FOREST COMMISSIONERS REPORT. 



89 



1824, (and amount received for timber from year 1834,) termi- 

 nating Dec. 31, 1855. 



Collections for Timber. 



*1840-1. 



S2 ,292 ,484 72 Total received for land and timber 



Gov. Lot M. ]\Iorrill in i860, in his message to the legisla- 

 ture said: "In 1853 this State purchased from the Common- 

 wealth of IMassachusetts, its interests in the public lands, for 

 the sum of $362,500, of which sum $250,000 remains unpaid, 

 and which will be paid in yearly installments, the last of which 

 matures in 1872. By this purchase the State is disembarrassed 

 of the interests of a foreign jurisdiction and left free to adopt 

 a policy in regard to its public domain, in accordance with its 

 interests, which was the principal consideration urged for clos- 

 ing the joint interests in the public lands. 



The lands having regard to the State's interest therein are: 



1. Lands bargained by the State and to be conveyed upon 

 payment of the purchase money. 



2. Lands encumbered by permits to cut the timber thereon. 



3. Lands to which the State's title is absolute. 



