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the time actually employed. Within a town in which there are wild 

 or forest lands of the forest preserve, and in such other towns in the 

 counties mentioned in section one hundred of this chapter as the forest 

 commission may designate, such persons shall be firewardt ns as may, 

 from time to time, be appointed by the forest commission, and shall act 

 during the pleasure of such commission, and all the provisions of this 

 article with reference to supervisors and district town wardens shall 

 be applicable to them. On the discovery of a forest fire, or a fire in any 

 woods, the firewarden of the district, town, or county in which it shall 

 be, shall take such measures as shall be necessary for its extinction, and 

 for this purpose he may call on any person in the territory in which he 

 acts, or in its vicinity, for assistance, and any person refusing to act 

 when so called on shall forfeit to the people of the state the sum of ten 

 dollars. Any justice of the peace, or commissioner of highways of 

 the town in which any such fire shall be, shall act as firewarden with 

 respect to any such fire, if the firewardens of the district, town, or county 

 are not taking such measures for its extinguishment. 



§ 111. Supervisors to report fires. The firewarden of every town in 

 which a forest fire of more than one acre in extent his occurred within 

 a year shall report to the forest commission the extent of area burned 

 over to the best of his information, together with the probable amount 

 of property destroyed, specifying the value of timber, as near as may 

 be, and amount of cord wood, logs, bark, or other forest products, and of 

 fences, bridges and buildings that have been burned. He shall make 

 inquiries, and report as to the causes of such fires, if ascertainable, and 

 as to the measures employed and found most effectual in checking their 

 progress. A consolidated summary of these returns by counties, and 

 of the information as to the same matter otherwise gathered by the 

 forest commission, shall be included in their annual report. 



§ 112. Actions for trespasses upon forest preserve. The forest 

 commission may bring in the name of the people of the state any 

 action to prevent trespass upon or injury to the forest preserve, and 

 recover damages therefor, or to recover lands properly forming part of 

 the forest preserve, but occupied or held by persons not entitled 

 thereto, or for the maintenance and protection of the forest preserve, 

 which any owner of lands would be entitled to bring; or for cutting 

 or carrying away, or causing to be cut, or assisting to cut, any tree or 

 timber within the forest preserve or any bark thereupon, or removing 

 any tree, timber or bark, or any portion thereof, from such forest pre- 



