Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-02-17

Sec. q The board shall appoint, to
hold office during its pleasure, a state
forester, who shall be a professionally
trained forester. His compensation shall
be fixed by the board and shall not exceed
twenty-five hundred dollars annually and
actual necessary expenses incurred IN the
performance of his official duties; He shall,
under the general supervision of the board,
have direction of all forest interests and
all matters pertaining to forestry in the
state. He shall be, eX officiO, state fire
warden. He shall, by complaint to the
proper prosecuting officer cause the prose-
cutlon OF all persons violating any prOv1-
sions of the penal laws of the state relating
to forests and forest fires and shall cause
suits to be Instituted by the attorney
general in behalf of the state against all
persons treSpaSSing upon or injuring any
state forest property. He shall manage
hesitate forest reserves. He shall collect
state forest conditions, and conduct ex-
perlmental Investigations pertinent to
forestry, which, subject to the approval
OF the board, may be made in cooperation
with the Vermont agricultural experiment
station and with the United States forest
service, provided, however, that said ex-
pertinent station bear its proportional
share of the total expense involved in
such studies and Investigations He shall
be, eX ofticiO, forester in charge of the
nursery for forest seedlings. He shall
make full report of his work and the
matters in his charge bennially to the
general assembly.
He may, so far as his other duties permit,
prepare bulletins, deliver addresses, lee
lures and demonstrations in forestry and
personally advise owners of forest lands
In this state relative to the management
OF the same, provided, however, that all
necessary expenses incident thereto are
met by those requesting such services.
Sec. 3. The governor is hereby au-
thOrlZed, upon recommendation of the
board, to accept gifts of land to the state,
the same to be held, protected and adj
a. fnfA t1o
board may in its discretion purchase lands
in the name of the state to be held as state
forest reserves All proceeds from the
sales of timber or other products from said
lands shall be paid to the state treasurer,
and be used at the discretion of the board
in the furtherance of the forestry interests
of the state, All lands held as state forest
reserves shall be appraised and set to the
state in the grand list of the town where
located, and the state shall pay taxes
thereon. At each Quadrennial appraisal
OF real estate, the state forester shall be
notified by the listers of the appraisal Of
all lands in the state forest reserve. The
state forester may appeal from such app
pra1sal to the county court, which shall
state forester and local representatives of
the town and by its order fix the appraisal
of such lands which appraisal shall be
certified by the clerk of the county court
appraisal for the quadrennial period.
Such appeal shall be taken to the term of
the county court of the county where the
lands are situate next following the fling
of the appraisal of the listers, and notice
thereof shall be given to one of the select
men of the town by the state forester at
least twelve days before the sitting of the
court.
SEC. 4. The state forester may, at the
discretion of the board, use such proper
ton of the sum hereinafter appropriated
as seems reasonable for the further de-
velOpment of the nursery for forest seed
lings, and for the purpose of supplying
such seedlings for the planting of state
forest reserves and of private lands, as
provided in section 365 of the Public Stat
uteS.
SEC. 5. All the authority and duties
now devolving upon the forestry commits
sioner shall hereafter devolve upon and
be exercised by the state forester and
the words Estate forester" are hereby
substituted for the words forestry COM
missioner" or commissioner" wherever
they appear in chapter "a of the Public
Statutes. The state forester may in his
discretion, exercise all the authority of
the fire warden in any town or gore in the