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dollars nor more than one hundred dollars and costs, according to the aggravation of 

 the offense, and shall stand committed until the fine and costs are paid. 



Sec. 3. Any person who shall enter upon the lands of another person for the pur- 

 pose of hunting or fishing, and shall without the consent of the owner of said lands, 

 kindle any fire thereon, shall be punished hy a fine not less than ten dollars nor 

 more than one hundred dollars ; and if such fire he kindled maliciously, and with 

 the intent to injure any other person, such offender shall be punished by a fine not 

 less than twenty dollars nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars, or by impris- 

 onment in the county jail not less than three months nor more than twelve months. 



Sec. 4. Any person or persons who shall wilfully set fire to any wooded country 

 or forest belonging to the State or to the United States, or to any person or persons, 

 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction before a court of 

 competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand 

 dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprison- 

 ment : Provided, That nothing herein contained shall apply to any person who in good 

 faith sets a back fire to prevent the extension of a fire already burning. 



Sec. 5. Upon any prosecution under this act, one half of the fine imposed shall be 

 paid to the person who first gives information thereof to the district attorney for the 

 district in which the offense is committed, and the other moiety shall be paid into 

 the county treasury for the benefit of the common school fund of the county in 

 which said fine is collected. 



Sec. 6. It is hereby made the duty of the governor of this State to issue a procla- 

 mation on the first day of July of each year, calling public attention to the provisions 

 of this act and warning all persons against violating the same. It is also made the 

 duty of each circuit judge of this State to read the provisions of this act to each grand 

 jury when charging them as to their duties. 



Sec. 7. Inasmuch as there is urgent necessity for the proliection of timber and 

 other property from fires, this bill shall take effect and be enforced from and after 

 its approval by the governor. 



Filed in the office of the secretary of State February 20, 1893. 



AN ACT To prevent forest fires on the public domain. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Bepreseniatives of the United States of America 

 in Congress assembled, That any person who shall wilfully or maliciously set on fire, 

 or cause to be set on fire, any timber, underbrush, or grass upon the public domain, 

 or shall carelessly or negligently leave or suffer fire to burn unattended near any tim- 

 ber or other inflammable material, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, 

 upon conviction thereof in any district coqrc of the United States having jurisdic- 

 tion of the same, shall be fined in a sum not more than five thousand dollars or be 

 imprisoned for a term of not more than two years, or both. 



Sec. 2. That any person who shall build a camp fire, or other fire, in or near any 

 forest, timber, or other inflammable material ujion the public domain, shall, before 

 breaking camp or leaving said fire, totally extinguish the same. Any person failing 

 to do so shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof in 

 any district court of the United States having j urisdiction of the same, shall be fined 

 in a sum not more than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned for a term of not more 

 than one year, or both. 



Sec. 3. That in all cases arising under this act the fines collected shall be paid into 

 the public school fund of the county in which the lands where the oflense was com- 

 mitted are situate. 



Approved, February 24, 1897. 



RELATION OP FOREST FIRES IN THE CASCADES TO "WATER SUPPLY. 



One of tlie cogent reasons for the preservation of our western forests 

 in general is the importance of a forest covering in conserving and reg- 

 ulating the water supply needed for irrigation purposes. An investi- 

 gation of the effects of sheep grazing in the Cascade Eeserve would not 

 be complete without a consideration of this phase of the subject. 



The west slope of the Cascade Eange of Oregon has a heavy rainfall, 

 and in the country through which this rainfall flows, chiefly the valleys 

 of the Willamette, llogue, and Umjiqua rivers, irrigation is carried on 

 to only a very small extent, and the water supply is more than sufii- 

 cient. Therefore, so far as the west slope of the Cascades is concerned, 

 the question of preserving the water supply for irrigation purposes does 

 not arise. 



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