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or persons who shall wilfully enter or break down, through or over 

 any field, orchard, garden or yard fence, hot bed or green house, or who 

 shall wrongfully club, stone, cut, break, bark or otherwise mutilate, 

 or damage any field crop, nut, fruit or ornamental tree, shrub, bush, 

 plant or vine, trellis, arbor, hot bed, hot or green house, or who shall 

 trample, or in any wise injure, any grain, grass, vine, vegetables or 

 any other growing crop, or who shall wilfully take or carry away any 

 grain, corn, rye, wheat or other field crop, fruit or vegetable, plants, 

 fruit or ornamental trees, vines or shrubs, whether the same be at- 

 tached to the soil or not, shall subject said person or persons to a 

 penalty of not less than five, nor more than fifty dollars for each and 

 every offense," be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 



That any person or persons who shall wilfully enter or break down, 

 through or over any field, orchard, garden or yard fence, hot bed or 

 green house, or who shall wrongfully club, stone, cut, break, bark or 

 otherwise mutilate or damage any field crop, nut, fruit or ornamental 

 tree, shrub, bush, plant or vine, trellis, arbor, hot bed, hot or green 

 house, or who shall trample or in any wise injure any grain, grass, 

 vine, vegetable or other growing crop, or who shall wilfully take or 

 carry away any grain, corn, rye, wheat or other field crop, fruit or 

 vegetable, plants, nuts or berries, or any fruit or ornamental trees, 

 vine or shrubs, whether the same be attached to the soil or not, shall 

 be subject to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars for each and every 

 offense. 



Approved The 18th day of June, A. D. 1895. 



DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 



It is a common impression that hunters and fishermen as a class 

 depredate upon the unseated lands of the Commonwealth. While 

 there is truth in the idea, it should be distinctly remembered that no 

 class of the community is more sincerely desirous of seeing the land 

 owners properly protected than the best representatives among the 

 hunters and fishermen, and it is respectfully suggested that all forest 

 rights would be more secure if the friendly aid of these persons were 

 more cultivated by the land owners and more appreciated by the State. 

 The true sportsman has everything to gain by assisting in detection 

 and punishment of those who break the laws which are designed to 

 protect the forests and its inmates. 



The time may be near at hand when it will be an act of political 

 wisdom, and wise economy, on the part of the State to pay the entire 

 cost of suppression of forest fires on unseated lands in such counties 

 as Pike, Sullivan and Forest, where the area to be guarded is enorm- 

 ous in proportion to the population. Indeed I should favor imme- 

 diate action in this direction. 



It must be said that so long as those who create forest fires go un- 

 punished, we may expect the destruction to continue. There is but 



