FOREST RESERVE LAW. 189^ 



foresting waste and other prairie lands, preventing destruction of 

 forests by fire, the administering- of forests on forestry principles, 

 the encouragement of private owners in preserving and growing 

 timber for commercial and manufacturing purposes, and the gen- 

 eral conservation of the forest tracts around the head waters and on 

 the water sheds of all the water courses of the state, and for these 

 purposes to make reports of its doings, conclusions and recom- 

 mendations to each session of the legislature, and from time to time 

 publish, in a popular manner, and print for popular distribution, in 

 bulletin or other form, such of Its conclusions and recommenda- 

 tions as may be of immediate public interest. 



Sbc. 7. The members of said board may choose a president and 

 vice-president annually, in January, or as soon thereafter as possi- 

 ble; may contract and be contracted with, in the name of the State 

 of Minnesota, or in its behalf; adopt and use a seal, and alter the 

 same at pleasure, and cause actions to be brought in the courts in 

 the name of or in behalf of the state, to protect the state's interest in 

 all matters confided to the board's care; a majority of the members 

 shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and a less 

 number may adjourn from time to time. The board may make all 

 reasonable rules, regulations and by-laws for the government of its 

 own meetings and actions, and for the conduct of its officers, agents 

 and employes, and for the care, management, protection, and preser- 

 vation of the Forest Reserves and the forests thereon, and may ap- 

 point such needed agents, officers, attorneys and employes as it 

 deems best. 



The board may appoint an executive committee annually, on 

 which it may confer authority to perform any executive act, and to 

 exercise its judgment in minor details which cannot be con- 

 veniently acted upon by the board. 



Sec. 8. The respective town boards of supervisors and county 

 commissioners are hereby constituted, respectively, town and county 

 forest boards, which shall only have such pay for services as shall 

 be expressly authorized by the legislature, and which shall only 

 perform such duties, have such authority and exercise such powers, 

 as may hereafter, herein or in subsequent acts, amendatory or 

 otherwise, be expressly conferred by the legislature. 



Sec. 9. Any person or corporation being the owner in fee simple 

 of any cut-over or denuded, or partially cut-over or partially de- 

 nuded, natural forest lands, which will not probably be utilized for 

 many years for agricultural purposes, or any bare or waste, or par- 

 tially bare or waste, rough prairie land, or very sandy, very '-ough 

 or very rocky lands, in this state, or any lands deemed absolutely 

 necessary for the preservation of water courses (all to be determined 

 by said state forestry board), may deed the same to the State of 

 Minnesota for forestry purposes; all lands so deeded to the state for 

 forestry purposes by any person or corporation are hereby forever 

 dedicated for forestry purposes. 



Before such deed shall be made and delivered, a proposition in 

 writing shall be made by such owner or owners to said state forestry 

 board to so deed the same for forestry purposes, under the terms of 



