emergency, including forest fires, and to ex- 

 pend State money for this purpose, so that 

 State money is expended only under the im- 

 mediate direction of the State police. In this 

 case give the State police the power of fire 

 wardens to call out men and requisition teams 

 and means. 



16. Leave the salaries of this police entirely 

 with the State Commission and do not require 

 uniform pay. 



Present Laws Need Modification. 



17. Modify the present laws on the follow- 

 ing points: 



a. Forbid all hunting, trapping and camp- 

 ing on unoccupied lands and on roads leading 

 through such lands and also in woodlot and 

 fields from April 15 to Oct. 15, except by the 

 owner of the land or upon written permit of 

 the owner. 



b. Forbid any person building camp fires 

 or other fires on the lands of others between 

 April 15 and June 30 and August 15 and Octo- 

 ber 15, except by permission of the owner. 



c. Forbid building camp fires on the public 

 right of way closer than 20 feet to any com- 

 bustible materials, grass, brush, etc., and com- 

 pel the perfect extinction of all such fires. 



d. Forbid smoking of cigars, pipes, cigar- 

 ettes, etc., in all forests and on all unoccupied 

 lands and roads leading through such lands 

 unless the snow covers the ground. 



e. Forbid the building of fires for the clear- 

 ing of land and other useful fires without per- 

 mit from the town officer. 



f. Require a gun license of everybody. 



g. Any person found near a forest fire on 

 the land of others without written permit of 

 owner or without being able to establish satis- 

 factory reason for being there may, in the 

 judgment of the court, be deemed guilty of 



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