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punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than one 

 hundred dollars, to be equally divided between the com- 

 plainant and the town, and may also be imprisoned for not 

 more than sixty days. 



R. L. 32, sect. 23. Payment shall be made to forest wardens, 

 to their deputies, and to the persons assisting them, and for 

 Rate of property used under their direction at a forest 

 fire, at a rate prescribed by the town, or in de- 

 fault of its action thereon, by the selectmen. No such pay- 

 ment shall be made until an itemized account, approved by 

 the forest wardens under whose direction the work was done 

 or assistance furnished, shall have been filed with the officer 

 making payment. 



R. L. 32, sect. 25. Money appropriated by a town under 

 the provisions of section seventeen of chapter twenty-five, 

 Expenditures for the prevention of forest fires, and all fines 

 ;ed ' received under the provisions of sections twenty- 

 one, twenty-two and twenty-four of this chapter and section 

 nine of chapter two hundred and eight shall be expended by 

 the forest warden, under the supervision of the selectmen, in 

 trimming brush out of wood roads, in preparing and pre- 

 serving suitable lines for back fires or in other ways adapted 

 to prevent or check the spread of fire; or such town may ex- 

 pend any portion of such money in taking in the name of the 

 town such woodland as the selectmen, upon the recommenda- 

 tion of the forest warden, consider expedient for the purpose 

 of preventing forest fires. Such taking and the payment of 

 damages therefor or for injury to property, other than by 

 fire or back fire, shall be governed by the laws relating to the 

 taking of land for highways. 



