IO FOREST COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. 



Sec. 20. Money to constitute school fund. R. S. c. 7, § 17. The 

 money arising from the sale of timber and grass or from trespasses on 

 reserved lands, paid into the treasury of the county in which the town- 

 ship is situated, or into the state treasury, constitutes funds for school 

 purposes, of which the income only shall be expended and applied as 

 is by law provided. 



61 Me. 447, 448; 97 Me. 336. 



Sec. 21. Management of fund. R. S. c. 7, § iS. 1915, c. IT4. The 

 interest shall be added to the principal of such fund, until the inhabit- 

 ants of such township or tract are incorporated into a town or organ- 

 ized as a plantation, and establish in such plantation one or more 

 schools, and until the first day of January next preceding the date 

 upon which the treasurer of said plantation shall call for such interest, 

 unless previously expended according to law. When any such township 

 is incorporated as a town, said funds belonging to it shall be paid by 

 the treasurer of state to the treasurer of the trustees of the ministerial 

 and school funds therein, to be added to the funds of that corporation, 

 and held and managed as other school funds of that town are required 

 to be held and managed. If such township or tract is organized as a 

 plantation, the interest of said fund shall be paid annually by the treas- 

 urer of state to the treasurer of such plantation to be applied toward the 

 support of schools according to the number of scholars in each school. 

 Said interest shall be cast up to the first day of each January, by the 

 treasurer of state. The state superintendent of public schools shall file 

 a list of such plantations with the amount due for interest for the 

 preceding year according to a record of such amounts to be furnished to 

 him by the treasurer of state, in the office of the state auditor, who 

 shall thereupon insert the name and amount due such plantations in 

 the first warrant drawn in that year. The state superintendent of pub- 

 lic schools shall be satisfied that all such plantations are organized, and 

 that schools have been established therein according to law, that asses- 

 sors are sworn and qualified, and that the treasurers of such plantations 

 have given bonds as required by law. 

 61 Me. 447 ; 97 Me. 336. 



Sec. 22. When school lands revert to state, land ay cut shall exer- 

 cise control of lands and fund. R. S. c. 7, § 19. When the incorpo- 

 ration of a town is repealed, the care and custody of the school lands 

 therein reverts to the land agent and he has the same powers in relation 

 thereto which he would have if such town had never been incorporated; 

 and the school funds of such town shall be collected and transmitted 

 to the treasurer of state and by him made a part of the permanent school 

 fund belonging to such township or tract. The land agent is charged 

 with the duty of enforcing the provisions of this section and is author- 

 ized to commence and maintain suits in the name of the state for this 

 purpose. 



Sec. 23. Locations of land where portions are reserved on grant, 

 how made. R. S. c. 7, § 20. When in the grant of townships or parts 



