322 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



2d:— The person occupying- the chair of horticulture (at present 

 includino; arboriculture) in the ag-ricultural departinent of the 

 state university, and representing- the Minnesota State Horticultural 

 Societj-. 



3rd: — The person having in charge the Minnesota section of the 

 climate and crop service of the United States -weather bureau. 



One member chosen by each of the following; boards or associa- 

 tions from their own members: 4th, stale forestry association; 5th, 

 farmer's institute; 6th, board of regents of the university; 7th, state 

 lumberman's association; 8th, board of public health; 9th, fish 

 and game commissioners. 



All to serve -without pay, except actual expenses. An executive 

 committee of three to be selected by the state board. 



Second: — That owners of cut-over pine lands or other lands' 

 especially rough, rocky and sandy lands, -which -will probably not 

 be utilized for many j^ears for agricultural lands, -when recom- 

 mended by the town and county forestry boards, (the authority and 

 -work of each board to be designated by the legislature) may deed 

 the same to the state (reserving- minerals, oils, coals and mineral 

 paints with the right to hunt for, dig, mine and carry away the 

 same) for forestry purposes; and when so deeded the same shall be 

 exempt from taxes because dedicated to public purposes. Such, 

 lands may be so deeded subject to taxes, tax forfeiture and tax sales 



Third:— The state forestry board shall take charge of all such 

 lands, to be designated as the "Reserved Forest Area," and care for 

 the same as the legislature may direct. Appeals may be taken from 

 the decisions of the town and county boards of forestry, either by 

 the person offering to deed the land or an inhabitant and property 

 owner of the county, to the state forestry board, whose decision 

 shall be final. 



Fourth: — The future incomes derived from such lands from 

 whatever source shall be divided into thirds and distributed as fol- 

 lows, to-wit: 



(a) The state shall have one-third of such income to reimburse 

 it and the towns and counties where situated for care and protec- 

 tion of the land and loss of taxes, 14 to go to the state, 1^4 to the town 

 and J/2 to the county. 



(b) The person so deeding the land and his heirs (to be made 

 inalienable if he so elect) or assigns to have one-third of such in- 

 come for the first seventy-five or one hundred years, after that time 

 to go to the educational institution which he may designate to have 

 the other third of such income. 



(c) The other third of the income to go to such educational insti- 

 tution or system in the state, private, public or denominational, as 

 the donor may designate in the deed of conveyance or in a separate 

 instrument executed as deeds are required to be executed and 

 recorded as deeds are recorded in the county where the lands 

 lie, or by will. In case the donor fails to so designate such 

 institution or system, or if for any reason such institution or system, 

 fails to exist, then the same to go, one-fourth to the state university 

 and three-fourths to the public schools of the state. 



