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powers as a peace officer or by making complaint before 

 the proper magistrate, or by information to the proper 

 district attorney, and shall obtain all possible evidence 

 pertaining thereto. Failure on the part of any paid fire- 

 warden to comply with the duties prescribed in this act 

 shall be a misdemeanor, and punishable by a fine of not 

 less than twenty dollars nor more than two hundred 

 and fifty dollars, or imprisonment for not less than ten 

 days nor more than three months, or both such fine and 

 imprisonment, and the State Forester is hereby author- 

 ized to investigate and prosecute such violations. 



SEC. 10. Assistance of citizens in fighting fire. 

 (Penal Code, sec. 384, subsec. 5. See page 14.) 



SEC. 11. Fire patrol. In times and localities of 

 particular fire danger the State Forester may maintain 

 a fire patrol through the firewardens, at such places in 

 brush or forest land, as the public interest may require, 

 the expense of such patrol to be paid by the county in 

 which such patrol is maintained; and, furthermore, he 

 may, upon written request by counties, corporations or 

 individuals, maintain a fire patrol on their forest lands; 

 provided, that the expense of said patrol be paid by the 

 party or parties requesting same. 



SEC. 12. District attorneys to prosecute vigor- 

 ously. Whenever an arrest shall have been made for 

 violation of any provision of this act, or whenever any 

 information of such violation shall have been lodged 

 with him, the district attorney of the county in which 

 the criminal act was committed must prosecute the 

 offender or offenders with all diligence and energy. If 

 any district attorney shall fail to comply with the pro- 

 visions of this section he shall be guilty of a misde- 

 meanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than 

 one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, 

 in the discretion of the court. Action against the dis- 

 trict attorney shall be brought by the Attorney General 

 in the name of the people of the State on the relation 

 of the State Forester. The penalties of this section shall 

 apply to any magistrate, with proper authority, who 

 refuses or neglects to cause the arrest and prosecution 

 of any person or persons when complaint, under oath, 



