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Section 10 prohibits the appointment to any 

 office created by this act of any person directly or 

 indirectly engaged in the manufacture of lumber, 

 railroad ties, telegraph poles, or any business re- 

 quiring a large use of wood. The law makes it a 

 misdemeanor to cause fires to be set without a 

 guard, or to cut coniferous timber from public or 

 state lands for shipment outside the state. The 

 remainder of the law provides for the protection of 

 fish and game. 



California began its course for the establishment 

 of a forest policy in the most promising manner 

 in 1885 by creating a state board of forestry. At 

 first it was mainly a commission of inquiry with 

 educational functions ; police powers were con- 

 ferred upon it in 1887 "for the purpose of making 

 arrests for any violation of any law applying to 

 forest and brush lands within the State, or pro- 

 hibiting the destruction thereof," with an appropri- 

 ation of $30,000 for the two years following, but 

 by 1891 political complications and perversion of 

 the moneys appropriated undid the good work of 

 the first board, and the office, as well as the func- 

 tions, were abolished. Besides three valuable 

 reports on the forest conditions and forest trees 

 of the state, the board left as an inheritance two 

 experiment stations, where exotic trees are being 

 tested, now under charge of the University of 

 California. Lately the state appropriated $250,000 

 to purchase the remnant of the great Redwood 



