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den. The secretary of state shall then issue a war- 

 rant upon the general fund of the state treasury 

 for the amount of such account, and the state 

 treasurer shall pay the same. Under the provisions 

 of this act the secretary of state shall not issue 

 warrants for more than ten thousand dollars for 

 fighting forest fires in any one county in any one 

 year, and one half of the amount paid by the state 

 shall be refunded to the state by the county in 

 which the fires were fought. In case the work of 

 fighting fires covers a portion of two or more coun- 

 ties, the amount to be paid by each county shall 

 be decided by the state fire warden. 



3. As soon as each account has been approved 

 by the state fire warden and paid by the state treas- 

 urer, the state fire warden shall send to the county 

 treasurer a bill for the county's share of the ex- 

 pense and a copy of the bill shall be filed with the 

 secretary of state. The county shall have sixty 

 days within which to pay any bill but if not paid 

 within sixty days the county shall be liable for 

 interest at the rate of six per centum per annum. 

 However, if the sixty days shall have elapsed be- 

 fore the time provided by law for the secretary 

 of state to certify to the counties the levy for state 

 taxes, then the secretary of state shall include the 

 bill or bills against the county for fighting fire 

 which remain unpaid in the levy against the county 

 for state taxes. 



NOTE: The above amendment is to replace sub- 

 sections 2 and 3 of section 1494-48a. 



