1690 ARTICLE 39A

Miscellaneous.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 27. 1912, sec. 16A. 1918, ch. 152.

26. 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, 1924, sec. 28. 1912, sec. 17. 1912, ch. 348, sec. 2.

27. The State Department 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, 1924, sec. 31. 1912, sec. 20. 1912, ch. 749, sec. 12.

28. The State Department of Forestry shall, in addition to the powers
heretofore granted it, have the power to be exercised within its discretion, to
acquire by purchase lands between the town of Relay (or Elkridge Land-
ing) 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 Department 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with the provisions of the Act of 1912, Chapter 749, are hereby repealed.¹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, 1924, sec. 32. 1912, sec. 21. 1912, ch. 794.

29. The State Department 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 Department be neces-
sary and expedient, said land when so acquired to be under the control
of said Department, 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 neces-

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.