Excerpt from Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Vol. 9: Passed at the Several Sessions of the General Court, Beginning May, 1822, and Ending February, 1825 An Act to preserve the Forest and Wood Lands from fire, in the town of Sandwich, in the county of Barnstable. Sec. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, it shall not be law ' ful for any person to set fire or continue the same to any coal-pit, for the manufacture of coal, in the woods and forests of the t0wn of Sandwich, or for the purpose of burning the under brush, for clear ing up the lands within the limits of said town, ex cept from and after the first day of October to the first day of March, in each year, and at no period of the year, save as above excepted, shall fires be allowed to be placed or continued in said town, except said coal-pits be fired in the open fields, and not less than sixty rods from any forest, for the purposes above expressed, under the penalty of What shall hereafter be provided in this Act. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.