. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . ntime the Court of Appeals rendered a decision that the title is still vested in theState, in view of which I have retained it in our schedule of lands and on ourAdirondack map, have colored it red to indicate that it still forms part of the ForestPreserve. This schedule does not include any of the lands recently purchased by the ForestPreserve Board which, at the time of going to press, amounts to over 250,000 various tracts and parcels composing this large and valuable addition to thepres
. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . ntime the Court of Appeals rendered a decision that the title is still vested in theState, in view of which I have retained it in our schedule of lands and on ourAdirondack map, have colored it red to indicate that it still forms part of the ForestPreserve. This schedule does not include any of the lands recently purchased by the ForestPreserve Board which, at the time of going to press, amounts to over 250,000 various tracts and parcels composing this large and valuable addition to thepreserve will appear in the next publication of the land list. From the following schedule it appears that, exclusive of the area acquired by thepurchase made by the Forest Preserve Board, the State Preserve contains at thepresent time 908,904 acres. Of this area the Adirondack Preserve contains 852,392acres, and the Catskill Preserve 56,512 acres. These figures include the 39,564 acresacquired by the tax sale of 1895. The acreage of the preserve, as contained in each county, is as follows:13s. HT AH UNEXPECTED OPPORTUNITY. REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 139 Adirondack Preserve. Counties. Clinton, Essex, Fulton, Franklin, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Oneida, St. Lawrence Saratoga, Warren, Washington, Total, ,863197,12418,89980,498291,84488,681 4,377 5>23730,612 9,11072,868 1,241 8i8,354 Catskill Preserve. ,Sullivan,Ulster, Total, 11,146 796609 38,435 50,986 Additional I^ands geared at ft)e Tax 5ale of 1&95. Adirondack Preserve. Counties. Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, . Oneida, St. Lawrence Saratoga, Warren, Total, ,2734,0184,0712,6202,726 85170120 2,155 2,298 12,502 34,038 140 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF Catskill Preserve. Total, . • ,Greene,Sullivan,Ulster, Preserve, ....Catskill Preserve, .... Adirondack Preserve, tax sale of 1895,Catskill Pre
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