Report of the Forest Commission. 239 



Further enactments upon this subject may also be found in the 

 General Statutes of Colorado, sections 905, 906, 1036 and 1037. 



Penalties, for injuries to trees, are prescribed in sections 2468, 

 2469, 3427 and 3428 of the General Statutes of Colorado. 



Posting of Fire Notices. 



AN ACT directing the erection of notices to extinguish camp 



fires. 



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



Section 1. It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners 

 of each county in this state, within thirty days after this act shall take 

 effect, to cause to be erected in a conspicuous place, at the side of each 

 and every traveled highway, and at such places as they may deem 

 proper, at suitable distances alongside the main traveled highways of 

 their respective counties, a notice in large letters, substantially in the 

 following form, to wit: 



"Camp fires must be totally extinguished before breaking camp, 

 under penalty of not to exceed one month's imprisonment, or one hun- 

 dred dollars fine, or both, as provided by law." 



County Commissioners. 



The erection and maintenance of such notices shall be at the expense 

 of the lespective counties, and at least 10 in number of such notices 

 shall be posted in each and every county in this state. 



§ 2. Whoever shall willfully destroy, remove, injure or deface any 

 such notice, erected on any highway as aforesaid, or shall willfully 

 injure or deface any inscription or device comprising such notice, shall 

 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, before 

 any justice of the peace or court of competent jurisdiction, shall be 

 fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county 

 jail not exceeding three months, or both, in the discretion of the court. 



[Approved March 27, 1885.] 



