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his heirs and assigns, and shall authorize a decree pro confesso in such 

 suit in case appearance therein is not entered. 



Payment of the same sum annually per acre as section eight provides 

 shall be paid by the State upon the State forest reserves and produc- 

 tion of a certificate from the commission showing that a private timber 

 reserve is still kept as such and in forest growth and that the terms of 

 the said contract affecting said reserve have been duly kept and per- 

 formed without breach of any material stipulation going to the essence 

 of the said contract, shall entitle the holder of such private timber re- 

 serve to a receipt in full for all taxes thereon for the preceding year. 



Section 12. Every grant, conveyance or transfer of the title of the 

 State to, and every contract made by it affecting any land within the 

 operation and effect of section one which lies upon, includes or is bounded 

 or crossed by any lake, river or stream or which is located within the 

 flowage area thereof hereinafter mentioned, shall be subject to the fol- 

 lowing stipulation binding upon the land and upon all grantees and 

 assigns thereof as follows, to-wit: 



All such parts of the land included in such grant, conveyance, trans- 

 fer or contract as will be flowed by any present or future work, dam, 

 or operation for impounding, diverting or controlling the waters of any 

 lake, river or Stream in order to develop water power or to furnish water 

 supply, or to regulate stream flow or for any other purpose are conveyed 

 by the State, only to the extent that the grantee and his successors in 

 title may use, possess and enjoy the same for all purposes except for the 

 purpose of flowage as aforesaid, the right of flowage being reserved to 

 the State; subject, however, to the agreement that such right of flowage 

 shall not be used by the State or conveyed or granted to any person ex- 

 cept either with the consent of said grantee of the land or his successor 

 in title then owning the same, or upon condition that compensation by 

 the grantee of such easement or reserved right shall be made to the said 

 then owner of said land in the same way as though he were the absolute 

 owner thereof without restriction or reserved right aforesaid; and pro- 

 vided further, that any grant or conveyance by the State of the easement 

 or right of flowage shall be held and deemed to be subject to the reserva- 

 tion and agreement that the same is and shall forever remain subject to 

 such rules, regulations, restrictions and requirements as the State may at 

 any time see fit to impose for the protection and betterment of public 

 welfare. 



Section 13. Whenever land returned delinquent to the Auditor Gen- 

 eral has been sold at tax sale and bid in to the State, the bid, interest, 

 title or right of the State shall not be sold or disposed of to any per- 

 son, but the Auditor General shall, prior to the time for redemption al- 

 lowed by law, receive from any person claiming to be the owner by 

 the original title, the full amount of all unpaid taxes thereon, together 

 with all interest, expenses and charges, and shall execute and deliver 

 to the person making such payment a full discharge and acquittance of 

 the said land from the lien of such taxes and a release and cancellation 

 of the right, title or interest of the State by virtue of the tax proceed- 

 ings: but neither this provision nor the certificate of the Auditor Gen- 

 eral shall be held or deemed to vest in the owner of the original title 

 any right, nor shall the payment aforesaid or the certificate of the Audi- 

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