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time, the necessary rooms, furniture, apparatus and supplies, for 

 the use of the Department of Forestry created under the provi- 

 sions of this act. 



Section 6. All moneys appropriated by the General Assembly in 

 the general appropriation act of 1899 for the Division of Forestry 

 of the 'State Department of Agriculture, as for salaries or contingent 

 fund, which may remain unexpended at the time of the approval of 

 this act, shall be transferred to and be vested in the Department of 

 Forestry, hereby created; and the clerk of the Commissioner of For- 

 estry, hitherto appointed under the law creating the Department of 

 Agriculture, shall be transferred from the Department of Agricul- 

 ture to the Department of Forestry, on the same salary that he 

 now receives. 



Section 7. The purchase money for lands acquired and all ex- 

 penses that may be incurred, except the salaries of the Commissioner 

 of Forestry and his clerk, shall be paid by the State Treasurer out 

 of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, on war- 

 rant of the Auditor General, upon vouchers duly approved by resolu- 

 tion of the Forestry Reservation Commission and the Governor of 

 the Commonwealth. 



Section 8. The title of all lands acquired by the Commonwealth for 

 forestry reservations shall be taken in the name of the Common- 

 wealth and shall be held by the Commissioner of Forestry, and such 

 lands shall not be subject to warrant, survey or patent, under the 

 laws of the Commonwealth authorizing the conveyance of vacant 

 or unappropriated lands, and all such forestry reservation lands 

 shall be exempt from taxation from the time of their acquisition. In 

 all cases where lands have been purchased, or may hereafter 'be pur- 

 chased by the Forestry Reservation Commission for forest reser- 

 vations, where there are public roads, regularly established, running 

 into or through said lands, the Commissioner of Forestry, under such 

 rules and regulations as the Forestry Reservation Commission is 

 hereby authorized to adopt, may expend a sum not exceeding twenty- 

 five dollars per mile in each year for the maintenance, repair or ex- 

 tension of any such roads, and on roads bordering on reservations 

 one-half of this rate per mile may be expended. All expenses that 

 may thus be incurred shall be subject to the approval of the Forestry 

 Reservation Commission and the Governor of the Commonwealth, 

 and shall be paid in the same manner as other expenses are provided 

 for in this act. 



Section 9. The Commissioner of Forestry shall receive the moneys 

 to which the State may be entitled by virtue of the sale of any tim- 

 ber, or by virtue of any leases or contracts relating to the disposi- 

 tion of minerals, as hereinbefore provided, and he shall immediately 



