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out; for investigating the origin of forest, woodland and field <br /> fires; for enforcing State forest fire laws; for taking such <br /> preventative measures, educational and otherwise, as shall seem <br /> necessary to prevent forest fires; for developing and improving <br /> the forests through reforestation promotion and practice of <br /> Forest Management practices; and for protection from insects and <br /> diseases . <br /> 2 . To furnish to each Forester or Forest Ranger so <br /> employed a badge of office, stationery and report forms, <br /> instructional posters for use in the County, leaflets for <br /> distributing to landowners and others; to purchase necessary <br /> equipment, communication systems, and other Forestry <br /> improvements deemed necessary insofar as the joint funds will <br /> permit . <br /> 3 . To pay the Forester or Forest Ranger for all official <br /> services rendered, at a fair rate of pay. Rates of pay are to be <br /> established by the Department in accord with existing State <br /> salary schedules . <br /> 4 . To direct supervise, instruct, and inspect, through <br /> its agents, the work and conduct of the Forester or Forest <br /> Ranger, to discipline and, when necessary, discharge such <br /> Forester or Forest Ranger. <br /> 5 . To submit to the Board of Commissioners of County <br /> monthly (or at other mutually satisfactory intervals) an <br /> itemized statement of all monies to be paid by County and those <br /> paid by the Department for proper conduct of the work within <br /> County. <br /> 6 . To make available annually from State, Federal, and <br /> other funds allotted to it, the sum of Eighty-four thousand nine <br /> hundred sixty-eight dollars ($84, 968.00) , as its share of an <br /> annual budget of $141, 613 .00 for carrying the work in said <br /> County. ` <br /> Part II. COUNTY AGREES : <br /> 1 . To pay to the Department 40% of the total cost of the <br /> Forester or Forest Ranger salaries and expenses and of other <br /> proper expenditures made in connection with the over-all <br /> Forestry program in said County, upon receipt and consequent <br /> approval of the periodic statements submitted by the Department . <br />