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Compensation of Firewardens. 



§ 27S. For their sen-ices while on duty at a forest or woodland fire, or in connection with 

 the prevention of fires, the firewardens shall receive a compensation of two dollars and fifty 

 cents per dav for the time actually employed ; and each person assisting in extinguishing a 

 forest or woodland fire, or who shall have been ordered to go to the place where such fire may 

 be burning, shall receive a compensation of two dollars per day for the time actually employed. 

 The sen-ices of the town firewarden, district firewardens, or persons assisting or ordered out at a 

 forest fire shall be a town charge, and shall be audited and paid by the town; but the comp- 

 troller of the state shall annually pay to the town a sum equal to one-half the expenses thus 

 incurred, audited and paid. In order to secure such payment from the state, all bills for 

 the semces of the town firewarden, district firewardens, or persons assisting or ordered out at a 

 forest or woodland fire, shall be made out in duplicate and approved by the town firewarden, 

 one of which bills shall be forwarded to the board of fisheries, game and forests, and to which 

 bill there shall be attached a certificate of the town board of auditors stating that said bill has 

 been audited and paid ; and no payment of moneys or rebate of any kind, for expenses incurred 

 in the extinguishment or prevention of forest fires shall be made to the town by the comptroller, 

 except on such bills, which must also be approved by the board of fisheries, game and forests 

 or by such official in their employ as they may designate to perform such duty. 

 (As amd. by chap. 655 of Laws of 1896.) 



Supervisors to be Firewardens Ex-Offkio. 



§ 279. In all towns not within the counties mentioned in section two hundred and seventy 

 of this act the supen-isors shall be firewardens ex-officio, and there shall be applicable to them 

 all the provisions of this act with reference to town and district firewardens. If a forest fire 

 occurs in any town in which the firewarden or supervisor may be absent, or may fail to take 

 measures to extinguish the fire, or in which no firewarden may have been appointed, any 

 justice of the peace in the town where such fire occurs may act as firewarden and summon 

 assistants; and for all such services payment shall be made the same as hereinbefore provided 

 for a firewarden and his assistants. Any person who shall willfully or negligently set fire to, 

 or assist another to set fire to any waste or forest lands belonging to the state or to another 

 person, whereby such forests are injured or endangered ; or who suffers any fire upon his own 

 lands to escape or extend beyond the limits thereof to the injury of the woodlands of another 

 or of the state, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment not exceeding one year, 

 or by a fine not to exceed two hundred and fifty dollars, or both, and be liable to the person 

 injured for all damages that may be caused by such fires. 

 (As amd. by chap. 655 of Laws of 1896.) 



Fallow Fires. 



§ 281. It shall be unlawful for any person to light fires for the purpose of clearing lands, 

 burning fallows, stumps, logs, or fallen timber, in the towns hereinafter specified in this section, 



