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by a fine of not less than $25 or more than $1,000, or imprisonment for not
less than thirty days or more than one year, or both such fine and im-
prisonment.

An. Code, sec. 11. 1906, ch. 294.

11. It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation, as land owner,
to set, or procure another to set fire to any woods, brush, logs, leaves, grass
or clearing upon their own land, unless they shall have previously taken
all possible care and precaution against the spread of such fire to other
lands not their own, by previously having cut and piled the same, or care-
fully cleared around the land which is to be burned, so as to prevent the
spread of such fire. The setting of fire contrary to the provisions of this
section, or allowing it to escape to the injury of adjoining lands, shall be
prima facie proof of wilfulness or neglect, and the land owner from whose
land the fire originated shall be liable in a civil action for damages for the
injury resulting from such fire, and also for the cost of fighting and extin-
guishing the same.

An. Code, sec. 12. 1906, ch. 294.

12. Logging and railroad locomotives, donkey or threshing engines, and
other engines and boilers, operated in, through or near forest or brush,
which do not burn oil as fuel, shall be provided 'with appliances to prevent
the escape of fire and sparks from the smoke-stacks thereof, and with devices
to prevent the escape of fire from ash-pans and fire boxes. Failure to com-
ply with these requirements shall be a misdemeanor, punishable, upon
conviction, by a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $100 for such 1 and
every offense thus committed.

An. Code, sec. 13. 1906, ch. 294.

13. All individuals or corporations causing fires by violations of sec-
tions 10, 11 and 12 of this article shall be liable to the State, and to the
county in which the fire occurred, in an action for debt to the full amount
of all expenses incurred by the State or county in fighting and extinguish-
ing such fire.

An. Code, sec. 14. 1906, ch. 294.

14. Justices of the peace for this State in the county wherein the
offence shall have been committed shall have jurisdiction to hear and
determine all prosecutions for the purpose of enforcing fines and penalties,
collectible under the provisions of this article, not exceeding the amount of
$100.00 and of holding the offender, under proper bail if necessary, for
hearing before the circuit court, committing them to the county jail until
such hearing if the required bail is not furnished. It shall be the duty of
the state's attorneys of the several counties to prosecute all violators of
section 10 of this article.

1 Evidently a typographical error in the act.