114 Second Annual Report of Conservation Commission. 



Fifth. That section 90 of chapter 444 of the Laws of 1912 

 should he amended to read as follows: 



§ 90. Limbs and branches to be cut off [lopped]. Every person 

 who shall, within any of the towns enumerated in section ninety- 

 seven of this chapter except as hereinafter provided, fell [cut] or 

 cause to be [cut] felled or permit to be [cut] felled any ever- 

 green trees for sale or other purposes shall cut off [or lop] or 

 cause to be cut off [or lopped] from the said trees and 

 the limbs thereof, at the time of felling the said trees or 

 at a time to be fixed by the commission as hereinafter provided, 

 all the limbs or branches thereof up to a point where the trunk 

 or branch has a longest diameter which does not exceed three 

 inches, unless the said tree be [cut] felled for sale and use 

 with the branches thereon or for use with the branches thereon. 

 // the commission shall by resolution determine that no danger 

 to neighboring or other forests will arise if the limbs or branches 

 of trees growing on particular lands to be described in said reso- 

 lution are not cut off at the time of felling the said trees, the 

 limbs and branches thereof need not be cut off at that time but 

 in that case the same sliall be cut off as above required at the 

 time fixed by the commission and such time shall be fixed in said 

 resolution. If the commission shall by resolution determine that 

 no danger to neighboring or other forests will arise if the limbs 

 and branches of trees growing on particular lands to be described 

 in said resolution are not cut off if said trees are felled, then this 

 section shall not apply to the person who shall fell said trees or 

 who shall cause them to be felled or permit them- to be felled. Any 

 person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a 

 misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction, be liable to a fine of not 

 more than twenty-five dollars or to imprisonment for not more 

 than thirty days or to both such fine and imprisonment for each 

 offense and in addition shall be liable to a penalty of two 

 dollars for each and every tree felled and from which he shall 

 fail or neglect to cut off or cause to be cut off the limbs and 

 branches as required by this section. 



Respectfully submitted, 



C. R. Pettis, 

 Superintendent of State Forests. 



