MiscELLAM-:ous Laws 



CHAPTER 731, LAWS OF 1913. 



AN ACT to provide for the compilation of certain data bj the 

 commissioner of ag-riculture, relative to state lands, and making 

 an appropriation therefor. 



Section 1. The commissioner of agriculture is hereby author- 

 ized and directed to make an examination, appraisal and report 

 of all farm lands outside of the forest preserve heretofore acquired 

 bv the state bv tax sales and the foreclosure of morto;ai>es bv the 

 state loan commissioners. Such examination, appraisal and re- 

 port shall be completed in detail and filed in the office of the com- 

 missioner before January first, nineteen hundred and fourteen. 

 The report shall show the location of each tract or parcel of land, 

 its description with common certainty, a description of the build- 

 ings and fences thereon and their condition, the kind and quantity 

 of timber thereon, the commissioner's opinion as to the adaptabil- 

 ity thereof to specified crops and his estimate of its actual market 

 value. Such report shall also state which tracts, if any, should, 

 in the opinion of the commissioner, be held by the state and re- 

 forested, and which of them are available and suitable for experi- 

 mental use by agricultural colleges and schools or available for 

 use by any of the public institutions of the state, and which of 

 them should be sold. The commissioner may employ agents and 

 appraisers in the prosecution of such work and incur necessary 

 expenses, within the amount of the appropriation made by this act. 



§ 2. The sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000), or so much 

 thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any 

 moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated for the pur- 

 poses set forth in section one of this act, to be paid by the state 

 treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller upon vouchers approved 

 by the commissioner of agriculture. 



