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2. The forest commission may have such lands appraised by one or more 

 appraisers, not to exceed three in number, to be appointed by that commission. 

 The expenses of such appraisal shall be a per diem allowance to the appraisers, 

 not to exceed three dollars per day for the time actually employed and the 

 necessary expenses incurred in each case, such expenses to be audited by the 

 comptroller and paid out of the funds appropriated by the Legislature for the 

 purposes of this act ; but no purchase of lands shall be made in excess of 

 previous appropriations for that purpose. 



3. The sum of twenty-five thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be 

 necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury, not other- 

 wise appropriated, for the purpose of this Act ; and no liabilities shall be 

 incurred by said forest commission in excess of this appropriation. 



4. .This Act shall take effect immediately. 



In returning the foregoing bill to the legislature with his signature, the 

 governor filed therewith the following memorandum : 



STATE OF NEW YORK. 



Executive Chambers, Albany, March 11, 1890. 



Memorandum filed with Senate Bill No. 91, entitled : "an Act to authorize 

 the purchase of lands located within such counties as include the forest preserve." 



Approved. There is no objection to this Act. The criticism which possibly 

 may be urged against it is that it is good enough so far as it goes, but that it is 

 wholly inadequate to meet the requirements of the situation. It is not a broad and 

 comprehensive measure, providing for the establishment of an Adirondack park 

 such as is imperatively demanded by the best interest of the State, but is simply a 

 slight step in the right direction. The authority conferred is very inadequate, 

 the amount appropriated is quite limited, the restrictions upon the prices to be 

 paid are likely to produce unsatisfactory results, the provisions in regard to 

 apportionment of lands are incomplete and somewhat unnecessary, and in many 

 other respects the measure falls short of what it was hoped the legislature might 

 enact. The bill must be regarded as a mere temporary expedient, and, as such, 

 can do no harm ; and although it will not afford a proper and complete solution 

 of the Adirondack Park question, it encourages the hope that in trie near future a 

 more substantial and adequate measure may be passed to fully accomplish the 

 object recommended in my recent message to the legislature relating to this 

 subject. 



I cheerfully approve the bill, in the expectation that its enactment may lead 

 ito such a result. 



DAVID B. HILL. 



CHAPTER 556. LAWS OF 1890. 



AN ACT FURTHER TO AMEND CHAPTER FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN OF 

 THE LAWS OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE, ENTITLED "AN ACT IN 

 RELATION TO THE COLLECTION OF TAXES ON LAND OF NON-RESIDENTS, AND 

 TO PROVIDE FOR THE SALE OF SUCH LAND FOR UNPAID TAXES." 



The peop.le of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, 

 do enact as follows : 



Section 1. Section seventy-four of chapter four hundred and twenty-seven 

 of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-five, entitled "An Act in relation to the 



