8 FOREST commissioner's REPORT. 



Sect. 11. All locomotives which shall be run through forest 

 lands, shall be provided with approved and efficient arrangements 

 for preventing the escape of fire and sparks. 



Sect. 12. No railroad compan3'^ shall permit its employes to 

 deposit fire, live coals or ashes, upon their track in the immediate 

 vicinity o( wood lands or land liable to be overrun by fires, and 

 where engineers, conductors or train men discover that fences along 

 the right of way or wood lands adjacent to the railroads, are burning 

 or in danger from fire, it shall be their duty to report the same at 

 their rext stopping place which shall be a telegraph station. 



Sect. 13. For all damages caused to forest growth by anj- per- 

 son employed in the construction of any railroad hereafter to be 

 built in this state the company owning such road shall be primaril3' 

 liable to the person or persons so damaged. During the construction 

 of such roads through wood land, there shall be kept posted in con- 

 spicuous places on each line of the road wa3's at distances of two 

 hundred feet, abstracts of the laws relating to forest fires. Any 

 person employed in the construction of such railroads, who shall set 

 or cause to be set any fire along the line of said roads, shall, before 

 leaving the same, totally extinguish said fires, and upon failure to 

 do so, such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 

 upon conviction thereof shall be punished b}' a fine of not exceeding 

 five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not 

 exceeding sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. It 

 shall be the duty of all persons having charge of men in the construc- 

 tion of such railroads, to see that the provisions of this section are 

 carefully complied with, and an}' negligence or want of ordinary care 

 on their part in relation to the same shall constitute a misdemeanor, 

 and upon conviction thereof, they shall be liable to the penalties 

 imposed by this section. 



Sect. 14. Any railroad company violating the requirements of 

 this act, shall be liable to a fine of one huudred dollars for each 

 offense. 



Sect. 15. Thejforest commissioner shall take such measures as 

 the state superintendent of common schools and the president of the 

 state college of agriculture and the mechanic arts may approve, for 

 awakening an interest in behalf of forestry in the public schools, 

 academies^and colleges of the state, and of imparting some degree 

 of elementaryjinstruction upon this subject therein. 



