Forestry Commission. Sec. 6. A sum not exceeding five thousand dollars may be expended annually by the state forester, with the approval of the governor and council, in carrying out the provisions of this act. NOTE 1.-Acts and Resolves of 1898, Chap. 543, provides that the governor shall appoint a commission to obtain land, not more than 10,000 acres, situate in the Greylock mountain range and to be known as the Greylock State Reservation. For this purpose the act appropriates $25,000. It further provides that the expenses of maintaining the reservation shall be paid by the County of Berkshire, in which it is situated. Acts and Resolves of 1902, Chap. 514, appropriates $20,000 more to enlarge the Greylock State Reservation and provides that the County of Berkshire shall pay the expense of caring for this additional land. NOTE 2.-Acts and Resolves of 1903, Chap. 264, provides that the counties of Hampshire and Hampden shall decide by vote whether these two counties would undertake the expense of a tract of land to be known as the Mount Tom Reservation, not to exceed 1,500 acres and to be situated in the Mount Tom range of mountains in the County of Hampshire. An appropriation of $35,000 was made to carry out this act. NOTE 3.-A considerable part of the lands under jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Park Commission, in the neighborhood of the city of Boston, constitutes in effect a forest reserve. The duties and powers of said commission are defined in chapter 407, acts of 1893; chapter 450, acts of 1895, and numerous subsequent acts of a minor character. As most of the matter in these laws, however, concerns urban parks and boulevards, these statutes are not here included. NOTE 4.-Revised Laws, Chap. 208, Sec. 108, makes it an offense, punishable by fine of not more than $25 or imprisonment not more than 60 days, to bring any gipsy or browntail moths or their eggs into the State. MICHIGAN. PUBLIC ACTS OF 1899, No. 227-Sec. 1. A commission to consist of three members is hereby constituted, one the Commissioner of the State Land Office and two to be chosen by the governor by and Length of with the consent of the Senate; one of whom shall hold his office term of office. for the term of two years and one for four years. The appointment shall date from July first, 1899. The term of the commissioner of the State Land Office as a member of this commission shall be co-extensive with his term as commissioner of the State Land Office. At the expiration of the terms of the appointive members their successors shall be appointed each for a term of four years. Such commission shall elect one of its members president, another member secretary. It shall maintain its office and records in the capitol at Lansing, in the State Land Office, Compensa- and shall serve without compensation, but shall be entitled to tion. traveling and other expenses while on business relating to the work of the commission. Also all necessary cost of postage, stationery and printing, and other incidental expenses: Provided, That the secretary may be paid such amount as the commission may determine, not to exceed three hundred dollars per annum: and provided further, that all accounts shall be audited by the State Board of Auditors. Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of such forestry commission to institute inquiry into the extent, kind, value and condition of the timber lands of the state; the amount of acres and value of timber that is cut and removed each year, and the purposes for which it is used; the extent to which the timber lands are being destroyed by fires, used by wasteful cutting for consumption, lumbering, or for the purpose of clearing the land for tillage. It shall also inquire as to the effect of the diminution of timber and wooded surface of this state in lessening the rainfall and producing droughts, and the effects upon the ponds, rivers, lakes and the water power and harbors of the state and affecting the climate and disturbing and deteriorating natural conditions. Investiga tions. Effect of timber cutting. Secondgrowth timber. It shall also inquire into the production, quantity and quality of second growth timber and note and report upon all facts, improvements and changes in reference thereto, also as to the condition, protection and improvement of denuded, stump, swamp and overflowed lands and what means it may deem expedient in carrying into full effect the intent and purpose of this act. The commission shall recommend to the legislature, in the year 1901, bill to legislawithin ten days of its opening, their findings, in the form of a bill ture. or bills to carry out the objects for which this commission is appointed. Recommend Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of the State Land commissioner to Land Office, to furnish the commission any and all data concern- aid. ing lands of all classes in which the state is directly or indirectly interested, that may be valuable in formulating a method of managing state lands suitable for the growing of forests. He shall also, as far as possible, aid the commission in its investigations and render all the assistance in his power in preparing a report which shall embody a definite forestry policy for the state of Michigan. Sec. 4. Upon the recommendation of the said Michigan Forestry Withdrawal of land. Commission the commissioner of the