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2d. Two-thirds (3) shall be paid to such public educational institution or sys- 
tem in the State as the grantor may designate in the deed of conveyance, or in a 
separate instrument executed as deeds of land are required to be executed and 
recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county where the land is 
situated, or by will. But in case the grantor fail to so designate such institu- 
tion or system, or if for any reason such institution or system fails to exist, then 
the same to be paid to the proper officer or officers or boards for the benefit of the 
public school system of the State and the University of Minnesota, the public 
school system to have three-fourths (2) thereof, and the said university to have 
one-fourth (4) thereof. 
Sec. 11. The State by and through said State forestry board, shall have full 
power and authority to lease for revenue, or for protection from fire, trespassers, 
or otherwise, low meadow tracts, or other tracts for pasture, when the same will 
not interfere with the growth of forest trees, and to sell dead and down timber 
and mature timber, and to deed said tracts or parcels or parts of the same, where 
the growth of towns, the building of railroads, water powers, or other public 
improvements may demand alienation by the State, and said State forestry board 
may cause to be cut and sold, or sold with the right to cut and haul away forests 
or trees when said board may determine that the State’s and the beneficiaries’ 
interests will be subserved by so doing, but all proceeds of such sales or leases 
shall be divided as is the income therefrom as above provided. 
Sec. 12. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
OTHER STATES. 
Besides these more recent laws, there exist in several other States 
the beginnings of a more rational governmental treatment of the for- 
estry interests, notably in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, 
New Jersey, and North Carolina. 
Mavne has an efficient forest fire law (Chap. 26 of Revised Stat- 
utes) based on that of the State of New York, and a forest commis- 
sioner (created in 1891, Public laws, chap. 100)—the State land agent 
of the State being ex-officio designated as such—to look toits execu- 
tion. The forest commissioner has in addition annually a small 
amount of money appropriated to satisfy the requirements of the fol- 
lowing two sections of the law: 
Sec. 15. The forest commissioner shall take such measures as the State super- 
intendent of public schools and the president of the State college of agriculture 
and the mechanic arts may approve for awakening an interest in behalf of for- 
estry in the public schools, academies, and colleges of the State, and of imparting 
some degree of elementary instruction upon this subject therein. 
Sec. 16. The forest commissioner shall prepare tracts or circulars of informa- 
tion, giving plain and concise advice for the care of wood lands and for the pre- 
servation of forest growth. These publications shall be furnished to any citizen 
of the State upon application. 
Two very interesting and instructive reports on the growth of the 
spruce and allied matters are the result. 
New Hampshire had a temporary commission of inquiry, 
appointed in 1881 and reporting in 1885; and another such commission 
in 1889, reporting in 1893, when the permanent forestry commission 
was created (March 29, 1893) with a paid secretary, who publishes 
an annual report. The main function of the commission is one of 
inquiry and suggestion, besides partial supervision of the forest fire 
law. The acquisition of public parks, if private munificence should 
be found willing to furnish the necessary funds, is also made a 
part of the function of the commission. ‘Two small areas have been 
donated. 
In Massachusetts no special public officers are charged with the 
care of forestry interests, and hence the otherwise useful legislation 
is probably of only partial effect. Its best feature is perhaps that of 
encouraging communities to become owners of forest tracts (chap. 
