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the right of the State to seize and sell any timber, logs, lumber or hay, cut 
as aforesaid. At such sale no person, who was in any way concerned in com- 
mitting such trespass, or in supplying or aiding those who committed it, shall 
become a purchaser directly or indirectly. 
45 Me. 69; 49 Me. 390; 78 Me. 264. 
Sec. 14. Damages, if suit is for benefit of an individual. R.S. c. 7, § 10. 
When an action for such trespass is prosecuted in the name of the State for 
the benefit of an individual, the principles of decision and the measure of 
damages shall be the same as in like actions between individuals. 
See c. 100, § 9. 
LANDS RESERVED FOR PusBLic USES 
Sec. 15. Reservation for public uses; may be located by agreement. R. S. 
c. 7, § 11. In every township there shall be reserved, as the legislature may 
direct, one thousand acres of land, and at the same rate in all tracts less than 
a township, for the exclusive benefit of such town or tract, to average in 
quality, situation and value as to timber, with the other lands therein. In 
townships or tracts sold and not incorporated, the lands reserved for public 
uses may be selected and located by the land agent and the proprietors, by a 
written agreement, describing the reserved lands by metes and bounds, signed 
by said parties, and recorded in the land office. The plan or outline of the 
land so selected shall be entered on the plan of the township or tract in the 
land office, which shall be a sufficient location thereof. 
See Articles of separation, condition 7. See c. 17, § § 61-63; 26 Me. 
205; 30 Me. 377; 97 Me. 336; 112 Me. 424. 
Sec. 16. Location without agreement. R. S.c. 7, § 12. When the land 
agent and proprietors of such township or tract cannot agree on such loca- 
tion, if the right to cut the timber and grass thereon until the town is incor- 
porated or organized as a plantation has not been sold, the land agent may 
petition the supreme judicial court for the appointment of commissioners to 
make the location as hereinafter provided. The petition may be filed, and the 
proceedings under it had in any county. 
97 Me. 336. 
Sec. 17. Land agent to have care of lots located; may sell timber and 
grass. R.S.c. 7, § 14. ‘The land agent shall have the care of reserved lands 
in all townships or tracts, until they are incorporated, and the fee becomes 
vested in the town. He may, from time to time, sell for cash for such sum 
as he thinks just and reasonable, the timber and grass thereon, or the right 
to cut the same, until incorporated into a town, except the grass growing on 
improvements made by an actual settler. When so sold, he shall give the 
purchaser a permit under his hand and seal, setting forth the terms of the 
contract, which permit shall be recorded in the office. 
Sec. c. 17 § § 50-60; 30 Me. 381; 45 Me. 69; 49 Me. 390; 61 Me. 446; 
78 Me. 264; 97 Me. 336. 
Sec. 18. Land agent to keep an account with lots. R.S.c. 7, § 15. The 
land agent shall keep an account with each such township and tract, in which 
shall be entered all expenditures made on account thereof, and all sums 
received therefrom. He shall settle his account of such receipts and expendi- 
tures annually with the State auditor and pay to the treasurer of State the 
