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ence, is familiar with the conditions of the forest and methods by 

 which fires may be controlled. Said chief firewarden shall receive a 

 salary of twelve hundred ($1,200) dollars per year, and shall hold his 

 office during the pleasure of the forest commissioner. He shall repre- 

 sent the authority of the forest commissioner and it shall be his duty 

 to enforce the provisions of this act throughout the State. 



§ 3. The chief firewarden shall have general charge of the fire- 

 warden force of the State and shall have authority to mass such fire- 

 warden force as may be available at any special point to suppress fires. 

 In case the firewarden force of any locality is deemed by said chief 

 firewarden inadequate to prevent or suppress forest or prairie fires, he 

 may appoint, temporarily, needed firewardens whose duties and 

 authority shall be the same as herein given to town supervisors acting 

 as firewardens. He shall properly divide into fire districts all unor- 

 ganized territory in this state and appoint competent firewardens 

 therein; he shall co-operate with any police or military force of the 

 United States Government which may be detailed to guard the national 

 domain from fire; he shall investigate the extent of the forests in the 

 State, together with the amounts and varieties of the wood and timber 

 growing therein, the damages done to them from time to time by forest 

 fires and the causes of such fires, the method used, if any, to promote 

 the regrowth of timber, and any other important facts relating to 

 forest interests, which may be required by the forest commissianer. 

 The information so gathered, with his suggestions relative thereto, shall 

 be included in a report to be made by him annually to the forest 

 commissioner. 



§4. The forest commissioner shall provide and officially si-n an 

 abstract of the penal laws of this act, with such rules and regulations 

 in accord therewith as he may deem necessary, and on or before the 

 first day of April of each year he shall forward as many copies as he 

 considers needful to the chairman of each town board of supervisors and 

 presidents of villages, to the forest firewardens that he has appointed 

 and to all railroad companies and to the chairman of each board of 

 county commissioners in this State, and it shall be the duty of said fire- 

 wardens to post up such abstract as warning placards in conspicuous 

 places in their respective districts, and it shall be the duty of the 

 county commissioners of each county to cause the said abstract to be 

 published in at least three issues of the official paper in their respective 

 counties during the fire-dangerous season of each year, which shall be 

 reckoned from the fifteenth of April to the first of November. 



