Report of the Forest Commissioner of the State of Maine, Issue 7The Commissioner, 1908 - Forest fires The [9th] report contains "Wood-using industries of Maine by J.C. Nellis." Title-page omits "Report." |
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... west sides of the tree and the entire top dead while the lower , more protected branches on the south side were still green , and apparently uninjured . Nor was this injury confined to the pines alone , for spruces and firs and some ...
... west sides of the tree and the entire top dead while the lower , more protected branches on the south side were still green , and apparently uninjured . Nor was this injury confined to the pines alone , for spruces and firs and some ...
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... Vines , and Thomas Oldham , a tract on the west side of Saco river , extending from the sea 8 miles up the river , and 4 miles in width . Under this grant the lands in Biddeford FOREST COMMISSIONER'S REPORT . 37 Acts of Council of Plymouth.
... Vines , and Thomas Oldham , a tract on the west side of Saco river , extending from the sea 8 miles up the river , and 4 miles in width . Under this grant the lands in Biddeford FOREST COMMISSIONER'S REPORT . 37 Acts of Council of Plymouth.
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... West- brook , Cape Elizabeth , Scarborough , and Kennebunk port . The title to the lands , under some of these grants , became extinct by the neglect of the grantees , and the interference of other claims ; but some were occupied , and ...
... West- brook , Cape Elizabeth , Scarborough , and Kennebunk port . The title to the lands , under some of these grants , became extinct by the neglect of the grantees , and the interference of other claims ; but some were occupied , and ...
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... western limits ; and the conflicting claims to boundaries between this and other grants , on almost every side of it ... west side of Penobscot bay and river , extending westward to Muscongus river , and northward to a line which now ...
... western limits ; and the conflicting claims to boundaries between this and other grants , on almost every side of it ... west side of Penobscot bay and river , extending westward to Muscongus river , and northward to a line which now ...
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... west , and Leeds on the east sides . Besides this , the towns on the Kennebeck , and the sea - coast , to Damariscotta , were all covered by different purchases from the Indians , in smaller parcels , between the years 1643 and 1666 ...
... west , and Leeds on the east sides . Besides this , the towns on the Kennebeck , and the sea - coast , to Damariscotta , were all covered by different purchases from the Indians , in smaller parcels , between the years 1643 and 1666 ...
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1823 September 1st range 2d range 50 Unknown 9th range Acres Cause amount April 19 Aroostook Bangor Bluehill Bay Bowdoin College Burnt Coat Division Campers Cape Porpoise charter chusetts Commonwealth Cumberland Deer Island Deer Isle Deer Isle Thoroughfare District of Maine East Eastern boundary Eggemoggin Reach February 17 forest fires forestry Frenchman's Bay Governor Greenleaf Head Harbor Indian deeds Isle au Haut January John Jonesport July 12 June 16 Kennebec Land Agent Ledge legislature LIST OF MAINE Little Deer Lottery lands Machias Bay Massachu Massachusetts Massachusetts Bay ment Mispecky Moosehead Lake NAME OF ISLAND Narraguagus Bay needles North November 24 October 30 Oxford Penobscot Bay PENOBSCOT COUNTY Penobscot River Phippsburg Pleasant River Bay Pond public lands purchase Railroad Saco Sept September 17 settlers Somerset South of Addison South of Deer South of Jonesport township trees Unknown 50 Waldo patent West white pine blight wild lands ΙΟ
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Page 36 - But neither the amendment — broad and comprehensive as it is — nor any other amendment, was designed to interfere with the power of the state, sometimes termed its police power, to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education, and good order of the people, and to legislate so as to increase the industries of the state, develop its resources, and add to its wealth and prosperity.
Page 37 - We think it is a settled principle, growing out of the nature of well ordered civil society, that every holder of property, however absolute and unqualified may be his title, holds it under the implied liability that his use of it may be so regulated, that it shall not be injurious to the equal enjoyment of others having an equal right to the enjoyment of their property, nor injurious to the rights of the community.
Page 38 - Rights of property, like all other social and conventional rights, are subject to such reasonable limitations in their enjoyment, as shall prevent them from being injurious, and to such reasonable restraints and regulations established by law, as the legislature, under the governing and controlling power vested in them by the constitution, may think necessary and expedient.
Page 38 - First, such property is not the result of productive labor, but is derived solely from the state itself, the original owner; second, the amount of land being incapable of increase, if the owners of large tracts can waste them at will without state restriction, the state and its people may be helplessly impoverished and one great purpose of government defeated. * * * We do not think the proposed legislation would operate to "take" private property within the inhibition of the constitution.
Page 36 - Still more recently however, the tendency seems to go back to the principles enunciated in the earlier cases. In Massachusetts, one of the earliest states to adopt the constitutional provision, and in Maine, adopting the same provision in succession, the courts have uniformly considered that it was to be construed strictly as against the police power of the legislature. Commonwealth versus Tewkesbury, u Met. 55, decided in 1846, was a case where the legislature prohibited the owners from removing...
Page 38 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 35 - The Legislature shall convene on the first Wednesday of January, annually, and shall have full power to make and establish all reasonable laws and regulations for the defense and benefit of the people of this State, not repugnant to this Constitution, nor to that of the United States.
Page 38 - Massachusetts at least), we do not think the proposed legislation would operate to " take " private property within the inhibition of the constitution. While it might restrict the owner of wild and uncultivated lands in his use of them, might delay his taking some of the product, might defer his anticipated profits, and even thereby might cause him some loss of profit, it would nevertheless leave him his lands, their product and increase, untouched, and without diminution of title, estate, or quantity....
Page 38 - Strictly speaking, private property can only be said to have been taken for public uses when it has been so appropriated that the public have certain and well defined rights to that use secured, as the right to use the public highway, the turnpike, the ferry, the railroad and the like.
Page 35 - ... diminishing injurious erosion of the land and the filling up of the rivers, ponds and lakes, and as an efficient means necessary to this end, has the Legislature power under the Constitution...