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 NEW LAWS 



The following new laws, in which this Board is interested, 

 were passed at the regular session of the 1921 Legislature: 



Act 12«S, Relating to the prevention, supression and eradica- 

 tion of bovine tuberculosis and providing for the 

 indemnification of owners of cattle destroyed pur- 

 suance to its provisions. Amending and reenacting 

 Act 204. S. L. 1919. Appropriates $30,000. 



Act 196, Providing for the transfer to the Bishop Museum of 

 certain specimens and objects. 



Act 201, Relating to the vacation of public employees. Three 

 week's vacation for each year. 



Act 222, Relating to assistant executive officers and removal 

 of cattle from forest reserves. 



Act 229 Regular appropriation for the work of the Board 

 $240,680. 



FOREST RESERVE WITHDRAWALS 



On June 28, 1921, Governor McCarthy signed a proclamation 

 withdrawing 5.44 acres of land from the Honolulu Watershed 

 Forest Reserve on the island of Oahu. 



The land withdrawn, consisted of two parcels. One is on 

 Makaki Heights just back of the lots that were sold in that region 

 some years ago and at the lower end of the eucalyptus forest and 

 consist of 4.53 acres. The land was withdrawn at the request 

 of the Commissioner of Public Lands who stated in his appli- 

 cation to the Board : 



"There is an incessant demand for residence lots in this vicinity 

 and this change will enable me to put four or five lots on the 

 market w^ithout injury, I believe, to the Forest Reserve." 



This withdrawal was approved by the Board on May 20, 1921, 

 on the ground that the land was more valuable for residence lots 

 than for the conservation of water and should, consequently, 

 be put to its highest use. 



The other, approved also by the Board on May 20, 1921, is 

 situated in an angle of the road leading to Round Top and con- 

 sists of 39,665 square feet of a very steep sloping sand bank of 

 no use for forest purposes. This also was withdrawn at the re- 

 quest of the Commissioner of Public Lands who desired the land 

 for exchange purposes. 



At the public hearing held on June 23, 1921, to consider these 

 withdrawals no one appeared to object to the proposed action. 



C S. J. 



