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persons to constitute a board to be known as ‘‘ the forest preserve board.” The 
members of such board may be removed by the governor at his pleasure. Vacan- 
cies shall be filled in like manner as an original appointment. The members of 
the board shall not receive any compensation for their services under this act, 
but shall receive their actual and necessary expenses to be audited by the comp- 
troller. The board may employ such clerical and other assistants as it may deem 
necessary. The forest preserve board annually in the month of January shall 
make a written report to the governor showing in detail all its transactions unde1 
this act during the preceding calendar year. 
Src. 2. It shall be the duty of the forest preserve board and it is hereby author- 
ized to acquire for the State, by purchase or otherwise, land, structures or waters 
or such portion thereof in the territory embraced in the Adirondack Park, as 
defined and limited by the fisheries, game and forest law, as it may deem advisa- 
ble for the interests of the State. 
Sec. 3. The forest preserve board may enter on and take possession of any land, 
structures and waters in the territory embraced in the Adirondack Park, the appro- 
priation of which in its judgment shall be necessary for the purposes specified in 
section two hundred and ninety of the fisheries, game and forest law, and in 
section seven of article seven of the constitution. 
Sec. 4. Upon the request of the forest preserve board an accurate description 
of such lands so to be appropriated shall be made by the State engineer and sur- 
veyor, or the superintendent of the State land survey, and certified by him to be 
correct, and such board or a majority thereof shall indorse on such description 
a certificate stating that the lands described therein have been appropriated by 
the State for the purpose of making them a part of the Adirondack Park; and 
such description and certificate shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state. 
The forest preserve board shall thereupon serve on the owner of any real property 
so appropriated a notice of the filing and the date of filing of such description 
and containing a general description of the real property belonging to such owner 
which has been so appropriated; and from the time of such service, the entry 
upon and appropriation by the State of the real property described in such notice 
for the uses and purposes above specified shall be deemed complete, and there- 
upon such property shall be deemed and be the property of the State. Such 
notice shall be conclusive evidence of an entry and appropriation by the State. 
The forest preserve board may cause duplicates of such notice with an affidavit 
of due service thereof on such owner to be recorded in the books used for record- 
ing deeds in the office of the clerk of any county of this State where any of the 
property described therein may be situated, and the record of such notice and of 
such proof of service shall be evidence of the due service thereof. 
Sec. 5. Claims for the value of the property taken and for damages caused by 
any such appropriation may be adjusted by the forest preserve board if the 
amount thereof can be agreed upon with the owners of the land appropriated. 
The board may enter into an agreement with the owner of any land so taken and 
appropriated, for the value thereof, and for any damages resulting from such 
appropriation. Upon making such agreement the board shali deliver to the 
owner a certificate stating the amount due to him on account of such appropria- 
ation of his lands, and a duplicate of such certificate shall also be delivered to 
the comptroller. The amount so fixed shall be paid by the treasurer upon the 
warrant of the comptroller. 
Sec. 6. If the forest preserve board is unable to agree with the owner for the 
value of the property so taken or appropriated, or on the amount of damages 
resulting therefrom, such owner, within two years after the service upon him of 
the notice of appropriation as above specified, may present to the court of claims 
a claim for the value of such land and for such damages, and the court of claims 
_ shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine such claim and render judgment 
thereon. Upon filing in the office of the comptroller a certified copy of the final 
judgment of the court of claims, and a certificate of the attorney-general that 
no appeal from such judgment has been or will be taken by the State, or, if an 
appeal has been taken a certified copy of the final judgment of the appellate 
court, affirming in whole or in part the judgment of the court of claims, the 
comptroller shall issue his warrant for the payment of the amount due the claim- 
ant by such judgment, with interest from the date of the judgment until the 
thirtieth day after the entry of such final judgment, and such amount shall be 
paid by the treasurer. 
Sec. 7. The owner of land to be taken under this act may, at his option, within 
the limitations hereinafter prescribed, reserve the spruce timber thereon ten 
inches or more in diameter at a height of three feet above the ground. Such 
