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care and precaution against the spread of such fire to other land shall 

 have been taken by previously having cut and piled such brush, logs, 

 leaves or grass, or having carefully cleared around the land which is to 

 be burned, so as to prevent the spread of such fire. The setting of fire 

 contrary to the provisions of this section, or allowing it to escape to the 

 injury of adjoining land, shall be prima facie proof of wilfulness or 

 neglect, and the landowner from whose land the fire originated shall 

 be liable in a civil action for damages for the injury resulting from 

 such fire and also for the cost of fighting and extinguishing the same. 



Section 13. Whenever the State Forester or any firewarden 

 of any county becomes convinced that a dangerously dry time exists, 

 and that it is imprudent to set fire on any land, the firewarden shall post 

 or cause to be posted, a notice in three public places in his county for- 

 bidding the setting of any such fire therein, and after the posting of 

 such notices no person shall set any fire upon any land in said county, 

 except for warming the person or cooking food, until written permis- 

 sion has been received from the firewarden of said county. All per- 

 sons who start camp fires shall exercise all reasonable precaution to pre- 

 vent damage therefrom, and shall extinguish the same before leaving 

 them. Every person violating any provision of this section shall be 

 punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in 

 the county jail for not more than six months for each offense. 



Section 14. Every railroad company shall keep its right of 

 way clear and free from weeds, high grass and decayed timber which 

 from their nature and condition are combustible material, liable to take 

 and communicate fire from passing trains to abutting or adjacent prop- 

 erty. No railroad company shall permit its employees to deposit fire, 

 live coal, or ashes upon their tracks in wooded country outside of the 

 yard limits unless they are immediately extinguished. Engineers, con- 

 ductors, or trainmen who discover that fences or other material along 

 the right of way or lands adjacent to the right of way are burning or 

 in danger from fire shall report the same to the agent or person in 

 charge at their next stopping place at which there shall be a telegraph 

 station. Railroad companies shall give particular instruction to their 

 section employees for the prevention and prompt extinguishment of 

 fires, shall cause notices, which shall be furnished by the State fire- 

 warden, to be posted at their stations, and, when a fire occurs along the 

 line of their road or on lands adjacent thereto, for which fire they are 

 responsible, shall concentrate such help and adopt such measures as 

 shall most effectually arrest its progress. Failure tO' comply with these 

 requirements shall be a misdemeanor, punishable, upon conviction, by 

 a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars 

 for each and every offense thus committed. 



