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for, and the accused may be proceeded against by complaint and war- 

 rant of arrest or by summons as in civil actions, and in default of pay- 

 ment of any fine and costs imposed by a justice of the peace under this 

 act, the defendant shall be committed to the county jail for one day 

 for every dollar of fine and costs so imposed and unpaid . No fine 

 imposed under this act shall be less than five dollars. One-half of all 

 the fines imposed and collected under the provision of this act shall be 

 paid to the informer in each case and the other half to the supervisors 

 of the township in which the offense was committed, for the use of 

 such township. 



§11. Supervisors acting as firewardens shall be paid two dollara for 

 each day of actual service in extinguishing forest fires or in supervising 

 the brush fires or others which are in dangerous proximity to other 

 woodlands. The compensation of such firewardens and of the persons 

 employed by them under the provisions of this act shall be paid by the 

 townships in which the forest fires shall occur, and such townships 

 shall be reimbursed by the commonwealth, one-half of the amount so 

 paid under such rules as shall be prescribed by the forestry com- 

 mission, with the approval and concurrence of the auditor general . 



§ 12. The term forest in this act shall include not only woods in the 

 ordinary sense, but also scrub brush, sprouts, briers and the like woody 

 growths apt to feed or spread on wild land. The word district in 

 this act shall mean such township subdivisions as are ordinarily made 

 for convenience by the supervisors of roads . 



§ 13 . The prothonotary of every county within this commonwealth 

 shall, within fifteen days after the township elections in each year are 

 returned into his office, make out, certify and deliver under his hand 

 and seal of ofiice to the Forestry Commission a list of the names of 

 the persons elected to the office of supervisor of roads, together with 

 their postoffice addresses and the names of the townships within their 

 respective counties for which they were respectively elected, and shall 

 be allowed therefor the usual fees for equal or similar services, to be 

 paid out of the county treasury. 



OHIO. 



AN ACT to establish a state forestry bureau. 



Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State oj 

 Ohio, That there be and hereby is established at the state university, 



