All the provisions of this chapter giving a penalty for cutting down, deadening, girdling, boxing, destroying, or taking away trees of any kind, herein mentioned, and regulating the remedy for enforcing the same, shall apply when the injury is committed on land belonging to the state, or which is held by the state in trust for any purpose.Codes, 1892, § 4421; 1906, § 4986; Hemingway's 1917, § 3255; 1930, § 3420; 1942, § 1084.
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