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and render contiguous separate tracts. All moneys received by or 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 commissioner 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. 



Section 4. All forestry reserve lands set aside under or pursuant to the pro- 

 visions of this act shall be exempt from taxation, except as herein otherwise pro- 

 vided. 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 township 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 school- 

 house 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 for- 

 estry commission. All taxes lawfully levied upon said lands in accordance with 

 the provisions of this section shall, in each year, be paid by the State Treasurer 

 to the township 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 treasurer or other official for the collection 

 of such tax or taxes. 



Section 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 nine- 

 teen hundred three, and each year thereafter, the sum of seven thousand five 

 hundred dollars. 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 

 General, in the same manner in which such appropriations are usually paid, and 

 shall be governed in all respects by the accounting laws of the State. 



Section 6. The lands hereby set aside shall be subject to the protection of the 

 provision of the several acts relating to the cutting, removing or destroying in 

 any manner whatsoever, timber on said lands. This act shall be known and may 

 be cited for any purpose in legal proceedings or otherwise, as the forestry reserve 

 act. 



Section 7. All other lands heretofore reserved from sale or homestead entry 

 in Roscommon and Crawford counties either by act number two hundred twenty- 

 seven of the session laws of eightecD hundred ninety-nine, or concurrent resolu- 

 tion number seventeen of the session laws of nineteen hundred one are hereby 

 restored for sale or homestead entry as provided for other State lands 



