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tection of the forest preserve shall be applicable to the Adirondack park, 

 except as in this act otherwise provided ; and the forest commission may con- 

 duct the same prosecutions and institute and maintain the same proceedings, 

 which it is, or shall be entitled to conduct, institute or maintain with refer- 

 ence to any portion of the forest preserve ; and all acts forbidden upon the forest 

 preserve are, and shall be deemed forbidden within the Adirondack park except 

 as herein otherwise provided ; and all violations of law upon the Adirondack 

 :pa,rk shall be subject to the same punishments and penalties as if such violation 

 were committed upon any part of the forest preserve. 



(11) The foresters and other employees of the forest commission shall, when 

 so directed by the forest commission act as game and fish protectors ; and as such 

 they shall have all powers within the Adirondack park which game and fish pro- 

 tectors have or shall have, under chapter five hundred and seventy-seven of the 

 laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and any law hereafter to be enacted, 

 and they shall from time to time make such report to the commissioners of fisher- 

 ies as that board may require. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed 



1 -to permit any violation within the Adirondack park of the game and fish laws 

 of the State heretofore or hereafter to be enacted, or to restrict or alter as to such 

 park any of the prohibitions or penalties prescribed or hereafter to be prescribed 

 by such fish and game laws. It shall be the duty of the forest commission with 

 the concurrence and approval of the commissioners of fisheries, to provide for the 

 enforcement within the Adirondack park of such fish and game laws by such 

 means as the forest commission shall deem wise, in addition to such other means 

 as are or shall be provided by law. 



(12) The forest commission shall include in its annual report an account of its 

 proceeding with reference to the Adirondack park, and shall make such recom- 

 mendations with reference thereto as it shall deem wise. The forest commission 

 shall state also in its annual report the number of acres purchased and sold dur- 

 ing the year under the provisions of this act, the locality of the same, the prices 

 paid or received, and all other information of importance connected with sach 

 transfers ; and shall state the amount of money required in the next fiscal year 

 for the purchase of lands and for the expenses of the park. 



(13) Chapter four hundred and seventy -five of the laws of eighteen hundred 

 and eighty-seven, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are, so 

 far as they are so inconsistent, hereby repealed. 



(14) This act shall take effect immediately. 



PUBLIC UTILITY OF THE PARK. 



The Commissioners in their report for 1891, go on to say: 

 " At this late day, after all that has been written and said on the subject, we 

 do not propose to discuss the necessity of forest preservation and the acquirement 

 of the Adirondack wilderness by the people. Throughout the entire State 

 there is a demand for this which is continuously urged by the newspapers, the 

 local forestry associations, and by a general, widespread expression of public 

 sentiment. Among all the demands and arguments in favour of this project, a 

 dissenting voice has not yet been heard. If there have been such, they arose from 

 questions of detail only. 



" The original idea called for forest preservation, with reference only to pro- 

 tecting the head waters of our rivers, and providing a future economic and per- 

 petual timber supply. But lately the acquisition of this territory has been 

 urgently demanded by the public for the purposes of a health and pleasure 

 resort, and the original movement has become largely subordinate to the latter 

 one. 



