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3. Have charge of the public interests of the state with regard to forestry and tree planting, 

 and especially with reference to forest fires in every part of the state. 



4. Possess all the powers relating to forest preserve which were vested in the commissioners 

 of the land office, and in the comptroller on May fifteen, eighteen hundred and eighty-five. 



5. Prescribe rules and regulations affecting the whole or any part of the forest preserve and 

 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 prevent or operate to prevent the free use 

 of any road, stream or water as the same may have been heretofore used, or as may be 

 reasonably required in the prosecution of any lawful business. 



6. Take such measures as in the judgment of the commissioners may be proper, and the 

 state superintendent of public instruction and the regents of the university may approve, for 

 awakening an interest in behalf of forestry in the common schools, academies and colleges of 

 the state and of imparting elementary instruction on such subject therein ; and prepare and 

 distribute the tracts and circulars of information, giving plain and concise instruction for the 

 care of private wood lands and for the growth of new forests upon lands that have been 

 denuded, exhausted by cultivation, eroded by torrents, or injured by fire, or that are sandy, 

 marshy, broken, sterile, or waste and unfit for other use. These publications shall be furnished 

 without cost to any citizen of the state on application, and proper measures may be taken for 

 bringing them to the notice of persons who would be benefited thereby. 



7. Cause rules for the prevention and suppression of forest fires to be printed for posting in 

 schoolhouses, inns, saw-mills and other wood-working establishments, lumber camps and other 

 places in such portions of the state as they may deem necessary. Forest inspectors, foresters, 

 firewardens, supervisors and school trustees shall cause these rules, when received by them, to be 

 properly posted and replaced when lost or destroyed. Any person maliciously or wantonly 

 defacing or desiroying any such notice shall forfeit to the people of the state, the sum of five 

 dollars for every such offense. 



Accounts and Annual Report of the Board of Fisheries, Game and Forests, 

 Relative to the Forest Preserve. 



§ 272. All income from state forest lands, including receipts for trespasses, shall be paid 

 over by the board of fisheries, game and forest to the state treasurer, by whom it shall be 

 placed to the credit of the special fund established for the purchase of lands within the Adiron- 

 dack park, and a strict account shall be kept of all receipts and expenses of the commission, 

 which account shall be audited by the comptroller. The commission shall, annually, in the 

 month of January, make a written report to the legislature of their receipts and expenses, and of 

 all their proceedings, with such recommendations of further legislative or official action as they 

 may deem proper. 



Partition of Lands. 



§ 273. Whenever the state owns an undivided interest with any person in lands of the forest 

 preserve, or holds and is in possession of such lands as joint tenant or tenant in common with any 



