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Section 15. All individuals or corporations causing fires by- 

 violation of Sections 11, 12, 13, and 14 of this act shall be liable to the 

 State and to the county in which the fire occurred, in an action for 

 debt, to the full amount of all expenses incurred by the State or county 

 in fighting and extinguishing such fires. 



Section 16. Justices of the peace for this State, in the county 

 wherein the offense shall have been committed, shall have juris- 

 diction to hear and determine all prosecutions for the purpose of en- 

 forcing fines and penalties, collectible under the provisions of this act, 

 not exceeding the amount of one hundred dollars, and of holding the 

 offender, under proper bail if necessary, for hearing before the circuit 

 court, committing them to the county jail until such hearing, if re- 

 quired bail is not furnished. It shall be the duty of the State's attor- 

 neys of the several counties to prosecute all violators of Sections 11, 12, • 

 13, and 14 of this act. 



Section 17. All money received as penalties for violations of 

 the provisions of this act shall be paid into the county treasury, and all 

 moneys received from the sale of wood, timber, minerals or other prod- 

 ucts from the State forests, or recovered in civil suit as damages to the 

 State forests as hereinbefore provided, shall be paid into the State 

 treasury and shall constitute a State forest fund, which shall be dis- 

 bursed only for the purchase of lands to be added to the State demon- 

 stration forests, and for the improvement and protection of said for- 

 ests, by or upon the order of the State Forester, with the approval of 

 the State Board of Forestry. 



Section 18. There is hereby appropriated the sum of $10,- 

 000 per year for two years out of any funds in the State treasury 

 not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of salaries and expenses 

 other than those provided for in Section 5, and for the purchase of 

 land as herein provided for. 



Section 19. Expenses incurred under Section 5 shall be paid 

 by the State out of the general fund, provided that not more than 

 $2,000 be expended for this purpose in any one year. 



Section 20. The Auditor of public accounts is hereby au- 

 thorized and directed to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for 

 the sums herein appropriated upon the order of the chairman of the 

 State Board of Forestry, countersigned by its secretary. 



Section 21. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the 

 provisions of this act are hereby repealed. 



The present law in regard to forest fires is not sufficiently explicit, 

 and provides no machinery for its enforcement. The proposed law 

 contains the provisions that have been found most effective in other 



