and thereby, is taken 

 by the grantee therein named, the Cornell University, under and pursuant to the 

 provisions of this act, and shall also contain an express covenant running with the 

 land and binding upon said University, that the same is conveyed for the uses and 

 purposes in this act provided for, and also an express covenant on the part of said 

 University to convey said lands to the people of the State as hereinafter provided 

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