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purchase or otherwise, and hold anj' woodland or land suitable for timber 

 cultivation within the commonwealth. The commission shall have power 

 to take such lands in fee with the approval of the governor and council. 

 The commission may, after a public hearing, sell or exchange any land 

 thus acquired which in the judgment of the commission can no longer be 

 used advantageously for the purposes of this act. The average cost of 

 land purchased by the commission shall not exceed five dollars an acre. 

 The commission shall have the same powers in acquiring land under this 

 act which are given to the metropolitan park commission established by 

 chapter four hundred and seven of the acts of the year eighteen hundred 

 and ninety-three, and acts amendatory thereof, and any person aggrieved 

 by a detennination of damages made by the commission may have the 

 same assessed by a jury of the superior court in the manner and subject 

 to the limitations specified in said chapter four hundred and seven, as 

 amended. [Approved April 18, 1916. 



INSPECTORS OF MILK. 



General Acts, Chapter 134. 

 An Act relative to inspectors and collectors of milk. 

 Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Inspectors of milk and collectors of milk samples shall have authority 

 to take samples from milk, intended for sale in their respective cities and 

 towns, wherever, within the commonwealth, such milk is produced, stored 

 or transported, but this act shall not be construed to permit of any inter- 

 ference by such inspectors or collectors with milk in the course of inter- 

 state commerce. [Approved April 18, 1916. 



SALE OF FRUITS AND FLOWERS. 



General Acts, Chapter 48. 

 An Act relative to the sale of wild fruits, berries and flowers. 

 Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. Chapter sixty-five of the Re\'ised Laws, as amended in 

 section fifteen thereof by chapter three hundred and seventy-seven of 

 the acts of the year nineteen hundred and five, and by chapter three hun- 

 dred and forty-five of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and six, is 

 hereby further amended by striking out all of said section fifteen and in- 

 serting in place thereof the following: — Section 15. Hawkers and 

 pedlers may sell without a license books, newspapers, pamphlets, fuel, 

 provisions, ice, live animals, brooms, agricultural implements, hand tools 

 used in making boots and shoes, wild or uncultivated fruits, and berries 

 and wild flowers, and the products of their o\m labor or of the labor of 

 their families, including among such products fruits and agricultural 

 products, if such sale is not made in violation of an ordinance or by-law 



