tion thereof, and such other information in reference thereto as the 

 Commission may require; such application shall be accompanied by 

 a certificate of the assessors of the tax district or districts in which 

 said lands are located, which shall set forth the assessed valuation 

 of said lands for the last five years preceding the date of such 

 application ; or if said lands have not been separately assessed during 

 any part of said period, or the timber has been removed therefrom 

 at any time during said period of five years, by a sworn statement 

 of the assessors of the value of said lands, which lands shall be 

 valued at the same rate as other waste, denuded or wild forest lands 

 in said tax district, similarly situated; such application shall also 

 contain a declaration that the owner intends to reforest or under- 

 plant the lands described in such application with such number and 

 kind of trees per acre and in such manner as the Commission shall 

 specify, and to comply with all reasonable rules and regulations of 

 the Commission in reference to future care and management of 

 said lands and trees. 



If it appears from said application and certificate or sworn state- 

 ment that said lands are suitable for reforestation or underplanting 

 purposes and have not been assessed during the period of five years 

 next preceding the date of such application at an average valuation 

 of more than five dollars per acre, or that similar lands in said 

 vicinity have not been assessed for more than five dollars per acre, 

 the said Commission shall, as soon as practicable after the receipt 

 of such application, cause an examination to be made of the lands 

 for the purpose of determining whether or not it is of a character 

 suitable to be reforested or underplanted and to be classified as such. 

 After such examination if the Commission shall determine that such 

 lands are suitable for reforestation or underplanting, it is hereby 

 empowered to enter into a written agreement with the owner, which 

 agreement shall be to the effect that the Commission will furnish 

 said owner, at a price not to exceed cost of production, trees to be 

 set out upon said lands, the kind and number to be prescribed by 

 the Commission, and to be set forth in said agreement; that the 

 owner will set out upon said land the number and kind of trees 

 per acre designated by the Commission ; and that said land will not 

 be used for any purpose other than forestry purposes, during the 

 period of exemption, without the consent of the Commission ; and 

 that said lands and the trees thereon will be managed and protected 

 at all times during the period of said exemption in accordance with 

 the directions and instructions of the Commission. Said agreement 



