MAINE FORESTRY DISTRICT 61 
Section 61. An annual tax of*1 3-4 mills on the dollar is hereby assessed 
upon all the property in said district, including rights in public lots, to be 
used for the protection thereof. Said tax shall be due and payable at the date 
of the assessment of the State tax, in the years when the legislature is in 
session, and for other years it shall be due and payable in one year after the 
date of such assessment. 
The valuation as determined by the board of state assessors, and set forth 
in the statement filed by them, as provided in section eleven, of chapter 9, shall 
be the basis for the computation and apportionment of the tax hereby 
assessed. 
The tax hereby assessed shall be valid, and all remedies herein provided 
shall be in full force if said property is described with reasonable accuracy, 
whether the ownership thereof is correctly stated or not. 
Section 62. The board of state assessors shall within thirty days after 
such tax is due, prepare and file with the treasurer of the state, a certifitate 
setting forth the description of each lot, parcel or right subject to the tax, 
together with the tax computed at the rate fixed in the preceding section. 
Section 68. The treasurer of the state shall cause lists of the assessments 
made hereby to be advertised for three weeks successively in the State paper, 
and in some newspaper, if any, in the county where the land lies, within three 
months after such tax is due. Such advertisement may be consolidated with 
the advertisement required by Section 44 of Chapter 10. 
The land shall be held to the State for the payment of the tax so assessed, 
with interest at twenty per cent per annum, to commence six months after 
such tax is due as herein provided. 
Section 64. ; Owners of lands so assessed and advertised may redeem them 
by paying to the treasurer of the state the tax with interest thereon, within 
one year from the time when such interest commences. Each owner may 
pay for his interest in any tract, whether in common or not, and upon filing 
with the Treasurer of state a certificate showing the number of acres and 
describing the property on which he desires to pay the tax, and where the 
same is located, and paying the amount due, shall receive a certificate from 
the treasurer of the state, discharging the tax on the number of acres or 
interest upon which such payment is made. 
Each part or interest of every such township or tract upon which the tax 
hereby imposed so advertised is not paid, with interest, within the time limited 
in this section for such redemption, shall be wholly forfeited to the state and 
vest therein free of any claim by any former owner. 
Section 65. The treasurer of state shall annually send his warrant, 
together with a copy of the assessment of taxes upon the organized plantations 
in the Maine Forestry District, directed to the municipal officers of said plan- 
tations, requiring them respectively to assess in dollars and cents, the sum so 
charged, according to the provisions of law for the assessment of such taxes, 
and to add to the amount of such tax the amount of State, county and plan- 
tation taxes, to be by them assessed in each plantation respectively. 
Section 66. The tax assessed by authority of Section 61 shall be held by the 
Treasurer of State as a fund to be used to protect from fire the forests situ- 
ated upon and within the district and to pay expenses incidental thereto and 
for no other purpose. 
