Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-30

WHICH ne Is accountable or which is IN
his possession, and all books and
papers pertaining to his Organization.
V. Each company and corps COM
mahder for the use of the Inspector
General. will prepare duplicate returns
of his company ar corps, and will fur
nish Inspection Report (Form No. II,
on which will be entered complete
list of all military property for which
he Is accountable or which is in his
possession.
VI. The attention of company and
corps commanders will be called to
the care and preservation of all prop
erty entrusted to his care and special
instruction will be, given to the proper
method of making and forwarding the
necessary returns.
VII. Officers accountable for mill
tary property, having any such props
erty which they consider unserviceable,
will prepare inventories (Form No. ~,
and Will present the same with the
property to the Inspector General fos,
his action. Attention is called to
Article XXXVI. of the Regulations for
the National Guard, the provisions Of
which govern all inspections.
VIII. While on the inspecting tour
enioined in this order, the Inspector
General will devote to each organizu-
ton a reasonable time for instruction,
both theoretical and practical, during
which he will take UP guard duty and
th,. necessary administrative work CT
the e many.
! TX. For each inspection a detail viii
be made by Special Orders, of one
commissioned officer who will report to
the Inspector-G General and act as his
assistant in the inspection ard verii-
cation of all military property and to
perform such other duties as he may
be required.
X. All officers accountable for mill
tary property will see that each article
in their possession is plainly marked
in such a manner that it can be easily
identified in case of loss, and all arti-
cles. wherever found, Will be counted
to the credit of and returned to the
company whose mark it bears. Com
pany commanders ar. hereby author
lied to make the necessary eXpenGi-
lures for stamps, Stencils ETC., to en-
able them to comply with the above re-
QuirementS.
To the officers and Enlisted Men of the
National Guard of the State Of
Maine:
Through the kindness of His Excel
lency, Governor John f. Hill, l am en-
abled to offer the following prizes for
armory inspections for 1903: to each re-
gimcnt the sum of fifty dollars, to be
divided into prizes of twenty-five, fif-
teen and ten dollars. The conditions
upon which the prizes will be awarded
are as follows: first, the attendance at
annual inspections; second, the con-
dition of state and government prop
erty; third, the proficiency shown in
guard duty Attention is particularly
called to the following: all military
property for which the company COM
mander is responsible, not in the arm
DRY and presented to the Inspector
General for inspection, will be reported
missing.
FRANK l.. HOYT,
Brigadier General and Inspector-Gen-
eral
Senator Bryant Of Somerset yester-
day presented 4 resolve appropriating
for the State Reform school for 1908 for
current expenses $4,000: for ordinary
repairs and improvements $4,000; for
providing homes for boys and visiting
boys out on probation, $3.50; for extra
expense of coal, $500; for one half the
expense of erecting and furnishing two
cottages, removing and rebuilding
barn, remodeiing. repairing and re-
furnishing main building and making
nd ,Sln of 500 1En Tho
resolve appropriates the same amounts
for 1904, less the item for extra coal.
There was a meeting. yesterday aft
ernoon, at the State House of several
gentlemen interested in the question of
forest preservation. The meeting was
held for the purpose of discussing mat
ters in relation to securing such legis-
laticn as may be possible for the bet
ter protection of forest property, and
for the purpose of arranging plans for
gathering such statistics and Informal
ton concerning forest growth as would
best subserve the manifold interests of
the State. Not only the question of
protecting the property of the land
owner was considered but the interests
of the mill property of the State ant
the agricultural prospects were dis
cussed at length. The latter interests
were considered in all their bearings.
for should the forests of Maine be de-
nuded by fires it would greatly tend to
ruin the farmers of the State by
complete change in climatic conditions.
1t is fact we'll known to students of
practical forestry that in regions where
Their is no large forest growth the rain
fall is very irregular and spasmodic;
while in we'll wooded countries the fall
of rain is more perfectly regulated,
thus adding to the more successful
growth of all farm crops.
1t was the general sentiment of the
meeting that the Legislature be asked
to appropriate $4,000 a year to be
expended under the direction of the
forest commissioner for the specific
purpose of employing fire wardens to
patrol the forests during dry seasons
or when there is danger of forest fires.
A committee was selected to draw up
"a bill embodying this request and pre-
sent it to the Legislature. This COM
mittee consists of Representatives
Shaw of Bath, Eaton of Calais, Smith
of Madison, and Forest Commissioner
Ring.
The intentions of the gentlemen in