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Sec. S3. These sworn guards to be regarded as public guards, with all rights guaranteed 

 to public officers by law, and authorized to carry the usual arms. Every person is required 

 to obey their orders given in the line of their duties. 



Sec. 54. The guards shall use their arms only in case of self-defense. To wear uniforms. 



Sec. 55. The guards are authorized to order suspicious persons to leave the forests and to 

 confiscate all tools used for gathering forest products if the parties carrying them in the forest 

 cannot give a satisfactory explanation. 



Sec. 56. Confiscation of forest products in possession of suspicious party in the forest. 



Sec. 57. Offenders who are strangers to the guard are to be arrested; offenders known to 

 the guard are to be arrested only in case they attack or abuse him, or if they have no fixed 

 home. Persons arrested to be delivered at once to the competent authorities. 



Sec. 58. In case the offender was caught in the act and took flight he may be pursued be- 

 yond the forest and the stolen product attached. 



CHAPTER V. 



Contains an enumeration of minor forest offenses not hereinbefore particularly mentioned, 

 and fixes the punishment. 



These offenses are : Gathering of loose wood and twigs, marking and barking of trees, 

 using climbing irons, boring into trees, appropriating bark from felled timber, exposing the 

 roots of trees, cutting or tearing off limbs or twigs or leaves, digging or cutting out young 

 trees, gathering twigs for brooms, gathering tree juice of all sorts, gathering tree seeds or 

 sponges or rotten wood or digging out roots, gathering bedding of all sorts, especially if gath- 

 ered with hoes or iron rakes ; taking away earth, clay, turf, stones, and other minerals, or cut- 

 ting sod, or mowing grass and herbs. 



This chapter also provides for proceedings and estimate for damages to forests by cattle. 



CHAPTER VI. 

 Provides for mode of procedure and proper tribunal to fix damages. 



CHAPTER VII. 

 Provides for proceedings on appeal. 



