230 Report of the Forest Commission, 



make inquiries and report as the cause of these fires, if they can be 

 ascertained, and as to the measures employed and found most effective 

 in checking their progress. A summary of these returns by counties, 

 and of the information otherwise gathered by said commission, shall be 

 included in their annual report. Blanks for the reports required in this 

 act shall be furnished by the forestry commission to the several town- 

 ships at the expense of the State. 



§ 6. The said commission shall serve without compensation, but a 

 sum not exceeding one thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to pay 

 the necessary expenses incurred in collecting the information required 

 by this act to be ascertained by said commission, to be paid for by the 

 State treasurer, upon the warrant of the auditor-general, out of any 

 funds not otherwise appropriated. 



[Approved June 27, 1887.1 



MINNESOTA. 



C. C, Andrews, Chief Fire Warden. R. C. Dunn, Forest Commissioner. 



STATE OF MINNESOTA. 



Office of Chief Fire Warden, ) 



[Circular No. 1.] g r< p AIJLj MlNN., May 1 , 1 895. i 



The following is published for the information and guidance of all 

 parties concerned: 



AN ACT to provide for the preservation of forests of this State 

 and for the prevention and suppression of forest and prairie 

 fires. 



Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : 



Section 1. The State auditor shall be forest commissioner of this 

 State, and his orders shall be supreme in all matters relating to the 

 preservation of the forests of this State and to the prevention and sup- 

 pression of forest and prairie fires as hereinafter provided. The 

 supervisors of towns, mayors of cities and presidents of village coun- 

 cils are hereby constituted firewardens of their respective towns, cities 

 and villages in the State, and the chief fire warden may appoint as fire- 

 wardens such other persons as he may deem necessary living in or near 

 to unorganized territory in this State, whose districts, to be known as 

 fire districts, he may determine . 



§ 2. The aforesaid forest commissioner shall appoint a competent 

 deputy, to be known as chief firewarden, who, from personal experi- 



