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§ 1. For the time actually occupied in the performance of duties im- 

 posed by this act, the said county commissioners shall receive additional 

 pay at the same rate per diem as is allowed them by existing laws. 

 The said road overseers, for services rendered under this act, shall be 

 paid at the rate of three dollars per day. All bills for such services 

 shall be approved by the state forest commissioner, and shall be paid 

 by the county wherein such services were rendered: Provided, That 

 the entire sum which may be paid under the provisions of this act in 

 any county shall not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) in 

 any one year. 



§ 8. No person who is directly, or indirectly, engaged in the manu- 

 facture of lumber, or railroad ties, or telegraph poles, or any business 

 which requires a large consumption of growing timber or wood, shall 

 be qualified to serve as a forest commissioner under this act. 



§ 9. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of 

 this act are hereby repealed. 



§ 10. It is the opinion of the general assembly that an emergency 

 exists; therefore, this act shall take effect and be in force from and 

 after its passage. 



Forest Fires. 

 AN ACT to prevent the spreading of fires in this state, and pro- 

 viding for the punishment of willful or negligent use thereof. 

 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: 



Section 1. If any person shall willfully and maliciously set on fire, 

 or cause to be set on fire, any woods or prairie, or grounds of any 

 description other than his own, or shall intentionally, or by gross 

 neglect, permit a fire, set or caused to be set by him, to pass from his 

 own grounds to the injury of any other person or persons, such person 

 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof 

 shall he punished by fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, or by 

 imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both 

 such fine and imprisonment. 



§ 2. Any person who shall build a camp fire in any woods or prairie, 

 or on other grounds in this state, shall, before or at the time of break- 

 ing or leaving such camp, totally extinguish such camp fire; and, upon 

 a failure to do so, such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceedicg 

 one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceed- 

 ing one month, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 

 [Approved March 27, 1885.] 



