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that the County Commissioners have paid the sum in full.
Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to relieve the
owner or lessee of lands upon which fires may burn, or be
started, from the duty of extinguishing such fires so far as
may lie within his power. No such owner or lessee, nor
person in the employ of such owner or lessee, shall receive
any compensation from the State, or from the county, for
fighting fires upon the lands of such owner or lessee.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the State Board of Forestry
is merely authorized to purchase land out of moneys standing
to the credit of the Forest Reserve Fund, at a price exceeding
five dollars ($5) per acre if necessary, for the establishment
of a State Forest Nursery for the purpose of growing forest
trees for planting on the State Reserves, and for distribution
to private land-owners at cost, to encourage tree planting.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That for the maintenance, use and
extension of the work under the State Board of Forestry,
and for forest fire protection, there is hereby appropriated
the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) annually put of
any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated,
to be placed to the credit of the State Forest Reserve Fund.

SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That there is hereby appropriated
out of any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appro-
priated, the sum of six thousand dollars ($6,000) for the pub-
lication of forest reports and maps of the forest areas of the
several counties of the State, to be placed to the credit of the
Forest Reserve Fund.

SEC. 5. Be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from
the date of its passage.

Approved April 15, 1912.

CHAPTER 349.

AN ACT to authorize the Governor of the State of Maryland
to appoint ten additional female notaries public for Balti-
more county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Governor of the State of Maryland by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate, be and he is hereby
authorized to appoint and commission ten female notaries pub-
lic for Baltimore county in addition to the number now author-
ized by law.