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1. Select a locality in the neighbourhood in which there is 

 the smallest quantity of vegetable matter, dead wood, branches, 

 brushwood, dry leaves, or resinous trees ; 



2. Clear the place in which he is about to light the fire by 

 removing all vegetable matter, dead trees, branches, brushwood 

 and dry leaves from the soil within a radius of ten feet from 

 the fire ; 



3. Exercise and observe every reasonable care and precaution 

 to prevent such fire from spreading, and carefully extinguish 

 the same before quitting the place. 



Precautions 7 Any person who shall throw or drop any burning match, 



matches' bum- asnes a pip e > lighted cigar, or any other burning substance, 



ing sub- or who shall discharge any fire-arm within such fire district 



stances, etc. S \ VA \\ be subject to the pains and penalties imposed by this Act, 



if he neglect completely to extinguish before leaving the spot 



the fire of such match, ashes of a pipe, cigar, wadding of the 



fire-ar ; . or other burning substance. 



Act to be read 8. Every person in charge of any drive of timber, survey or 

 to employees exploring party, or of any other party requiring camp tires for 

 su'rveyVlum- cooking or other purposes within such fire district, shall pro- 

 berers, etc. vide himself with a copy of this Act, and shall call his men 

 together and cau^e said Act to be read in their hearing, and 

 explained to them at least once in each week during thn con- 

 tinuance of such work or service. 



Precautions as 9. All locomotive engines used on any railway which passes 

 tolocomotives. through any such fire district or any part of it, shall, by the 

 company using the same, be provided with and have in use 

 all the most approved and efficient means used to prevent the 

 escape of fire from the furnace or ash-pan of such engines, and 

 that the smoke stack of each locomotive engine so used shall 

 be provided with a bonnet or screen of iron or steel wire 

 netting, the size of the wire used in making the netting to be 

 not le.-.s than number nineteen of the Birmingham wire gauge, 

 or three sixty-fourths parts of an inch in diameter, and shall 

 contain in each inch square at least eleven wires each way at 

 right angles to each other, that is in all twenty-two wires to 

 the inch square. 



Duty of en- 1O. It shall be the duty of every engine driver in charge of 

 gine drivers, a locomotive engine passing over any such railway within the 

 limits of any such fire district, to see that all such appliances 

 as are above-mentioned are properly used and applied, so as 

 to prevent the unnecessary escape of fire from any such engine 

 as far as it is reasonably possible to do so. 



Penalty for ^ 1 Whosoever unlawfully neglects or refuses to comply 

 non compli- with the requirements of this Act in any manner whatsoever, 

 A n c c t ewith thls shall be liable upon a conviction before any justice of the 



