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The Forest Commissioner, with the advice of the 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, shall take measures 

 for awakening an interest in behalf of forestry in the 

 public schools, academies and colleges, and of imparting 

 some degree of elementary instruction upon this subject 

 therein. 



Important new legislation was enacted by Maine in 



1903. The law of March 26, of that year, made it the 

 duty of the Forest Commissioner to appoint forest war- 

 dens "in all plantations and unorganized townships," who 

 are to patrol the forests, prevent and extinguish forest 

 fires and to hold office during his pleasure. They are to 

 receive $2 a day for each day of actual service, and may 

 summon to their assistance citizens, to be paid fifteen 

 cents for each hour of service. All expense incurred to 

 be paid from the funds appropriated for the Forest 

 Commission. The legislature of 1903 appropriated, as 

 an ' 'emergency fund for the prevention and extinguish- 

 ment of forest fires," $10,000 for the year 1903, and the 

 same amount for the year 1904. It also appropriated for 

 ''public instruction in forestry" $2,500 for the year 1903 



and an equal amount for the same purpose for the year 



1904. These amounts are in addition to the appropri- 

 ation for the expense of the Forest Commissioner's office. 



CONNECTICUT. 



The law of Connecticut of June 17, 1901 (chapter 

 175), required the Board of Control of the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station at New Haven to appoint "a man 

 qualified by scientific training and practical experience to 

 be State Forester," with authority to buy land in the 

 state ' 'suitable for the growth of oak, pine and chesnut 

 lumber, at a price not exceeding $4 per acre," and to 

 plant the land with seeds or seedlings of such trees, or 

 such other trees as he may deem expedient, at a cost not 



