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zeal and efficiency which argues well for the future care and preservation of 

 our forest lands. 



Each firewarden, when appointed, is furnished with a warrant bearing the 

 signature and seal of the Department. 



This warrant reads as follows : 



STATE OF NEW YORK. 



THE FOREST COMMISSION, ALBANY, N. Y. 189 

 Esq., 



Town of County of 



The Forest Commision hereby appoints you a firewarden in and for your 

 town in accordance with the provisions of the "Act to establish a Forest Com- 

 mission" etc., passed May 15, 1885. 



It will be your duty, as firewarden, whenever a forest fire occurs within the 

 limits of your town, whether it be on State or other lands, to promptly notify a 

 sufficient force to assist you ; to go to the place where the fire is burning, and to 

 take charge of and to direct the work necessary for extinguishing it. All persons 

 in the territory whom you may order to render you such assistance, are required 

 by law to obey your order, and any person who may refuse to act in obedience 

 to your order is, by statute liable, to a fine of not less than five nor more than 

 twenty dollars. 



If a forest fire occurs in your vicinity, although it may be in the adjoining 

 town, it will be as much your duty to go immediately to the place of such fire as 

 if it were in your own town ; and, in the absence of the fire warden of the town 

 within the limits of which such fire may be, to assume the same authority and to 

 discharge the same duties that you are empowered to assume and discharge in 

 your own town, until the arrival of the fire warden of that town, upon which 

 yon will turn over all charges of the fire to him. 



The same diligence and exertion must be used for the extinction of forest 

 fires on private lands as on lands of the State. The public welfare requires that 

 all forests should be protected from fire, no matter to whom they may belong. 



After a forest fire has occurred in your town you must make a report of the 

 same to the forest commission, stating the date and place of the fire, the number 

 of acres burned over, the amount and nature of the damage, and the cause of the 

 fire if known. 



Your attention is called to the provisions of the twentieth section of the 

 Forest Commission Act, for dividing your town into fire districts. Action 

 theron, is left to your own discretion ; but if taken, you should report it to the 

 commission. 



It is essential that the rules and regulations of this commission, governing 

 the methods of preventing and extinguishing forest fires, should be made fully 

 known to the public. To that end you will be required to post, and keep posted, 

 the cards containing the printed rules throughout your town, conformably to the 

 provisions of section 30 of the before mentioned Forest Commission Act, and 

 wherever you may judge it to be necessary in order to accomplish a complete 

 public notification. Such posted card.*, as may, at any time, be missing should be 

 replaced at once. The cards will be furnished to you, and you can always be 

 supplied with them on application to the commission. 



A fire warden is required, by law, to be a resident of the town for which he 

 is appointed. If you do not reside in the town, herein named, or if you should 

 hereafter change your residence to another town, please notify this commission at 

 once. 



