214 Report of the Forest Commission, 



specifying the value of timber as near as may be, and amount of cord 

 wood, logs, bark or other forest product, fencing, bridges and buildings 

 that have been burned. They shall also report the cause of these 

 fires if they can be ascertained, and the measures employed and found 

 most effective in checking their progress. Blanks for the reports 

 required in this act shall be furnished by said forest commissioner at 

 the expense of the state . 



§ 10. Every railroad company whose road passes through waste or 

 forest lands, shall during each year cut and burn off or remove from 

 its right of way all grass, brush or other inflammable material, but under 

 proper care and at times when fires are not liable to spread beyond 

 control . 



§ 11. All locomotives which shall be run through forest lands shall 

 be provided with approved and efficient arrangements for preventing 

 the escape of fire and sparks . 



§ 12. No railroad company shall permit its employes to deposit fire, 

 live coals or ashes, upon their track in the immediate vicinity of wood- 

 lands or land liable to be overrun by fires, and where engineers, con- 

 ductors or trainmen discover that fences along the right of way of 

 woodlands adjacent to the railroads are burning or in danger from 

 fire, it shall be their duty to report the same at their next stopping 

 place which shall be a telegraph station . 



§ 13. For all damages caused to forest growth by any person 

 employed in the construction of any railroad hereafter to be built in 

 this state the company owning such road shall be primarily liable to 

 the person or persons so damaged. During the construction of such 

 roads through woodland, there shall be kept posted in conspicuous 

 places on each line of the roadways at distances of two hundred feet, 

 abstracts of the laws relating to forest fires . Any person employed 

 in the construction of such railroads, who shall set or cause to be set 

 any fire along the line of said roads, shall, before leaving the same, 

 totally extinguish said fires, and upon failure to do so such person 

 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof 

 shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding five hundred dollars or by 

 imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding sixty days, or by both 

 such fine or imprisonment. It shall be the duty of all persons having 

 charge of men in the construction of such railroads to see that the pro- 

 visions of this section are carefully complied with, and any negligence 

 or want of ordinary care on their part in relation to the same shall 

 constitute a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof they shall be 

 liable to the penalties imposed by this section . 



