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MASSACHUSETTS FOREST LAWS. 



GENERAL FORESTRY. 

 The State Forester. 



1904, 409, sect. 1, as amended, 1907, 473, 1909, 263, and 

 G. A. 1917, 63. The governor, with the consent of the council, 

 shall appoint an officer to be known as the state Appointment 



forester, and shall determine his salary. He an <* qualifi- 

 cations. 



shall be a trained forester who has had a tech- 

 nical education. He shall act for the commonwealth in 

 suppressing the gypsy and brown-tail moths as public nui- 

 sances. The governor may, with the consent of the council, 

 remove the state forester at any time for such cause as he 

 shall deem sufficient. In case of the death, removal or resigna- 

 tion of the state forester the governor shall forthwith appoint 

 a successor. The state forester shall be furnished with an 

 office in the state house and may expend for the services of 

 clerks, stenographers and other office assistants, for travel- 

 ling expenses necessarily incurred in the discharge of his 

 duties, for office supplies, and for incidental expenses, in- 

 cluding the printing and binding of his annual report, such 

 sums as the general court shall annually appropriate. The 

 office of superintendent for suppressing the gypsy and brown- 

 tail moths is hereby abolished. All the powers, rights, duties 

 and liabilities of the said superintendent are hereby trans- 

 ferred to the state forester. No existing contracts, proceed- 



