QUARTERLY BULLETIN 



NURSERIES, STATE FORESTER. 



Chapter 170. 

 (H. B. No. 409 Haroldson.) 



AN ACT Authorizing the Establishment of Nurseries Under the Su- 

 pervision of a State Forester, Providing for the Distribution of Seeds and 

 Forest Trees, Seedlings to Institutions and Land Owners of the State. 



BE IT Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota: 



Sec. 1. STATE FORESTER.) For the promotion of forestry 

 in this state there is hereby created the office of state forester. This office 

 shall be filled by the President of the School of Forestry. He shall have 

 general supervision of the raising and distribution of seeds and forest tree 

 seedlings as hereinafter provided; shall promote practical forestry; compile 

 and disseminate information relative thereto, and publish the results of such 

 work by issuing and distributing bulletins, lecturing before farmers, insti- 

 tutes, associations and other organizations interested in forestry, and in such 

 other ways as will most practically reach the public. 



Sec. 2. STATE NURSERY.) There shall be established in 

 connection with the state School of Forestry and under the direction of 

 the state forester, a forest tree nursery for the propagation of seeds and 

 forest tree seedlings which shall be best adapted to the climatic conditions 

 of this state. For such purpose the board of trustees of the school of 

 forestry shall set apart a tract of not less than ten acres of the lands 

 belonging to such school. 



Sec. 3. DISTRIBUTION.) Seeds and seedlings from such nur- 

 sery shall be distributed to citizens and land owners of this state upon the 

 payment of the actual cost of transportation from the nursery to the place 

 where the same are to be planted. As a condition precedent to such dis- 

 tribution the citizen or landowner making application therefor must agree 

 to plant the seeds and seedlings distributed under the direction of the 

 state forester and in conformity with his instructions. 



Sec. 4. The state forester is hereby required to furnish to each ap- 

 plicant for seeds or forest tree seedlings, suitable directions for planting 

 the same, and when requested so to do, shall furnish skilled assistants to 

 supervise such work and in the event that assistance is furnished, the ap- 

 plicant therefor shall pay the expense thereof. 



Approved March 11, 1913. 