state land office shall withdraw from sale two hundred thousand acres of land known as state tax homestead lands and swamp lands belonging to the state, and withhold the same until after the adjournment of the legis lature after such reservation. The commision shall be authorized to receive by deed to the state from the owners, any tracts of land which in its judgment may be suitable as forest reserves, to be kept by the state: Provided however, that this act shall not be construed so as to affect in any manner the rights and interests of any person to or in any lands which such person may have acquired previously to the day on which this act shall go into effect. NOTE. The first part of this section is now obsolete. (See Acts of 1903, Chap. 175, Sec. 7, on page 47 of this bulletin. Sec. 5. Said commission shall make an annual report to the governor on or before the first day of December in each year, of such facts and statistics as it may deem of public interest, and recommend such legislation as may be necessary for the preservation and restoration of the timber and forests of the state, or any portion thereof, and cause such number of reports, not exceeding two thousand copies, as it may deem proper to be printed each Report. Expenses. serve. year for public use and distribution, which report shall be printed by the Board of State Auditors. The expense of the commission, as provided in section one of this act, shall be paid on vouchers certified by the president of the commission to the auditor general and paid by the state treasurer, out of the general fund, upon the warrant of the auditor general: Provided, That not more than two thousand dollars shall be expended by the state in any one year under the provisions of this act. Forestry re- PUBLIC ACTS OF 1903, No. 175-Sec. 1. All delinquent state tax, homestead, swamp and primary school lands now belonging or which shall hereafter be added to the state in town twenty-one north, range three and four west; the north half of town twentyfour, range four west; and the south half of town twenty-five north, range four west, are hereby withdrawn from sale and entry, set apart for the creation of a forestry reserve, and for that purpose placed under the control of the Michigan Forestry Commission, created by act number 227 of the public acts of 1889. It shall be the duty of said Michigan Forestry Commission, first, to investigate and determine what part or portion of the lands belonging to the state, thus withdrawn from sale and entry, and set aside, it will be for the best interests of the state and public to retain and devote to the purpose of forestry, having regard both to the soil and natural characteristics and conditions of said lands, and their relative fitness for cultivation and forestry, and also the location of the various descriptions of the same with respect to each other so that the lands devoted to such forestry reserve shall be composed of contiguous territory, or territory as nearly contiguous as possible, so as to render practicable and desirable the establishment and maintenance of forestry reserves, embracing the same. Second, to have care, custody, control and superintendence of the lands herein or hereafter set apart for or becoming a part of the forestry reserve, and provide for the reforestation of the denuded lands so set apart and belonging to the state, by planting and preserving forest trees, establishing and maintaining fire lines, and a system of fire patrol in the forestry reserve thus created. Reforesta tion. Forestry warden. tion. Sec. 2. The forestry commission shall have power to appoint a forestry warden who shall hold office for the term of four years from the first day of January in the year in which appointed, unless sooner removed by the forestry commission. The said forCompensa-estry warden shall receive an annual salary of not to exceed one thousand dollars, payable in the same manner in which the salaries of state officers are now paid, and he shall be subject to the orders and directions of the forestry commission, which shall prescribe his powers and duties, and he shall have general supervision of all deputy wardens or other persons appointed or employed for the performance of duties or services in respect to Deputy for- forestry lands or forest fires. The said forestry warden may appoint, upon recommendation of the forestry commission a sufficient number of competent persons as deputy forestry wardens, to hold office at the pleasure of the said commission, who shall be Compensa- entitled to receive a sum not to exceed two dollars per day for each day actually and necessarily spent under the direction of the chief warden in the discharge of duties under this act. Said est wardens. tion. compensation to be paid by the auditor general on the approval of the president and secretary of the said forestry commission. Sec. 3. The said forestry commission shall have power to cut, remove or sell (or to sell to any person with the power to cut, sell or remove, upon such terms and under such conditions and restrictions as it may deem advisable) any trees, timber or other forest products upon or derived from the said lands so set apart as forestry reserve lands, and shall have power to lease or sell any lands within such forestry reserve, the lease or deed therefor to be executed for and on behalf of the state by the forest commissioner of the State Land Office. The said forestry commission shall likewise have authority to purchase such lands within the limits of said forestry reserve as it may deem advisable, in order to connect and render contiguous separate tracts. All moneys received by or payable to the said forestry commission on account of or arising from revenues from said lands or from any other source shall be paid to and received by the secretary of said commission, whose official bond as commissioner of the State Land Office shall be responsible therefor, and shall be paid by him into the state treasury, and the receipt of the state treasurer countersigned by the auditor, shall be taken therefor. NOTE.