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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY. 
DIVISION OF FORESTRY. 
ROUTINE REPORTS. 
Honolulu, Hawaii. Dec. 18, 1907. 
Board of Commissioners of 
Agriculture and Forestry. 
Honolulu. 
Gentlemen : — 
I have the honor to submit the following routine report of the 
Division of Forestry for the period from November 20 to date. 
During the past month my own time has been largely taken 
up with the preparation of reports, with other matters in con- 
nection with proposed forest reserves, and with the routine work 
of the Division. 
The most important matter that has occurred during the last 
month was the making public of an opinion rendered by the At- 
torney General of the Territory, Honorable C. R. Hemenway, 
as to whether the Board' of Agriculture and Forestry had the 
power to sell the wood and other produce from forest reserves, 
the realization from such sales to be treated as a special fund 
for other forest work. Mr. Hemenway' s opinion (which is num- 
bered 42, and bears the date of November 19, 1907), is a docu- 
ment of far-reaching importance to forest work in Hawaii, for 
it deals exhaustively with several subjects of fundamental moment 
to the Board. It is published in full in The Forester and Agri- 
culturist for December, 1907. 
In connection with this opinion of the Attorney General, a 
conference was held on the morning of December 14 between the 
Acting Governor, the Attorney General, the Commissioner of 
Public Lands, the Chairman of the Forestry Committee and the 
Superintendent of Forestry in regard to the utilization of the 
produce of forests owned by the Territorial Government other 
than those in established forest reserves. It was decided that all 
matters having to do with forest utilization coming before the 
Land Commissioner should be referred to the Board of Agricul- 
ture and Forestry, who should make recommendations as to the 
best ways and means of accomplishing the result desired. This 
is a definite recognition of a usage which has been in force pro- 
visionally, for some time. 
It was further decided that land under lease within the boun- 
daries of established forest reserves was to be treated during the 
term of that lease in the same manner as Government forest lands 
not in the reserve. The Board controls and administers on its 
own behalf all forest land within the established forest reserves 
