FIRE. 
FEDERAL FIRE LAW. 
The Federal fire law, act of March 4,1909 (35 Stat. 1098), 
is as follows: 
Sec. 52. Whoever shall wilfully set on fire, or cause to 
be set on fire, any timber, underbrush, or grass upon the 
public domain, or shall leave or suffer fire to burn unat¬ 
tended near any timber or other inflammable material, 
shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or im¬ 
prisoned not more than two years, or both. 
Sec. 53. Whoever shall build a fire in or near any Forest, 
timber, or other inflammable material upon the public 
domain shall, before leaving said fire, totally extinguish 
the same; and whoever shall fail to do so shall be fined not 
more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more 
than one year, or both. 
This law thus defines the following offenses: 
1. Wilfully setting on fire timber, etc., upon the public 
domain. 
2. Wilfully causing to be set on fire timber, etc., upon 
the public domain. 
3. Leaving a fire or allowing one to burn unattended 
near any timber or other inflammable material on the 
public domain. (This does not include any person who 
is not responsible for the origin of such fire.) 
4. Building a fire in or near any forest, etc., upon the 
public domain and leaving it without totally extinguish¬ 
ing it. 
supplementary federal statutes. 
Conspiracy .—The act of March 4, 1909 (35 Stat. 1096) 
defines the offense of conspiracy as follows: 
Sec. 37. If two or more persons conspire either to com¬ 
mit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the 
United States in any manner or for any purpose, and one 
or more of such parties do any act to effect the object of 
the conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy 
shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or 
imprisoned not more than two years, or both. 
It will be seen that conspiracy involves premeditation, 
to which more than one person is a party. An overt act 
is also necessary to complete the offense of conspiracy, 
but it is not necessary that the conspiracy be consum- 
