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shall be recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county where 

 the lands are situated, and the provisions thereof shall be deemed 

 to be and be covenants running with the land. Within one year after 

 the making of such agreement, said lands shall be planted by the 

 owner with the number and kind of trees specified therein; and 

 the owner shall file with the Commission an affidavit making due 

 proof of such planting, which affidavit shall remain on file in the 

 office of said Commission. Upon the filing of such affidavit the 

 Commission shall cause an inspection of such lands to be made by 

 a competent forester who shall make and file with said commission 

 a written report of such inspection. If the Commission is satisfied 

 from said affidavit and report that the lands have been forested in 

 good faith as provided in said agreement, it shall make and execute 

 a certificate under its seal, and file the same with the county treasurer 

 of the county in which the lands or any part thereof so forested 

 are located, which certificate shall set forth a description of said 

 lands, the area and the owner thereof, the town in which the same 

 are situated, a statement that lands have been separately classified 

 for taxation in accordance with the provisions of this section and 

 a valuation, in excess of which, said lands shall not be assessed for 

 the period of thirty-five years, which valuation shall not in any 

 event be greater than the average valuation at which the same lands 

 were assessed for the last five years preceding the date of said 

 application, or the value of such lands as appears by the aforesaid 

 sworn statements of the assessors of such tax district, and a state- 

 ment that the trees and timber thereon shall be exempt from taxa- 

 tion during said period. Upon the filing of such certificate it shall 

 be the duty of the county treasurer to file with the assessors of 

 each tax district in which the lands described are located, a certified 

 copy thereof, and the assessors of such tax district shall place the 

 lands according to the description contained in paid certificate upon 

 the next assessment-roll, prepared for the assessment of lands within 

 such tax district, at a valuation not to exceed the amount stated in 

 said certificate, and not to exceed the assessed valuation of similar 

 lands in said tax district; and said assessors shall insert upon the 

 margin of said assessment-roll opposite the description of said 

 lands, a statement that said lands shall not be assessed during the 

 period of thirty-five years at a value in excess of said amount and 

 that the trees and timber growing upon said land shall be wholly 

 exempted from taxation during said period; and said assessors 

 shall also insert upon the margin of said assessment-roll the date 



