Section 223-A. The board of supervisors of any county may appropriate such sums as it may deem proper, not exceeding three thousand dollars in any one year, to carry out the provisions of the forest practice act as defined in section sixty-d of the conservation law, within such county

The  county  treasurer  shall  pay  the  moneys  so  appropriated to the
  chairman of the district forest practice board upon his order  and  upon
  his  giving  a  proper  receipt  therefore. The chairman of the district
  forest practice board shall furnish the board of supervisors a  detailed
  statement  of  its  work  and transactions, financed in whole or in part
  from such moneys, for the year ending November thirty and for any  other
  period  which  the  board of supervisors may request and in such form as
  said board may direct. Any county making such an appropriation shall  be
  reimbursed  annually  by  the  district forest practice board within six
  months following the close of the fiscal year of  the  county  by  which
  moneys were made available to the extent that such board has moneys made
  available  to it for such purpose by the state of New York or any of its
  agencies or the United States of America or any of its agencies.
    NOTE: Subdivision 28-f of section 12 of Old County law, being added by
  chapter 204 of 1950 missed being recodified as a section of  County  law
  as  other  subdivisions of section 12 were in such year. It was saved by
  Sec. 1001 of present county law.