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conviction shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor 

 more than one thousand dollars in the discretion of the court. 

 Action against the district attorney shall be brought by the 

 attorney-general in the name of the people of the state on the 

 relation of the state forester. The penalties of this section shall 

 apply to any magistrate, with proper authority, who refuses or 

 neglects to cause the arrest and prosecution of any person or 

 persons when complaint, under oath, of violation of any terms 

 of this act has been lodged with him. 



Sec. 13. Destruction of warning notices. — Any person who 

 shall destroy, deface, remove or disfigure any sign, poster or 

 warning notice posted under the provisions of this act shall be 

 guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable, upon conviction, by 

 a fine of not less than fifteen dollars nor more than one hundred 

 dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not 

 less than ten days nor m.ore than three months, or both such fine 

 and imprisonment. 



Sec. 14. Willfully, maliciously and negligently setting 

 FOREST fires. — Every person, who willfully, maliciously or negli- 

 gently sets on fire or causes or procures to be set on fire any 

 woods, brush, prairies, grass, grain or stubble on any lands not 

 his own, or allows the fire to escape from his own land, whereby 

 any property of another is injured or destroyed, or accidentally 

 sets any such fire or allows it to escape from his control without 

 extinguishing it or using every eft'ort to extinguish it, shall be 

 guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction is punishable 

 by a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than one 

 thousand dollars, or imprisonment for not less than thirty days 

 nor more than one year, or both such fine and imprisonment. 

 Setting such fires or allowing them to escape shall be prima 

 facie proof of willfulness, malice or neglect under this section, 

 provided, that nothing herein contained shall apply to a person 

 who, in good faith, sets a back-fire to check a fire already burning. 



Sec. 15. Extinguishment of camp fires. — Every person who, 

 upon departing from a camp or camping place, leaves fire burning 

 or unextinguished, or who after building such fire allows it to 

 spread, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine 

 of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, 

 with costs of suit and collection, one half of such fine, or such 

 a portion thereof as shall not exceed fifty dollars, to be paid 

 to the person securing the arrest and conviction of such offender, 

 and if the defendant refuses or neglects to pay the fine and costs 

 imposed, he shall be confined in the county jail of the county 

 in which the conviction shall be had, for a period not to exceed 



