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their findings, in the form of a bill or bills to carry out the objects for 

 which this commission is appointed. 



Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the State Land 

 Office to furnish the commission any and all data concerning lands of 

 all classes in which the State is directly or indirectly interested, that 

 may be valuable in formulating a method of managing State lands suit- 

 able for the growing of forests. He shall also as far as possible aid the 

 commission in its investigations and render all the assistance in his 

 power in preparing a report which shall embody a definite forestry 

 policy for the State of Michigan. , 



Sec. 4. Upon the recommendation of the said Michigan Forestry 

 Commission the Commissioner of the State Land Office shall withdraw 

 from sale two hundred thousand acres of lands known as State tax 

 homestead lands and swamp lands belonging to the State, and withhold 

 the same until after the adjournment of the Ivegislature after such res- 

 ervation. The commission shall be authorized to receive by deed to 

 the State, from the owners, any tracts of land which in its judgment 

 may be suitable as forest reserves, to he kept by the State: Provided, 

 however. That this act shall not be construed so as to affect in any 

 manner the rights or interests of any person to or in any lands which 

 such person may have acquired previously to the day on which this 

 act shall go into effect. 



Sec. 5. Said commission shall make an annual report to the Governor, 

 on or before the first day of December in each year, of such facts and 

 statistics as it may deem of public interest, and recommend such legis- 

 lation as may be necessary for the preservation and restoration of the 

 timber and forestry of the State, or any portion thereof, and cause such 

 number of reports, not exceeding two thousand copies, tO' be printed 

 each year for public use and distribution, which report shall be printed 

 by the Board of State Auditors. The expense of the commission, as 

 provided in section one of this act, shall be paid on vouchers certified 

 by the president of the commission to the Auditor General, and paid 

 by the State Treasurer, out of the general fund, upon the warrant of 

 the Auditor General: Provided, That not more than two thousand 

 dollars shall be expended by the State in any one year under the pro- 

 visions of this act. 



FOREST RESERVE ACT, 1903. 



An act to create a forestry reserve, to provide for its maintenance, man- 

 agement and regulation, by restoring for sale or homestead entry, lands 

 heretofore reserved in certain counties in this State, to make an appro- 

 priation therefor, and to provide for a tax to meet the same. 



Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact. All delin- 

 quent State tax, homestead, swamp and primary school lands now be- 

 longing or which shall hereafter be added to and belong to the State in 

 towns twenty-one north, range three and four west; the north half of 

 town number twenty-four north, range four west, and the south half of 



