Creating the Forest Park Reservation Commis- 

 sion and Defining Its Powers. 



2 Com p. Stat., pp. 2605-2609, Sees, i to 16. 



Ax ACT for the establishment of forest park reservations 

 by and in the State of Xew Jersey, and for the ap- 

 pointment of a state board of forest park reservation 

 commissioners, and defining its powers and duties. 



Sec. 1. There is hereby established a state board of forest 

 park reservation commissioners, to consist 

 of five members, which said board shall br 

 a body politic and corporate, with perpetual sioners. 

 succession under the name of "state board 

 of forest park reservation commissioners," with power to 

 sue and be sued, with power to adopt and use a corporate 

 seal, and the right, power and authority to 

 acquire, hold and use all such property, real ti * owers and du- 

 and personal, as may be proper or neces- 

 sary, and with all other powers proper or necessary to 

 earn- out and effectuate the purpose for which said board 

 is created ; of this board the governor and 

 the state geologist shall be ex-officio mem- be ? s x ' officio mem " 

 bers. and the other members shall be citi- 

 zens of the state appointed by the governor, by and with 

 the advice and consent of the senate; the 

 terms of office of the said commissioners Terms - 

 shall be three years, the term of the governor and of the 

 state geologist to run concurrently with their term as gov- 

 ernor and state geologist respectively ; the term of the 

 three appointed members to begin from the date of their 

 first appointment, which said appointments shall be made 

 promptly upon the taking effect of this act; of those so 

 first appointed, one shall be for P term, of one year, one for 

 a term of two years and one for a term of three years ; and 

 thereafter all such appointments shall be for the terms of 



