Biennial Report of the Forestry Commission for the Two Fiscal Years Ending ...The Commission, 1908 |
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$2 per acre actual value amount annual tax assessed value assessors average Basis blight box boards cent chestnut circular saw cords crop Cu.ft cubic feet cubic foot culled cut or removed cut-over land Diameter breasthigh estimate expense f. o. b. value farm feet per acre fifty fire wardens forest fires forest lands forest property Forest Service Forestry Commission grades growing timber hardwoods Height-Feet inches in diameter increase in value ized town kerf land in organized less lumber lumbermen Merrimack County mill organized town owners paper birch pasture patrol pine lots plank popple present pulpwood railroad red oak small end softwoods spruce and balsam stand stumpage value TABLE FOR WHITE tax rate taxation thousand board feet timberlands tion tract trees valuable valuation value per acre white pine Wild land wood or timber woodlot yield young growth young pine
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Page 60 - Where the statutes provided that " all real and personal estate liable to taxation be estimated and assessed by the assessor at its full and true value, as they would appraise the same in payment of a just debt due from a solvent debtor...
Page 19 - If any person shall kindle a fire by the use of firearms, or by any other means, on land not his own, he shall be fined not exceeding ten dollars ; and if such fire spreads and does any damage to the property of others, he shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding three years.
Page 52 - ... objections have been raised to the taxes on forest land by timberland owners is due to the fact that timberlands have in the past been greatly underassessed, and while the tax rates have been extremely high in many cases, the burden of taxation upon the timberland is just beginning to be felt. 5. In the search for revenue to meet the financial necessities of the towns a strong tendency has recently developed to enforce the law more rigidly, and valuations have in many cases been greatly increased....
Page 19 - PROVISIONS OF THE PUBLIC STATUTES RELATING TO FOREST FIRES. If any person shall kindle a fire by the use of firearms, or by any other means, on land not his own, he shall be fined not exceeding ten dollars ; and if such fire spreads and does any damage to the property of others, he shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars.
Page 20 - ... shall kindle a fire upon his own land, or upon the land which he occupies, or upon which he is laboring, at an unsuitable time, or in a careless and imprudent manner, and shall thereby injure or destroy the property of others, he shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars." (Chap. 277, sec. 5.) "Whoever shall inform the prosecuting officers of the state of evidence which secures the conviction of any person who willfully, maliciously, or through criminal carelessness has caused any damage...
Page 110 - ... the return required by section 6 is omitted for any year the selectmen and assessors shall for that year assess the land with respect to which such omission occurs for taxation at the value of the land plus the value of the growth upon it, but the land shall continue to be classified under this act. If any part or the whole of such tract is at any time after such classification chiefly used for other purposes, such part or the whole, as the case may be, shall thereupon cease to be classified...
Page 21 - ... patrol the woods in their respective cities or towns, warning persons who traverse the woods, campers, hunters, fishermen, and others, about lighting and extinguishing fires.
Page 28 - Derry, East Kingston, Epping, Exeter, Fremont, Greenland, Hampstead, Hampton, Hampton Falls, Kensington, Kingston, Londonderry, Newcastle, Newfields, Newington, Newmarket, Newton, North Hampton, Northwood, Nottingham, Plaistow, Portsmouth, Baymond Rye Salem, ROCKINGHAM COUNTY.
Page 112 - ... not include in such estimate the cost, or expense, of erecting and maintaining fences along the line of such railroad; and they shall return an appraisement of such damages, in writing, under their hands, to the clerk of the superior court in the county where the land lies, who shall record it, and when so returned and recorded, such appraisement shall have the effect of a judgment, and execution may issue, at the end of sixty days from the time of such return, in favor of the persons respectively...
Page 30 - Ellsworth, Enfield, Franconia, Grafton, Groton, Hanover, Haverhill, Hebron, Holderness, Landaff, Lebanon, Lisbon, Littleton, Livermore, Lyman, Lyme, Monroe, Orange, Orford, Piermont, Plymouth, Rumney, Thornton, Warren, Waterville, Wentworth, Woodstock, Berlin, Carroll, Clarksville, Colebrook, Columbia, Dalton, Dummer, Errol, AH Carpenter.