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title to be transferred thereby have been approved by the attorney- 

 general, and until such instruments have been executed and recorded. 



SECTION 2. The owners of land purchased under this act, or their 

 heirs and assigns, may repurchase the land from the commonwealth at 

 any time within ten years after the purchase by the commonwealth, 

 upon paying the price originally paid by the commonwealth, together 

 with the amount expended in improvements and maintenance, with in- 

 terest at the rate of four per cent per annum on the purchase price. The 

 state forester, with the approval of the governor and council, may execute 

 in behalf of the commonwealth such deeds of reconveyance as may be 

 necessary under this section: provided, however, that there shall be in- 

 cluded in such deeds a restriction requiring that trees cut from such 

 property shall not be less than eight inches in diameter at the butt. 



SECTION 3. The state forester may in his discretion, but subject to 

 the approval of the deed and title by the attorney-general as provided 

 in section one, accept on behalf of the commonwealth gifts of land to be 

 held and managed for the purpose hereinbefore expressed. A donor of 

 such land may reserve the right to buy back the land in accordance with 

 the provisions of section two, but in the absence of a provision to that 

 effect in his deed of gift he shall not have such right. 



SECTION 4. Land acquired under the provisions of this act shall be 

 under the control and management of the state forester, who may, sub- 

 ject to the approval of the governor and council, cut and sell trees, wood 

 and other produce therefrom. 



SECTION 5. All moneys received by or payable to the commonwealth 

 or any one acting on its behalf under the provisions of this act shall be 

 paid into the treasury of the commonwealth. 



SECTION 6. Land acquired under the provisions of this act, and sub- 

 sequently reconveyed under the provisions of sections two or three, shall 

 not be exempt from taxation on account of any plantation of trees set 

 out or planted while it was held by the commonwealth. 



SECTION 7. For the purpose of assisting in reforestation a portion, 

 not exceeding twenty per cent of the money authorized by this act to 

 be expended may be used by the state forester for the distribution at 

 not less than cost of seeds and seedlings to land owners who are citizens 

 of the commonwealth, under such conditions and restrictions as the state 

 forester, subject to the approval of the governor and council, may deem 

 advisable. 



SECTION 8. The state forester shall replant or otherwise manage all 

 land acquired by the commonwealth and held by it under the provisions 

 of this act, in such manner as will, in his judgment, produce the best 

 forest growth both as to practical forestry results and protection of water 

 supplies. 



SECTION 9. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby 

 repealed. 



SECTION 10. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 



