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names and addresses of all beneficiaries under this Act. The sec- 

 retary shall keep a record of all warrants for the payment of money 

 issued and shall countersign each warrant, which shall be signed 

 by the president. 



Section 4. No member of such board shall receive any pay for 

 his services, but shall be repaid actual reasonable expenses incur- 

 red in attending meetings of the board or executive committee or in 

 performing services at the request of the board or executive com- 

 mittee. 



Section 5. The state treasurer is hereby required to act as the 

 treasurer of said board and to keep accurate books of account of all 

 monej^ received and paid out for or on account of said board or 

 said "Forest Reserve Area," according to law and the by-laws of 

 said board, and all funds appropriated for the use of the board, or 

 which may in any way come to its use, disposal or control from the 

 sale of timber or otherwise, shall be deposited with said treasurer, 

 and kept and books and accounts of the same kept under the desig- 

 nated name of " Forest Reserve Fund." 



Section 6. The care, management and preservation of the Forest 

 Reserve Area and the forests thereon, as well as future growths 

 thereon, and all moneys appropriated in that behalf or collected 

 therefrom in any way, and all personal propertj^ acquired to carry 

 out the object of this Act, are hereby confided to and vested in said 

 Minnesota State Forestry Board, as the same maj^ be herein or in 

 subsequent Acts defined and required. The board shall observe, 

 keep in view and so far as it can ascertain the best methods of 

 reforesting cut-over and denuded lands, foresting waste and other 

 prairie lands, preventing destruction of forests b}^ fire, the adminis- 

 tering of forests on forestery principles, the encouragement of 

 private owners in preserving and growing timber for commercial 

 and manufacturing pvirposes and the general 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 recommendations 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 recommendations as may be of immediate 

 public interest. 



Section 7. The members of the said board may choose a president 

 and vice-president annually in January: maj'^ contract and be con- 

 tracted 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 ac- 

 tions to be brought in the courts, in the name of or in behalf of the 

 state to protect the state's interests 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, reg- 

 ulations and by-laws for the government of its own meetings and 

 actions and for the conduct of its ofificers, agents and employees, 

 and for the care, management, protection and preservation of the 

 Forest Reserve Area and the forests thereon, and may appoint such, 

 needed agents, officers, attorneys and employees as it deems best. 



