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ticable, to the service of such a notice. If a person to be served can not with 
due diligence be found in the State, a justice of the supreme court may, by 
order, direct the manner of such service, and service shall be made accordingly. 
Src. 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 purposes 
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. 
Src. 24. The sum of six hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may 
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 
for the purposes specified in this act, and to issue bonds or certificates therefor 
payable within ten years from their date, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 
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- 
urer on the warrant of the comptroller. 
Sec. 25. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby 
repealed. 
Src. 26. This act shall take effect immediately. 
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PENNSYLVANIA. 
During the past few years the State of Pennsylvania has made 
notable progress in forestry legislation. In 1893 a commission was 
created under the following law, signed by the governor May 23: 
AN ACT relative to a forestry commission. 
Be it enacted, ete. : 
SrectTion 1. That the governor be authorized to appoint two persons as a com- 
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 
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. 
