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be SO tried ; provided, however, that a final decree shall be entered by the 

 court as a court in chancery. Costs may be awarded, and appeals may be 

 taken, as in chancery cases. 



The copy of a subpoena served shall contain, or be accompanied by, 

 a notice that the suit' affects the defendant only as respects his alleged 

 right to the particular land described in such notice, and is brought to 

 establish and declare the validity and priority of, and to quiet the 

 State's title to, the said land. 



Section 5. The commission having charge of State forest reserves 

 shall proceed with all convenient speed to locate and define the boun- 

 daries of districts, to be known as reserve districts, that include land 

 within the operation of section one, in such quantity and so located as 

 to be desirable in their judgment for State forest reserves ; such reserve 

 districts to be located also, as far as practicable with a view to securing 

 reserves that will contribute as much as possible to the betterment of con- 

 ditions affecting streams and stream flow, and with regard also, so far 

 as consistent with the foregoing, to bringing into use for farms as much 

 of the State's holdings' of land aforesaid as is suitable therefor. All 

 land within the operation of this act and now owned, or which shall 

 hereafter be acquired by the State because of non-payment of taxes, and 

 which is situated within any reserve district, is hereby designated as, 

 and shall be, a part of the State forest reserves ; provided, that not more 

 than 20% of the area of any county shall be included in the State forest 

 reserves; and provided, that the commission in charge of forestry may 

 elect to take over as a part of the State reserves any land in excess of 

 the aforesaid limit which shall be acquired by the State, and, in lieu 

 thereof, to drop from the State forest reserves other land in the same 

 county of sufficient area to reduce the State forest reserves in the county 

 to the limit aforesaid. 



The aforesaid commission is authorized to employ the necessary sur- 

 veyors and others for the delimitation of reserved districts; and to incur 

 such expense for maps, surveys and other purposes as may be neces- 

 sary for the matters aforesaid in this section, the same to be paid out 

 of the general fund when audited and allowed by the State Board of 

 Auditors. 



As soon as a reserve district is located the boundaries thereof shall 

 be certified by the commission to the Commissioner of the State Land 

 OfQce and to the Auditor General, and thereupon it shall be the duty 

 of the Auditor General and Commissioner of the State Land Office forth- 

 with to prepare and file in the State Land OflSce a list of all land located 

 in such reserve district and which is within the operation of section 

 one of this act. "Upon the filing of the said certificate in the State 

 Land Oflflce showing the boundary of any reserve district, all land 

 therein which is within the operation of section one of this act shall be, 

 and become a State forest reserve and all the provisions of this act re- 

 lating to State forest reserves shall thenceforth govern the same. It 

 shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the State Land Offlce to pre- 

 pare forthwith and furnish to the county clerk of each county, in which 

 any State forest reserve is, in whole or in part, located, a list or other 

 description in duplicate in such form as will be suitable for readily 

 informing the public, of all the land in the county that under this act 



