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5. Hunters and smokers are cautioned against allowing fires to originate 

 irom the use of firearms, cigars, and pipes ; and all persons are warned that they 

 will be held responsible for any damage or injury to the forest which may result 

 from their carelessness or neglect. 



6. Felling trees, and girdling or peeling bark from standing trees, are pro- 

 hibited. Fallen timber only, may be used for firewood and camp construction. 



7. Foresters and firewardens are instructed, and all citizens are requested, to 

 report to the forest commission immediately all cases of damage or injury to 



forest trees arising from a violation of these rules which may come to their know- 



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ledge. 



Beneath these rules, and on the same placard are printed sections 10, 

 30 and 31 of the Forest Commission Act, and the following: 

 Section 74 (as amended by chapter 256, Laws of 1889) : 

 Every person who shall trespass on any lands belonging to the people in this 

 State, or on any Indian lands, or who shall trespass upon any other lands within 

 the bounds of the forest preserve, or which may hereafter be included in the 

 forest preserve, by cutting or carrying away timber growing thereon, shall forfeit 

 and pay the sum of twenty -five dollars for every tree that shall be cut or carried 

 away by him or under his direction. 



FROM THE PENAL CODE. 



414. A person who, having been lawfully ordered to repair to the place of fire 

 in the woods and assist in extinguishing it, omits, without lawful excuse, to comply 

 with the order, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall forfeit the sum of fifty 

 dollars and be liable to a fine and imprisonment. 



640. Malicious injury and destruction of property. A person who wilfully 

 cuts down, destroys or injures any wood or timber standing or growing or which 

 has been cut down and is on lands of another or of the people of the State ; or 

 cuts down, girdles, or otherwise, injures a fruit, shade, or ornamental tree, 

 standing on the lands of another or of the people of the State, is punishable by 

 imprisonment not exceeding three months, or a fine not exceeding two hundred 

 and fifty dollars, or both. 



REASONS FOR ESTABLISHING ADIRONDACK PARK. 



The following account of the reasons which induced the people and Legisla- 

 ture of the State of New York to undertake the work of establishing a great 

 Park among the Adirondack mountains, and of the means which have so far been 

 adopted, is condensed from the reports of the New York Forest Commission for 

 1890 and 1891 : 



In pursuance of a resolution of the Senate adopted January 20th, 1890, the 

 committee on finance recommended the adoption of the following concurrent 

 resolutions : 



Resolved, (if the Assembly concur) " That the forest commission be and 

 hereby is, directed to take into consideration the message of the Governor, 

 addressed to the legislature, calling attention to the subject of establishing a 

 State park in and about the headwaters of the rivers having their sources in the 

 Adirondack wilderness, and after thoroughly investigating the possibilities of 

 such an undertaking, to report to the legislature its conclusion thereon and its 

 recommendations as to the most effective methods to be employed to accomplish 

 that end either by bill, or otherwise together with any pertinent facts within 

 the knowledge of the commission relating to the general subject of forest 

 preseivation or extension, and further to report the number of acres or square 