-Sec. 4 of this act will be found below in Chap. V, page 221 of this bulletin. Sec. 5. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, the auditor general shall add to and incorporate in the state tax for the year 1903, and each year thereafter, the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars. Such sum shall be immediately available upon the passage of this act, and shall be paid to the said commission upon the warrant of the auditor general in the same manner in which such appropriations are usually paid, and shall be governed in all respects by the accounting laws of the state. of Powers commission. Sale of timber on serves. re Sec. 6. The lands hereby set aside shall be subject to the pro- Trespassers on state fortection of the provisions of the several acts relating to the cutting, est reserves. removing or destroying, in any manner whatsoever, timber on state lands. This act shall be known and may be cited for any purpose, in legal proceedings or otherwise, as the forestry reserve act. Sec. 7. All other lands heretofore reserved from sale or homestead entry in Roscommon and Crawford Counties, either by act number 227 of the session laws of 1899, or concurrent resolution number 17 of the session laws of 1901, are hereby restored for sale or homestead entry as provided for other state lands. Restored for sale. Mackinack NOTE.-Mackinack Island State Park, which is governed by MINNESOTA. NOTE.-Act of Aug. 3, 1892, (27 U. S. Stat. at Large, page 347) provides that a certain definite area of Government land, about 22,400 acres, in northern Minnesota at the head of the Mississippi River shall be forever granted to the State of Minnesota to be perpetually used as a public State park and to revert to the United States, if not so used. Statutes of Minnesota, Sec. 4058 formally accepts the grant under the conditions imposed. Laws of 1895, Chap. 106, provides that the above tract of land shall be set aside perpetually as a State park to be known as the Itasca State Park, the care of which, until otherwise provided, shall be in the hands of the State Land Commissioner, and that trespass should consist of destruction of trees or plants of any kind, hunting, fishing without permit, raising or lowering the level of the lakes or streams and setting fires, such trespass to be a misdemeanor with fines for first and second offence and fine and imprisonment for further offences. It provides that the State shall buy in school lands for this park. Sec. 6 provides for appointment, by the governor, of a park commissioner, who shall live in the park, care for it and report annually to the governor, at a compensation of $600 per annum with the right to use a house to be erected for him and twenty acres of agricultural land and dead and down timber for fuel, and the further right to entertain visitors in the park at a rate of charge to be approved by the governor. Sec. 8 appropriates annually the $600 salary and $1,000 to erect building suitable for the accommodation of the Park Commissioner. Further appropriations for improvements have been made from time to time. By Laws of 1901, Chap. 134, and 1903, Chap. 218, there is provision for enlarging the Itasca State Park by addition of certain state lands. Laws of 1899, Chap. 304 appropriates $20,000 for the purpose of condemning and paying for private holdings within the limits of Itasca State Park. Laws of 1903, Chap. 258, makes it a felony to haul or move logs or timber within the outer limits of Itasca State Park or to place them in any lake or stream therein. The policy of keeping the park in a state of nature is definitely stated. Sec. 2 provides as a penalty, fine ($1,000 to $5,000) or imprisonment (three months to one year) or both. NOTE 2.-The Interstate Park of the Dalles of the St. Croix River, although to a great extent wooded, is not in the nature of a forest reservation, and the law creating it (Laws of 1895, Chap. 159) is therefore not inserted. See also Wisconsin, below. LAWS OF 1899, CHAP. 214.-Sec. 1. There are hereby designated forest reserves for the state, to be known and designated in all public documents as the forest reserves," to be managed and controlled as herein provided, which shall consist of all such tracts and parcels of land as shall be set apart, from any state lands, by the legislature for forestry purposes, or which shall be deeded, devised or granted to the state for forestry purposes, under the terms of this or any subsequent act, by any person or persons; or granted to this state by the United States Government for forestry purposes, where such grants from the United States Government have been accepted by the legislature of this state; or given |