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payable to the said forestry commission on account of or arising from 

 revenues from said lands, or from any other source, shall be paid to and 

 received by the secretary of said commission, whose official bond as Com- 

 missioner of the State Land Office shall be responsible therefor, and 

 shall be paid by him into the State Treasury and the receipt of the State 

 Treasurer, countersigned by the Auditor General, shall be taken therefor. 



Sec. 4. All forestry reserve lands set aside under or pursuant to the 

 provisions of this act shall be exempt from taxation, except as herein 

 otherwise provided. Said lands shall be assessed in the same manner as 

 are the similar lands of individuals situated within the townships in 

 which the same are situated. Within ten days after the final meeting 

 of the board of review of each township, the supervisor of such town- 

 ship shall file in the office of the Commissioner of the State Land Office 

 at Lansing, a certified copy of the assessment roll of his township, with 

 the several assessments completed thereon and reviewed, said roll to 

 specify which of the lands appearing thereon are forestry reserve lands 

 and the valuation placed upon each description, and also the lands 

 owned by private individuals, and the valuation of such lands; the 

 several matters appearing in said assessment roll to be verified by the 

 supervisor on oath. No assessment of forestry reserve lands shall be 

 valid, nor shall any tax be spread thereon, until such assessment is 

 approved by the Commissioner of the State Land Office, such approval 

 to be attached to and become a part of the original assessment roll of 

 the township. No tax shall be levied upon such lands except for the 

 maintenance of schools and roads and no tax shall be imposed upon 

 any of the forestry reserve lands for the support of any school or the 

 building of any schoolhouse or the building or maintenance of any road 

 which is not at present in existence, unless the same shall have been 

 first approved in writing by the Forestry Commission. All taxes law- 

 fully levied upon said lands in accordance with the provisions of this 

 section shall, in each year, be paid by the State Treasurer to the town- 

 ship treasurer of the township in which the same are situate, by a 

 warrant in favor of the said township, said warrant to be issued upon 

 the filing with the Auditor General by the said Forestry Commission 

 of a certificate that such taxes have been levied in accordance with the 

 provisions of this act. No fee shall be allowed to the township treas- 

 urer or other official for the collection of such tax or taxes. 



Sec. 5. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, 

 the Auditor General shall add to and incorporate in the State tax for 

 the year 1908, and each year thereafter, the sum of |7,500. Such sum 

 shall be immediately available upon the passage of this act, and shall 

 be paid to the said commission upon the warrant of the Auditor Gen- 

 eral, in the same manner in which such appropriations are usually paid, 

 and shall be governed in all respects bv the accounting laws "of the 

 State. 



Sec. 6. The lands hereby set aside shall be subject to the protec- 

 tion of the provisions of the several ads relating to the cutting, re- 

 moving or destroying in any manner whatsoever, timber on said lands. 

 This act shall be known and may be cited for any purpose in legal pro- 

 ceedings or otherwise, as the forestry reserve act. 



Sec. 7. All other lands heretofore reserved from sale or homestead 

 eiiti-y in Roscommon and Crawford counties either by Act No. 1227 of the 



