for the use of the State of New Jersey. Said oath or 

 affirmation, if made by a firewarden, or by a member or 

 officer of the said commission, may be upon information or 

 belief. Said process shall be in the nature 

 of either a summons or warrant against the 

 person or persons so charged; when in the nature of a 

 warrant, it shall be returnable forthwith, but before any 

 warrant shall issue out of any district court the judge 

 thereof shall endorse upon the complaint an order in the 

 following or similar words : ''Let the warrant issue in this 

 case." To which said judge shall sign his name; and 

 when in the nature of a summons, it shall be returnable in 

 not less than one or more than ten entire days. Such pro- 

 cess shall state what section of the law is alleged to have 

 been violated by the defendant or defendants; and on the 

 return thereof, or at any time to which the trial shall have 

 been adjourned, the said district court, justice of the peace, 

 police justice or recorder shall proceed to hear the testi- 

 mony, and to determine and give judgment 

 in the matter, without the filing of any 

 pleadings, either for the prosecutor for the recovery of 

 such penalty with costs, or for the defendant or defendants. 

 If such judgment be for the prosecutor as aforesaid, it 

 shall be in the following or similar form: "State of New 

 Jersey, county of , ss : Be it re- 



J S " membered that on this day of 



in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred 

 , at , in said county, C. D., defendant, was^ 



by the district court of the city of T. (or by me, E. P., 

 justice of the peace, police justice or recorder of the city 

 of , or as the case may be), convicted of violating 



the section of the Act of the Legislature of New 



Jersey entitled 'An act for the appointment of firewardens, 

 the prevention of forest fires, and the repeal of sundry acts 

 relating thereto,' approved the eighteenth day of April, anno 

 domini nineteen hundred and six, in a summary proceed- 

 ing, at the suit of the State Board of Forest Park Reser- 

 vation Commissioners, as prosecutor ; and further, that the 

 witnesses in said proceeding who testified for the prosecu- 

 tor were (name them) ; and the witnesses who testified 

 for the defendant were (name them) ; wherefore the said 

 court (or justice of the peace, police justice or recorder, 

 as the case may be) doth hereby give judgment that the 

 prosecutor recover of the defendant dollars penalty 



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