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there is no close season otherwise provided by law, he shall be 

 subject to a fine of not more than one hundred dollars. 



1909, 422, sect. 3. A proclamation issued under authority 

 hereof shall be published in such newspapers of the state 

 and posted in such places and in such manner as Publication 

 the governor may direct, under the charge and of notlce - 

 direction of the state forester and the commissioners on 

 fisheries and game. 



Punishable Offences against Forest Lands. 



R. L. 208, sect. 5. Whoever wilfully and maliciously burns 

 or otherwise destroys or injures a pile or parcel of wood, 

 boards, timber or other lumber, or any fence, bars Settin fire 

 or gate, or a stack of grain, hay or other vegetable to woodpiles, 

 product, or any vegetable product severed from 

 the soil and not stacked, or any standing tree, grain, grass or 

 other standing product of the soil, or the soil itself, of another, 

 shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not 

 more than five years, or by a fine of not more than five hundred 

 dollars and imprisonment in jail for not more than one year. 



R. L. 208, sect. 7. Whoever by wantonly or recklessly 

 setting fire to any material causes injury to, or the destruction 

 of, any growing or standing wood of another 



shall be punished by a fine of not more than caused by 



. . reckless 



one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not setting of 

 more than six months. 



R. L. 208, sect. 8. Whoever wilfully or without reasonable 

 care sets fire upon land of another whereby the property of 

 another is injured, or whoever negligently or wil- Wilful 

 fully suffers any fire upon his own land to ex- setting of 

 tend beyond the limits thereof, whereby the woods 



