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for preventing and extinguishing forest fires), amounted 

 to $23,216. In addition, the expense of printing and 

 binding eight thousand copies of the report of the 

 department of forestry for each of said fiscal years is to 

 be paid out of the printing fund. Also the law of May 

 I 3> I 93 appropriated $16,000 to erect buildings on the 

 Mont Alto State Forestry Reservation and to provide 

 practical instruction in forestry therein; the instruction 

 not to cost exceeding $10,000 for the two fiscal years 

 ending June i, 1905. 



The Act of April 15, 1903, limits the amount of money 

 which the State Forestry Reservation Commission shall 

 expend for the purchase of land for forestry reserves 

 to $300,000 a year. 



MICHIGAN. 



The legislature of the state of Michigan has enacted a 

 law which was approved June 18, 1903, and which, with 

 a few exceptions, is a copy of the Minnesota fire warden 

 law as it was previous to the amendments adopted by 

 the last legislature. The exceptions are these: The 

 law applies only within the territory lying north of the 

 north line of township 20 north. It makes the Land 

 Commissioner Forest Commissioner, and authorizes him 

 to appoint a deputy to be known as the Chief Fire 

 Warden, and who receives a salary of only $500 a year; 

 persons who are employed to assist in extinguishing fires 

 are paid $2 a day; services of fire wardens and helpers 

 to be paid by the town state to pay one-third. Where 

 a town embraces more than one surveyed township, the 

 supervisors may appoint a fire warden for such addi- 

 tional township. 



WISCONSIN. 



The last legislature of Wisconsin enacted an important 

 forestry law, which was approved May 22, 1903. It 



