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For fish and game violations $101 00 



For trespass 9,916 20 



Total $10,494 70 



It might be well to refer to the fact that of the number of cases 

 which are reported as pending, 63 of the same are actions in eject- 

 ment involving land in two adjacent townships, namely: Town- 

 ships 15 and 32 of Totten and Crossfield's Purchase and growing 

 out of one transaction or purchase by the State from the Indian 

 River Company, and have been pending for several years, and it 

 is anticipated that an early disposition will be made of all these 

 cases. 



The most important among the actions litigated during the year 

 are those involving the title to lands in the forest preserve ; actions 

 for trespass upon the State's land; actions to recover penalties 

 caused by setting fires to timber upon the State's land, and prose- 

 cutions for violating the fish and game provisions of the statute. 

 Notable among the cases tried during the year are three actions 

 against the Santa Clara Lumber Company, involving the title to 

 approximately four thousand acres of valuable timber land in 

 Hamilton and Essex counties and for which penalties were sought 

 to be recovered, amounting to nearly a quarter of a million dollars ; 

 actions against the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad 

 Company and the Delaware and Hudson Company, growing out of 

 the forest fires of 1908 ; the final disposition of the action brought 

 by the People against the Brooklyn Cooperage Company, which in- 

 volved the State's interest in large timber rights in the forest pre- 

 serve. In an action brought against the Long Island Railroad 

 Company to recover penalties for a violation of the provisions of 

 section 228 of the Laws of 1900, judgment was rendered in favor 

 of the State for $32,789.50, which judgment was sustained by the 

 Appellate Division. Notable among the recoveries for penalties 

 for trespass is that of the payment of $10,000 by the Union Bag 

 and Paper Company. 



