1552 LAWS OG MARYLAND.

the State Board of Forestry, such assistants and employes as
may be necessary in executing the duties of his office and the
purposes of the Board of Forestry; the compensation of such,
assistants and employes to be fixed by the State Board of
Forestry. He shall have charge of all Forest Wardens in
the State and aid and direct them in their work; take such
action as is authorized by law to prevent and extinguish
forest fires, enforce all laws pertaining to forest and wood-
land, and prosecute for any violation of such laws; collect
data relative to forest destruction and conditions; direct the
protection and improvement of State parks and forest reserves
and co-operate with land owners as described in Section 4
of this Act. He shall annually deliver a course of lectures
at the Maryland State Agricultural College bearing upon
forestry and silviculture, subject to the approval of the Trus-
tees of the College and of the State Board of Forestry, and
as far as his duties as State Forester will permit, carry on an
educational course of lectures on Forestry at the Farmers'
Institutes and similar meetings within the State. He shall
act as Secretary of the State Board of Forestry and shall
prepare for the Board annually a report on the progress and
condition of State Forest work and recommend therein plans
for improving the State system of forest protection, manage-
ment and replacement.

3. The State Board of Forestry shall have the power to
purchase lands in the name of the State, suitable for forest
culture and reserves, using for such purposes any special
appropriation or any surplus money not otherwise appropri-
ated, which may be standing to the credit of the Forest Re-
serve Fund, and to make all rules and regulations governing
State Reserves, and to employ such labor and do such work
as they deem wise in developing and protecting State Re-
serves under their jurisdiction; and that the Governor of
the State is authorized upon the recommendation of said State
Board of Forestry to accept gifts of land to the State, the
same to be held, protected and administered by the State Board
of Forestry as State Forest Reserves, and to be, used so as to
demonstrate the practical utility of timber culture, water con-
servation and as a breeding place for game. Such gifts must
be absolute except for the reservation of all mineral and mining
rights over and under said lands, and a stipulation that they
shall be administered as State Forest Reserves, and the Attor-
ney-General of the State is directed to see that all deeds to