do so, shall incur a penalty of two hundred dollars per 

 mile or fraction thereof of fire line not constructed as 

 required by this act, to be recovered in an action of debt 

 at the suit of the Forest Park Reservation Commission, 

 and all moneys so received by the said Commission shall 

 be paid into the treasury of the State of New Jersey. (P. 

 L. 1909, P- 105-) 



The Law Relating to State Highway Fire Lines. 



Chapter 395, Laws of 1912. 



From An Act to provide for the permanent improvement 

 and maintenance of public roads in this State. 



Section 4, paragraph i. The road improvement con- 

 templated under this act shall include the construction of 

 the road and its intersections with other public roads, the 

 restoration or construction, as herein provided, of proper 

 and adequate entrances to properties, the building of any 

 essential walls in cuts or for slopes and of all necessary 

 facilities for drainage in improvement aforesaid, also the 

 planting of shade trees, such works as may be necessary 

 to preserve existing shade trees and such treatment of 

 adjacent forest lands as may be needed to make the road 

 and its borders an effective fire break. 



The Law Relating to Forest Fires on State Forest 

 Reserves. 



2 Comp. Stat., p. 2607. 



From An Act for the establishment of forest park reserva- 

 tions by and in the State of New Jersey, and for the 

 appointment of a state board of forest park reservation 

 commissioners, and defining its powers and duties. 



5. (As amended, 1911.) The said board may appoint a 

 warden, or wardens, for each forest re- 

 serve, and any such warden shall have dei. 8er 

 power, within any forest reserve, to arrest 

 without warrant any person or persons taken by him in 



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