618 FORESTRY. [ART. 39A

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
of the State Board of Forestry, and as far as his duties as State For-
ester will permit, carry on an educational course of lectures on Forestry
at the Farmers' Institutes and similar 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 recommend therein plans for improving the State
system of forest protection, management and replacement.

1906, ch. 294. 1914, ch. 823.

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,
using for such purposes any special appropriation or 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 to employ such labor and do such work as they
deem wise in developing and protecting State Reserves under their
jurisdiction; 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, water con-
servation and as a breeding place for game. Such gifts must be abso-
lute 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. 1910, ch. 161 (p. 395). 1914, ch. 823.

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 this State, to enforce the forest laws and
to carry out all the purposes of this article, and any work that may be
assigned to them by the State Forester. If the Governor approves such
persons he may appoint them Forest Wardens for a term of two years,
but they shall be subject to removal at any time at the pleasure of the
Governor. Such Wardens shall receive such compensation for their
services as shall be fixed by the State Board of Forestry. Forest
Wardens thus appointed shall before entering upon the duties of their
office take the proper official oath before the Clerk of the Court of the
County in which they reside, after which they shall while holding said
office, possess and exercise all the authority and power held and exer-
cised by constables at common law under the statutes of this State,