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 "No. 2855.

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vs.Indictment, Sec. 2461, R. S.

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A TRUE BILL. (Signed)ELMER E. ADAMS, Foreman. Filed May 16th, 1901.

ROBERT G. EVANS,

U. S. Attorney.

In the District Court of the United States, in and for the Division and District aforesaid, at the May Term thereof, A. D. 1901.

The Grand Jurors of the United States, impaneled, sworn, and charged at the Term aforesaid, of the Court aforesaid, on their oath present, that heretofore, to-wit: on the 31st day of January, A. D. 1899, in the County of Cass, in the State and District of Minnesota, and within the jurisdiction of this court, one Charles A. Smith, late of said district, then and there being, did wrongfully and unlawfully cut from and cause and procure to be cut from and remove, and cause and procure to be removed from certain lands then and there owned by and the property of the United States of America, which said lands are discribed as follows, to-wit:

Lot 5, Section 8, Township 137, North, Range 30 West, the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter, and the Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter, and the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter, and the Southeast Quarter of Section 8, Township 137 North, Range 30 West, said lands being then and there situate in said County of Cass, in the State and District of Minnesota, a large number of white pine and Norway trees, to-wit: 10 white pine trees from said Lot 5, Section 8, Township 137 N. Range 30 West, 89 Norway pine trees from the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section 8, Township 137 North, Range 30 West, 84 Norway pine trees from the Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 8, Township 137 North, Range 30 West, 87 Norway pine trees from the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 8, Township 137 North, Range 30 West, and 500 Norway pine trees from the Southeast quarter of said Section 8, in Township 137 North, Range 30 West, which said trees were of the aggregate value of Five Hundred and Seventy-Seven Dollars and Fifty Cents ($577.50), all of which said trees were then and there growing upon the land hereinbefore described, with the intent then and there had and entertained by him, the said Charles A. Smith, to use and employ said trees in a manner other than for the use of the navy of the United States of America, to-wit: with the intent to use and employ said trees for his, the said Charles A. Smith's private use and benefit, contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the United States.(Signed).

MILTON D. PURDY, Assistant United States Attorney.

Names of witnesses examined before the Grand Jury:

A. D. Thorpe, M. D. Taylor, M. H. Craig, J. P. Leef, D. J. Jones.

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I, CHARLES L. SPENCER, Clerk of the United States District Court, for the District of Minnesota, do hereby certify that I have carefully compared the copy, attached to this certificate, with its original, which is in my custody as such Clerk, and that the said copy is a full, true and correct transcript from such original and of the whole thereof, and of the endorsements thereon.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my official signature as the Clerk aforesaid and affixed the seal of said Court at St. Paul in the Third Division of said District this 30th day of December, A. D. 1904.

(Seal)(Signed)CHARLES L. SPENCER, Clerk.

U. S. District Court

Seal,

Third Division,

Dist. of Minnesota."

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