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§ 14. Any railroad company violating the requirements of this act 

 shall be liable to a line of one hundred dollars for each offense. 



§ 15. The forest commissioner shall take such measures as the state 

 superintendent of common schools and the president of the state 

 college of agriculture and the mechanic arts may approve, for awaken- 

 ing an interest in behalf of forestry in the public schools, academies 

 and colleges of the state, and of imparting some degree of elementary 

 instruction upon this subject therein. 



§ 16. The forest commissioner shall prepare tracts or circulars of 

 information, giving plain and concise advice for the care of woodlands 

 and for the preservation of forest growth. These publications shall 

 be furnished to any citizen of the state upon application. 



§ IV. It shall be the duty of the forest commissioner to cause, at the 

 expense of the state, copies of this chapter and all other laws of the 

 state relating to forest fires to be printed and freely distributed to the 

 selectmen of all the towns of the state, whose duty it shall be to post 

 them up in schoolhouses, sawmills, logging camps and other places, 

 and similar copies shall be furnished to owners of forest lands, who 

 may apply for them, to be posted up at the expense of such owners. 

 Any person viciously or wantonly tearing down, destroying or defac- 

 ing any such notices shall on conviction therefor be punished by a 

 fine of five dollars. 



§ 18. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of 

 this act, are hereby repealed, but none of the penalties proposed by 

 this act shall be considered as substitutes for or as repealing the pro- 

 visions of existing laws, making persons guilty of acts of trespass or 

 liable for civil damages to persons injured hj such acts. 



[Approved March 25.] 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



(Session of 1893.) 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 

 Court convened: 



Section 1. There is hereby established a forestry commission, to con- 

 sist of the Governor, ex officio, and four other members, two Republi 

 cans and two Democrats, who shall be appointed by the governor, with 

 the advice of the council, for their special fitness for service on this 

 commission, and be classified in such manner that the office of one 

 shall become vacant each year. One of said commissioners shall be 



