Report of the Michigan Forestry CommissionState printers., 1905 |
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Page 140 - All fines recovered under the provisions of this act shall be paid into the county treasury of the county in which the suit is tried, by the person collecting the same in the manner now provided by law to be used for county purposes.
Page 138 - ... person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed three months.
Page 113 - When the forest is gone, the great reservoir of moisture stored up in its vegetable mould is evaporated, and returns only in deluges of rain to wash away the parched dust into which that mould has been converted.
Page 110 - ... they are known to have been covered with luxuriant woods, verdant pastures, and fertile meadows, they are now too far deteriorated to be reclaimable by man, nor can they become again fitted for human use, except through great geological changes, or other mysterious influences or agencies, of which we have no present knowledge, and over which we have no prospective control.
Page 16 - December in each year, of such facts and statistics as it may deem of public interest, and recommend such legislation as may be necessary for the preservation and restoration of the timber and forestry of the state, or any portion thereof, and cause such number of reports, not exceeding two thousand copies, to be printed each...
Page 113 - ... the whole earth, unless rescued by human art from the physical degradation to which it tends, becomes an assemblage of bald mountains, of barren, turfless hills, and of swampy and malarious plains.
Page 137 - Said chief fire warden shall receive a salary of five hundred dollars per year, and shall hold his office during the pleasure of the Forest Commissioner. He shall represent the authority of the Forest Commissioner and it shall be his duty to enforce the provisions of this act throughout the State.
Page 58 - Old wood to burn ! Ay, bring the hillside beech From where the owlets meet and screech, And ravens croak; The crackling pine, and cedar sweet ; Bring too a clump of fragrant peat, Dug 'neath the fern; The knotted oak, A fagot too, perhap, Whose bright flame, dancing, winking, Shall light us at our drinking; While the oozing sap Shall make sweet music to our thinking.
Page 140 - Any railroad company wilfully violating the requirements of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine not exceeding one...
Page 140 - The master of a vessel who shall refuse or neglect to comply with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.