THE ST. LAWRENCE RESERVATION. 75 



ment towards international comity. Carrying out in part the ideas advanced by the 

 mission to Ottawa, the Legislature of New York, in 1896, enacted the following 

 law : 



Chapter 802 of the Laws of 1896. 



An Act for the establishment of a State reservation upon and along the Saint 

 Lawrence river in the State of New York. 



TIic People of the State of Neio York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do 

 cnaet as follozvs : 



Section i. All that part of the river Saint Lawrence, lying and being within 

 the State of New York, with the islands therein, is hereby constituted an interna- 

 tional park which shall be known as "The State Reservation on the Saint 

 Lawrence." 



Section 2. The said state reservation on the Saint Lawrence shall be under the 

 control and management of the board of fisheries, game and forest, who shall have 

 the power to make and enforce ordinances, by-laws, rules and regulations for the 

 management of the property of the state within the borders of said reservation and 

 for the orderly transaction of business not inconsistent with the laws of the state ; 

 to designate one of the present fish and game protectors as a superintendent, who 

 shall be subject to the order of said board, who shall have the authority of a fish- 

 eries and game protector and of a police constable in criminal cases within the limits 

 of the state reservation. 



Section 3. It shall be the duty of the said board of fisheries, game and forest 

 to report to the next legislature of this state what laws, in their opinion, should be 

 enacted for the government and control of said state reservation, so as to make the 

 same the most useful to the people of the state as a part of an international park 

 upon the Saint Lawrence river, comprising the whole of said river. 



Section 4. This act shall take effect immediately. 



Thus an hiternational Park was established, although as regards the American 

 islands it was on j^aper only. The State of New York did not own a foot of land 

 and could only reciprocate the action of our Canadian friends by purchasing in the 

 usual manner islands or points of land suitable for public purposes. The Fisheries, 

 Game and l-'orest Commission, in ])ursuance of the law quoted, visited the St. Law- 

 rence River, and, after making a careful study of the matter, urged "the propriety 

 of providing small pieces of land at convenient places to be owned by the state 

 and to be kept free for the public use, and to provide boat landings, camping and 



