Research

Scope and Content Note

The series consists of a typescript report, supporting memoranda, and statement on taxation within the Forest Preserve. It reviews gains/loses to the state on taxes, returns of taxes, or loss of land titles through cancellation of land sales. The report gives a history of relevant tax laws, and shows taxes paid on Forest Preserve lands since 1894, amounts paid since the enactment of the highway repair bill, and the acreage recovered or lost to the state on tax sales.

Included is a memorandum relative to Forest Preserve counties' return to the comptroller of taxes on lands of non-residents and on state-owned "wild land." Also present is a statement of towns in the Adirondack counties in which acreage of state-owned lands exceeds 25% of the total acreage of each town. It shows acreage, population, and taxes levied in 1907.