forests on forest principles, the instruction and encouragement of 

 private owners in preserving and growing timber for commercial and 

 manufacturing purposes, and the general conservation of forest 

 tracts around the headwaters and on the waterseeds of all the water 

 courses of the State. 



SECTION 7. 



Waters, duties of Commission. It shall be the duty of said com- 

 mission to make or cause to be made a careful investigation of the 

 streams and navigable rivers within and bordering upon the State, 

 of the methods, means, and cost of improving the same; of pre- 

 venting their pollution; of conserving the water supply thereof; of 

 using the same for the production of power, and how and in what 

 ways the said streams and rivers may be made of most value to the 

 State, and to the people thereof. 



SECTION 8. 



Reports and recommendations Bulletins, etc. Said commission 

 shall preserve all evidence which it may take with reference to con- 

 serving the forest and the water supply of the State and the methods 

 best adapted to accomplish those objects, arid it shall make report 

 of its doings, conclusions, and recommendations to each session of 

 the general assembly, and, from time to time, publish, in a popular 

 manner, and print for public distribution, in bulletin or other form, 

 such of its conclusions and recommendations as may be of im- 

 mediate public interest. 



SECTION 12. 



Receipts and expenditures; report on. The said commission shall 

 keep a full and accurate account of its receipts and expenditures, and 

 it shall make a full and accurate and complete report to each ses- 

 sion of the general assembly, showing in detail its receipts from 

 all sources and its expenditures and the purposes for which ex- 

 penditures have been made. 



Civil engineer, surveyor, assistants. It shall also have power to 

 employ a civil engineer and surveyor from time to time, with his 

 necessary assistants, whenever the necessities of the case may re- 

 quire. 



SECTION 13. 



Co-operative work Expenses. Subject to the direction of the 

 said commission, the State forester shall, whenever he may be di- 

 rected so to do by the said commission, co-operate with counties, 

 municipalities, corporations, and individuals in preparing plans for 

 the protection, management, and replacement of trees, wood lots, 

 and timber tracts under an agreement that the parties obtaining such 

 assistance shall pay the field and the traveling expenses of the man 

 employed in preparing said plans. 



SECTION 1 5. 



Administrative and investigative duties of Forester Charge of 

 wardens, laborers, fires, State Forests Waters; report on Co-op- 



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