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provisions of section 131 of the General Tax Law, being section 3953 

 of the Compiled Laws of 1897 as amended governing homesteads shall 

 apply, so far as the same relates to applications and proof and to the 

 issuing of deeds and their effect, provided that no application shall be 

 granted or deed issued, until the payment of the purchase price afore- 

 said. All monies received by the Commissioner of the State Land Offlce 

 from the sale of lands herein mentioned shall be deposited in the State 

 Treasury and shall be credited to the State, county and township re- 

 spectively wherein such lands are located, in proportion to the amount of 

 taxes due to each upon the land at the time of the deeding thereof by the 

 Auditor General. 



Section 10. Such parcels or descriptions of the lands subject to the 

 operation of section one and not made State forest reserves under or 

 pursuant to the terms of this act, and which have been heretofore deeded 

 to the State by the Auditor General, may, if not applied for under sec- 

 tion nine within one year from April 1, 1909; and all such parcels or 

 descriptions thereof as shall hereafter be deeded to the State by the 

 Auditor General, may, if not applied for under section nine within one 

 year from the said deeding thereof, be applied for and taken up at any 

 time as private timber reserves under a contract and subject to terms 

 such as are prescribed hereinafter; provided, however, that where appli- 

 cation shall be made under this section for any parcel or description, 

 which, within one year thereafter shall be applied for under section nine, 

 priority and precedence shall be given to the application made under 

 section nine; provided also, that the aggregate total acreage in any 

 county of private timber reserves under this act and of the State forest 

 reserves shall not together exceed twenty-five per cent of the area of the 

 county, which limit may be extended to thirty per cent by the board of 

 supervisors of any county; and provided, that notice of applications for 

 private timber reserves under this section shall be printed in a news- 

 paper published and circulating in the county (or if none, then in a 

 newspaper published and circulating in an adjoining county) within 

 thirty days after the application is made and again within sixty days 

 of the expiration of the year aforesaid, which notice shall describe the 

 land and give the name and residence of the a.pplicant and date of ap- 

 plication and such other facts as are material; and provided further, 

 that no person other than one who has at the time of application been 

 an actual resident of the township at least six months shall be entitled 

 to apply for or take up a private timber reserve under this section, and 

 that not more than 160 acres shall be taken up under this section by 

 any one person; and provided further, that the applicant under this 

 section shall make proof, satisfactory to the commission having charge 

 of the State forest reserves, of actual residence in the township as re- 

 quired above, and of ability and intention to guard, protect and preserve 

 the lan"d applied for as a private timber reserve as required herein and 

 by a contract which shall embody the terms and provisions of this sec- 

 tion and bind the purchaser, his heirs and assigns and the said land 

 thereto in such form and with such further provisions as the commis- 

 sion having charge of the State forest reserves shall deem necessary in 

 order to fully protect the interest of the State; and the said contract 

 shall among other things bind the purchaser and his assigns to keep and 



