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In case an island or belt of timber come entirely within a quarter-section, or in 

 several quarter-sections so that not more than twenty-five acres shall be included 

 in each, it is not to be separately surveyed into wood-lots. These wood-lots are 

 conveyed as homestead grants the same as other lands, but the grantee is not 

 allowed to sell any of the timber on his lot to any saw-mill owners, or to any 

 other than settlers for their own private use, under penalt}* of prosecution, as for 

 trespass. Upon conviction they may be fined or imprisoned, or both, and they 

 further forfeit their claims absolutely. 



Any tract of land covered by forest timber may be set apart as timber 

 lands, and reserved from sale and settlement ; and except as it may be thought 

 expedient by the secretary of State to divide a township into two or more timber 

 limits, the several townships composing any such tracts shall each form a limit. 

 The word " timber " is used to designate all lumber, and all products of timber, 

 including firewood and bark. 



Leases for cutting timber may be granted for twenty-one years, and upon 

 the following conditions : 



1. The lessee to erect a saw-mill or mills in connection with such limit and 

 lease, and subject to any special conditions which may be agreed upon and stated 

 in the lease, such mill or mills to be of capacity to cut at the rate of a thousand 

 feet, board measure, in twenty-four hours, for every two-a-half square miles of 

 limits in the lease, or shall establish such other manufactory of wood goods as 

 may be agred upon as the equivalent of such mill or mills, and the lessee to work 

 the limit in the manner and to the extent provided in the lease within two years 

 from the date thereof, and during each succeeding year of the term. 



2. To take from every tree he cuts down all the timber fit for use, and 

 manufacture the same into sawn lumber, or some other such saleable product as 

 may be provided in the lease, or by any regulations made under this act. 



3. To prevent all unnecessary destruction of growing timber on the part of 

 his men, and to exercise strict and constant supervision to prevent the origin or 

 spread of fires. 



4. To make returns to the government monthly or at such other periods as 

 may be required by the secretary of State, or by regulations under this act, 

 sworn to by him or by his agent or employee cognizant of the facts, declaring the 

 quantities sold or disposed of as aforesaid, of all sawn lumber, timber, railway- 

 car stuff, ship-timbers and knees, shingles, lath, cordwood or bark, or any other 

 product of timber from the limit, in whatever form the same may be sold or 

 otherwise disposed of by him during such month or other period, and the price 

 or value thereof. 



5. To pay in addition to the bonus an annual ground rent of $2 per square 

 mile, and further a royalty of five per cent, on his monthly account. 



6. To keep correct books, of such kind and in such form as may be provided 

 by his lease, or by the regulation under this Act, and to submit the same for the 

 inspection of the collector of dues whenever required, for the purpose of verifying 

 his returns aforesaid. 



7. The lease shall describe the lands upon which the timber may be cut, 

 and shall vest in the lessee during its continuance the right to take and keep- 

 exclusive possession of the lands so described, subject to the conditions hereinbe- 

 fore provided or referred to, and such lease shall vest in the holder thereof all 

 right of property whatsoever in all trees, timber, lumber, and other products of 

 timber cut within the limits of the lease during the continuance thereof, whether 

 such trees, timber, and lumber or products be cut by authority of the holder of 

 such lease, or by any other person, with or without his consent ; and such lease 

 shall entitle the lessee to seize in replevin, revendication, or otherwise, as his. 



