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thereof be sentenced to pay a fine of fifty dollars, or to undergo an 

 imprisonment in the county jail of two months, both or either, at 

 the discretion of the court. 



Section 6. All sections, provisos, acts, or parts of acts incon- 

 sistent with this act, or any section of it, are hereby repealed. 



Approved The 22d day of March, A. D. 1899. 



WILLIAM A. STONE. 



AN ACT 



To establish a Department of Forestry, to provide for its proper ad- 

 ministration, to regulate the acquisition of land for the Common- 

 wealth, and to provide for the control, protection and maintenance 

 of Forestry Reservations by the Department of Forestry. 



Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That there be and is hereby estab- 

 lished a Department of Forestry, to consist of the Commissioner of 

 Forestry and four other citizens of the Commonwealth, who to 

 gether shall constitute the State Forestry Reservation Commission; 

 each of whom shall be appointed and commissioned by the Governor, 

 by and with the advice and consent of the Senate ; the Commissioner 

 of Forestry for a term of four years, two of the said citizens for a 

 term of tw r o years, and two of said citizens for a term of four years ; 

 and thereafter all appointments shall be made by the Governor, by 

 and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for a term of four 

 years. The persons so appointed, before entering upon the dis- 

 charge of their duties shall each take and subscribe to the oath of 

 office prescribed by article seven of the Constitution of Pennsylvania. 

 The Commissioner of Forestry and the Forestry Reservation Com- 

 mission, so appointed, shall be clothed with all the powers hereto- 

 fore conferred by law respectively upon the Commissioner of For- 

 estry and the Forestry Reservation Commission, so far as the same 

 are consistent with the provisions of this act, and in addition shall 

 have full power, by and with the consent of the Governor, to pur- 

 chase any suitable lands in any county of the Commonwealth that in 

 the judgment of said Commission the State should possess for for- 

 est preservation: Provided, That in no case shall the amount paid 

 for any tract of land, purchased under the provisions of this act, ex- 

 ceed the sum of five dollars per acre. Said commission shall also 

 have full power to manage and control all the lands which it may 

 purchase under the provisions of this act, as w r ell as those that nave 

 heretofore been purchased and which are now owned by the State 

 under existing laws. Said Commission is also empowered to estab- 



