APPENDIX, 173 



FOKEir^T RESERVE LAW. 



AN ACT to create a forestry reserve, to provide for its maintenance, manage- 

 ment and regulation, by restoring for sale or homestead entry, lands hereto- 

 fore reserved in certain counties in this State, to make an appropriation there- 

 for, and to provide for a tax to meet the same. 



The People of the State of Michigan enact: 



Section 1. All delinquent state tax, homestead, swamp and primary school 

 lands now belonging or which shall hereafter be added to and belong to the State 

 in towns twenty-one north, range three and four west; tlie north half of town 

 number twenty-four north, range four west, and the south half of town number 

 twenty-five north, range four west, are hereby withdrawn from sale and entry, 

 set apart for the creation of a forestry reserve, and for that purpose placed under 

 the control of the Michigan Forestry Commission created by act number two 

 hundred twenty-seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine. It 

 shall be the duty of said Michigan Forestry Commission, first, to investigate 

 and determine what part or portion of the lands belonging to the State, thus 

 withdrawn from sale and entry and set aside, it will be for the best interests of 

 the State and public to retain and devote to the purpose of forestry, having 

 regard to the soil and natural characteristics and conditions of said lands and 

 their relative fitness for cultivation and forestry, and also the location of the 

 various descriptions of the same with respect to each other, so that the lands to 

 be devoted to such forestry reserve shall be composed of contiguous territory, 

 or territory as nearly contiguous as possible, so as to render practicable and desir- 

 able, the establishment and maintenance of forestry reserves embracing the 

 same. Second, to have care, custody, control and superintendence of the lands 

 herein or hereafter set apart for or becoming a part of the forestry reserve, and 

 to provide for the reforestation of the denuded lands so set apart and belonging 

 to the State, by planting and preserving forest trees, establishing and maintain- 

 ing Are lines and a system of fire patrol in the forestry reserve thus created. 



Section 2. The forestry commission shall have power to appoint a forestry 

 warden who shall hold office for the term of four years from the first day of 

 January in the year in which appointed, unless sooner removed by the forestry 

 commission. The said forestry warden shall receive an annual salary of not to 

 exceed one thousand dollars, payable in the same manner as the salaries of State 

 officers are now paid, and he shall be subject to the orders and directions of the 

 said forestry commission, which shall prescribe his powers and duties and he 

 shall have general charge, control and supervision of all deputy wardens or other 

 persons appointed or employed for the performance of duties or service in respect 

 to forestry lands or forest fires. The said forestry warden may appoint, upon 

 recommendation of the forestry commision, a sufficient number of competent per- 

 sons as forestry wardens, to hold office at the pleasure of the said commission, 

 who shall be entitled to receive a sum not to exceed two dollars per day for each 

 day actually and necessarily spent under the direction of the chief warden in the 

 discharge of duties under this act. Said compensation to be paid by the Auditor 

 General on the approval of the president and secretary of the said forestry com- 

 mission. 



Section 3. The said forestry commission shall have power to cut, remove or 

 sell (or to sell to any person with the power to cuU sell or remove, upon such 

 terms and under such conditions and restrictions as it may deem advisable), 

 any trees, timber or other forest products upon or derived from the said lands 

 so set apart as forestry reserve lands, and shall have power to lease or sell any 

 lands within such forestry reserve, the lease or deed therefor to be executed for 

 and on behalf of the State by Commissioner of the State Land Office, The said 

 forestry commission shall likewise have authority to purchase such lands within 

 the limits of said forestry reserve as it may deem advisable in order to connect 



