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The cost of such map, not exceeding five dollars, shall be made a town 

 charge ; and the services of the firewardens shall also be deemed a town charge, 

 and shall not exceed the sum of two dollars per day for the time actually 

 occupied in the performance of their duties as such firewardens. The 

 compensation for services of the persons who may assist in extinguishing forest 

 fires, shall be a town charge, and shall not exceed the sum of ono dollar per day 

 for each person employed ; but all bills for such services must be approved by 

 the firewarden of the town in which the fire occurred before payment shall be 

 made. It shall be the duty of the board of auditors in each town to examine, 

 audit, and allow promptly all reasonable bills presented to them for services and 

 disbursements under this section. Within the counties named in section seven 

 of this act, such persons shall be firewardens as may from time to time be 

 be appointed by the forest commission. The persons so appointed shall act 

 during the pleasure and under the direction of the forest commission ; and 

 there shall be applicable to them all the provisions of this act, with reference to 

 supervisors and district town wardens. Upon the discovery of a forest fire, it 

 shall be the duty of the firewarden of the district, town or county, to take such 

 measures as shall be necessary for its extinction. For this purpose he shall 

 have authority to call upon any person in the territory in which he acts for 

 assistance, and any person shall be liable to a fine of not less than five nor more 

 than twenty dollars for refusing to act when so called upon. 



OFFICERS, POWERS AND DUTIES OF, IN CASE OF FIRE. 

 See Revised Statutes, Chap. 20, title 14, Part 1, Vol. 3, p. 2086. 



21. The forest commission, the forest warden, inspectors, the foresters, and 

 anv other person employed by or under the authority of the forest commission, 

 and who may be authorized by the commission to assume such duty, shall within 

 the counties mentioned in section seven of this Act, whenever the woods in any 

 such town shall be on fire, perform the duties imposed upon, and in such case 

 shall have the powers granted to the justices of the peace, the supervisors, and the 

 commissioners of highway of such towns, by title fourteen, chapter twenty, of 

 part one, of the revised statutes, with reference to the ordering of persons to 

 assist in extinguishing fires, or stopping their progress ; and any person so ordered 

 by the forest commission, the forest warden, the forest inspectors, the foresters, 

 or any of them, or any other person acting or authorized as aforesaid, who shall 

 refuse or neglect to comply with any such order, shall be liable to punishment 

 prescribed by the said title. 



No ACTION FOR TRESPASS, WHEN. 



22. No action for trespass shall be brought by any owner of land for entry 

 made upon his premises by persons going to assist in extinguishing a forest fire, 

 although it may not be upon his land. 



PRIVILEGE, CASE OF FIRE. 



23. The fire-warden, or the supervisor, where acting in general charge, may 

 cause fences to be destroyed or furrows to be ploughed to check the running of 

 fire, and in cases of great danger back fires may be set along a road or stream, or 

 other line of defence, to clear off the combustible material before an advancing 

 fire 



