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and adopt a common seal. A majority of such commission shall 
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. 
§ 6. The board of commissioners shall have power to, and shall 
as soon as may be, after its organization, proceed to select, locate 
and acquire lands in the name of the people of the state of New 
York, within the foregoing described boundaries, and shall so far 
as their appropriation permits, proceed to make the same available 
for use as a public park and to provide for the protection and propa- 
gation of fish and game thereon and for the reforestation of the 
same. 
§ 7. The commission shall, with the approval of the governor, have 
the power and authority to appropriate real and personal property, 
in the manner and under the conditions herein defined : 
1. Purposes. The commission may enter upon and take 
possession of any lands or waters or both, or of any forests and 
rights in timber upon any lands included now, or hereafter to be 
included, within the Allegany State Park, the appropriation of which, 
in the judgment of said commission, shall be necessary for public 
park purposes, or for the purpose of the propagation, protection 
and conservation of fish and game. 
2. Description of land. An accurate description of such prop- 
erty so entered upon and appropriated shall be made by the com- 
mission, who shall certify under its seal that the description is cor- 
rect, and shall endorse thereon a notice that the property described 
therein is appropriated by the people of the state of New York for 
the purpose described in this section. The original of such descrip- 
tion and certificate shall be filed in the office of the secretary of 
state. The Allegany State Park commission may make such addi- 
tional copies of this certificate and description as may be necessary 
and certify the same. 
3. Service of notice. The said commission shall thereupon cause 
a duplicate of said description and certificate, with notice of the date 
of filing thereof in the office of said secretary of state, to be served 
on the owner or owners of the lands, forests, and rights in timber 
upon such lands and waters so appropriated ; and from the time 
of such service the entry upon and appropriation by the people of 
the state of the property described in such notice shall be deemed 
complete, and thereupon such property shall become, and be, the 
property of the people of the state. Such notice shall be conclusive 
evidence of an entry and appropriation by the state ; but the service 
of such notice shall raise no presumption that the lands, forests 
and rights in timber upon such lands described therein are private 
property. 
4. Manner of service. Service of the notice and papers pro- 
vided for under subdivision three must be personal if the person to 
be served can be found within the state. If the said commission 
shall not be able to serve said notice and papers or to cause the 
same to be served upon the owner or owners personally within 
