Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-10
Fire Wardens.

Sec. NNNV. Local fire wardens
shall be appointed by the Forester who
| shall serve under the direction of said
| Forester and receive pay for their ser
vices, when actually on duty, at the
| rate of two dollars per day and actual
| expenses. ..
Deputy Fire Wardens.
! Sec NX&NI. All game. wardens,
proprietors OF camps and registered
guides shall be Deputy Fire Wardens
| and when actually on duty shall re-
ceive two dollars per day and actual
expenses.
Patrols.
Gee. EXXVII. Whenever in the
| judgment of the Forester it is neces-
sary for the protection of the forests,
he shall appoint additional wardens to
patrol said forests, they to serve under
his direction, ard to be paid at the
! rate of two dollars per day and actual
expenses.
Police Powers for Wardens.
Sec. X%NVIII. The Forester, his
Assistants, all Forest Wardens, all 10
cal Fire Wardens, and all wardenS APP
pointed from time to time to patrol the
forests as herein provided, are hereby
vested with police powers and shall
provide themselves with q suitable
metal badge which shall bear the title
| IF their office.
Rights of Way of Railroads.
Sec. NXHIx. All railroads shall keep
their rights of way through forests
cleared of unnecessary inflamable ma
terial, and all such material shall be
removed, unless the same can be burn
ed at such tin.es and in such manner
as not to endanger adjoining forests
No such material shall be burned,
however, when the Forester shall no
tify said railroads that the conditions
are such that the burning Of such ma
teral would endanger adjoining for
eStS
Patrol of Rights Of Way.
Sec. XII. All railroads which have
rights of way through forests shall
keep their ways through such forests
patrollcd whenever in the judgment of
the Forester, such patrol is necessary
for the protection of the forests alon"
such rights of way.
Building of Fires.
Sec. Mi. No fires shall be built in
state Or auxiliary state forests, except
when snow is on the land, unless SUCH
fires nc built in enclosed stoves, or
in stoves and fireplaces in permanent
enclosed buildings.
Penalty.
Sec. NLlI. Any person violating
the provisions of Section Forty-one of
this Act, shall be punished by fine
not exceeding one thousand dollars, or
| imprisonment not exceeding one year,
or by both fine and Imprisonment.
Sec. NLIII. Equipment for the ex-
| tinsuishment OF fire. consisting of
| axes, shovcls, hoes, ralles pick axes,
crosscut saws and pals, in such num-
bers as the Forester may think prop
| CT. net to exceed an equipment for
more than fifty men to each twenty
thousand acres of forests, shall he pro-
Nided by the land owners at their own
| expense, and deposited at convenient
| points, either upon or near the land of
The owner so providing such equip
| mcnt.
Appropriation.
Sec. XLIV. Tho sum of one hundred
'touSdid uOildrS Is hereby appfOpflaI-
ed for the year 1909. and like sum
! for the year 1910 for the purpose of
| carrying out the provisions OF this Act
except that no Part thereof shall be
| expended for the purchase of land. and
any uEcXpended balance shall remain
in the treasury to meet the need for
extraordinary expenditures such as
may arise by reason of fires in en-
tremeiy dry seasons.
Sec. xiv. All acts. and parts Of
| acts, Inconsistent with this Act are
hereby repealed.
Sec. NLEl. This Act shall take ef-
feet the first day of May A. D. 1910.
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