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dollars a year, who, shall also be director of farmers' institutes. The 

 other officers of the department shall be appointed by the governor for 

 the term of four years, and shall be an economic zoologist, a commis- 

 sioner of forestry, a dairy and food commissioner, who shall have prac- 

 tical experience in the manufacture of dairy products, and a state 

 veterinarian, who shall be a graduate of some reputable veterinary 

 college, who shall receive an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dol- 

 lars each. The governor is hereby authorized to appoint one chief 

 clerk of the department at an annual salary of sixteen hundred dollars, 

 one stenographer at a salary of eight hundred dollars a year, and one 

 messenger at a salary of six hundred dollars a year, and the dairy and 

 food commissioner, the commissioner of forestry and the economic 

 zoologist shall each have a clerk, who shall be appointed by the gov- 

 ernor, and who shall serve under the direction of the respective com- 

 missioners aforesaid, and receive a salary of fifteen hundred dollars a 

 year each. 



§ 7. That the secretary of agriculture shall have an office at the 

 State Capitol, and it is hereby made the duty of the Commissioners of 

 Public Buildings and Grounds to provide the necessary rooms, furni- 

 ture and apparatus for the use of the department. 



§ 8. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be, and the 

 same are hereby, repealed. 



[Approved March 13, 1895.] 



* AN ACT for the preservation of the forests of the common- 

 wealth, and to this end enlarging the powers and duties of the 

 forestry commission ; designating fire wardens and prescribing 

 their duties ; regulating the prevention and extinguishment of 

 forest fires, and providing for the punishment of persons who 

 set fire to or endanger forests. 



Section 1. Be it enacted, etc., That the Forestry Commission shall 

 have authority, and it shall be the duty of said Forestry Commission 

 under this act 



(a) To make a report to the General Assembly, through the State 

 Board of Agriculture, at each regular session, giving an account of 

 forest fires, their causes, extent, values destroyed, methods recom- 

 mended for preventing them, and such information and suggestions 

 concerning their charge as the said commission shall judge to be 

 important to the welfare of the commonwealth. 



*Thi* bill after passing the lower house of the Pennsylvania Legislature, February 1, 

 1895, failed to became a law in the seaate, owing to a disagreement regarding the provision 

 authorizing firewardens to " arrest without warrant." The bill will be intro luced again at the 

 next session. 



