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The Forests of Maryland. 



liver a course of lectures at the Maryland State Agricultural College ' 

 bearing upon forestry and silviculture, subject to the approval of the 

 Trustees of the College and of the State Board of Forestry, and as 

 far as his duties as State Forester will permit, carry on an educational 

 course of lectures on Forestrj?- at the Farmers' Institutes and similiar 

 meetings within the State. He shall act as Secretary of the State 

 Board of Forestry and shall pi-epare for the Board annually a report 

 on the progress and condition of State Forest work and recommend 

 therein plans for improving the State system of forest protection, 

 management and replacement. 



Sec. 3. — That the State Board of Forestry shall have the power to 

 purchase lands in the name of the State, suitable for forest culture 

 and reserves, using for such purposes any special appropriation or 

 any surplus money not otherwise appropriated, which may be stand- 

 ing to the credit of the Forest Reserve Fund ; and to make all rules 

 and regulations governing State Reserves, and to employ such labor 

 and do such work as they deem wise in developing and protecting 

 State Reserves under their jurisdiction ; and that the Governor of the 

 State is authorized upon the recommendation of said State Board of 

 Forestry to accept gifts of land to the State, the same to be held, pro- 

 tected and administered by the State Board of Forestry as State For- 

 est Reserves, and to be used so as to demonstrate the practical utility 

 of timber culture, water conservation and as a breeding place for game. 

 Such gifts must be absolute except for the reservation of all mineral 

 and mining rights over and under said lands, and a stipulation that 

 they shall be administered as State Forest Reserves, and the Attorney- 

 General of the State is directed to see that all deeds to the State of 

 land mentioned above are properly executed before the gift is ac- 

 cepted. 



Sec. 4. — That the State Forester shall, upon reqiiest, imder the 

 sanction of the State Board of Forestry, and whenever he deems it 

 essential to the best interests of the people of the State, co-operate 

 with counties, to-mis, corporations, and individuals, in preparing 

 plans for the protection, management, and replacement of trees, wood- 

 lots, and timber tracts under an ag-reement that the parties obtaining 

 such assistance pay at least the field expenses of the men employed in 

 preparing said plans. 



Sec. 5. — That whenever the State Forester considers it necessary 

 he may applj' to the Governor to commission such persons as he may 

 designate to act as Forest Wardens of this State to enforce the forest 

 laws and to carry out all the purposes of this Act and any work that 

 may be assigned to them by the State Forester. If the Governor ap- 

 proves sucli persons he may appoint them Forest Wardens for a term 



