FORESTRY. 501

together with any amount obtained from the State forest reserves, shall be
paid into the State treasury to the credit of the forest reserve fund, which
fund is hereby created; and the monies in said fund are hereby appro-
priated for purposes of forest protection, management, replacement and
extension, under the direction of the Regents of the University of Mary-
land, provided that each year there shall be paid to the County Commis-
sioners of each county in which shall be located any part of the State
forest reserves, 15 per cent of the revenue derived from such part of the
State forest reserve as is located in that county.

Roadside Trees.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 24. 1912, sec. 15-I. 1914, ch. 824 1922, ch. 436. 1931, ch. 337.

24. Any person or corporation who in any manner, paints, puts or fixes
any advertisement, sign, notice or other writing or printing other than
notices posted in pursuance of law, on or to any stone, tree, fence, stump,
pole, building or other structure which is in or upon the public highway
or which is on the property of another, without first obtaining the written
consent of such owner, or who in any manner procures, direct or induces
the painting, fixing or placing of any advertisement or sign as aforesaid,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punishable
by fine of not more than $10. 00 for each separate offense, which fine shall
be payable to the State Board of Forestry for the purposes described in.
this section; provided, however, that the State Roads Commission shall
have authority at any time to grant to any person or corporation the right
to place advertisements along or upon the public highways of the State,
said advertisement, however, to be used only in conjunction with direction
or danger signals, and subject to such limitations and restrictions as the-
State Roads Commission shall impose at the time of the granting of said
permit or thereafter, and said permit in no event to be issued unless the
need for the direction or danger signals to be erected in connection there-
with is clearly demonstrated to the satisfaction of the State Roads Com-
mission, and any person or corporation doing any of the things pro-
hibited by this section under and by virtue of a permit issued to him or
it by the State Roads Commission as aforesaid shall be immune from
prosecution for the commission of any acts under the terms of this section.
For the purpose of enforcing this section the presence or existence of any
advertisement or sign upon the public highway or upon private property
adjacent thereto shall constitute prima facie evidence that said sign was
painted, placed, fixed or erected by direction or with the consent and
approval of the party or parties, his, its or their agent or representative
in the State of Maryland, whose name, business, vocation or merchandise
is advertised thereon.

26. Repealed by ch. 505 of the Acts of 1929.