74 FOREST PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION 
the cause. We will appreciate it if you will give this your careful 
attention for the next few weeks. 
Very truly yours, 
FORREST H. COLBy, Forest Commissioner. 
The so-called Slash Law was amended by the last Legislature, 
requiring permits to burn brush from the Forest Commissioner. 
As the law did not come into effect until July 4th, only thirty-six 
permits were granted this season. The law was also amended 
requiring the Forest Commissioner to furnish to the Municipal 
Officers of all the towns and organized plantations of the State 
blank permits signed by him for the burning of brush and slash, 
and full authority was given to these officers to counter- 
sign and grant such permits signed by the Forest Commissioner. 
Books of twenty-five permits have been prepared and will be ready 
for distribution early next spring. Another amendment which 
was added to this law is the clause making any violation of the 
so-called slash law punishable by a fine of fifty dollars. 
PATROL 
George F. Granville was again commissioned as a patrolman 
covering section around Parsonsfield. He was paid out of the 
money donated to the department for that purpose by the Sokokis 
Lumber Company and from the appropriation for general forestry 
purposes. 
' FOREST FIRES 
The damage done by forest fires outside of the Maine Forestry 
District was a great deal less this season than in 1918. The fol- 
lowing tabulation gives the number of fires that were reported to 
this office by the Selectmen. 
FOREST FIRES QUTSIDE OF THE MAINE FORESTRY DISTRICT. 
TOWNSHIP . Date - Acres | Cause | Damage 
Monticello. ............00.. June 2 60 ‘Burning fallow * 
Greene..................... |Aug. 10 8  (Campers................. * 
Chapman.................. ‘Aug. 6 3 | Unknown................ $20.00 
Yarmouth.................. ‘May 15° 2  ([Locomotive............... * 
Sebago..................04. June 6 3 ‘Portable mill.............. 30.00 
Sebago.................005. | May 29 40 Portable mill ............ . none 
Standish................... April 23 40 Burning brush............ 200.00 
Yarmouth.................. May 24 2 Portable mill........... ce * 
Standish................... June 13 75 Unknown................. 25.00 
No. Yarmouth.............. July 26 5 Wood choppers............ 100.00 
Temple.................... Aug 1 2 Lumbermen.............. none 
Tremont................... Aug. 15 2 Berry pickers............. 300.00 
Brownfield................. |Aug. 2 300 Cigarette................. | 300.00 
Bowdoin................... July é 10 Saw mill................. | * 
Cornville................... April 2¢ 75 Unknown................. 1,300.00 
Baileyville.................. May 1¢ 15 Unknown................. 200.00 
Lebanon................... July sC 1% |jCigarette.................! 100.00 
Lebanon................... Aug. Z 5 Locomotive............... 50.00 
North Berwick.............. July 29 20 Unknown................. none 
668 14 $2,625.00 
