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An. Code, sec. 19. 1912, ch. 348, sec. 4.

30. There is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the State Treas-
ury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six thousand dollars ($6,000)
for the publication 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.

An. Code, sec. 20. 1912, ch. 749, sec. 12.

31. The State Board of Forestry shall, in addition to the powers here-
tofore granted it, have the power to be exercised within their discretion, to
acquire by purchase lands between the town of Relay (or 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 be 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with the provisions of the Act of 1912, Chapter 749, are hereby repealed.1

An. Code, sec. 21. 1912, ch. 794.

32. 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 additional 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 appro-
priated 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 pur-
poses specified in this section.

An. Code, sec. 22. 1914, ch. 823.

33. The State Board of Forestry shall have the right and power to
condemn lands, earth, gravel, stone, timber, or materials, or any improve-
ments in the name of the State, under Article 33A, title " Eminent Do-
main," of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland as passed in Chap-
ter 117 of the Acts of 1912 when such action is necessary for carrying out
the purposes of any Legislative Act, or for advancing the aims of forestry,

1 By act, 1914, ch. 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.

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