FOREST CONDITIONS OF MISSISSIPPI. 65 



ization to enforce its provisions. The various laws in 

 Mississippi relating to forest lands are briefly summarized 

 as follows: 



1. A person destroying in any manner live oak trees 

 belonging to another shall pay to the owner for each tree 

 thus destroyed the sum of $50. 



2. The same penalty shall be paid to an owner in the 

 case of cypress, white oak, black oak, or other oak, pine, 

 poplar, black walnut, cherry, pecan, hickory, chestnut, 

 birch, ash, or beech, and for every other tree not mentioned 

 a penalty of $5 shall be paid. 



3. A penalty of imprisonment for not more than five 

 months or a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $1,000, 

 or both such fine and imprisonment, is imposed in case a 

 person shall cut or raft certain trees belonging to another 

 without first securing the permission -from the owner. 



4. A fine of not less than $5 nor more than $25 is 

 provided for each box cut in a pine tree growing on land 

 belonging to another without the consent of the owner, or 

 imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding 

 three months, or both such fine and imprisonment. 



5. A penalty of S5 payable to the owner for each box 

 cut in a pine tree. 



6. It is the duty of the Land Commissioner to inves- 

 tigate and prosecute all suits arising from trespass cases 

 on State lands. 



7. There is a penalty of S2 per acre in every 40-acre 

 subdivision of land in which trespass was committed, in 

 addition to the statutory damages; but this does not 

 apply to a person renting public lands and having license 

 of the Land Commissioner to take trees for fuel or like 

 purposes from contiguous land. 



8. A penalty of not more than six months' imprison- 

 ment or a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000, 

 or both such fine and imprisonment, is fixed for cutting 

 or rafting certain enumerated species from land belonging 

 to the State. 



9. There is a law providing that whoever shall wan- 

 tonly, negligently or carelessly allow fire to get on land of 



