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Sec. 4. The commissioners appointed hereunder shall be entitled to receive by 
quarterly payments a compensation as follows: The engineer, twenty-five hun- 
dred dollars ($2,500.00) per annum; the botanist, twenty-five hundred dollars 
($2,500.00) per annum, with necessary expenses; and the sum of twenty thousand 
dollars (520,000.00) is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury, 
not otherwise appropriated, to be paid by warrant drawn by the auditor-general. 
The legislature of 1895 provided for an executive department of 
agriculture in which a division of forestry was established, Dr. J. 
T. Rothrock, the botanist member of the previous commission, being 
appointed forestry commissioner. 
The law creating a department of agriculture was approved by 
the governor March 13, 1895. The chapters referring to forestry 
are as follows: 
Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the Commonwealth 
of Pennsylvania in general assembly met, and it 1s hereby enacted by authority of 
the same: 
SECTION 1. That there be and hereby is established a department of agricul- 
ture to be organized and administered by an officer who shall be known as the 
secretary of agriculture, who shall be appointed by the governor, by and with 
the advice and consent of the senate, for a term of four years at an annual salary 
of three thousand five hundred dollars, and who, before entering upon the duties 
of his office, shall take and subscribe the oath prescribed in article seven of the 
constitution. Said secretary shall be ex-officio secretary of the State board of 
agriculture, and shall succeed to all the powers and duties now conferred by law 
upon the secretary of said board. 
Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of the secretary of agriculture in such ways, 
as he may deem fit and proper, to encourage and promote the development of 
agriculture, horticulture, forestry, and kindred industries, to collect and publish 
statistics and other information in regard to the agricultural industries and 
interests of the State. * * * In the performance of the duties prescribed by 
this act, the secretary of agriculture shall as far as practicable * * * enlist 
the aid of the State geological survey, for the purpose of obtaining and publish- 
ing useful information respecting the economical relations of geology to agricul- 
ture, forestry, and kindred industries. He shall make an annual report to the 
governor, and shali publish, from time to time, such bulletins of information as 
he may deem useful and advisable. Said report and bulletins shall be printed 
by the State printer in the same manner as other public documents, not exceed- 
ing five thousand copies of any one bulletin. 
Sec. 3. That it shall be the duty of the secretary to obtain and publish infor- 
mation respecting the extent and condition of forest lands in this State, to make 
and carry out rules and regulations for the enforcement of all laws designed to 
protect forests from fires and from all illegal depredations and destruction, and 
report the same annually to the governor, and as far as practicable, to give infor- 
mation and advice respecting the best methods of preserving wood lands and 
starting new plantations. He shall also, as far as practicable, procure statistics 
of the amount of timber cut during each year. the purposes for which it is used 
and the amount of timber land thus cleared, as compared with the amount of 
land newly brought under timber cultivation, and shall in general adopt all such 
measures as, in his judgment, may be desirable and effective, for the preserva- 
tion and increase of the timber lands of this State, and shall have direct charge 
and control of the management of all forest lands belonging to the Common- 
wealth, subject to the provision of law relative thereto. * * 
Src. 4. There shall be one deputy secretary, who shall be donoinidd by the 
governor for the term of four years, at a salary of three thousand 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 commissioner of forestry, a dairy and food 
commissioner, who shall have practical 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 
dollars each. * * * The governor is hereby authorized to appoint one chief 
clerk of the department at an annual salary of sixteen hundred dollars, a stenog- 
rapher, 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 
