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REPORTS OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF FORESTRY 
ON FOREST RESERVES. 
Honolulu, T. H, June 22, 1910. 
The Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 
Honolulu, T. H. 
Gentlemen : — In three of the regularly established forest re- 
serves on the island of Hawaii — the Hilo, the Kau and the 
Hamakua-Pali — and in the Ewa forest reserve on Oahu are 
areas that according to the law as it now stands have not been 
formally set apart. When the forest law (Act 44, 1903: Chapter 
28, Revised Laws) was first enacted it was so worded as to 
permit the setting apart only of Government land not under 
lease, or on which the lease had less than two years to run. 
Subsequently by Act 4 of the Session Laws of 1907, the law was 
amended so that the Governor may now set apart any government 
land within the boundaries of a forest reserve, whether under 
lease or not, provided, however, that on lands under lease the 
reservation shall not go into effect until the end of the existing 
lease, when it automatically becomes operative. 
At the time the above named forest reserves were created the 
old law was in force. A number of government lands within 
their boundaries were then under lease for more than two years 
consequently these lands could not at that time technically be set 
apart, although recognized as being within the boundaries and 
forming part of the forest reserve. 
A similar condition on Maui in the Koolau and the Hana for- 
est reserves was remedied through a proclamation signed by 
Acting Governor A. L. G. Atkinson on June 12, 1907, setting 
apart certain specified lands within the boundaries of those re- 
serves. The formal reservation of the lands in the reserves on 
Hawaii and Oahu has been delayed from time to time for a 
variety of reasons. The matter ought now to be finally acted on 
and disposed of. 
Following the precedent already established on Maui, I think 
a short proclamation referring to the creation of the forest re- 
serve and naming the lands now to be set apart would be suffi- 
cient ; this action to be taken after the usual public hearing. Ac- 
cordingly I recommend that the Board request the Governor to 
call the necessary hearing and thereafter to set apart as parts re- 
spectively of the Hilo, the Kau, the Hamakua-Pali and the Ewa 
forest reserves the tracts of government land listed in the fol- 
lowing tables. This action will bring all of the government 
land lying within the forest reserve boundaries into the fully re- 
served class, save that on several of the lands the actual reserva- 
tion will still not take effect until the expiration of existing 
leases that have yet some time to run. 
