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such terms as they direct; also the right to cut timber and grass and 

 lease camp sites on lots reserved for public uses in any township or 

 tract of land until the same is incorporated. Preference in such sales or 

 leases shall be given to citizens of the State of Maine. 



Note. License required for maintaining sporting camp within Maine 

 forestry district, c. 33, § 15. 



Sec. 7. Agent may grant permits; bond; timber held for payment. 

 R. S. c. 7, §§ 40, 41, 42. The land agent may grant permits to indi- 

 viduals, to cut and haul timber of all kinds upon lands owned by the 

 state, on such terms and conditions as he thinks proper. Persons ob- 

 taining such permits shall give bond to the land agent with satisfactory 

 sureties for payment of stumpage and the performance of all conditions 

 of the permit. All timber cut under permits is the property of the 

 state until the stumpage is paid in full. 

 47 Me. 23. 



Sec. S. Surveyors, their appointment, oath and duty. R. S. c. 7, § 44. 

 Surveyors or scalers shall be appointed by the land agent, and sworn ; 

 they shall scale all timber cut under permits, superintend the cutting 

 thereof, and make return to the land agent of the number and quality 

 of the logs cut, whether hauled or not, and the number of feet board 

 measure, and shall see that the timber is cut clean and without strip 

 or waste. 



Sec. 9. Land agent's report. R. S. c. 7, § 50. 1915, c. 306, § 3. The 

 land agent shall on the first secular day of December biennially report 

 to the governor a particular account of all the doings of his office for 

 the two preceding years ; the state auditor shall audit and settle his 

 accounts at the close of each year, and at such other times as the gov- 

 ernor and council may designate. 



Sec. 10. All deeds made absolute; state lands to be sold at option of 

 land agent in No. 4, R. 4, W . E. L. S., and in No. 14, R. 4, W. E. L. S. 

 R. S. c. 7, § 35. All deeds given by tihe land agent, providing in sub- 

 stance, "that if the grantee has failed to perform all the duties required 

 of a settler, in conformity to chapter five of the revised statutes, ap- 

 proved April seventeen, eighteen hundrd and fifty-sven, and all other 

 acts, additional or amendatory thereto, the deed shall be void," convey 

 as absolute and complete a title as if such condition or reservation was 

 not contained in said deed. Lots or sections of land in township number 

 four, range four, W. E. L. S., and lots of land in township number 

 fourteen, range four, W. E. L. S., exceeding the quantity allowed to be 

 sold to settlers, may be sold if, in tihe judgment of the land agent, such 

 lots or sections are not valuable for lumber growth, but are found to- 

 be better adapted for settlement than for other purposes. 



Sec. II. Setter's lot to the value of $1,000, exempt from attachment. 

 R. S. c. 7, § 38. Whoever purchases a lot of wild land of the state for 

 settlement, and complies with the condition of purchase, may hold it 

 with tihe improvements thereon, free from attachment and levy on exe- 



