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Town Appropriations. 



R. L. 25, sect. 17. A town which accepts the provisions of 



this section, or has accepted the corresponding provisions of 



Prevention of earlier laws, may appropriate money for the pre- 



res * vention of forest fires to an amount not exceeding 



one-tenth of one per cent of its valuation. 



1914, 262, sect. 1. Section one of chapter three hundred 

 and ninety-eight of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and 

 Purchase of ten > * s hereby amended by striking out the words 

 fire equip- "five hundred", in the second line, and insert- 



m6n.t/. 



ing in place thereof the words : seven hundred 

 and fifty, so as to read as follows: Section 1. Every 

 town in the commonwealth with a valuation of one million 

 seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars or less which ap- 

 propriates and expends money, with the approval of the state 

 forester, for apparatus to be used in preventing or extinguish- 

 ing forest fires or for making protective belts or zones as a 

 defence against forest fires, shall be entitled, upon the recom- 

 mendation of the state forester, approved by the governor, 

 to receive from the treasury of the commonwealth a sum 

 equal to one half of the said expenditure, but no town shall 

 receive more than two hundred and fifty dollars. 



1910, 398, sect. 2. A sum not exceeding five thousand dol- 

 lars in any one year may be expended in carrying out the 

 provisions of this act. 



1910, 478, sect. 1. It shall be unlawful for any unnatural- 

 ized, foreign-born person to pick wild berries or flowers, or to 

 regulation of cam P or picnic upon any land of which he is 



Barnstabie not the owner, within the counties of Barnstablc 

 and Plymouth 



counties. and Plymouth, between the first day of April and 



