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accordance with section one hereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
five nor more than twenty-five dollars to be paid to the city or town in which 
the offense is committed, and expended by said city or town for the purposes 
outlined in this act as the same may be amended from time to time. 
Section 7. The forest commissioner may provide and distribute free of 
charge at the State nursery, to the several cities and towns, trees for roadside 
planting. 
Section 8. When the municipal officers in any year fail to appoint tree 
wardens in accordance with section three of this act the provisions of section 
six shall not apply to previously marked trees in accordance with this act.— 
(Approved April 4.) | 
FOREST LAND EXEMPTED FROM TAXATION 
Revised Statutes, Chapter 10. 
Section 6. XI. Whenever a land owner plants or sets apart for the 
growth and production of forest trees any cleared land or lands from which 
the primitive forest has been removed, and successfully cultivates the same 
for three years, the trees being not less in numbers than six hundred and 
forty on each acre and well distributed over the same, then, on application of 
the owner or occupant thereof to the assessors of the town in which such land 
is situated, the same shall be exempted from taxation for twenty years after 
the expiration of said three years, provided, that said applicant at the same 
time files with said assessors a correct plan of such land with a description 
of its location, and a statement of all the facts in relation to the growth and 
cultivation of said incipient forest; provided, further, that such grove or plan- 
tation of trees is during:that period kept alive and in thriving condition. 
