for a term of two years by the board of county com- 

 missioners, and said appointee shall not be a member 

 of said county board but shall be a resident of the 

 county. Such committee shall be known as the forest 

 advisory committee and shall, on the first Monday in 

 December of each year, meet with the state forester, 

 and special meetings may be held at the call of the 

 state forester or as the committee may direct. The 

 committee shall confer with regard to measures of fire 

 prevention and control, as well as care of woodlands 

 and tree planting. Necessary expenses for the mem- 

 bers of this advisory committee shall be paid out of 

 the revenue fund of the counties. 



All towns, villages and cities are hereby authorized 

 and directed to take necessary precautions to prevent 

 the starting and spreading of forest or prairie fires and 

 to extinguish the same, and are hereby further author- 

 ized to annually levy a tax of not more than five mills 

 upon all taxable property of such municipalities which, 

 when collected, shall be known as the "Fire Fund", 

 which shall be used in paying all necessary and inci- 

 dental expenses incurred in enforcing the provisions of 

 this act, and said fire fund shall not be canceled, di- 

 verted to other uses nor transferred to other funds ex- 

 cept by a majority vote of the duly qualified voters of 

 the township. 



In all townships constituted within any of the forest 

 patrol districts which may be established by the sitate 

 forestry board, the respective town and village officers 

 shall cooperate as far as possible with and act under 

 the general supervision and direction of the forest offi- 

 cers. 



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