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tion with each other, may establish like parks outside the limits 

 of cities or towns, and when established without the support of 

 the Public State Parks fund, the municipalities, corporations or 

 persons establishing the same, as the case may be, shall have con- 

 trol thereof independently of the Executive Council. Provided, 

 however, that none of the said municipalities, individuals or cor- 

 porations, acting under the provisions of this section shall 

 establish, maintain or operate any such parks as herein contem- 

 plated for pecuniary profit. 



Sec. 8. The board of supervisors of any county in which there 

 is a body of water which may be improved under the provisions 

 of this Act is hereby authorized, at their discretion, to add to the 

 county road system from the township roads, such roads as will 

 make said body of water more accessible, or unite existing 

 county roads to make a county road around a meandered lake. 



Sec. 9. The said Executive Council shall designate three per- 

 sons, who, with the Curator of the Historical Department, shall 

 constitute a Board of Conservation, who shall serve without 

 pay. Such Board of Conservation shall investigate places in 

 Iowa, valuable as objects of natural history, forest reserves, as 

 archaeology and geology, and investigate the means of promoting 

 forestry and maintaining and preserving animal and bird life in 

 this State and furnish such information to the Executive Council 

 for the conservation of the natural resources of the State, from 

 time to time, and said recommendations shall be printed in such 

 numbers as the Council shall authorize, and shall be furnished 

 each member of the succeeding General Assembly. 



Sec. 10. The Board of Conservation .and the Executive Coun- 

 cil, acting jointly, shall from time to time make such regulations 

 as they deem necessary or advisable for the management, control 

 or policing of said lands, and shall cause said regulations to be 

 printed on card-board, wood or metal signs and posted in said 

 parks. The destruction or mutilation' of said signs bearing said 

 regulations shall be deemed a misdemeanor. Said regulation, 

 however, shall in no wise interfere with the local police powers. 



Sec. 11. (The Thirty-eighth General Assembly amended this 

 section by substituting the following:) For the purpose of carry- 

 ing into effect the provisions of this Act, there shall be appropri- 

 ated out of the Fish and Game Protection fund any portion there- 

 of which is in the judgment of the Executive Council, unnecessary 



