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whether hauled or not, and the number of feet board measure, and shall see 
that the timber is cut clean and without strip or waste. 
Sec. 9. Land agent’s report. R.S.c. 7, § 50. 1915, c. 306, § 3. The land 
agent shall on the first secular day of December biennially report to the gov- 
ernor a particular account of all the doings of his office for the two preceding 
years; the State auditor shall audit and settle his accounts at the close of 
each year, and at such other times as the governor and council may designate. 
Sec. 10. All deeds made absolute; State lands to be sold at option of land 
agent in No. 4, R. 4, W. E. L. S., and in No. 14, R. 4, W. E. L. S., B.S. c. 7 
§ $5. All deeds given by the land agent, providing in substance, “that if the 
grantee has failed to perform all the duties required of a settler, in conformity 
to chapter five of the revised statutes, approved April seventeen, eighteen 
hundred and fifty-seven, and all other acts additional or amendatory thereto, 
the deed shall be void,” convey as absolute and complete a title as if such 
condition or reservation was not contained in said deed. Lots or sections of 
land in township number four, range four, W. E. L. S., and lots of land in 
township number fourteen, range four, W. E. L. 5., exceeding the quan- 
tity allowed to be sold to settlers, may be sold if, in the judgment of the land 
agent, such lots or sections are not valuable for lumber growth, but are found 
to be better adapted for settlement than for other purposes. 
Sec. 11. Settler’s lot to the value of $1,000, exempt from attachment. 
R. S. c. 7, § $8. Whoever purchases a lot of wild land of the State for settle- 
ment, and complies with the condition of purchase, may hold it with the im- 
provements thereon, free from attachment and levy on execution, while he 
remains in actual possession thereof. The value so exempted, shall not exceed 
one thousand dollars, to be set off to the owner in such portions of the lot as 
he directs, by the appraisers appointed to levy an execution, as real estate is 
set off and appraised on execution. 
Sec. 12. Descends to children free from debts of deceased, until youngest 
is 18 years old. R.S.c. 7, § 89. On the death of such purchaser, such lot 
and the improvements shall descend to his children, subject to the right and 
interest of his widow by descent, and are not liable for payment of his debts, 
unless his other property is insufficient therefor; and, in that case, his chil- 
dren shall have the occupancy and improvement thereof, subject to the right 
and interest of the widow by descent, until the youngest surviving child at- 
tains the age of eighteen years. The remainder, after the estate of the widow, 
and after the youngest surviving child attains said age, may be sold as other 
estates of deceased persons for payment of such debts, if the other estate of 
the deceased is not sufficient. If he dies without issue, such lot shall descend 
and be disposed of like other property. 
Sec. 13. Trespasses, prosecutions for them; measure of damages. R. S. 
c. 7, § 9. If any person unlawfully enters and trespasses upon the public 
lands, or upon any lands reserved for public uses, while under care of the 
agent, and cuts, takes or carries away, any trees or grass upon said lands, he 
and all persons who furnish teams, implements, apparatus or supplies of pro- 
visions, or of other articles, used in committing and carrying on such tres- 
passes, are trespassers, jointly and severally liable in damages for such tres- 
passes, and they may be sued therefor in any county. The measure of dam- 
ages is the highest price which such timber, logs or other lumber, or hay, 
would bring at the usual place of sale thereof. Nothing in this section affects 
