242 Report of the Forest Commission. 



Section 103. Sale of timber in forest preserve. 



104. Accounts and annual report of forest commission. 



105. Partition of lands. 



106. Taxation of forest preserve. 



107. Duties of railroad companies. 



103. Powers and duties of certain officers in case of fire. 



109. Supervisors to be town protectors of land. 



110. Supervisors ex officio firewardens. 



111. Supervisors to report fires. 



112. Actions for trespasses upon forest preserve. 



113. Penalty for setting fire to forest lands. 

 .114. Arrest of offenders without warrant. 



115. Deer parks in the Catskill region, 



116. Powers and duties of commissioner of agriculture as to forest 



preserve. 



§ 100. Forest preserve.— The forest preserve* shall include the lands 

 dow owned, or hereafter acquired, by the state within the counties of 

 Clinton, except the towns of Alton i and Dannemora, Delaware, Essex, 

 Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Oneida, Saratoga. 

 St. Lawrence, Warren, Washington, Greene, Ulster, and Sullivan, 

 except 



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



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

 mortgages made to the commissioners for loaning certain moneys of 

 the United States, usually called the United States deposit fund. 



§ 101. Forest commission — There shall be a forest commission con- 

 sisting of five persons to be known as the forest commissioners, 

 appointed by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the 

 senate, and holding office for the term of five years. The commis- 

 sioners shall serve without compensation, but shall be paid for the 

 rersonable expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties, 

 not to exceed the sum of five hundred dollars in any year to any 

 commissioner. The superintendent, assistant superintendent, the two 

 inspectors of forests, and the secretary and clerks now employed by 

 the forest commission, shall continue on the same terms and conditions 

 until such employment shall be terminated or modified by the forest 

 commission. 



§ 102. Powers and duties.— The forest commission shall : 

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

 preserve. 



* jj b — The Fores: Preserve aod the Adirondack Park are not the same. Tha different ter 

 ritory embraced by each is clearly defined by this law. The frequent failure to note ihis dif 

 ference has resulted in confused ideas, misme of terms, and, in one instance, an inoperative 

 law. 



