l6 FOREST COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. 



Sec. 40. Proclamation shall be published and posted; copy filed with 

 secretary of state. 1909, c. 52, § 3. Such proclamation shall be pub- 

 lished in such newspapers of the state and posted in such places and in 

 such manner as the governor may order in writing. A copy of such 

 proclamation and order, shall be filed with the secretary of state. A 

 like attested copy shall be furnished to the forest commissioner, who 

 shall attend to the posting and publication of the proclamation. All 

 expense thereof and all the expense of enforcing the provisions of the 

 proclamation shall be paid by said commissioner, after allowance by 

 the state auditor, from any funds in the state treasury not otherwise 

 appropriated. 



Sec. 41. When proclamation may be annulled. 1909, c. 32, § 4. If 

 after the issuing of the proclamation as provided in section thirty-eight, 

 by reason of rains or otherwise, the governor is satisfied that the occa- 

 sion has passed for the issuance of the proclamation, he may annul it 

 by another proclamation issued as provided for the issuance of the 

 first proclamation. 



Sec. 42. Inquiry shall be made into origin of zvoodland fires. R. S. 

 £• 7, § 5#- I 909, c. 164, § 2. Municipal officers in towns shall proceed 

 immediately to a strict inquiry into the cause and origin of fires within 

 woodlands ; and in all cases where such fires are found to have origi- 

 nated from the unlawful act of any person, to cause the offender to be 

 prosecuted without delay. 



Sec. 43. Selectmen sliall make report of any forest fire. R. S. c. /, 

 § 59. 1909, c. 164, § 3. The selectmen of towns in which a forest fire 

 of more than one acre in extent has occurred, within a month shall 

 report to the forest commissioner the extent of area burned over to the 

 best of tbeir information, together with the probable amount of property 

 destroyed, specifying the value of timber as near as may be, and the 

 amount of cord wood, logs, bark or other forest product, fencing, 

 bridges and buildings that have been burned. They shall also report 

 the causes of these fires if they can be ascertained, and the measures 

 employed and found effective in checking their progress. Blanks for 

 such reports shall be furnished by the forest commissioner at the ex- 

 pense of the state. 



Sec. 44. Forest commissioner shall maintain fire patrol, along rail- 

 roads. 1911, c. 35, § /. 1915, c. 68. Whenever in the.judgment of the 

 forest commissioner, the woodlands along the railroads traversing the 

 forest lands of the state, are in a dry and dangerous condition, he shall 

 maintain a competent and efficient fire patrol along the right of way or 

 lands of such railroads. 



Sec. 45. Fires shall be reported to forest commissioner. 1911, c. 35, 

 § 3. All fires started upon the right of way of any railroad or lands 

 adjacent thereto shall be immediately reported to the commissioner 

 upon blanks to be furnished by him, by the patrolman within whose 

 limits the fire originated, setting forth the origin of such fire, the 



