its conclusions and recommendations as may be of immedi- 

 ate public interest ; whenever it shall appear that the wel- 

 fare of the state, with reference to reforest- 

 ization and the betterment of the state *&&* 

 reservations, will be advanced by cutting or 

 selling or disposing of any of the timber on 

 forestry lands, the board is hereby empowered to cut and 

 sell such timber on terms most advantageous to the State; 

 and said board is hereby empowered to make or execute 

 contracts in the name of the state for the carrying out of 

 the purposes of this act; the board shall Employeg . 

 have power to employ such persons as are 

 necessary for carrying out the provisions of this act and to 

 fix their compensation. (P. L. 1905, p. 78.) 



Sec. 4. Any person or persons who shall set, or cause to be 

 set. any fire upon any of the forestry reser- 

 vations of this state, except in accordance Hisdemea nor to 

 with such rules or regulations as may be cause fires or to 

 prescribed by said board, or who shall set cut timber on 

 or cause to start any forest fire upon prop- J 

 erty near or adjoining any state forestry 

 reservation whereby the timber of said reservation is dam- 

 aged, or who shall cut or remove any timber whatever from 

 any forestry reservation, except in accordance with the 

 rules and regulations of the board, shall be guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor, and may be punished accordingly; all fines and 

 penalties when collected shall be paid to the executive offi- 

 cer of said board, who is hereby directed to pay the same 

 over to the state treasurer. (P. L. 1905. p. 79.) 



Sec. 5. (As amended 1911.} The said board may appoint a 

 warden, or wardens, for each forest reserve, 

 and any such warden shall have power, 

 within any forest reserve, to arrest without warrant any 

 person or persons taken by him in the act of violating any. 

 provision of this act, or any rule of the forest commission 

 made under the authority of this act. Such wardens shall 

 also have power to require any male person who may live 

 or be within any township adjacent to a forest reserve, and 

 who is between eighteen years and fifty years of age and 

 physically able, to help him extinguish" a" fire on a forest 

 reserve. He may also require the use of horses or other 

 property needed, and any person so summoned who refuses 

 or neglects to assist a warden, or to allow the use of the 

 property required, shall be liable to a penalty of ten dollars. 



