Section 8

Section 8. The title of all lands acquired by the Commonwealth for forestry reservations shall be taken in the name of the Commonwealth and shall be held by the Commissioner of Forestry, and such lands shall not be subject to warrant, survey or patent, under the laws of the Commonwealth authorizing the conveyance of vacant or unappropriated lands, and all such forestry reservation lands shall be exempt from taxation from the time of their acquisition. In all cases where lands have been purchased, or may hereafter be purchased, by the Forestry Reservation Commission for forest reservations, where there are public roads, regularly established, running into or through said lands, the Commissioner of Forestry, under such rules and regulations as the Forestry Reservation Commission is hereby authorized to adopt, may expend a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars per mile in each year for the maintenance, repair or extension of any such roads, and on roads bordering on reservations one-half of this rate per mile may be expended. All expenses that may thus be incurred shall be subject to the approval of the Forestry Reservation Commission and the Governor of the Commonwealth, and shall be paid in the same manner as other expenses are provided for in this act.