6 FOREST commissioner's REPORT. 



official services. It shall be the duty of the fire warden of 

 the district in which a fire is discovered to take such measures 

 as may be necessary for its control or extinction. For this pur- 

 pose he shall have authority to call upon any persons in the 

 territory in which he acts for assistance, and such persons shall 

 receive such compensation not exceeding fifteen cents per hour as 

 said selectmen may determine, the same to be paid by the town. 

 But no town shall be holden to pay for extinguishing forest fires in 

 any year an amount greater than two per cent upon its valuation 

 for purposes of taxation. If an}' person so ordered to assist, and 

 not excused from said service b}' said forest fire warden on account 

 of sickness, disability or some important business or engagement, 

 shall neglect to comply with any such order he shall forfeit the sum 

 of ten dollars, to be recovered in an action of debt in the name and 

 to the use of the town, by the treasurer thereof. 



Sect. 4. County commissioners of each county in which there 

 are unorganized places shall annually appoint, when they deem it 

 necessary, such number of fire wardens as they deem necessary not 

 exceeding ten, for all such unorganized places in any county, whose 

 duties and powers shall be the same with respect to such unor- 

 ganised places as those of the fire wardens of towns, and the}' shall 

 also have the same authority to call out citizens of the county to aid 

 them in extinguishing fires, that town fire wardens have to call out 

 citizens of the town. The compensation of such fire wardens shall 

 be paid by the county, and the compensation of persons called upon 

 by them as aforesaid, to render aid shall be the same as that pro- 

 vided in the case of towns and shall be paid one-half by the county 

 and one-half by the owners of the lands on which said fires occur. 



Sect. 5. Any person who shall build a camp or cooking fire in 

 or adjoining any woods in this state, shall, before leaving such 

 camp, totally extinguish such fire, and upon failure to do so, such 

 person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic- 

 tion thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred 

 dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one 

 month or by both such fine and imprisonment, provided, that such 

 fires built upon the sea beach in such situation that they cannot 

 spread into forest wood or cultivated lands or meadows, shall not be 

 construed as prohibited by this act. 



Sect. 6. It shall be the duty of selectmen in towns within thirty 

 days after this act shall take effect, to cause to be erected in a con- 



