The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-24

service of whatever character, in any
| one year: nor shall any one person en-
ployed by fire Wardens to assist in eX-
| tinguishing or preventing forest or prai-
| RE fires be paid for more than ten Q0)
| days of such service in any one year.
! No county shall eXpend more than five
hundred $500 dollars of public money
| in any one year under this act on its
| own account.
Sec. 8. Any person who willfully,
| negligently or carelessly sets on fire, or
| causes 70 be set on fire, any woods, prat-
| RE or other cOmbustible material. wheth-
| er or not on his own lands, by means
| whereof the property of another is injured
or endangered, or any person who will
fully, negligently or carelesSly suffers any
fire set by himself to damage the property
| of another, is guilty of misdemeanor
| and shall be punished by fine not eX-
| ceeding one hundred CS10O dollars, or by
| Imprisonment in the county jail not eX-
ceeding three 90 months. Any person
| who maliciously sets on fire, or causes to
combustible material whereby the proper
| ty of another is destroyed and life is sac
rificed, shall be punished with fine of
not over five hundred $500 dollars, or be
imprisoned in the state prison for term
of not over ten Q0) years, or both such
fine and imprisonment.
Sec. 10. Any person who shall kindle
fire on or dangerously near to forest
or prairie land and leave 1t unquenched,
or shall be party thereto, and every
person who shall use other than lncom-
carry a naked torch, fire brand or other
exposed light in or dangerously near TO
forest land causing risk of Academia!
re shan be punished 5s1 BY me not OF i 94
prisonment in the county jail not exceed
ing three % months
Sec. IL. Every person who shall will
fully or heedlessly deface, destroy or re-
move any warning placard posted under
the requirements of this act shall be IL
able to a fine not exceeding one hundred
($10O dollars for each such offense, or
imprisonment in the county Jail not eX-
ceeding three (3) months
Sec. - 1t shall be the duty of all rail-
road companies operating any railroad
arresters on all their engines and to keep
their right of way to the width of fifty
COO feet on each side of the center of
the main track cleared of all combus-
tible materials and safely dispose
of the same within said limits of their
right of way between the fifteenth day
of April and the first day of December.
No railroad company shall permit its en-
ployes to leave deposit of fire or live
Goals. or hot ashes, in the immediate
vicinity of woodland, or lands liable to
be oVerrun by fires, and where engineers,
conductors or trainmen discover that
fences or other material along the right
of way or woodland adjacent to the rail-
road are burning or are in danger from
fire. they shall report the same promptly
at the next telegraph station that they
may pass. In seasons of drouth railroad
companies shall give particular instruc-
lions to their employees for the prevention
and prompt eXtinguiShment of fires and
they shall cause warning placards fur
nlShed by the forest commissioner to be
posted a their stations in the vicinity of
forest and prairie grass lands, and where
fire occurs along the line of their road
they shall concentrate such help and
adopt such measures as shall be available
to effectively eXunguiSh it. Any railroad
company violating the requirements of
ha n Nf
demeanor and be punished by a fine not
exceeding one hundred ($100) dollars for
each such offense, and railroad employees
violating the requirements of this section
shall be guilty of misdemeanor and be
punished by a fine of not less than five
(S5( dollars nor more than fifty ($50)
dollars. But this section shall not
be construed to prohibit or prevent any
railroad company from piling or keeping
upon the right of way cross ties or other
material necessary in the operation or
maintenance of such railroad.
Sec. Is. 1t shall be the duty of each and
every owner Of threshing or other porta-
BILE steam engines to have efficient spark
arresters on their engines at all times
of any threshing engine shall deposit live
Goals or hot ashes from his engine in
any place without putting them out or
covering them with at least three
inches of earth before leaving them. All
persons violating the provisions of this
section Shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor. and upon conviction thereof
shall be punished by a fine not less than
nVe $50 dollars nor more than fifty (SJO
dollars.
Sec. ii. Nothing in this act shall be
construed as affecting any right of action
for damages.
Sec. Is. Woodland territory within the
terms of this act shall be construed to
mean bodies of forest and brush land.
Sec. 1t. All moneys received as pen
alles for violating the provisions of this
act shall be paid into the county treasury
of the county. wherein the offense &C.
CURED, to be known as the county fire
fund, and used under the directions of
the county board in defrayng the ex-
penses of enforcing the provisions Of this
act within such county
Sec. II. The sums mentioned in sec
lions five CO. and seven CD of this act.
or SO much thereof as shall be necessary
any money In the treasury not otherwise
appropriated.
Sec. Is. All acts and parts of acts
inconsistent with this act are hereby 1e-
Sec. 10 This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after it's passage.
Approved April 81, 1908.
CHAPTER 364-H F. No. 404.
AN ACT to authorize and empower viii
lagos under certain CIRCUMSTANCES to
issue bonds for the payment of their
outstanding Indebtedness.
BE 1t enacted by the legislature of the
State of Minnesota
Section 1. That any village in this
State. whose Indebtedness at the time of
the passage and approval of this act ex-
ceeds the sum of three thousand (3,OOO)
dollars besides its bonded Indebtedness
may issue its bonds for an amount as
nearly as may be equal to the amount
or such Indebtedness, which bonds shall
pear interest at a rate to be determined
by the village council of said village not
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