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293. Proceeds of lands sold and payments for lands purchased. 



294. Revenues from leases njade prior to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety- 



five. 



295. Annual report. 



Adirondack Park. 



* 290. All lands now owned or hereafter acquired by the State within the county of 

 Hamilton ; the towns of Newcomb, Minerva, Schroon, North Hudson, Keene, North Elba, 

 Saint Armand and Wilmington, in the county of Essex ; the towns of Harrietstown, Santa Clara, 

 Altamont, Waverly and Brighton, in the county of Franklin ; the town of Wilmurt, in the county 

 of Herkimer ; the towns of Hopkinton, Colton, Clifton and Fine, in the county of Saint Lawrence, 

 and the towns of Johnsburgh, Stony Creek, and Thurman, and the islands in Lake George, in 

 the county of Warren ; except such lands as may be sold as provided in this article, shall 

 constitute the Adirondack park. Such park shall be forever reserved, maintained and cared for 

 as ground open for the free use of all the people for their health and pleasure and as forest 

 lands, necessary to the preservation of the headwaters of the chief rivers of the state, and a future 

 timber supply ; and shall remain part of the forest preserve. 



Powers and Duties of Forest Commission. 



§ 291. The board of fisheries, game and forest shall have the care, custody, control and 

 superintendence of the Adirondack park, and within the same and with reference thereto and to 

 acts committed therein and to persons committing the same, all the control, powers, duties, 

 rights of action and remedies belonging to such board or the commissioners of the land office 

 within and with reference to the forest preserve as to acts committed therein and persons com- 

 mitting the same. The board of fisheries, game and forest shall have power: 



1. To contract as herein provided for the purchase of land situated within the bounds of the 

 park as defined in the preceding section ; if any such lands can not be purchased on advantageous 

 terms unless subject to leases or restrictions or the right to remove soft wood timber, the contract 

 may provide accordingly, but not for any such right, lease, or restriction after ten years from 

 the date of the contract, nor for the right to remove any such trees with a diameter of less than 

 twelve inches at the height of three feet from the ground. 



2. To contract with owners of land situated within the bounds of the park that such lands 

 may become part of the park and subject to the provisions of this article, in consideration of the 

 exemption of such lands from taxation for State and county purposes, which contract shall 

 contain a provision that the owners of such land and their grantees shall refrain forever from 

 removing any of the timber thereupon except spruce, tamarack or poplar timber twelve inches in 

 diameter, at a height of three feet above the ground, or fallen, burned or blighted timber, and 

 such other and further conditions as to the right of occupancy of such lands by such owners or 

 their grantees as may be equitable. Such contract may also reserve to the owners of such forest 

 lands and their grantees the privilege of clearing portions of such lands for agricultural or 



