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mission may, after a public hearing, sell or exchange any 

 land thus acquired which in the judgment of the commission 

 can no longer be used advantageously for the purposes of this 

 act. The average cost of land purchased by the commission 

 shall not exceed five dollars an acre. 



1914, 720, sect. 3. Lands acquired under the provisions of 

 this act shall be known as state forests and shall be under the 

 _^_. , control and management of the state forester. 



Control and 



management He shall proceed to reforest and develop such 

 lands and shall have power to make all reason- 

 able regulations which in his opinion will tend to increase the 

 public enjoyment and benefit therefrom and to protect and 

 conserve the water supplies of the commonwealth. The 

 state forester shall keep and publish in his annual report an 

 account of all money invested in each state forest and of the 

 annual income and expense thereof. 



1914, 720, sect. 4. In the reforestation, maintenance and 

 development of lands purchased under this act, the state 

 Labor on forester, so far as is practicable, shall obtain the 

 labor necessary therefor under the provisions of 

 chapter six hundred and thirty-three of the acts of the year 

 nineteen hundred and thirteen, and acts in amendment thereof 

 and in addition thereto. 



1914, 720, sect. 5. Land acquired under the provisions of 

 this act shall be exempt from taxation; but the commonwealth 

 Exempt from shall reimburse cities and towns in which such 

 lands are situated for taxes lost by reason of their 

 acquisition, in the same manner and to the same extent as in 

 the case of lands acquired for public institutions under the 

 provisions of chapter six hundred and seven of the acts of the 

 year nineteen hundred and ten. 



