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special point in his district, to suppress fire. He shall make annual 

 report to the State Forest Warden and such other written and verbal 

 reports as he may require, which annual report shall show in detail each 

 fire occurring in such district, stating the cause of the same, the method 

 used to control or extinguish such fire, amount of property destroyed 

 and the number of lives lost, and such other facts as the State Forest 

 Warden may require. 



Section 3. In any district or locality where he deems it necessary, 

 the State Forest Warden may maintain a service for watching for, re- 

 porting the outbreak of, and checking, incipient or other forest fires, 

 which service may, in the discretion of the State Forest Warden, be by 

 patrol during times of danger, by observation or watch towers, or other- 

 wise, as is deemed most effective and economical; and for this purpose 

 the State Forest Warden may, with the approval of the commission hav- 

 ing charge of State forest reserves, appoint at such compensation as 

 he shall fix, local fire wardens to serve temporarily in times of danger, 

 in any district where he deems that they are needed for preventive 

 measures to guard against the starting or spreading of forest fires. He 

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

 at any special point to suppress fires. He shall co-operate with any 

 police or military force of the United States government which may be 

 detailed to guard the national domain from fire. He shall investigate, 

 or cause to be investigated by said deputy game, fish and forest war- 

 dens, the damages done from time to time by forest fires, and the causes 

 of such fires, and include the same in the annual report to be made by 

 him to the Governor. 



The State Forest Warden may at times or seasons deemed especially 

 dangerous, designate the supervisor of any township, and the sheriff, 

 under sheriff and deputy sheriffs, or any of them, fire wardens within 

 their respective township or bailiwick. It shall be the duty of any super- 

 visor, sheriff, under sheriff, deputy sheriff or other person designated or 

 appointed fire warden, to promptly report any and all fires in clearings, 

 fields, forests, brush, cut-over or waste land to the State Forest Warden 

 or his deputy in charge of the district, and to take prompt and effective 

 measures to suppress the same and to promptly obey the orders and 

 directions of the State Forest Warden or his said deputy respecting his 

 course and proceedings in reference to any such fire. In default thereof 

 he shall be subject to removal from ofiBce by the Governor of the State 

 and be subject to prosecution for a misdemeanor and on conviction 

 thereof shall forfeit his ofiSce and be liable to a fine of not less than 

 twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars. 



Section 4. The State Forest Warden shall provide and officially sign 

 an abstract of the penal laws of this act, with such rules and regula- 

 tions in accord therewith as he may deem necessary, and on or before 

 the first day of March of each year he shall forward as many copies 

 as he considers needful to the several deputies and fire wardens in the 

 State and to all railroad companies, and it shall be the duty of said 

 deputies and fire wardens to post up such abstract as warning placards 

 in twelve conspicuous places in their respective districts, and of said 

 railroad companies to post up the same in a conspicuous place in each 

 station in the portion of the State within the operation of this act. 



