140 STATE OF MICHIGAN. 



woodland adjacent to the railroad are burning or in danger from fire, 

 ihey shall report the same promptly at the next telegraph station that 

 they pass. In seasons of drouth railroad companies shall give particular 

 instructions to their employes for the prevention and prompt extinguish- 

 ment of fires and they shall cause warning placards furnished by the 

 forest commissioner to be posted at their stations in the vicinity of 

 forest and grass lands, and where a Are occurs along the line of their 

 road they shall concentrate such help and adopt such measures as shall 

 be available to effectively extinguish it. Any railroad company wilfully 

 violating the requii-ements of this act shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor and be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars 

 for each such offense, and railroad employes wilfully violating the re- 

 quirements of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be pun- 

 ished bj' a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. 

 But this section shall not be construed to prohibit or prevent any I'ail- 

 road company from piling or keeping upon the right of way cross ties 

 or other material necessary in the operation or maintenance of such 

 railroad. 



Sec. 13. It shall be the duty of each and every owner of threshing 

 or other portable steam engines to have efficient spark arresters on 

 their engines at all times when in use, and no person in charge of any 

 threshing engine shall deposit live coals or hot ashes from his engine 

 in any i)lace without putting them out or covering them with at least 

 three inches of earth before leaving them. All persons violating the 

 provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 

 upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than five 

 dollars nor more than fifty dollars. 



Sec. 14. Nothing in this act shall be construed as affecting any right 

 of action for damages. 



Sec. 15. AA'oodland territory within the terms of this act shall be 

 construed to mean forest and brush land. 



Sec. 16. All moneys received as penalties for violating the provisions 

 of this act shall be paid into the county treasury of the county wherein 

 the offense occurred, and the treasurer of the county shall pay the same 

 forthwith to the treasurer of the municipality where the offense oc- 

 curred, to be used in defraying the expenses of enforcing the provisions 

 of this act 'ft ithin such municipality. 



Sec. 17. The forest commissioner shall annually on or before the 

 first day of December make a written report to the Governor of his 

 doings in respect to the duties herein assigned him, together with an 

 itemized account of the expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions 

 of this act, which report shall include such statistics and facts as he 

 has obtained from the chief fire warden and from the several fire 

 wardens of the State, and from other sources, together with his sug- 

 gestions relative to the preser\ation of the forests of the State and the 

 prevention and extinguishment of forest fires. 



Sec. 18. This act shall apply and be in force only within the ter- 

 ritoiy within this State lying north of the north line of township 

 twenty north. 



Sec. 10. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are 

 hereby I'epealed. 



