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upon the tieasurer of the municipality for the entire sum to which such 

 claimant is entitled, and such treasurer shall pay the same. Such clerk 

 shall transmit the original oath and copy of the warrant to the Auditor 

 General, who shall audit such claim, and one-third thereof shall be paid 

 out of the State treasury from the general revenue fund by warrant 

 issued by the Auditor General upon the State Treasurer in favor of the 

 county ill which the same Avas paid, and forward the same to the 

 treasurer of said county, who shall pay it over to the treasurer of the 

 proper municipality: Provided, That no fire warden shall be paid in any 

 one year for more than ten days' service in extinguishment and pre- 

 venting forest fires, nor for more than five days' service in each year in 

 posting notices and making the reports required by this act, nor, in the 

 aggregate, for more than fifteen days' service of whatever character, in 

 any one year ; nor shall any one person employed by lire wardens to 

 assist in extinguishing or preventing forest fires be paid for more than 

 five days of such service in any one year. Not more than fifty dollars 

 shall be expended under this act in any one year in any citj, village or 

 surveyed toMuship in this State. 



Sec. 9. Any person who wilfully, negligently or carelessly sets on 

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

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

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

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

 damage the property of another, is guilty of a miisdemeanor and shall 

 be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by im- 

 prisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months. Any person 

 who maliciously sets on fire, or causes to be set on fire, any woods, grass 

 lands or other combustible material whereby the property of another is 

 destroyed or life is endangered, shall be punished with a fine of not 

 over five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the State prison for a 

 term of not over ten years, or both such fine and imprisonment. 



Sec. 10. Any person who shall kindle a fire on or dangerously near 

 to forest or grass lands, and leave it unquenched, or shall be a party 

 thereto, and every person who shall use other than incombustible wads 

 for firearms, or who shall carry a naked torch, fire brand, or other 

 exposed light in or dangerousl.y near to forest land, causing risk of 

 accidental fire, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred 

 dollars or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months. 



Sec. 11. Every person who shall wilfully deface, destroy or remove 

 any warning placard posted under the requirements of this act shall be 

 liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for each offense, or 

 imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months. 



Sec. 12. It shall be the duty of all railroad companies operating any 

 railroad within this State to use efficient spark arresters on all their 

 engines and to keep their right of way to the width of fifty feet on each 

 side of the center of the main track, cleared of all combustible materials 

 and safely dispose of the same within said limits of their right of way 

 between the fifteenth day of April and the first day of December. No 

 railroad company shall permit its employes to leave a deposit of fire Or 

 live coals, or hot ashes, in the immediate vicinity of woodland, or lands 

 liable to be overrun by fires, and where engineers, conductors or train- 

 men discover that fences or other materials along the right of way or 



