14 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



a.d. i 9 ig. servants for the purposes of this Act as they thin,k necessary, 

 and may remove any officer or servant so appointed or employed, 

 and there shall be paid to such officers and servants such salary 

 or remuneration as the Commissioners may, with the consent ot 

 the Treasury, determine. 



(3) The Commissioners may sue and be sued, and may for 

 all' purposes be described by the name of "the Forestry Com- 

 missioners," and shall have an official seal which shall be 

 officially and judicially noticed, and the seal shall be authenti- 

 cated by any Commissioner or the secretary to the Com- 

 missioners, or some person authorised by the Commissioners to 

 act on behalf of the secretary. 



(4) Every document purporting to be an order or other 

 instrument issued by the Commissioners and to be sealed with 

 the seal of the Commissioners authenticated in manner provided 

 by this section, or to be signed by the secretary to the Com- 

 missioners or any person authorised by the Commissioners to 

 act on behalf of the secretary, shall be received in evidence and 

 be deemed to be such order or instrument without further proof, 

 unless the contrary is shown. 



v& 32 Vict. (5) The Documentary Evidence Act, 1868, as amended by 

 45& 4 6Vict. the Documentary Evidence Act, 1882, shall apply to the Com- 

 missioners as though the Commissioners were included in the 

 first column of the schedule to the first-mentioned Act, and the 

 chairman or any other Commissioner or the secretary, or any 

 person authorised to act on behalf of the secretary, were 

 mentioned in the second column of that schedule, and as if the 

 regulations referred to in those Acts included any document 

 issued by the Commissioners. 

 Powers and 3. — (i) The Commissioners shall be charged with the general 

 Commis- duty of promoting the interests of forestry, the development 

 of afforestation, and the production and supply of timber, in 

 the United Kingdom, and shall exercise and perform any 

 powers and duties which are or may be conferred or 

 imposed on, or transferred to, them under the provisions of 

 this Act. 



(2) There shall be transferred to the Commissioners the 

 powers and duties of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 

 the Board of Agriculture for Scotland, and the Department of 

 Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland in relation to 

 forestry, and also the powers of those Departments under the 



sioners. 



