72 FORESTRY. [ART. 39 A.

1906, ch. 294, sec. 8.

8. The boards of county commissioners of the several coun-
ties of this State are hereby authorized to levy and appropriate
money for purposes of forest protection, improvement and
management; and said boards shall have recourse under an
action at law for debt against any land owner, individual or
corporation on whose account they shall have been obliged to
pay out money for fighting fire for the amount which they have
expended for such purpose.

Ibid. sec. 9.

9. The State forester shall furnish notices, printed in large
letters upon cloth, calling attention to. the dangers of forest
fires and to forest fire, and trespass laws and their penalties;

such notices shall be distributed by the State forester to forest
wardens and posted by them in conspicuous places upon State
forest reserves, and along the highways in forest-covered
country.

Ibid. sec. 10.

10. Every individual or corporation that carelessly, negli-
gently, or wilfully, maliciously, or with intent, sets on fire, or
causes or procures to be set on fire, any woods, brush, grass,
grain or stubble, on lands not their own, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction be punishable 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 imprisonment.

Ibid. sec. 11.

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
carefully cleared around the land which is to be burned, so as
to prevent the spread of such fire. The setting of fire con-
trary 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 laud the