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fine of not les 5 * than five ($5) dollars nor more than fifty ($50) dollars. 

 But this section shall not be construed to prohibit or prevent any 

 railroad company from piling or keeping upon the right of way cross 

 ties or other material necessary in the operation or maintenance of such 

 railroad. 



§ 13. It shall be the duty of each and every owner of threshing or 

 other portable steam engines to have efficient spark arresters on their 

 engines at all times when in use, and no person in charge of any 

 threshing engine shall deposit live coals or hot ashes from his engine 

 in any place without putting them out or covering them with at least 

 three inches of earth before leaving them. All persons violating the 

 provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not less than 

 five ($5) dollars nor more than fifty ($50) dollars. 



§ 14. Nothing in this act shall be construed as affecting any right of 

 action for damages. 



§ 15. Woodland territory within the terms of this act shall be con- 

 strued to mean bodies of forest and brush land. 



§ 16. All moneys received as penalties for violating the provisions of 

 this act shall be paid into the county treasury of the county wherein 

 the offense occurred, to be known as the county fire fund, and used 

 under the direction of the county board in defraying the expenses of 

 enforcing the provisions of this act within such county. 



§ 17. The forest commissioner shall annually on or before the first 

 day of December make a written report to the governor of his doings 

 in respect to the duties herein assigned him, together with an itemized 

 account of the expenses incurred in cairying out the provisions of this 

 act, which report shall include such statistics and facts as he has 

 obtained from the chief firewarden and from the several firewardens 

 of the state and from other sources, together with his suggestions 

 relative to the preservation of the forests of the state and to the pre- 

 vention and extinguishment of forest and prairie fires. 



§ 18. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby 

 repealed. 



§ 19. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its 

 passage. 



[Approved April 18, 1895.] 



