224 Report of the Forest Commission. 



(b) To prepare at the public charge and freely distribute to the fire- 

 wardens and to citizens interested in protecting the forests who shall 

 apply for them, warning placards containing brief summaries from the 

 provisions of this act for the information of lumbermen, railroad 

 employes, hunters, fishermen, tourists and others who might violate the 

 law unwittingly. 



(c) To prepare at the public charge and to distribute copies of this 

 act, that it may be known throughout the commonwealth by whomso- 

 ever it may concern. 



(d) To take measures at the public charge for the free diffusion of 

 knowledge concerning forestry, in the form of lectures and essays, 

 commending the subject to public attention 



(e) To prepare at the public charge for the guidance of firewardens 

 a code of rules and regulations having reference to this act, utilizing 

 the experience of other States and embodying from time to time the 

 results of our own experience. 



(/) To appoint special firewardens, with the approval of the Gov- 

 ernor of the commonwealth, in remote and thinly peopled forest dis- 

 tricts where prompt action is necessary to prevent destructive confla- 

 grations, providing that such special firewardens shall be resident 

 citizens of the said districts, respectively, and shall be removable for 

 cause by the Forestry Commission. They shall have the same powers, 

 duties and emoluments as the district firewardens. The compensation 

 of special firewardens and of the persons employed by them under 

 the provisions of this act shall be paid by the commonwealth in accord- 

 ance with such rules as shall be prescribed by the Forestry Commis- 

 sion, with the approval and concurrence of the Auditor-General of the 

 commonwealth. 



§ 2. That the supervisors of roads of the respective townships shall, 

 by virtue of their office, be district firewardens within the limits of 

 their district, and in cases of emergency shall serve as such beyond the 

 said limits. They shall have authority and it shall be their duty as 

 firewardens 



(a) To go to the ground at once, in case of a forest fire within the 

 limits of their respective districts, and take all the necessary measures 

 for its control and extinguishment 



ib) To call upon any person within their township or the vicinity 

 thereof to assist them in that service. 



(c) To co-operate with the firewardens of any adjoining district, and 

 in the absence of such firewardens to direct the work of control and 

 extinguishment of forest fires in any such district. 



