Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-10
tice in writing to the Forester of thu
estimated increase.
Penalty for Non Observance.

| Penalty for Non Observance.
Sec NJ. Any owner or owners fall
ing to comply with the provisions OF
Section Ten of this Act shall, for ev-
cry such failure, he punished by fine
not to exceed one thousand dollars.
| Exceptions.
| Sec. XII. No person desiring to
clear land for agricultural purposes,
for buildings, or for highways, unless
| the wood SO cut is to be sold for fuel.
or sold or used for manufacture, or to
cut trees for use in building camps,
dams, or construction of ways, or for
use as fuel in course of a numbering
operation, nor any person cutting
wood or timber from his own land for
use Upon his farm in the ordinary
course OF good husbandry, shall, for
such purposes, he required to comply
with Section Fen of this Act.
Cutting Rules.
| Sec. NH. No pine or spruce trees
| under ten inches in diameter four feet
from the ground, shall be cut, except
when such cutting be necessary in the
| clearing OF roads or yards during an
operation, or from localities IN which
trees are unduly exposed to destruc-
| ton from wind, and neither of these
woods shall be cut or used for camps
bridges. roads, corduroy or road skids
Exceptions.
Sec. NV. Exceptions to the rules
as set forth in Section Thirteen NAV
| be male under written authority from
| the Forester.
Sec. XIV. All trees shall be sawed
down. They shall be sawed not more
| man twelve inches above ground. All
! llmEs Shall be trimmed from the tons
OF TIE trees so cut and placed in sep
arate piles, suitable and safe for burn
| ing, anu the same shall be burned by
the owner in the season following the
operation, at such time as there is not
| less than six inches of snow upon the
ground
Seed Trees Left.
Sec. NNI. AT least three pine, or at
! least three spruce seed bearing trees
| shall be left standing on each acre of
!ani from which pine or spruce growth
is being cut.
Marking Logs.
Sec. XVII. All logs Shall be plainly
marked on each end either with the
| number of feet therein, or by numbers
IN rotation, and with distinguishing
| landing marks; and if by numbers in
| rotation, then the number of feet in
each log shall be recorded opposite n
corresponding number and landing
| mark in scale record.
Special Forestry Plans.
Sec. XVIII Any plans for the cut
| ing or cultivation OF forests prepared
by the owners thereof, and approved
by the Forester, may be pursued by
the owner of such forest, instead OF
conforming to Sections Thirteen and
Sixteen of this Act.
Permitees.
Sec. XIX. Any person, firm or cor
| poration desiring to cut from the land
of another, under permit or contract
therefor, with the owner of such land,
trees for market or manufacture shall
| make application in duplicate to the
Forester, upon blanks furnished by
said Forester, for q permit so to cut,
stating therein the location of the
| tract proposed to be cut, and the esti-
mated amount, and the Forester shall
| thereupon issue to the applicant per-
NIT so to operate. which permit shall
remain in force until the first day of
May following the date of application,
unless sooner revoked by the Forester
| for failure of said permitee to conform
to law in cutting such tract.
Sec. Xxx. Any person, firm or cor
| poration failing to comply with the
provisions of Section Nineteen of this
| Act SHALL for every such failure, be
punished by a fine not to exceed one
| thousand dollars.
ScaIers.
Sec. XXI. Any person, on applica-
| ton to the Forest Commission for
| license as a scaler, shall, on satisfying
| said Forester of his qualifications, be
| licensed for one year, to date from the
| first day of May.
| Sec. XXI. All returns required by
this Act to be made by scalers. must
be made by scalers duly licensed.
Taxes.
| Sec. XIII. All growing trees on
| auxiliary state forests within the State
| are hereby exempt from taxation.
Sec. XIV. State assessors, town
| assessors and plantation assessors,
SHALL for the purpose of taxation. APP
praise the soil only in all auxiliary
| forests by them to be assessed, indie
pendent of the value of the growth
| thereon. and also Independent of the
area of any great pond therein, and
assess upon such soil, tax in the
same manner, and at the same rate as
other property is by them assessed.
! Sec. XIV. All persons. firms or
| corporation owning auxiliary state
forests, and who are, either by them
selves, their agents. or permitees, en-
gagged in the business of cutting trees
| therefrom for market, or manufac-
turc. shall pay to the State Treasurer,
for the use OF the State, when the soil
from which said trees so cut is located
in unincorporated places, and to tax
collectors OF the various cities, town or
| plantations for the use of said cities
towns or plantations, where the soil
from which said trees so cut is located
an excise tax of 5 per cent upon the
stumpage value of all trees so cut
| during the year ending the first day Of
| May; the value of the stumpage so cut
| f1,a -I,.