Forest Protection and Conservation in Maine, 1919 |
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Page 79 - Treasury to the state in which such national forest is situated, to be expended as the state legislature may prescribe for the benefit of the public schools and public roads of the county or counties in which such national forest is situated...
Page 75 - ... information, together with the probable amount of property destroyed, specifying the value of timber as near as may be, and amount of cord wood, logs, bark or other forest product, fencing, bridges and buildings that have been burned.
Page 95 - Health studied the disinfection of sewage effluents in cooperation with the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture.
Page 83 - Lands or other legal custodian of such records as a true copy thereof, may be filed and recorded in the registry of deeds in the county or registry district where the land lies, with the same effect as if the deed itself had been recorded, whether said deed shall or shall not have been acknowledged by the person making the same.
Page 79 - That hereafter twenty-five per centum of all money received from each forest reserve during any fiscal year, including the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, shall be paid at the end thereof by the Secretary of the Treasury to the State or Territory in which said reserve is situated, to be expended as the State or Territorial legislature may prescribe for the benefit of the public schools and public roads of the county or counties in which the forest reserve is situated...
Page 127 - Whoever with intent to injure another, causes a fire to be kindled on his, or another's land, whereby the property of any other person is injured or destroyed, shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not less than three months, nor more than three years.
Page 75 - Municipal officers in towns, and county commissioners, the latter with respect to unorganized places, shall proceed immediately to a strict inquiry into the cause and origin of fires, within wood lands; and in all cases where such fires are found to have originated from the unlawful act of any person, to cause the offender to be prosecuted without delay.
Page 126 - ... the Forest Commissioner shall cause such slash and debris to be so disposed of. He shall pay the expense of so disposing of such slash and debris from any funds at his disposal, legally applicable to such purpose ; and he or his successor in office shall be entitled to recover double the amount of such expenditures in an action of debt, to be prosecuted by the Attorney General...
Page 148 - ... under natural conditions for many years, these insects are always present, but in the northeastern United States, except following windstorms, fires and lumbering operations, they do not usually occur in numbers sufficient to do widespread damages. Perhaps the chief reason why only a small percent of the fir and spruce in the Chamberlain Lake region which was weakened but not killed by the budworm, was attacked by weevils and bark beetles, is that a considerable time has elapsed since this locality...
Page 62 - ... the said chief fire warden of the district to be notified of the occurrence of such fire. Until the arrival of the chief warden at the place of fire the deputy warden shall be in charge of the control and extinguishment of the same. For the purpose of controlling and extinguishing fires as aforesaid, chief forest fire wardens, and deputy forest fire wardens when in charge of the control and extinguishment of forest fires or when so directed by the chief warden, may summon to their assistance...