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lowed, to prevent the throwing of burning matches, burning cigars, 

 burning cigarettes or parts thereof from the windows of such cars. 

 When engineers, conductors or trainmen discover that fences along the 

 right of way or woodlands adjacent to the railroads, are burning or 

 in danger from fire, they shall report the same at their next stopping 

 place which shall be a telegraph station. 



Sec. 51. Railroads under construction, liable for all damages to 

 forest growth caused by employees; penalty, if employees fail to ex- 

 tinguish fires set along line; persons in charge of men, required to sec 

 that the provisions of this section are complied with. R. S. c. 7, § 63. 

 For all damages caused to forest growth by any person employed in 

 the construction of any railroad built in this state after the third day of 

 May, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, the company owning such road 

 shall be primarily liable to the person or persons so damaged. During 

 the construction of such roads through woodland, there shall be kept 

 posted in conspicuous places on each line of the roadways at distances 

 of two hundred feet, abstracts of the laws relating to forest fires. 

 Any person employed in the construction of such railroads, who shall 

 set or cause to be set any fire along the line of said roads, shall, before 

 leaving the same, totally extinguish said fires, and upon failure to do 

 so, such person shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding five hun- 

 dred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail of not exceeding 

 sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. All persons having 

 charge of men in the construction of such railroads shall see that the 

 provisions of this section are carefully complied with, and for any 

 negligence or want of ordinary care on their part in relation to the 

 same, they shall be liable to the penalties imposed by this section. 



Sec. 52. Penalty for violation of §§ 4S-50. R. S. c. 7, § 64. Any 

 railroad company violating the requirements of sections forty-eight, 

 forty-nine and fifty, shall be liable to a fine of one hundred dollars for 

 each offence. 



Sec. 53. Inflammable material along railroads and ways shall be 

 removed. 1915, c. 196, § /. Any person, firm, corporation or agent, 

 cutting any forest growth on property adjacent to the right of way 

 of any railroad or highway within the state, shall leave the growth 

 uncut on the land within fifty feet of the limit of the right of way of 

 a railroad or center of the wrought portion of any plantation, town, 

 city, county or state road ; or shall dispose of slash and debris caused 

 by cutting in such a manner that inflammable material shall not remain 

 on the ground within fifty feet of the limit of the right of way of a 

 railroad or center of the wrought portion of any plantation, town, city, 

 county or state road. 



Sec. 54. Slash and debris. hozi> to be disposed of. 1915, c. 196, § 2. 

 Slash and debris accumulating by the construction and maintenance of 

 railroads, highways or telegraph or telephone lines, shall be disposed of 

 in such a manner that inflammable material shall not be left on the 

 ground. 



