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Sec. 22. The court of claims, if requested by the claimant or the attorney- 
general, shall examine the real property affected by the claim and take the testi- 
mony in relation thereto in the county where such property or a part thereof is } 
situated. The actual and necessary expenses of each judge and of each officer 
of the court in making such examination and in so taking testimony shall be | 
audited by the comptroller and paid from the money appropriated for the pur- 
poses of this act. 
SEC. 23. The power to appropriate real property, vested in the forest preserve 
board by section four, is subject to the following limitations: Such real property 
must adjoin land already owned or appropriated by the State at the time the 
description and certificate are filed in the office of the secretary of state, except 
that timber land not so adjoining State land may be appropriated whenever in - 
the judgment of the board timber thereon other than spruce, pine, or hemlock is 
being cut or removed to the detriment of the forest or the interests of the State. WH 
SRC. 24. The sum of six hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may Ht 
be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purposes specified in this act, out of 
any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. In addition to the 
amount above appropriated, the comptroller, upon the written request of the | 
forest preserve board, is hereby authorized and directed to borrow, from time to 
time, not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of four hundred thousand dollars lif 
for the purposes specified in this act, and to issue bonds or certificates therefor i 
payable within ten years from their date, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding Wik 
five per centum per annum, and which shall not be sold at less than par. The 
sums so borrowed are hereby appropriated, payable out of the moneys realized 
from the sale of such bonds or certificates, to be expended under the direction of | 
the forest preserve board for the purposes of this act, and to be paid by the treas- HI 
urer on the warrant of the comptroller. i 
Sec. 25. Allacts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. i 
SEc. 26. This act shall take effect immediately. 
PENNSYLVANIA. i| 
During the past few years the State of Pennsylvania has made Hf 
notable progress in forestry legislation. In 1893 a commission was it 
created under the following law, signed by the governor May 23: i 
AN ACT relative to a forestry commission. 
Be it enacted, ete.: 
Srctron 1. That the governor be authorized to appoint two persons as a com- ii 
mission, one of whom is to be a competent engineer, one a botanist, practically | 
acquainted with the forest trees of the Commonwealth, whose duty it shall be y 
to examine and report upon the conditions of the slopes and summits of the 
important water-sheds of the State, for the purpose of determining how far the 
presence or absence of the forest cover may be influential in producing high and } 
low-water stages in the various river basins; and to report how much timber 
remains standing of such kinds as have special commercial value, how much 
there is of each kind; as well, also, as to indicate the part or parts of the State 
where each grows naturally, and what measures, if any, are being taken to 
secure a supply of timber for the future. It shall further be the duty of said 
commission to suggest such measures in this connection as have been found of 
practical service elsewhere in maintaining a proper timber supply, and to ascer- 
tain, as nearly as practicable, what proportion of the State, not now recognized 
as mineral land, is unfit for remunerative agriculture, and could with advantage 
be devoted to the growth of trees. 
SEC. 2. The said commission shall also ascertain what wild lands, if any, now 
belong to the Commonwealth; their extent, character, and location, and report 
the same, together with a statement of what part or parts of such lands would 
be suitable for a State Forest Reserve; and further, should the lands belonging 
to the Commonwealth be insufficient for such purpose, then to ascertain and 
report what other suitable lands there may be within the State, their extent, 
character and value. The final report of the said commission shall be presented 
to the legislature not later than March 15, 1895. 
Sec. 3. The said commission shall have power to appoint one competent person 
to act as statistician, whose duty it shall be to compile the statistics collected by 
said commission, under their direction and supervision, whose salary shall be one 
thousand dollars per annum, with necessary expenses, to be paid in the same 
manner as is hereinafter provided for the payment of the Forestry Commission. 
