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RAILROAD COMPANIES. PENALTY FOR NEGLECT. 



29. Any railroad company violating the provisions or requirements of this 

 Act shall be liable to a fine of one hundred dollars for each ofience. 



RULES OF COMMISSION TO BE POSTED. 



30. The forest commission shall, with as little delay as practicable, cause- 

 rules for the prevention and suppression of forest fires to be printed for posting! 

 in school-houses, inns, saw-mills and other wood- working establishments, lumber 

 camps and other places in such portions of the State as they may deem necessary. 

 Any person maliciously or wantonly defacing or destroying such notices, shall be 

 liable to a fine of five dollars. It shall be the duty of forest-agents, supervisors,, 

 and school-trustees, to cause these rules, when received by them, to be properly 

 posted, and replaced when lost or destroyed. 



INCENDIARIES. PENALTIES. 



31. Any person who shall wilfully or negligently set fire to, or assist another 

 to set fire to. any waste or forest land belonging to the State or to another 

 person, whereby the the said forests are injured or endangered, or who suffers. 

 any fire upon his own lands to escape or extend beyond the limits thereof, to the 

 injury of the wood-lands of another, or of the State, shall be liable to a fine of not 

 less than fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or to imprisonment of 

 not less than thirty days, nor more than six months. He shall also be liable in 

 an action for all damages that may be caused by such fires ; such actions to be 

 brought in any court of this State having jurisdiction thereon. 



APPROPRIATION. 



32. Fifteen thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in 

 the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes of this act. And no 

 liabilities shall be incurred by said forest commissioners in excess of this appro- 

 priation. 



83. This Act shall take effect immediately. 



CHAPTER 37. LAWS OF 1890. 



AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE PURCHASE OF LANDS LOCATED WITHIN SUCH 

 COUNTIES AS INCLUDE THE FOREST PRESERVE. 



The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, 

 do enact as follows : 



Section 1. The forest commission, with the approval and concurrence of the i 

 commissioners of the land office, may purchase lands so located within such 

 counties as include the forest preserve, as shall be available for the purposes of a 

 State park, at a price not to exceed one dollar and fifty cents, such approval and 

 concurrence to be endorsed on a copy of the resolution of the said forest : 

 commission authorizing such purchase, and certified to by the clerk of said com- 

 missioners of the land office. 



