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.and two others as liis assistants, the chief to have the control and direc- 

 tion of the entire force. The Foresters give bonds for the proper dis- 

 charge of their duties. The Chief Forester receive |2,000 per year and 

 traveling expenses; the assistant Foresters |1,200 each, and the remain- 

 ing Foresters $500 each; all having an extra allovrance for traveling ex- 

 penses and each of them to receive one-half of all fines collected in actions 

 brought upon information furnished by them. It is their duty to enforce 

 all laws and regulations of the commission for the protection of fish and 

 game and for the protection and preservation of the forest reserve and 

 all rules and regulations for the care of the Adirondack Park. They have 

 full power to execute all warrants and search warrants and to serve 

 subpoenas." 



"Article XII, chapter 395, laws of 1895, describes the forest preserve 

 (Sec. 270), and defines the powers and duties of the commission (Sec. 271), 

 whose duty it is (1) to have the care, custody, control, and superintendence 

 of the forest preserve; (2) maintain, protect and promote the growth of 

 the forest in the preserve; (3) have charge of the public interest of the 

 state in regard to forests and tree planting, and especially with reference 

 lo forest fires in every part of the state; (4) possess all the powers re- 

 lating to the preserve which were vested in the Commissioners of the 

 Land Office and in the Comj)troller on May 15, 1885; (5) prescribe rules 

 ;and regulations affecting the whole or any part of the preserve for its 

 use, care and administration, and alter or amend the same, but neither 

 such rules or regulations nor anything contained in this article shall pre- 

 vent or operate to prevent the free use of any roads, streams, or water as 

 the same may have been heretofore used, or may be reasonably required 

 in the prosecution of any lawful business; (6) take measures, for the 

 awakening of an interest in forestry in the schools, and imparting ele- 

 mentary instruction on such subjects therein, and issue tracts and cir- 

 culars for the care of private woodlands, etc.; (7) print and post rules for 

 the prevention and suppression of forest fires." 



By a law passed in April, 1898, a College of Forestry was founded at the 

 •Cornell University. Thirty thousand acres of land in the Adirondack 

 Park are set aside for the use of this college as an experimental area. An 

 . annual appropriation supplies the college with suflflcient funds. 



The Minnesota forestry law is modeled after the laws of New York and 

 Maine. All of these laws entrust the enforcement to some responsible 

 • officer. The chief features of the Minnesota law follow: 



The law is entitled "An act to provide for the preservation of forests 

 -of this state, and for the prevention and suppression of forest and prairie 

 fires." 



Section 1, enacts that the State Auditor shall be forest commissioner. 

 The supervisors of towns, mayors of cities and presidents of village coun- 

 cils are constituted fire wardens of their respective localities, but the 

 ■chief fire warden may appoint such other persons as he may deem neces- 

 sary as fire wardens in unorganized territory. 



The sections following provide that the forest commissioner shall ap- 

 point a competent deputy to be known as chief fire warden, who is to re- 

 ceive a salary of twelve hundred dollars per year. He is a trained for- 

 «ster and it is his duty to enforce the provisions of the law. He has 

 general charge of the fire warden force of the state and can mass it at 

 any special point to suppress fires. He can appoint, temporarily, needed 

 fire wardens in cases of large fires and divides into fire districts all un- 



