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SUPERVISORS PROTECTORS OF STATE LANDS, EXCEPT IN FOREST PRESERVE. 

 DUTY OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY. SUPERVISORS TO REPORT. DISTRICT AND 

 FOREST GUARDS. 



17. The supervisor of every town in this State in which wild or forest lands 

 belonging to the State are located except within the counties mentioned in 

 section seven of this act, shall be by virtue of his office the protector of these 

 lands subject to the instruction he may receive from the forest commission. It 

 shall be his duty to report to the district attorney for prosecution any act of 

 spoliation or injury that may be done and it shall be the duty of such district 

 attorney to institute proceedings for the prevention of further trespass, and for 

 the recovery of all damages that may have been committed with costs of 

 prosecution. The supervisors shall also report their proceedings therein to the 

 forest commission. In towns where the forest commission shall deem it necessary, 

 they may serve a notice upon the supervisor, requiring him to appoint one or 

 more forest guards, and if more than one in a town, the district of each shall be 

 properly denned. The guard so appointed shall have such power, and perform 

 such duties, and receive such pay, as the forest commission may determine. 



INSTRUCTIONS IN FORESTRY IN SCHOOLS. 



18. The forest commission shall take such measures as the department of 

 public instruction, the regents of the university and the forest commission 

 may approve for awakening an interest in behalf of forestry in the public 

 schools, academies and colleges of the State, and of imparting some degree of 

 elementary instruction upon this subject therein. 



METHODS OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 



19. The forest commission shall, as soon as practicable, prepare tracts or 

 circulars of information, giving plain and concise advice for the care of woodlands 

 upon private land, and for the starting of new plantations upon lands that have 

 been denuded, exhausted by cultivation, eroded by torrents, or injured by fire, 

 or that are sandy, marshy, broken, sterile or waste, and unfit tor other use. 

 These publications shall be furnished without cost to any citizen of the State 

 upon application, and proper measures may be taken for bringing them to the 

 notice of persons who would be benefited by this advice. 



SUPERVISORS TO A.CT AS FIREWARDENS, WHEN. DISTRICT MAPS. FIREWARDENS 

 PAID BY TOWNS. FIREWARDENS IN FOREST PRESERVE. AUTHORITY OF 

 FIREWARDENS. 



20. Every supervisor of a town in this State, excepting within the counties 

 mentioned in section seven of this act, shall be ex-offlcio firewarden therein. 

 But in towns particularly exposed to damages from forest fires, the supervisor 

 may divide the same into two or more districts, bounded, as far as may be, by 

 roads, streams of water, or dividing ridges of land or lot lines and he may in 

 writing, appoint one resident citizen in each district as district firewarden 

 therein. A description of these districts, and the names of the district fire- 

 wardens thus appointed, shall be recorded in the office of the town clerk. The 

 supervisor may also cause a map of the fire district of his town to be 

 posted in some public place with the names of the district firewardens appointed 



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