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quarter sessions for the proper county, or, in default of bail, commit 

 him or them to answer as in other cases of misdemeanor, or he shall 

 fine the offender or offenders, if the fire was caused by his or her 

 negligence. 



§ 4. Any justice of the peace residing in any township where there 

 shall be a forest fire shall, in the absence or in the case of disability of the 

 district firewarden, act as a substitute or appoint a substitute tempor- 

 arily for him. 



§ 5 . Every person who shall neglect or refuse to assist in suppress- 

 ing a forest fire when called on for such service by a firewarden, shall 

 be subject to a fine of five dollars for each offense, unless excused for 

 good cause by the said firewarden, or declared to be justly exempt 

 after a hearing before a magistrate . 



§ 6 . Every person, before firing brush or other combustible matter 

 on or near forest land, at hazard of injury to the property of others, 

 shall notify the district firewarden of his intention, and shall not pro- 

 ceed with such firing except by the written authority or under the per- 

 sonal direction of said district firewarden, or of his duly authorized 

 substitute . Violation of this section shall be punished by a fine not 

 exceeding five hundred dollars. 



§ 7 . Every person and every company, society or corporation shall 

 be responsible for all injury to the property of others resulting from 

 forest fires originated willfully or negligently by themselves or their 

 agents, and shall be liable in an action of trespass for the actual 

 damages, direct and consequential, caused by such fire, and in case such 

 fire originated negligently, shall also be subject to a fine not exceeding 

 one hundred dollars. 



§ 8 . Every person who shall kindle a fire on or dangerously near to 

 forest land and leave it unquenched, or who shall be a party thereto, 

 and every person who shall use other than incombustible wads for fire- 

 arms or who shall carry a naked torch, firebrand or other exposed 

 light in or dangerously near to forest land at hazard of accidental fire, 

 shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars for each offense. 



§ 9 . Every person who shall willfully or heedlessly deface, destroy or 

 remove any warning placard posted under the requirements of this act, 

 shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each 

 offense. Every person wearing a firewarden's badge without lawful 

 warrant shall be liable to a fine of not more than fifty dollars. 



§ 10. All fines imposed by this act shall be sued for before a justice 

 of the peace in the commonwealth as debts of a like amount are sued 



