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be paid and distributed to the persons entitled to the same as directed 

 by the judgment. 



12. Costs and disbursements; when offer made. If an offer 

 is made by said commission for the value of land appropriated, 

 or for damages caused by such appropriation, and such offer is 

 not accepted, and the recovery in the court of claims exceeds the 

 offer, the claimant is entitled to costs and disbursements as in an 

 action in the supreme court, which shall be allowed and taxed by 

 the court of claims and included in its judgment. If in such a 

 case the recovery in the court of claims does not exceed the offer, 

 costs and disbursements to be taxed shall be awarded in favor of 

 the state against the claimant and deducted from the amount awarded 

 to him; or if no amount is awarded, judgment shall be entered in 

 favor of the state against the claimant for such costs and disburse- 

 ments. If an offer is not accepted, it cannot be given in evidence 

 on the trial. 



§ 8. Such commissioners are authorized and empowered, within 

 such park, through their agents and employees, to enforce, in the 

 name of the people of the state of Xew York, the penalties and 

 conduct the prosecution set forth in the conservation law, and such 

 commission shall have the power to create and establish closed 

 seasons for fish and game within such park as in its judgment may 

 be necessary for the propagation and protection of such game and 

 fish, and may make suitable regulations for the capture, killing 

 and transportation thereof, and such commission shall have power 

 and authority to propagate game and fish for the stocking of the 

 said Allegany State Park, and to make regulations and rules which 

 shall be binding upon all persons within the boundaries of the 

 aforesaid Allegany State Park, whether upon lands owned by the 

 state or otherwise for the purposes of fire, game and fish protection, 

 and to establish and enforce suitable penalties for the violation 

 thereof. 



§ 9. Such commissioners shall have the power, in the name of 

 the people of the state of New York, to acquire, maintain and make 

 available for use as a public park, the lands located as aforesaid, 

 and for this purpose shall have the power to take, in the name of 

 the people of the state of Xew York, in fee or otherwise, by lease, 

 purchase, gift, devise, or through the procedure heretofore set 

 forth, the said lands or any of them, and any rights, interests and 

 easements therein, and to receive by gift, devise or contribution, 

 money to be used in acquiring and improving the said lands or any 

 of them, and the said board shall also have power, in the name of 

 the people of the state of Xew York, to receive and administer for 

 park purposes, any gift or devise of personal property, or any land 

 or rights in land outside the areas defined in said park, adjoining 

 the same, and it shall be its duty to preserve, care for and lay out 

 and improve the said park, and it shall have pow r er to lay out, con- 

 struct and maintain roads and pathways over the said park, to 



