8 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



due proof thereof, be entitled to receive annually from the 

 commissioners of their respective counties, during the period 

 that the said trees are maintained in sound condition upon the 

 said land, the following sums of money: 



For the period of ten years after the land has been so 

 planted a sum equal to ninety per centum of all the taxes 

 annually assessed and paid upon the said land, or so much of 

 the ninety per centum as shall not exceed the sum of forty-five 

 cents per acre. 



For a second period of ten years, a sum equal to eight per 

 centum of the said taxes, or so much of the eighty per centum 

 as shall not exceed the sum of forty cents per acre. 



For the third period of ten years, a sum equal to fifty per 

 centum of the said taxes, or so much of the said fifty per 

 centum as shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five cents per 

 acre. 



Provided, that it shall be lawful for the owner or owners 

 of the said land, after the same has been planted for at least 

 ten years, to thin out and reduce the number of trees growing 

 thereon to not less than six hundred to the acre, so long as no 

 portion of the said land shall be absolutely cleared of the said 

 trees ; 



And provided also, That the benefits of this act shall not 

 be extended to nurserymen or others growing trees for sale for 

 future planting. 



Sec. 2. The owner or owners of forest or timber land in 

 this Commonwealth, which has been cleared of merchantable 

 timber, 'who shall, within one year after the said land has been 

 so cleared, have given notice to the commissioners of their 

 respective counties that the said land is to be maintained in 

 timber, and who shall maintain upon the said land young forest 

 or timber trees in sound condition, in number at least twelve 

 hundred to the acre, shall, on making due proof thereof, be 

 entitled to receive annually from the commissioners of their 

 respective counties the sum of money mentioned in the first 

 section of this act: Provided that the first period of ten years 

 shall be counted from the time that the said land has been 

 cleared of merchantable timber, and, that after the said first 

 period of ten years, the number of trees upon the said land 

 may be reduced as in the first section is provided. This act 

 was approved the. first day of June, A. D. 1887. 



