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of forest wardens in cities, in preventing and extinguishing 

 forest fires and in enforcing the laws relative to forest fires, 

 and may from time to time designate not more than fifteen 

 deputies to aid such state fire warden in the discharge of his 

 duties. 



1911, 722, sect. 2. The state fire warden appointed under 



the terms of section one shall report annually upon his work 



Annual and upon the forest fires occurring in the com- 



monwealth, and his report shall be included in 



and be printed as a part of the state forester's annual report. 



1911, 722, sect. 3. The deputies of the fish and game com- 

 missioners shall report to the state fire warden the situation 

 Reports and extent of any forest fire occurring within 

 deputies of the district to which they are assigned, and 



game com- they s ^ a ^ report to him monthly their doings 

 missioners. under chapter two hundred and ninety-nine of 

 the acts of the year nineteen hundred and seven. 



Reforestation. 



1908, 478, sect. 1, as amended, 1909, 214. For the purpose 

 of experiment and illustration in forest management and for 

 Purchase of the purposes specified in section seven of this act, 

 the sum of five thousand dollars may be expended 

 in the year nineteen hundred and eight, and the sum of ten 

 thousand dollars annually thereafter, by the state forester, 

 with the advice and consent of the governor and council, in 

 purchasing lands situated within the commonwealth and 

 adapted to forest production. The price of such land shall not 

 exceed in any instance five dollars per acre, nor shall more 

 than eighty acres be acquired in any one tract in any one year, 



