ART. 39A] FORESTRY. 623

Elkridge Landing) and a point 10 miles above that town, on either
side of the Patapsco River, in Howard and Baltimore counties, within
a distance of one-half mile on either side from the medial line of said
river, at such prices as they may determine it to he worth, within the
appropriation hereunder made, the same to be paid for out of the funds
appropriated by the Act of 1912, Chapter 749, to be held by the State
as a State Forest Reserve, under the protection and administration of
the State Board of Forestry, which shall exercise the same power in
the matter of making rules and regulations in the management thereof
as other State forest reserves are now subject to or may hereafter be
subject to. The territory which may be acquired hereunder shall be
subject to all the general laws heretofore passed by the Legislature of
the State not inconsistent herewith, but acts inconsistent with the pro-
visions of the Act of 1912, Chapter 749, are hereby repealed.*

1912, ch. 794.

21. The State Board of Forestry is hereby authorized to acquire
for and in the name of the State a tract of land in Washington county
on which is situate Old Fort Frederick, together with such other addi-
tional land adjacent thereto as may in the judgment of such board be
necessary and expedient, said land when so acquired to be under the
control of said board, and to be used by it in the execution of such plans
as may be adopted by it for the reforestization of the State. The sum
of eighty-five hundred dollars ($8,500), or so much thereof as may be
necessary, is hereby appropriated to the said State Board of Forestry,
to be expended by said board in the acquisition of the property and in
the accomplishment of the purposes specified in this section.

1914, ch. 823.

22. The State Board of Forestry shall have the right and power to
condemn lands, earth, gravel, stone, timber, or materials, or any im-
provements in the name of the State, under Article 33A, title "Emi-
nent Domain," of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland as
passed in Chapter 117 of the Acts of 1912 when such action is neces-
sary for carrying out the purposes of any Legislative Act, or for ad-
vancing the aims of forestry, and the work of the State Board of
Forestry, and they may pay all costs and expenses thus incurred out
of any surplus moneys standing to the credit of the Forest Reserve
Fund, not otherwise appropriated; nothing herein contained shall apply
to the City of Baltimore.

As to condemnation, see article 33A.

*By the act of 1914, chapter 209, the State Board of Forestry is authorized to
purchase additional lands on the watershed of the Patapsco River for a state
forest reserve beyond the limits defined in this section.