CHAPTER CXLIV.

TIMBER.

Section.

6458.

When timber may be floated down streams. 6459. Penalty for wrongful removal of timber from state lands. 6460. Jurisdiction of courts-Prosecution.

6458. When timber may be floated down streams.

SECTION 1. That it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons to float any and all kinds of timber, such as saw logs, ties, fencing poles or posts and fire wood, down any of the streams of this state; Provided. That any person or persons desiring to float any such timber down said streams, shall first execute a bond running to the people of each county through which such timber is to be floated, in a sum sufficient to cover all damages that may be done to any bridges, dams or irrigating ditches that are now or may hereafter be constructed in or across any streams of this state; such bond to be approved by the board of county commissioners of the county or counties through which such timber is to be floated.

[Timber not floated in streams containing fish. Section 2758.]
Legislation.

G. S. § 3259.

Sec. 6458. § 1 of Act of 1872 p. 134. G. L. 1856.

6459. Penalty for wrongful removal of timber from state lands. SEC. 2. Any person who shall cut or remove any timber from any state land without authority so to do by the state board of land commissioners, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine in any sum not less than three dollars nor more than three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not less than thirty days nor more than three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, for the mutilation or destruction of each tree.

Legislation. Sec. 6459. Act of 1897 p. 265 § 1, entitled:
AN ACT

To Punish Trespassers Upon State Lands.

6460. Jurisdiction of courts-Prosecution.

SEC. 3. Justice courts, county courts and district courts, shall have jurisdiction for the trial of offenses under this act, and it shall be the duty of the county superintendent of schools to make complaint whenever he shall be informed of any violation of this act, and of the district attorney and his deputies to prosecute the same.

6460.]

2737.]

[The act above referred to is embraced between sections 6459 and [Penalty for firing timber. Sections 1876-1878 and 2652-2653 and Legislation. Sec. 6460. Act of 1897 p. 265 § 2, cited under § 6459.