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such lands being offered for sale, as is now provided in said chap- 

 ter, such lands shall be forfeited, if within any city or town, to 

 such city or town, and if within any plantation or other territory 

 outside the limits of any city or town, to the State. 



Section 2. All the notices required in said chap'er to be given, 

 all records and conveyances and other proceedings required to be 

 had, shall be clianged in accordance with this requirement of for- 

 feiture ; and all the provisions of said chapter as far as they direct 

 and require a sale at public auction of any lands for non-payment 

 of taxes, and so far as they affect any lands herein before described, 

 and all other parts of said chapter 6 or of any acts subsequent 

 thereto and inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby 

 repealed. 



Provided that the owner or tenant or any authorized person shall 

 have the same right and for the same time to redeem any such 

 lands after said forfeiture that he would have bad under previously 

 existing laws after the sale of the same. 



AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE STATE AND MUNICIPAL 

 OWNERSHIP OF FOREST LANDS AND FOR THE MANAGE- 

 MENT OF THE SAME. 



Section 1. Whenever any lands under the provisions of chap- 

 ter 6 of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the act of 1893, have 

 been forfeited to the State or to any city or town for the non-pay- 

 ment of taxes, and whenever any lands shall have been acquired 

 by the State or by any city or town by gift, devise, dedication or 

 grant, and are not devoted to some other special use, by the terras 

 of said gift, devise, dedication or grant, all such lands shall remain 

 the property of the State or of the city or town in which they are 

 situated, and shall not be sold, leaded or mortgaged without the 

 express authority of the Legislature approved by the Governor ; 

 provided that if any territory in which the State may have acquired 

 any lands in the modes herein declared shall be hereafter incor- 

 porated into a town, the State may convey such lands to such 

 incorporated town, upon such terms and conditions as the Legisla- 



