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THE CORNELL READING-COURSES 



out other authorization. All revenues and emoluments from lands so acquired shall 

 belong to the municipality and be paid to its chief fiscal officer for the purposes of such 

 municipality and in reduction of taxation therein. Such forest lands shall be subject 

 to such rules and regulations as such governing board of the municipality shall pre- 

 scribe; but the principal object to be conserved in the maintenance of such lands shall 

 be the sale of forest products in aid of the public revenues and the protection of the 

 water supply of the municipality. Such lands or portions thereof may be sold and 

 conveyed, or leased, if a resolution therefor be adopted by the affirmative vote of two- 

 thirds of all the members of such governing board; but no such resolution directing 

 an absolute conveyance shall be effectual unless adopted after a public hearing, held 

 upon notice given in the manner required in the case of a resolution to acquire such 

 lands. A deed of conveyance or lease of such lands, when authorized as aforesaid, 

 shall be executed by the county treasurer of the county, supervisor of the town or pres- 



FIG. 84. When some of the old trees are cut, the seedlings are given a chance to grow 



ident of the village by which the conveyance or lease is made. Moneys may be appro- 

 priated for the care and maintenance of such lands and the development and use of 

 forests thereon annually, by the county, town or village, respectively, and the amount 

 thereof raised by taxation in the same manner that other expenditures of such county, 

 town or village are provided for by law. 



2. This act shall take effect immediately. 



EUROPEAN EXAMPLE 



An excellent example of a successfully managed communal forest is 

 the woodland belonging to the city of Zurich in Switzerland. Altogether 

 this city controls 2,840 acres of land, of which 2,560 acres are covered 

 with timber and only 39 acres are unproductive rock slides. The forest 



