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destroyed and life is sacrificed, shall be punished with a fine of not 

 over five hundred ($500) dollars, or be imprisoned in the state prison 

 for a term of not over ten (10) years, or both such fine and imprison- 

 ment. 



§ 10. Any person who shall kindle a fire on or dangerously near to 

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

 thereto, and every person who shall use other than incombustible wads 

 for firearms, or who shall carry a naked torch, fire brand or other 

 exposed light in or dangerously near to forest land, causing risk of 

 accidental fire, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred 

 ($100) dollars or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three 

 (3) months. 



§ 11. 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 one hundred ($100) dollars 

 for each such offense, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding 

 three (3) months. 



§ 12. It shall be the duty of all railroad companies operating any 

 railroad within this state to use efficient spark arresters on all their 

 engines and to keep their right of way to the width of fifty (50) feet 

 on each side of the center of the main track cleared of all combustible 

 materials and safely dispose of the same within said limits of their 

 right of way between the fif leenth day of April and the first day of 

 December. No railroad company shall permit its employes to leave a 

 deposit of fire or live coals, or hot ashes, in the immediate vicinity of 

 woodland, or lands liable to be overrun by fires, and where engineers, 

 conductors or trainmen discover that fences or other materials along 

 the right of way or woodland adjacent to the railroad are burning or 

 in danger from fire, they shall report the same promptly at the next 

 telegraph station that they may pass. In seasons of drouth railroad 

 companies shall give particular instructions to their employes for the 

 prevention and prompt extinguishment of fires and they shall cause 

 warning placards furnished by the forest commissioner to be posted at 

 their stations in the vicinity of forest and prairie grass lands, and 

 where a fire occurs along the line of their road they shall concentrate 

 such help and adopt such measures as shall be available to effectively 

 extinguish it. Any railroad company willfully violating the require- 

 ments of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be 

 punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred (100) dollars for each 

 such offense, and railroad employes willfully violating the requirements 

 of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a 



