REPORT OF SPECIAL FORESTRY COMMITTEE 67 



A Bill 



To create sections 1494t-7 and 1494t-8 of the 

 statutes; to amend subsection 1 of section 1498, 

 section 1494-42, and section 1498x, of the statutes, 

 and to repeal subsections 2, 3 and 4 of section 1498, 

 and sections 1494-46, 1495, 1496 and 1494t-l of the 

 statutes, abolishing the offices of state fish and game 

 warden, state board of forestry, state conservation 

 commission, commissioners of fisheries and the state 

 park board, and providing for the appointment of a 

 state conservation commission of Wisconsin. 



The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented 

 in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: 



Section 1. There are added to the statutes two 

 new sections to read: Section 1494t-7. 1. A state 

 conservation commission is hereby created to be com- 

 posed of three commissioners. Immediately after 

 the passage of this act the Governor shall, by and 

 with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint 

 such commissioners, but no commissioner so ap- 

 pointed shall be qualified to act until so confirmed. 

 One of the commissioners shall be a man with a 

 thorough knowledge of the propagation, protection 

 and care of fish and game; the second shall be a 

 technically trained forester; and the third a tech- 

 nically trained engineer. The term of one such 

 appointee shall terminate on the first Monday in 

 February, 1919; the term of the second such appoin- 

 tee shall terminate on the first Monday in February, 

 1921; and the term of the third such appointee 

 shall terminate on the first Monday in February, 

 1923. In January, 1919 and biennially thereafter 

 there shall be appointed, and comfirmed in the 

 same manner, one commissioner for the term of 

 six years from the first Monday in February of 

 such year. Each such commissioner so appointed 

 shall hold his office until his successor is appointed 

 and qualified. Any vacancies shall be filled by 

 appointment by the governor for the unexpired 



