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Section 3. The forest commissioner may in any year with the advice and 
consent of the governor and council use any unexpended money accumulated 
from previous years for the enlargement or development of state forest reser- 
vations.— (Approved March 12.) 
CHAPTER 71. 
An Act to Amend Section One of Chapter Eight of the Revised Statutes Re- 
lating to the Tenure of Office of the Land Agent. 
Section 1. Section one of chapter eight of the revised statutes is hereby 
amended by striking out the words “holds his office during their pleasure” in 
the second and third lines of said section and inserting in place thereof the 
words, ‘be a trained forester or a person of skill and experience in the care 
and preservation of forest lands, and shall hold such office for a term of 
four years’, so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: 
‘Section 1. The governor with the advice and consent of council shall ap- 
point a land agent, who shall be a trained forester or a person of skill and 
experience in the care and preservation of forest lands and shall hold his office 
for a term of four years and shall give bond to the State in the sum of fifty 
thousand dollars with sufficient sureties or with one or more surety companies 
authorized to do business in the State, as surety or sureties, satisfactory to the 
governor and council for the faithful performance of the duties of his office. 
The land agent shall superintend and manage the sale and settlement of the 
public lands. He shall not when appointed, or while in office, be directly or 
indirectly concerned in the lumber business on the State lands, or in the pur- 
chase thereof, or of any timber or grass growing or cut thereon.’ 
Section 2. The first appointment under the foregoing provision shall be 
made January first in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and 
twenty.— (Approved March 17.) 
CHAPTER 166. 
An Act to Provide for the Acceptance by the State of Gifts of Land and for 
the Establishment of a State Park and Forest within the State of Maine. 
Section 1. The State land agent and forest commissioner may, with the 
advice and consent of the governor and council, accept on the part of the 
State gifts of land for forest and park purposes. The title to lands acquired 
under this section shall be investigated and approved by the attorney general 
of the State. 
Section 2. The purpose of this acquisition of land is hereby declared to 
be the preservation of scenic beauty, facility for recreation as nearly unre- 
stricted and general as is practicable by the people of this State and those 
whom they admit to the privilege, and the production of timber for water- 
shed protection and as a crop. The lands acquired within the limits described 
in section one shall never be sold. They shall be protected from fire and 
damage from other sources in an efficient and economical way. They may be 
improved by roads and trails and also reforested under direction of the land 
agent and forest commissioner according to his best knowledge and judgment 
when funds are available for that purpose. Timber may be sold and camp 
sites leased by the State land agent and forest commissioner with the approval 
of the governor and council when in accordance with the purposes of this act 
