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Sec. 5. Forest wardens and deputy forest wardens shall have the same power 

 as deputy sheriffs, so far as the provisions of this act are concerned. Neither 

 forest wardens nor their deputies shall be liable for trespass while acting in the 

 performance of their duties, nor shall any person be held guilty of trespass for 

 going on lands when summoned by an ofiBcer to control fire. 



Sec. 6. Forest wardens and deputy forest wardens shall receive compensation 

 from the State at the rate of twenty cents per hour for the time actually engaged 

 in the performance of their duties and reasonable expenses for equipment and 

 transportation incurred in fighting or extinguishing any fire, according to an 

 itemized statement to be rendered the Geological Board every month and approved 

 by them. Forest wardens shall render to the Geological Board a statement of 

 the services rendered by the men employed by them or their deputy wardens, as 

 provided in this act, within one month of the date of service, which said bill shall 

 show in detail the amount and character of the service performed, the exact 

 duration thereof, the name of each person employed, and any other information 

 required by the Geological Board. If said bill be duly approved, it shall be paid 

 by direction of the Geological Board out of the State Treasury; and the State 

 Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to collect one-half of the wages and 

 expenses incurred by the forest wardens and deputy forest wardens under this 

 section and section three (3) of this act, from the county in which they arc 

 incurred. 



Sec. 7. The svun of ten thousand dollars annually is hereby appropriated, out 

 of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of 

 carrying out the provisions of this act, the same to be drawn upon as directed 

 by the Geological Board. 



XATIOXAL ilEASrRES. 



Co-operation- Under the ^Yeel•s Bill: — With the recent passage by 

 Congress of the ^V^eeks Bill (Pub. Xo. 435) "to enable any State to co- 

 operate with any other State or with the United States for the protec- 

 tion of the watersheds of navigable streams, etc." an opportunity has 

 been opened to secure fire protection, for at least the mountain portion 

 of the State, at one-half the actual cost of such protection. This bill 

 provides, among other things, as follows : 



Sec. 2. That the sum of two hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated 

 and made available until expended, out of any moneys in the national treasury 

 not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to co-operate 

 with any State or group of States, when requested to do so, in the protection 

 from fire of the forested watersheds of navigable streams; and the Secretary of 

 Agriculture is hereby authorized, and on such conditions as he deems wise, to 

 stipulate and agree with any State or group of States to co-operate in the organi- 

 zation and maintenanc-e of a system of fire protection on any private or State 

 forest lands within such State or States and situated upon the watershed of a 

 navigable river: Provided, that no such stipulation or agreement shall be made 

 with any State which has not provided by law for a system of forest fire protec- 

 tion: Provided further, that in no case shall the amount expended in any State 

 exceed in any fiscal year the amount appropriated by that State for the same 

 purpose during the same fiscal year. 

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