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Sect. 16. The forest commissioner shall prepare tracts or circu- 

 lars of information, giving plain and concise advice for the care of 

 wood lands and for the preservation of forest growth. These publi- 

 cations shall be furnished to any citizen of the state upon application. 



Sect. 17. It shall be the duty of the forest commissioner to cause, 

 at the expense of the state, copies of this chapter and all other laws 

 of the state relating to forest fires to be printed and freely distributed 

 to the selectmen of all the towns of the state, whose duty it shall be 

 to post them up in school houses, saw mills, logging camps and other 

 places, and similar copies shall be furnished to owners of forest 

 lands, who may apply or them, to be posted up at the expense of 

 such owners. Any person viciously or wantonly tearing down, 

 destroying or defacing an^' such notices, shall on conviction therefor, 

 be punished by a fine of five dollars. 



Sect. 18. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the pro- 

 visions of this act, are hereby repealed, but none of the penalties 

 proposed by this tict shall be considered as substitutes for or as 

 repealing the provisions of existing laws, making persons guilty of 

 acts of trespass or liable for civil damages to persons injured by 

 such acts. 



[Approved March 25.1 



