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Sec. 35. Penalty for not extinguishing camp, cooking or other fires; 

 exceptions ; fines, how disposed of. R. S. c. 7, § 55. Whoever by him- 

 self, or by his servant, agent or guide, or as the servant, agent or guide 

 of any other person, shall build a camp, cooking or other fire, or use 

 an abandoned camp, cooking or other fire in or adjacent to any woods 

 in this state, shall, before leaving such fire, totally extinguish the same, 

 and upon failure to do so such person shall be punished by a fine of fifty 

 dollars, provided that such fires built upon the sea beach in such situa- 

 tion that they cannot spread into forest land, woodland, or cultivated 

 lands or meadows, shall not be construed as prohibited by this section. 

 One-half of any fine imposed and collected under this section shall be 

 paid to the complainant. 



Sec. 36. Notices shall be erected, tliat all fires must be extinguished. 

 R. S. c. 7, § 56. Selectmen shall erect in a conspicuous place at the 

 side of every highway as they may deem proper, and at suitable dis- 

 tances alongside the rivers and lakes of the state frequented by camp- 

 ing parties, tourists, hunters and fishermen, in their respective towns, 

 notices in large letters to be furnished by the forest commissioner, sub- 

 stantially in the following form : "Camp fires must be totally extin- 

 guished before breaking camp, under penalty of not to exceed one 

 month's imprisonment or one hundred dollars fine, or both as pro- 

 vided by law. , Forest Commissioner." The forest com- 

 missioner shall furnish owners of woodlands situated within this state 

 when called upon so to do, notices of similar tenor to be posted at 

 the expense of said owners upon their respective lands. 



Sec. 37. Hunters required to use non-combustible wads. R. S. c. 7, 

 % 57. All persons engaged in hunting game on any Ot the woodlands 

 within any town or unincorporated place in this state, shall use non- 

 combustible wads in the loading of firearms used by them. 



Sec. 38. Governor may suspend open season for hunting. 1909, c. 

 52, § 1. Whenever, during an open season for the hunting of any kind 

 of game or game birds in this state, it shall appear to the governor 

 that, by reason of drought, the possession of firearms in the forests 

 is liable to cause forest fires, he may, by proclamation suspend the 

 open season and make it a close season for such time as he may desig- 

 nate. 



Sec. 39. All laws relating to close season shall be in force during 

 suspended season. 1909, c. 52, § 2. During the time which shall by 

 such proclamation be made a close season, all provisions of law cover- 

 ing and relating to the close season shall be in force, and a person 

 violating a provision of the same shall be subject to the penalty therein 

 prescribed. Whoever enters upon the wild lands of the state carrying 

 or having in his possession any firearms, or shoots during the close 

 season fixed by proclamation of the governor, as provided in the pre- 

 ceding section, any wild animal or bird for the hunting of which there 

 is no close season otherwise provided by law, shall be punished by a fine 

 of one hundred dollars and costs. 



