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rwiii, of course, have to be somewhat amplified, as requirements grow. Weekly 

 reports are forwarded to the Director by the bookkeeper, from which the progress 

 of work and expenditures are visible. All payments are made by the Treasurer of 

 Cornell University upon monthly vouchers prepared by the bookkeeper at Axton 

 and checked and approved by the Director, in whose office merely a voucher record 

 book is kept. To simplify the business, certain bills, limited in amounts, whose 

 payment cannot be left to monthly settlement, like wages to workmen leaving the 

 employ, are disbursed by the Director and appear in reimbursement vouchers. All 

 expenditures are specifically authorized by apportionments of the appropriations 

 submitted from time to time by the Director to a Forestry Council, consisting of the 

 President, the Treasurer, one Trustee, the Director and the Manager, and approved 

 by the Board of Trustees. 



Farm and hoarding Hottse. 



There is located on the property at Axton a farm clearing of about 100 acres 

 with buildings, including, besides the necessary barns, stables and other farm struc- 

 tures, a store and post-office with telephone connection, a boarding house and three 

 cottages. There is also connected with this establishment a " carry " from Saranac 

 Lake into Raquette River. 



Regarding the best manner of managing this adjunct to the property the Coun- 

 cil has been somewhat in doubt. The requirements of the management of the for- 

 est, as well as that of the College, make it absolutely necessary to keep up such an 

 establishment, while the particular location of the same enjoins a moral obligation 

 towards the public in maintaining it as a public place of entertainment. 



The Council wished to avoid the necessity of equipping the boarding house and 

 running the same on account of the College, while to rent it appeared not only diffi- 

 cult but objectionable, as it would hamper the freedom of the administration on its 

 own ground and yet burden it with an implied, if not real, responsibility toward the 

 public for the character of the entertainment. 



This matter may become still further complicated when, as is contemplated, the 

 College is transferred for the spring term to Axton, and when the logging operations 

 make free use of the farm, stables, barns, etc., an absolute necessity. 



The property came too late into the possession of the Trustees to make any but 

 tentative arrangements, by renting for an entirely nominal sum farm* and boarding 

 house to the farmer who had run the same on a monthly salary for the Santa Clara 

 Lumber Co., he renting the outfit from that company. After the season's experience 



; The farm is now (1901) managed separately by the College. 



