FOREST commissioner's REPORT. 1 5 



consolidated with the advertisement rc)(3uired by Revised Statutes, 

 Chapter 9, Section 42, as amended. 



The said land shall be held to the State for the payment of the tax 

 hereby assessed, with interest at twenty per cent, per annum, to com- 

 mence six months after such tax is due as herein provided. 



Sect. 5. Owners of lands so assessed and advertised may redeem 

 them by paying to the treasurer of the State the tax with interest thereon, 

 within one year from the time when such interest commences. Elach 

 owner may pay for his interest in any tract, whether in common or not, 

 and upon filing with the State treasurer 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 the 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 so advertised is not paid, with interest within the 

 time limited in this section for such redemption, shall be wholly for- 

 feited to the State and vest therein free of any claim by any former 

 owner. 



Section 6. The tax assessed by authority of this act shall be held by 

 the state treasurer as a fund to be used to protect from fire the forest 

 situated upon and within the district hereby created, and to pay expenses 

 incidental thereto and for no other purpose.' 



'The governor and council shall from time to time, as the forest com- 

 missioner may request, issue their warrant to the state treasurer to pay 

 to said commissioner such sums of money as said commissioner may 

 deem necessary for the purpose of this act.' 



'If the tax assessed by authority of this act has not been collected or 

 for any reason is not available for the purpose of this act or if said tax 

 proves insuflficient in any year to properly carry out the purposes of 

 said act, the governor and council may issue their warrant to the state 

 treasurer to advance and pay to the forest commissioner for the purposes 

 of this act, such sum or sums of money as they may deem necessary 

 for such purposes, the same to be paid from any moneys then in the 

 treasury not otherwise appropriated.' 



'The accounts of said commissioner of the disbursements of all funds 

 (Under this act shall be examined by the state auditor for the purpose 

 of determining if said accounts are correctly kept and all payments prop- 

 erly vouched for.' 



'Said forest commissioner is hereby authorized to employ from time 

 to time such clerks in his office as will enable him to pay promptly all 

 bills contracted in carrying out the provisions of this act, the compensa- 

 tion of such clerks to be paid from the funds provided by this act.' 



Sect. 7. The forest commissioner shall take measures for the pre- 

 vention, control and extinguishment of forest fires in said forestry 

 districts, and to this end he shall establish such sub-forestry districts as 

 he may deem necessary for eflfective protection against loss or damage 

 by fire. He shall have authority to establish lookout stations connected 



