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AN ACT 



To authorize constables and other peace officers, without first pro- 

 curing a warrant, to arrest persons reasonably suspected by them 

 of offending against the laws protecting timber lands. 



Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That if any person or persons shall 

 be detected by any constable or other peace officer, in the act of 

 trespassing upon any forest or timber land within this Common- 

 wealth, under such circumstances as to warrant the reasonable 

 suspicion that such person or persons have committed, are committ- 

 ing, or are about to commit, some offence or offences against any of 

 the laws now enacted or hereafter to be enacted for the protection 

 of forests and timber land, such constable or other peace officer shall 

 have authority at once, without first procuring a warrant therefor, 

 to arrest on view such person or persons, with like effect as though 

 such warrant had first been procured. 



Section 2. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be 

 and the same are hereby repealed. 



Approved The 29th day of April, A. D. 1897. 



DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 



AN ACT 



To secure State Forestry Reservations, and providing for the ex- 

 penses thereof. 



Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That a commission, to be composed 

 of the Commissioner of Forestry, the chairman of the State Board of 

 Health, the Deputy Secretary of Internal Affairs, and two other per- 

 sons, one of whom shall be a lawyer or conveyancer of at least ten 

 years professional experience and the other one a practical surveyor, 

 to be appointed by the Governor, be hereby created. 



Section 2. The said Commission shall, after examination, locate 

 and report to the Governor, or to the Legislature if it be in session, 

 the following forestry reservations: 



(1). One of not less than forty thousand acres upon waters which 

 drain mainly into the Delaware river. 



(2). One of not less than forty thousand acres upon waters which 

 drain mainly in the Susquehanna river. 



