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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 agricul- 

 tural or domestic purposes under regulations to be prescribed by 

 the forest commissioners; but no such privilege shall give to the 

 owners or grantees of said lands the right to clear more than one acre 

 within the boundary of each one hundred acres covered by said contract. 



4. To lease from time to time for a term not longer than five years, 

 land within the forest preserve, not more than five acres in one parcel 

 to any person, for the erection of camps or cottages for the use and 

 accommodation of campers. Such leases shall contain strict conditions 

 as to the cutting and protection of timber and the prevention of fires, 

 a reservation for travelers of the right of passage over the land leased 

 at all proper and reasonable times, and a covenant on the part of the 

 lessee to observe all conditions or regulations of the forest commission 

 theretofore or thereafter to be prescribed; and no exclusive privilege 

 of fishing or hunting shall be granted to any person. All revenues 

 received from such leases shall be paid into the state treasury, and 

 shall be placed to the credit of the special fund established for the 

 purchase of lands within the Adirondack park. 



5. To prescribe and enforce ordinances and regulations for the gov- 

 ernment and care of the park, and for the licensing or regulation of 

 guides or other persons engaged in business therein. 



0. To lay out paths and roads in the park . 



7. To sell the standing spruce, tamarack, and poplar timber, the 

 fallen timber, and the timber injured by blight or fire, on any of the 

 state forest lands, under such regulations and restrictions as the forest 

 commission may prescribe, provided, however, that no such standing 

 timber, except poplar, shall be sold which shall measure twelve iachesor 

 less in diameter at least three feet from the ground. All proceeds 

 from such sales shall be turned over to the state treasurer, by whom 

 thty shall be placed to the credit of the special fund established for 

 the purchase of land within the Adirondack park. 



§ 122. Contracts and conveyances . A contract mentioned in this 

 article shall not take effect until approved by the commissioners of the 

 land office, a certificate of which approval, certified by the clerk of 

 said commissioners, frhall be attached to the copy of the resolution 

 of the forest commission authorizing such contract. Every convey- 

 ance mentioned in this article shall be certified by the attorney-gen- 

 eral to be in conformity with the contract, and approved by him as to 



