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tract. The land agent is charged with the duty of enforcing the provisions 
of this section and is authorized to commence and maintain suits in the name 
of the State for this purpose. 
Sec. 23. Location of land where portions are reserved on grant, how 
made. R. S. c. 7, § 20. When in the grant of townships or parts thereof, 
certain portions of them are reserved for such townships, or for public uses, 
and they have not been lawfully located in severalty by the grantee for the 
purposes expressed in the grant, the supreme judicial court in the county 
where the land lies, on application of the land agent, may appoint three dis- 
interested persons, and issue to them a warrant, under the seal of the court, 
requiring them, as soon as may be, to locate in separate lots, the portions 
reserved for such purposes, and to designate the use for which each lot is so 
reserved and located, such lots to be of average quality with the residue of 
lands therein. 
Sec. c. 93, § 29; 17 Me. 426; 26 Me. 205; 29 Me. 42; 30 Me. 219; 33 Me. 
304; 104 Me. 551; 112 Me. 423. 
Sec. 24. Proceedings by committee; record. R. S. c. 7, § § 21, 22, 28. 
Said committee, before acting, shall be sworn before a justice of the peace; 
and a certificate thereof shall be indorsed on the warrant. They shall give 
notice of their appointment, and of the time and place of their meeting to 
execute it, by publishing it in some newspaper in the State to be designated 
by the court, and by posting written notifications in two or more public 
places in the same plantation or town, if so ordered by the court, at least 
thirty days next prior to their meeting. They shall make return of said war- 
rant and their doings thereon, under their hands, to the next supreme judicial 
court in the county after having completed the service; which, being accepted 
by the court, and recorded in the registry of deeds in the county or registry 
district where the land is situated within six months, shall be a legal assign- 
ment and location of such reserved portions for the uses designated. 
8 Me. 185; 26 Me. 205. 
Sec. 25. Location by grantee, how made. R.S. c. 7, § 24. When the, 
grantee of any such lands severs and locates such reserved portions thereof 
for the purposes mentioned in the grant, designating the use for which each 
lot is located, and presents it to said court, the court may confirm it and 
such location shall then be legal and conclusive, being recorded as before 
mentioned. ; 
Sec. 26. Location on partition. R. S. c. 7, § 25. Such severance and 
location may also be made and completed in the manner prescribed in section 
twenty-nine of chapter ninety-three. 
Sec. 27. Exceptions may be filed. R. S. c. 7, § 26. Any person aggrieved 
by the opinion, direction or judgment cf said court in matter of law, in a 
proceeding for the location of such public lots, may allege exceptions thereto 
as in other actions. 
Note. Review of proceedings for location of lands reserved for public 
uses, c. 94, § 1. | 
In cases of inquests of office, plan to be filed in land office, c. 98, § 8. 
Duties of land agent as to timber and grass on reserved lands forfeited 
for taxes, c. 10, § § 55-6.°- 
