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tificate setting forth the description of each lot, parcel or right subject 

 to the tax, together with the tax computed at the rate fixed in the 

 preceding section. 



Sec. 63. Lists of assessments to be advertised; land held to the state 

 for payment of tax. 1909, c. 193, § 4. The treasurer of state shall 

 cause lists of the assessments made hereby to be advertised for three 

 weeks successively in the state paper, and in some newspaper, if any, in 

 the county where the land lies, within three months after such tax is 

 due. Such advertisement may be consolidated with the advertisement 

 required by section forty-four of chapter ten. 



The land shall be held to the state for the payment of the tax so 

 assessed, with interest at twenty per cent per annum, to commence six 

 months after such tax is due as herein provided. 

 109 Me. 477. 



Sec. 64. Redemption of lands assessed and advertised, proceedings; 

 land forfeited to the state. 1909, c. 193, § 5. Owners of lands so as- 

 sessed and advertised may redeem them by paying to the treasurer of 

 state the tax with interest thereon, within one year from the time when 

 such interest commences. Each owner may pay for his interest in any 

 tract, whether in common or not, and upon filing with the treasurer 

 of state a certificate showing the number of acres, and describing the 

 property on which he desires to pay the tax, and where the same is 

 located, and paying the amount due, shall receive a certificate from the 

 treasurer of state, discharging the tax on the number of acres or interest 

 upon which such payment is made. Each part or interest of every such 

 township or tract upon which the tax hereby imposed and so advertised 

 is not paid, with interest, within the time limited in this section for such 

 redemption, shall be wholly forfeited to the state and vest therein free 

 of any claim by any former owner. 

 109 Me. 477. 



Sec. 65. Assessment of taxes on organised plantations. 1911, c. 33. 

 The treasurer of state shall annually send his warrant, together with a 

 copy of the assessment of taxes upon the organized plantations in the 

 Maine Forestry District, directed to the municipal officers of said plan- 

 tations, requiring them respectively to assess, in dollars and cents, the 

 sum so charged, according to the provisions of law for the assessment 

 of such taxes, and to add to the amount of such tax the amount of state, 

 county and plantation taxes, to be by them assessed in each plantation 

 respectively. 



Sec. 66. Use of funds; zvhen insufficient, payments from state treas- 

 ury; audit of accounts. 1909, c. 193, § 6. 1913, c. 85, § 1. The tax as- 

 sessed by authority of section sixty-one shall be held by the treasurer 

 of state as a fund to be used to protect from fire the forests situated 

 upon and within the district, and to pay expenses incidental thereto and 

 for no other purpose. The governor and council shall from time to time, 

 as the forest commissioner may request, issue their warrant to the 

 treasurer of state to pay to said commissioner such sums of money 



