REPORT OF SPECIAL FORESTRY COMMITTEE 69 



vacancy shall not impair the right of the remaining 

 commissioners to exorcise all the powess of the 

 commission. 



6. Said commission shall appoint a secretary who 

 shall keep a full and correct account of all trans- 

 actions and proceedings of said commission and 

 shall perform such other duties as may be required 

 by said commission and shall receive an annual 

 salary not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars. Said 

 commission may employ the necessary clerks and 

 stenographers to perform the clerical work of the 

 office, and appoint and employ such foresters, ward- 

 ens, experts, agents, superintendents, assistants and 

 employes as may be necessary to carry out the pro- 

 visions of this section, and shall fix the compensa- 

 tion for such clerks, stenographers, foresters, ward- 

 ens, experts, agents, superintendents, assistants and 

 employes. The experts and temporary employes 

 shall be exempt from the operation of chapter 44a 

 of the statutes. 



7. The commissioners shall be known collectively 

 as the "state conservation commission of Wiscon- 

 sin*" and in that name may sue and be sued. It 

 shall have a seal with the words "state conserva- 

 tion commission of Wisconsin," and such other 

 design as the . commission may prescribe engraved 

 thereon, by which it shall authenticate its proceed- 

 ings and of which the court shall take judicial 

 notice. 



8. Said commission shall keep its office at the 

 state capitol and the superintendent of public prop- 

 erty is directed to provide suitable rooms for that 

 purpose, also the necessary office furniture, supplies, 

 postage and stationery. Said commission is author- 

 ized to purchase the necessary supplies, equipment 

 and instruments, to procure printed forms and not- 

 ices and to issue special publications pertaining to 

 its work, the cost of which shall be audited and paid 

 the same as other expenses of the state are audited 

 and paid. Said commission may hold meetings at 

 other places than the capitol whenever in its judg- 



