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be paid and (listri])uted to the persons entitled to the same as directed 
by the judgment. 
12. Costs and disbursements; when offer made. If an offer 
is made by said commission for the value of land appropriated, 
or for damages caused by such appropriation, and such offer is 
not accepted, and the recovery in the court of claims exceeds the 
offer, the claimant is entitled to costs and disbursements as in an 
action in the supreme court, which shall be allowed and taxed by 
the court of claims and included in its judgment. If in such a 
case the recovery in the court of claims does not exceed the offer, 
costs and disbursements to be taxed shall be awarded in favor of 
the state against the claimant and deducted from the amount awarded 
to him; or if no amount is awarded, judgment shall be entered in 
favor of the state against the claimant for such costs and disburse- 
ments. If an offer is not accei)ted, it cannot be given in evidence 
on the trial. 
§ 8. Such commissioners are authorized and empowered, within 
such park, through their agents and employees, to enforce, in the 
name of the people of the state of New York, the penalties and 
conduct the prosecution set forth in the conservation law, and such 
commission shall have the power to create and establish closed 
seasons for fish and game within such park as in its judgment may 
be necessary for the propagation and protection of such game and 
fish, and may make suitable regulations for the capture, killing 
and transportation thereof, and such commission shall have power 
and authority to propagate game and fish for the stocking of the 
said Allegany State Park, and to make regulations and rules w^hich 
shall be binding upon all persons within the boundaries of the 
aforesaid Allegany State Park, whether upon lands owned b}- the 
state or otherwise for the purposes of fire, game and fish protection, 
and to establish and enforce suitable penalties for the violation 
thereof. 
§ 9. Such commissioners shall have the power, in the name of 
the people of the state of New- York, to acquire, maintain and make 
available for use as a public park, the lands located as aforesaid, 
and for this purpose shall have the power to take, in the name of 
the people of the state of New York, in fee or otherwise, by lease, 
purchase, gift, devise, or through the procedure heretofore set 
forth, the said lands or any of them, and any rights, interests and 
easements therein, and to receive by gift, devise or contribution, 
money to be used in acquiring and improving the said lands or any 
of them, and the said board shall also have power, in the name of 
the people of the state of New York, to receive and administer for 
park purposes, any gift or devise of personal property, or any land 
or rights in land outside the areas defined in said park, adjoining 
the same, and it shall be its duty to preserve, care for and lay out 
and improve the said park, and it shall have power to lay out. con- 
struct and maintain roads and pathways over the said park, to 
