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Sec. 55. Forest commissioner may dispose of slash and debris and 

 recover double the cost in action of debt; attorney-general shall prose- 

 cute; lien on land enforced by attachment. 1915, c. 196 § ,?. When any 

 person, firm, corporation or agent shall have failed to dispose of slash a"d 

 debris as provided by the two preceding sections, 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 expendi- 

 tures in an action of debt, to be prosecuted by the attorney-general 

 in the supreme judicial court in the county of Kennebec, against the 

 person, firm, corporation or agent whose duty it was to dispose of 

 such slash or debris ; and there shall be a lien on the land on which 

 the cutting of the forest growth took place, to secure any judgment 

 recovered in such action, to be enforced by attachment in said action, 

 made within six months after such expenditures were made. The sum 

 recovered and collected in such action shall be returned to and become 

 a part of the fund from which the expenditures were made. Provided, 

 however, that any person, firm, corporation or agent cutting wood or 

 timber during the winter, after November first, shall have until May 

 first following in the Maine forestry district, and until April first in 

 the remainder of the state, to remove such slash and debris. If such 

 slash and debris are destroyed by burning, such burning shall be done 

 with the permission of the forest commissioner. 



Sec. 56. Elementary instruction in forestry i>i public schools. R. S. 

 c - 7, § °5. The forest commissioner shall take such measures as the 

 state superintendent of public schools and the president of the Univer- 

 sity of Maine may approve, for awakening an interest in behalf of 

 forestry in the public schools, academies and colleges of the state, and 

 of imparting some degree of elementary instruction upon this subject 

 therein. 



Sec. 57. Commissioner shall issue circulars of advice for care of 

 woodlands. R. S. c. 7, § 66. He shall prepare tracts or circulars of 

 information, giving plain and concise advice for the care of woodlands 

 and for the preservation of forest growth. These publications shall be 

 furnished to any citizen of the state upon application. 



Sec. 58. Copies of §§ 2&-S9 shall be printed and distributed to select- 

 men and posted; penalty for destroying notices. R. S. c. 7, § 67. The 

 forest commissioner, at the expense of the state, shall cause copies of 

 sections twenty-eight to fifty-nine, both inclusive, of this chapter and all 

 other laws of the state relating to forest fires to be printed and freely 

 distributed to the selectmen of all the towns of the state, who shall post 

 them up in schoolhouses, saw mills, logging camps and other places ; 

 and similar copies shall be furnished to owners of forest lands, who 

 may apply for them, to be posted up at the expense of such owners. 

 Any person viciously or wantonly tearing down, destroying or defacing 



