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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... Amount Acreage of Damage Aroostook 28 $ 110 Cumberland 927 6,825 Hancock 1,233 1,430 Oxford 300 700 Penobscot 140 550 Somerset 1,006 3,012 Waldo 40 40 Washington 550 1,200 York 300 700 4,524 $ 14,567 PHOTOGRAPH SHOWING TREES THROUGH ...
... Amount Acreage of Damage Aroostook 28 $ 110 Cumberland 927 6,825 Hancock 1,233 1,430 Oxford 300 700 Penobscot 140 550 Somerset 1,006 3,012 Waldo 40 40 Washington 550 1,200 York 300 700 4,524 $ 14,567 PHOTOGRAPH SHOWING TREES THROUGH ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... amount of the lands of which the titles , derived from the foregoing grants and patents , have been holden to be good , or which have been established to the possessor , appears from the inventory of 1820 , to be about 1,758,545 acres ...
... amount of the lands of which the titles , derived from the foregoing grants and patents , have been holden to be good , or which have been established to the possessor , appears from the inventory of 1820 , to be about 1,758,545 acres ...
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... amount ; with 12 townships , amounting to about 310,000 acres , in Oxford ; and several tracts in York , some of which were of considerable extent , not covered by the claims under the Indian deeds and other grants , before alluded to ...
... amount ; with 12 townships , amounting to about 310,000 acres , in Oxford ; and several tracts in York , some of which were of considerable extent , not covered by the claims under the Indian deeds and other grants , before alluded to ...
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... Washington 344,520 210,875 271,934 57,500 847,442 167,100 1,768,683 374,575 1,190,425 259,020 762,840 447,645 Grand total ... 8,473,861 $ 2,284,986 ESTIMATES OF VALUE OF LAND . The entire amount of FOREST COMMISSIONER'S REPORT . 53.
... Washington 344,520 210,875 271,934 57,500 847,442 167,100 1,768,683 374,575 1,190,425 259,020 762,840 447,645 Grand total ... 8,473,861 $ 2,284,986 ESTIMATES OF VALUE OF LAND . The entire amount of FOREST COMMISSIONER'S REPORT . 53.
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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...