140 THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY, 



tor General vest in any person any title, right or interest based on the 

 tax proceedings. 



PROPOSEID FOREST FIRE LAW. 



Section 1. The State Game, Fish and Forest Warden shall have charge 

 of the prevention and suppression of fires and shall direct and have gen- 

 eral control of all officials and employes herein provided for. He shall 

 hereafter be known and designated as State Forest Warden. 



Section 2. The State Forest Warden shall divide those portions of 

 the State to which this act applies and which he shall deem to require 

 forest fire protection, into districts as he may deem advisable but not 

 exceeding twenty-five in number, and shall appoint for each of such 

 districts a deputy, who shall receive a salary to be fixed by the State 

 Forest Warden, but not exceeding ,one thousand dollars a year and his 

 necessary expenses, payable monthly. Such deputies and all wardens 

 and employes shall be subject to the orders and direction of, and to re- 

 moval by the State Forest Warden, and shall hold office during his 

 pleasure: provided, that such Forest Warden as well as all deputies, 

 wardens and employes shall be under the final control and direction of 

 any commission or other authority that shall by law be vested with 

 jurisdiction and control over the forest, game and fish interests of the 

 State and the public domain. All deputies and appointees of the State 

 Forest Warden shall have full power as, and be subject to the perform- 

 ance of the duties of fire wardens under this act. 



The State Forest Warden shall also be State trespass agent, and his 

 deputies shall be assistant State trespass agents. The State Forest War- 

 den may make use of fire wardens as trespass agents as he may deem 

 expedient; and they shall, subject to his control, have the same powers 

 and duties as under the laws now in force. All powers and duties vested 

 by law in the Commissioner of the State Land Office for the protection 

 of State lands from trespass and other depredations, are hereby trans- 

 ferred to the State Forest Warden. It shall be the duty of such deputy 

 forest wardens to familiarize themselves by personal investigation with 

 the locality, and condition of the cut-over lands, prairie lands and other 

 lands in their respective districts where fires are most likely to start and 

 spread, and to take such precautions as they shall deem reasonable and 

 proper to prevent the starting or spreading of fires in such districts, 

 and in doing so, may enter upon lands and remove or destroy brush, rub- 

 bish and other dangerous combustible material, wherever necessary. It 

 shall be the duty of such deputy forest warden to caution all sports- 

 men, settlers and others of the danger from fires in the woods, to ex- 

 tinguish all fires left burning by any one, if within their power ; and to 

 give notice to any and all parties interested, when possible, of fires rag- 

 ing and beyond their control, to the end that the same may be controlled 

 and extinguished. In case of fire such deputy forest wardens shall have 

 the power to employ assistance in emergencies to extinguish or control 

 fires. It shall be the duty of said deputy forest wardens, whenever pos- 

 sible, to go to the place of fire, take personal charge of and direct all 

 efforts to exstinguish and control the same. Each deputy forest warden 

 shall have general charge of all fire wardens in his district, and shall 

 have authority to mass such fire warden force as may be available, at any 



