FISHERIES, GAME AND FOREST LAW. 269 



Expense of Seizure of Nets. 



§ 33. The reasonable expense of any seizure, removal or destruction of such nets, pounds or 

 other illegal devices shall be a county charge against the county in which the same shall be 

 seized and shall be audited and paid as other county charges are paid on the certificate of such 

 protector and forester stating the time and place of such destruction, the name of the person 

 employed therein, the time spent thereabout, and the money advanced, if any, and to whom, and 

 shall be verified by the oath of such protector and forester making such seizure and destruction. 



(As amd. by chap. 661 of Laws of 1896.) 



ARTICLE XII. 



Forest Preserve. 

 Section 270. Forest preserve. 



271. Powers and duties. 



272. Accounts and annual report of board of fisheries, game and forest relative to 



the forest preserve. 



273. Partition of lands. 



274. Taxation of forest preserve. 



275. Duties of railroad companies. 



276. Powders and duties of certain officers in case of fire. 



277. Supervisors to be town protectors of lands. 



278. Supervisors ex-officio, firewardens. 



279. Supervisors to report fires. 



280. Actions for trespass upon forest preserve. 



281. Penalty for setting fire to forest lands. 



282. Arrest of offenders without warrant. 



283. Deer parks in the Catskill region. 



Forest Preserve. 



§ 270. The forest preserve shall include the lands owned or hereafter acquired by the state 

 within the counties of Clinton, except the towns of Altona and Dannemora, Delaware, Essex, 

 Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Oneida, Saratoga, St. Lawrence, Warren, 

 Washington, Greene, Lister, and Sullivan, except 



i. Lands within the limits of any village or city, and 



2. Lands, not wild lands, acquired by the state on foreclosure of mortgage made to the 

 commissioners for loaning certain moneys of the United States, usually called the United States 

 deposit fund. 



Powers and Duties. 



§ 271. The board of fisheries, game and forest shall : 

 . 1. Have the care, custody, control and superintendence of the forest preserve. 



2. Maintain and protect the forests in the forest preserve, and promote as far as practicable 

 the further growth of the forests therein. 



