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and adopt a common seal. A majority of such commission shall 

 constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. 



§ 6. The board of commissioners shall have power to, and shall 

 as soon as may be, after its organization, proceed to select, locate 

 and acquire lands in the name of the people of the state of New 

 York, within the foregoing described boundaries, and shall so far 

 as their appropriation permits, proceed to make the same available 

 for use as a public park and to provide for the protection and propa- 

 gation of fish and game thereon and for the reforestation of the 

 same. 



§ 7. The commission shall, with the approval of the governor, have 

 the power and authority to appropriate real and personal property, 

 in the manner and under the conditions herein defined : 



1. Purposes. The commission may enter upon and take 

 possession of any lands or waters or both, or of any forests and 

 rights in timber upon any lands included now, or hereafter to be 

 included, within the Allegany State Park, the appropriation of which, 

 in the judgment of said commission, shall be necessary for public 

 park purposes, or for the purpose of the propagation, protection 

 and conservation of fish and game. 



2. Description of land. An accurate description of such prop- 

 erty so entered upon and appropriated shall be made by the com- 

 mission, who shall certify under its seal that the description is cor- 

 rect, and shall endorse thereon a notice that the property described 

 therein is appropriated by the people of the state of New York for 

 the purpose described in this section. The original of such descrip- 

 tion and certificate shall be filed in the office of the secretary of 

 state. The Allegany State Park commission may make such addi- 

 tional copies of this certificate and description as may be necessary 

 and certify the same. 



3. Service of notice. The said commission shall thereupon cause 

 a duplicate of said description and certificate, with notice of the date 

 of filing thereof in the office of said secretary of state, to be served 

 on the owner or owners of the lands, forests, and rights in timber 

 upon such lands and waters so appropriated ; and from the time 

 of such service the entry upon and appropriation by the people of 

 the state of the property described in such notice shall be deemed 

 complete, and thereupon such property shall become, and be, the 

 property of the people of the state. Such notice shall be conclusive 

 evidence of an entry and appropriation by the state ; but the service 

 of such notice shall raise no presumption that the lands, forests 

 and rights in timber upon such lands described therein are private 

 property. 



4. Manner of service. Service of the notice and papers pro- 

 vided for under subdivision three must be personal if the person to 

 be served can be found within the state. If the said commission 

 shall not be able to serve said notice and papers or to cause the 

 same to be served upon the owner or owners personally within 



