placed to the credit of the forest service fund only, and 

 said fund shall be used for the maintenance of the forest 

 service ; in preventing, controlling and suppressing for- 

 est and prairie fires ; for the administration and care of 

 state forests; and for other forestry purposes. 



Section 2. This act shall take effect and be in force 

 from and after its passage. 



TO PREVENT THE CARELESS SETTING OF FIRES 

 Amendment of S. F. 28, H. F. 76, as prepared by Sena- 

 tor Larson and Representative Pederson 



A BILL FOR AN ACT 



Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Min- 

 nesota : 



Section 1. No person shall kindle or set any fire in 

 grass, stubble, peat, brush, slash or woods, or kindle 

 any open fire except for domestic purposes, in all that 

 portion of Minnesota which is North of the forty-sixth 

 degree of latitude, without the written permission or 

 direction of the state forester, or other authorized 

 forest officer, except when the snow is on the ground 

 or when a firebreak sufficient to check the spread of 

 such fire shall have been freshly plowed around the 

 field or area wherein said fire is set ; but in no case shall 

 fire be set except upon due notice in advance to the 

 local forest officer. 



Section 2. Permission to set fire to any grass, stub- 

 ble, peait, brush, slash or woods for the purpose of clear- 

 ing and improving land or preventing other fire shall 

 be given whenever the same may be safely burned, 

 upon such reasonable conditions and restrictions as the 

 state forester may prescribe to prevent same from 



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