1042 FORESTRY. [ART. 39A

dens in the State, and aid and direct them in their work; take such
action as is authorized by law to prevent and extinguish forest fires;
enforce all laws pertaining to forest and wood land, and prosecute for
any violation of such laws; collect data relative to forest destruction
and. conditions; direct the protection and improvement of State parks
and forest reserves, and co-operate with land owners, as described in
section 4 of this article. He shall annually deliver a course of lectures
at the Maryland State Agricultural College bearing upon forestry and
silviculture, subject to the approval of the trustees of the college, and
as far as his duties as state forester will permit, carry on an educa-
tional course of lectures on forestry at the farmers' institutes, and simi-
lar meetings within the State. He shall act as secretary of the state
board of forestry, and shall prepare for the board annually a report on
the progress and condition of State forest work, and recommned therein
plans for improving the State system of forest protection, manage-
ment and replacement.

1906, ch. 294.

3. The state board of forestry shall have the power to purchase
lands in the name of the State suitable for forest culture and reserves,
at a price which shall not exceed five dollars per acre, using for such
purposes any surplus money not otherwise appropriated, which may be
standing to the credit of the forest reserve fund; and to make all rules
and regulations governing State reserves; and that the governor of
the State is authorized, upon the recommendation of said state board
of forestry to accept gifts of land to the State, the same to be held,
protected and administered by the state board of forestry as State forest
reserves, and to be used so as to demonstrate the practical utility of
timber culture and as a breeding place for game. Such gifts must be
absolute except for the reservation of all mineral and mining rights over
and under said lands, and a stipulation that they shall be administered
as State forest reserves, and the attorney general of the State is directed
to see that all deeds to the State of lands mentioned above are properly
executed before the gift is accepted.

1906, ch. 294.

4. The state forester shall upon request, under the sanction of the
state board of forestry, and whenever he deems it essential to the best
interests of the people of the State, co-operate with counties, towns, cor-
porations and individuals in preparing plans for the protection, man-
agement and replacement of trees, wood-lots and timber tracts, under
an agreement that the parties obtaining such assistance pay at least the
field expenses of the men employed in preparing said plans.

1906, ch. 294. 1910, ch. 161 (p. 395).

5. Whenever the state forester considers it necessary he may apply
to the governor to commission such persons as he may designate to act
as forest wardens of the State, to enforce the forest laws and to carry