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Board for the use of the State College of Forestery. 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 pnrcels in the St. Lawrence Reservation or Inter- 

 mit ional Park is appended for convenient reference, but it is not included 

 in the schedules of the Preserve; for some of these reservation lots are situ- 

 ated in Jefferson county, which is not one of the sixteen counties mentioned 

 in the law constituting the Forest Preserve. These lots, which were pur- 

 chased 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 

 properlv 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 provision in section 

 67, chapter 208, Laws of 1894, which reads as follows: 



" All uncultivated lands belonging to the State of New York, or which 

 may hereafter become the property of said State, and which shall be situated 

 within ten miles of the Clinton prison, shall be withdrawn from sale, and 

 shall be retained by the State for the use of said prison." But when the 

 Forestry Law was codified and re-enacted in 1900, the section denning the 

 Forest Preserve made no exception of lands within ten miles of the prison, 

 and excluded only the State holdings in Altona and Dannemora. 



