1472 ARTICLE 3 9 A.

any person or corporation doing any of the things prohibited by this section
under and by virtue of a permit issued to him or it by the State Roads Com-
mission as aforesaid shall be immune from prosecution for the commission
of any acts under the terms of this section.

An. Code, sec. 15J. 1914, ch. 824.

25. Any trees grown in the State Nurseries not required for roadside
planting may be used for planting on the State Forest Reserve or may be
furnished to any land owner of this State at not less than the cost of
production; provided such trees shall be planted according to plans approved
by the State Forester.1

An. Code, sec. 16. 1906, ch. 294.

26. There is hereby appropriated the sum of thirty-five hundred dol-
lars ($3,500) annually for the fiscal years 1907 and 1908 for carrying
out the provisions of this article, and for the payment of salaries and
expenses herein provided for.

Miscellaneous.

An. Code, sec. 16A. 1918, ch. 152.

27. Every person, his aiders, abettors and counsellors, who shall wil-
fully, negligently, recklessly, wrongfully or maliciously enter upon lands
or premises, not his or their own, and, without the permission or authority
of the owners of said lands or premises, shall cut, burn or otherwise injure
and destroy or cause or procure to be cut, burned or otherwise injured and
destroyed, any merchantable trees or timber thereon, shall be liable to the
party or parties injured or aggrieved thereby to an amount equal to double
the value of such trees or timber so cut, burned, or otherwise injured or
destroyed, such damages to be recovered in a civil action, as in any other
case.

.An. Code, sec. 17. 1912, ch. 348, sec. 2.

28. 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 establish-
ment 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.

An. Code, sec. 18. 1912, ch. 348, sec. 3.

29. For the maintenance, use and extension of the work under the State
Board of Forestry, and for forest fire protection, there is hereby appro-
priated the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000), annually out of any
moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be placed to
the credit of the State Forest Reserve Fund.

1 Although the title and enacting clause of the act of 1914, ch. 824, state that there
is a sec. 15K, no such section appears in the act.