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establishes a department of State Forestry with a board 

 of five commissioners, consisting of the Attorney General, 

 Secretary of State, State Treasurer, and two to be 

 appointed by the Governor, who are authorized to 

 appoint a Superintendent of State Forests, with a salary 

 of 12,500 a year, and who is ex-officio Forest Warden. 

 It is his duty to enforce the law for the prevention and 

 extinguishment of forest and marsh fires and to appoint 

 one or more fire wardens in each town in twenty-nine 

 of the northern counties which are named. They can 

 summon any resident of the town or immediate vicinity to 

 assist in preventing or extinguishing fires. Fire wardens 

 and those who assist in extinguishing fires are paid 

 not exceeding twenty-five cents per hour, which shall be 

 paid out of the treasury of the town in which the service 

 is rendered, but not exceeding $ 100 for each town of thirty- 

 six sections shall be paid in any one year. Fire wardens 

 are to be paid not exceeding twenty-five cents per hour 

 for posting notices furnished by the superintendent. 



"All public lands remaining unsold and all lands so 

 withdrawn from sale and such other lands as the state 

 may hereafter acquire for that purpose shall constitute 

 the State Forest Reserve." 



The Superintendent of state forests is to establish one 

 or more experiment stations on lands that belong to the 

 state forest reserve, for the purpose of conducting re- 

 searches into the best methods of forest management 

 under the conditions prevailing in the various portions of 

 Wisconsin. 



He is to remove and sell all dead and down timber on 

 the reserve. 



The sale of all lands belonging to the state except lands 

 that are in fact swamp lands and lands suitable for agri- 

 culture, wood lots convenient to farm homes and isolated 

 tracts, not exceeding 80 acres each, shall cease after this 

 act shall have gone into effect. 



