502 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION November 



such fires does not take proper pre- ticable protection against the escape 

 cautions to prevent its spread, whereby of fire and sparks from the smoke- 

 it might be communicated to brush or stacks thereof and adequate devices 

 forest land and do damage, shall be to prevent the escape of fire from ash 

 subject to a fine of not less than $50 pans and fire boxes; and failure to 

 nor more than $250, with costs of suit comply with these requirements shall 

 and collection ; and if the defendant be a misdemeanor, punishable upon 

 or defendants refuse or neglect to pay conviction by a fine of $500 ; and any 

 the fine and costs imposed, or make officer or employe of a. railroad corn- 

 satisfactory arrangement for the pay- pany violating any provision of this 

 ment of same within thirty days, he section shall be liable to a penalty of 

 or they shall be confined in the com- $100 for every such violation ; and, 

 mon jail of said county for a period furthermore, the railroad company or 

 not less than thirty nor more than six- owner of such engines shall be liable 

 ty days. in a civil suit for all damage to any 



Sec. 1 8. Restrictions of Use of Fire property of any kind whatever in- 



in Dry Season. It shall be unlawful, jured or destroyed by fire caused by 



during what is locally known as the such engines, such damages to include 



"dry season (this to be considered as detriment to the land and the vegeta- 



the period between May 15 and the tion thereon. 



first soaking rains of autumn), for Sec. 20. Criminal Action Forest 

 any person or persons to burn brush, Trespass. Every person who unlaw- 

 stumps, logs, fallen timber, fallows, fully and wilfully cuts, injures or de- 

 brush, grass or forest covered land, stroys any kind of wood or timber or 

 grain, or stubble, or blast wood with the product of such wood or timber 

 dynamite, powder or other explosives, standing or growing upon the lands 

 or set off fireworks of any kind in for- of another, or of the State or of the 

 est or brush-covered land, either their United States, or upon any public 

 own or the property of another, with- highway, or carries away any wood 

 out permission of and under the direc- or timber or products thereof from 

 tion or supervision of the District Fire such lands, is guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 Wardens ; these restrictions not to ap- and, upon conviction, shall be fined 

 ply to the ordinary use of fire or blasts not less than $25 nor more than $i,aoo, 

 in logging redwood, nor in cases where or be imprisoned not less than fifteen 

 back fires are set in good faith to stop days nor more than three years, or 

 an existing fire. Violations of these both, in the discretion of the court, 

 provisions shall be a misdemeanor. Sec. 21. Civil Liability for Forest 

 punishable upon conviction by a fine Trespass. In addition to the penalties 

 of not less than $50 nor more than provided in section 20 for willful tres- 

 $1,000, or imprisonment not less than, pass on forest lands, the private own- 

 thirty davs nor more than one year, ers, the United States, the State, or 

 or both. Persons or corporations cans- the County upon whose lands the will- 

 ing fires by violation of this section ful trespass was committed may re- 

 shall be liable to the State, in an action cover in a civil action double the 

 for debt, to the full amount of all ex- amount of damages suffered ; or, in 

 penses incurred in fighting such fires, case of involuntary or innocent tres- 



Sec. 19. Engines in Forest Land. pass, or of taking such wood or timber 

 Logging locomotives, donkey or from uncultivated woodland for the 

 threshing engines, railway locomotives repair of a public highway or bridge 

 and all other engines, boilers and loco- upon or adjacent to the land, civil ac- 

 motives operated in, through or near tion shall lie only for the actual dam- 

 forest, brush or grass land, which do age, as determined by the value of the 

 not burn oil as fuel, shall be provided wood and timber taken and the detri- 

 with netting or steel or iron wire so ment to the land, 

 constructed as to give the best prac- Sec. 22. Clearing Along Country 



