FOREST COMMISSIONERS REPORT. II 



thereof, certain portions of them are reserved for such townships, or 

 for public uses, and they have not been lawfully located in severalty by 

 the grantee for the purposes expressed in the grant, the supreme judicial 

 court in the county where the land lies, on application of the land agent, 

 may appoint three disinterested persons, and issue to them a warrant, 

 under the seal of the court, requiring them, as soon as may be, to locate 

 in separate lots, the portions reserved for such purposes, and to desig- 

 nate the use for which each lot is so reserved and located, such lots 

 to be of average quality with the residue of lands therein. 



See c. 93 § 29; 17 Me. 426; 26 Me. 205; 29 Me. 42; 30 Me. 219; 

 33 Me. 304; 104 Me. 551; 112 Me. 423. 



Sec. 24. Proceedings by committee ; record. R. S. c. 7, §§ 21, 22, 23. 

 Said committee, before acting, shall be sworn before a justice of the 

 peace; and a certificate thereof shall be indorsed on the warrant. They 

 shall also give notice of their appointment, and of the time and place 

 of their meeting to execute it, by publishing it in some newspaper in 

 the state to be designated by the court, and by posting written notifi- 

 cations in two or more public places in the same plantation or town, if 

 so ordered by the court, at least thirty days next prior to their meeting. 

 They shall make return of said warrant and their doings thereon, un- 

 der their hands, to the next supreme judicial court in the county after 

 having completed the service; which, being accepted by the court, and 

 recorded in the registry of deeds in the county or registry district where 

 the land is situated within six months, shall be a legal assignment and 

 location of such reserved portions for the uses designated. 

 8 Me. 135; 26 Me. 205. 



Sec. 23. Location by grantee, how made. R. S. c. 7, § 24. When 

 the grantee of any such lands severs and locates such reserved portions 

 thereof for the purposes mentioned in the grant, designating the use 

 for which each lot is located, and presents it to said court, the court 

 may confirm it and such location shall then be legal and conclusive, 

 being recorded as before mentioned. 



Sec. 26. Location on partition. R. S. c. 7, § 25. Such severance and 

 location may also be made and completed in the manner prescribed in 

 section twenty-nine of chapter ninety-three. 



Sec. 27. Exceptions may be filed. R. S. c. 7, § 26. Any person ag- 

 grieved by the opinion, direction or judgment of said court in matter of 

 law, in a proceeding for the location of such public lots, may allege ex- 

 ceptions thereto as in other actions. 



Note. Review of proceedings for location of lands reserved for 



public uses, c. 94, § 1. 

 In cases of inquests of office, plan to be filed in land office, c. 98, 



§ 8. 

 Duties of land agent as to timber and grass on reserved lands 



forfeited for taxes, c. 10, §§ 55-6. 



