so as to demonstrate the practical utility of timber culture and as 

 a breeding place for game. Such gifts must be absolute, except that 

 mineral and mining rights over and under land which may be do- 

 nated may be reserved by the donors, and that they may be sub- 

 ject to a stipulation that the lands shall be administered as State 

 forest reserve, and the attorney general of the State is directed to 

 see that all deeds to the State lands mentioned above are properly 

 executed before the gift is accepted. 



SECTION 6. 



Title. Before completing the purchase of any land for forestry 

 purposes, the attorney general of the State shall see to it that a 

 good title thereto is obtained and that the deed or deeds therefor 

 are properly executed before payment is made of the purchase 

 money. 



SECTION 9. 



Sale of timber Bids Proceeds, disposal of. For the purpose of 

 preserving the living and growing timber and promoting the younger 

 growth on forest reservations, said commission, upon the recom- 

 mendation of the State forester, may cause to be designated and 

 appraised so much of the dead, matured, or large growth of trees 

 found upon the forest reservations of the State as may be compatible 

 with the utilization of the forest thereon, and may sell the same for 

 not less than the appraised value thereof. When the appraised 

 value of the trees to be sold is more than one thousand dollars, said 

 commission, before making sale thereof, shall receive bids therefor, 

 after notice by publication once a week for four weeks in two news- 

 papers of general circulation; but said commission shall have the 

 right to reject any and all bids and to readvertise for bids. The 

 proceeds arising from the sale of the timber and trees so sold shall 

 be paid into the State treasury, and shall be held as a special fund 

 for the purchase of additional lands, and shall be paid out in like 

 manner as money appropriated for the use of said commission. 



SECTION 10. 



Gas, oil, etc.; leases, etc. for removal of Bids Proceeds, dis- 

 posal of. The said commission is hereby empowered to make and 

 execute contracts and leases, in the name of the Commonwealth, 

 for the removal or mining of gas, oil, or any valuable minerals that 

 may be found in said forestry reservations whenever it shall be 

 made to appear to said commission that it would be for the best 

 interest of the Commonwealth to make such disposition of such 

 gas, oil, or minerals; but before a contract or lease is made the same 

 shall be approved by the governor of the State, and bids therefor 

 shall be received after notice by publication once a week for four 

 weeks in two newspapers of general circulation. The said commis- 

 sion shall have the right to reject any or all bids and to readvertise 

 for bids. The accepted bidder shall give bond with good and suffi- 

 cient surety to the satisfaction of said commission, and in such 

 amount as it may fix for the faithful performance on his part of all 



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