350 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 



forestry, and especially with reference to forest fires in every part of the Stated 

 Someone, for no apparent reason, amended the law by striking out the latter clause. 

 The present law, in defining the duties of the Commission (Sec. 155, chap. 20, Laws 

 of 1900), invests it with various powers, one of which is " the enforcement of laws 

 for the protection of the forests." This seems inadequate to the case in question, 

 for the sections defining the duties of the chief firewarden and town firewardens 

 specifically limit their powers to towns in the sixteen counties. 



The annual statistics as to forest fires, published by the Commission, would be 

 much more valuable and interesting if they included returns from every town in the 

 State, the reports from outside the sixteen counties to be made by the supervisors. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



WILLIAM F. FOX, 



Superintendent of Forests. 



DENUDED BY FIRE. 



