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FOREST FIRES 



Co-operation 

 with local 

 authorities. 



State pays 

 one-half of 

 expense. 



Careless set- 

 ting of fire. 



($100) dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed 

 three (3) months. 



SEC. 7. The Chief Fire Warden and the several fire wardens 

 created or appointed under this act shall have authority to enforce 

 the provisions of this act, and it shall be their duty to co-operate with 

 the fire warden of any adjoining district, and in the absence of such 

 fire wardens to direct the work of control and extinguishment of 

 forest or prairie fires in such district, and to arrest, without warrant, 

 every person found violating any provisions of this act, and to forth- 

 with take the offender before a magistrate and make complaint 

 against such person. Any fire warden who knows or has information 

 of facts and circumstances which he believes can be established, and 

 which if so proven would show beyond reasonable doubt that any 

 person has caused a fire in violation of this act, shall immediately go 

 before a justice of the peace and make complaint thereof. The 

 chairman of boards of township supervisors, presidents of villages 

 and fire wardens appointed by the Chief Fire Warden shall without 

 delay inquire into the cause of each forest or prairie fire within their 

 districts, and shall immediately report the same to the Chief Fire 

 Warden and the methods used to control or extinguish such fires 

 and the amount and value of property destroyed and the number of 

 lives lost, if any, and report such other facts in regard to said fires as 

 said Chief Fire Warden may require. During the more dangerous 

 season of the year the Chief Fire Warden may require frequent 

 reports from the chairman of township boards, or in unorganized 

 towns from fire wardens appointed by the said Chief Fire Warden, as 

 to condition of forest and prairie fires and as to what is being done 

 to prevent and control the same. Fire wardens shall promptly comply 

 with the instructions of the Chief Fire Warden. Where local author- 

 ities neglect to duly prosecute violations of this act, the Chief Fire 

 Warden shall be authorized to ferret out and prosecute such viola- 

 tions, and his expenses therefor not exceeding one thousand ($1000) 

 dollars in any one year shall be paid out of the general revenue on 

 approval of the State Auditor and Attorney General. 



SEC. 8 [As amended by the act of the Legislature of Minnesota 

 approved March 30, 1905, and to take effect from and after its pas- 

 sage]. Each fire warden shall be paid for actual service at the rate 

 of two ($2) dollars per day, and each employee or patrol at the rate 

 of one and fifty one hundredths ($1.50) dollars per day. Unless di- 

 rected by the Chief Fire Warden no fire warden shall be paid for 

 more than fifteen (15) and no employee for more than ten (10) days 

 in any one year; but a fire warden shall receive compensation for 

 use of team when plowing for the control of a fire. The compensation 

 authorized by this section shall be paid out of the state treasury on 

 duly verified vouchers approved by the Chief Fire Warden; and 

 one-half (^) the amount shall be reimbursed to the state by the 

 county in which the expense occurred. The State Auditor shall 

 notify the proper county auditor of the one-half (^) amount that has 

 become due from his county under the foregoing provisions and such 

 county auditor shall immediately draw and transmit to the State 

 Auditor a warrant on the county treasurer of his county in favor of 

 the state for such amount. 



SEC. 9. Any person who willfully, negligently or carelessly sets on 

 fire, or causes to be set on fire, any woods, prairie or other com- 

 bustible material, whether or not on his own lands, by means whereof 

 the property of another is injured or endangered, or any person who 

 willfully, negligently or carelessly, suffers any fire set by himself to 



