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in which the land is situated, clear such land of dead leaves, 

 dead grass and dead wood to a distance of one hundred feet 

 from the tracks, without thereby becoming liable for trespass : 

 provided, that no railroad corporation shall, under the pro- 

 visions of this section, do any acts on unimproved land out- 

 side its location or right of way, unless it has within two 

 months given fourteen days' notice in writing by mail or 

 otherwise to the occupant of the land, and to the owner 

 thereof, if he resides or has a usual place of business in the 

 city or town in which it is situated, and if the land is unoccu- 

 pied and the owner does not reside or have a usual place of 

 business in the city or town, then, unless the railroad corpora- 

 tion has within two months published notice of its purpose 

 once in three successive weeks in a newspaper published in 

 the county in which the land is situated, and unless it has 

 within three days given at least twenty-four hours' notice to 

 the forest warden [or the officer or board having his powers], 

 in the city or town in which the land is situated of the location 

 of the land which it intends to enter under the provisions of 

 this section, and of the time at which it intends to enter the 

 same; and provided, further, that no notice hereby required 

 shall be valid unless it sets forth the provisions of this section. 



1907, 431, sect. 3. Any engineer, conductor or other em- 

 ployee on a train who discovers a fire burning uncontrolled 

 Railroad on lands adjacent to the tracks shall forthwith 



> signal. cause a fi re signal to be sounded from the engine, 

 which shall consist of one long and three short whistle blasts 

 repeated several times, and shall notify the next sectionmen 

 whom the train passes, and the next telegraph station, of the 

 existence and location of the fire. The provisions of this 

 section shall not affect the authority conferred upon the 



