260 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Acts of 1910, Chapter 478. 



An Act relative to the Picking of Berries and Flowers and to 

 Camping and Picnicking during Certain Months in the Coun- 

 ties OP Barnstable and Plymouth. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any unnaturalized, foreign-born 

 person to pick wild berries or flowers, or to camp or picnic, upon any 

 land of which he is not the owner, within the counties of Barnstable and 

 Plymouth, between the first day of April and the first day of December, 

 without first obtaining written permission so to do from the owner or 

 owners of the land. The Said written permit shall not be transferable, 

 and shall be exhibited upon demand to the forest warden, or his depu- 

 ties, of the town wherein the land is located, or upon demand of any 

 sheriff, constable, police officer or other officer authorized to arrest for 

 crime. Failure or refusal to produce said permit upon such demand 

 shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this act, and any forest 

 "warden or any duly authorized deputy forest warden, police officer, 

 sheriff or other officer authorized to arrest for crime, may arrest with- 

 out warrant any person who fails or refuses to display for inspection 

 the said permit upon the demand of any of the oflficials named in this 

 act. 



Section 2. Whoever violates any provision of this act shall be pun- 

 ished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment for 

 not more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 

 [Approved May 3, 1910. 



In response to the suggestion made by Governor Draper in 

 his inaugural address, as well as the recommendation contained 

 in the annual report of the State Forester, the law relative to 

 the suppression of the gypsy and brown-tail moths was so 

 amended as to make the ofSce of local moth superintendent 

 appointive rather than elective, and the appointees subject to 

 the approval of the State Forester. The object of this legis- 

 lation was to insure the appointment of thoroughly competent 

 men to have charge of this important woi-k in the cities and 

 towns of the Commonwealth. The amendment was as fol- 

 lows : — 



