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REPORTS OF SUPERVISORS AND FIREWARDENS. SUMMARY TO BE REPORTED TO 



LEGISLATURE. 



24. The supervisor of every town of which he is firewarden, as aforesaid, 

 and in which a forest fire of more than one acre in extent has occurred within a 

 year, shall report to the forest commission the extent of the area burned over, to 

 the best of his information, together with the probable amount of property 

 destroyed, specifying the value of timber as near as may be, and amount of cord- 

 wood, logs, bark or other forest product, and of fencing, bridges and buildings 

 that have been burned. He shall also make inquiries and report as to the causes 

 of the fires, if they can be ascertained, and as to the measures employed and found 

 most effectual in checking their progress. A cousolidated summary of these 

 returns by counties, and of the information as to the same matter otherwise 

 gathered by the forest commission, shall be included in the annual report of the 

 forest commission. 



WHAT RAILROAD COMPANIES MUST Do. REMOVE GRASS, ETC. 



25. Every railroad company whose road passes through waste or forest 

 lands, or lands liable to be over run by fires within this State, shall twice within 

 each year cut and burn off or remove from its right-of-way, all grass, bush, or 

 inflammable material, but under proper care, and at times when the fires thus set 

 are not liable to spread beyond control. 



LOCOMOTIVES. SPARK ARRESTERS. ENGINEERS AND FIREMEN. 



26. All locomotives which shall be run through forest lands shall be provi- 

 ded within one year from the date of this Act, with approved and sufficient 

 arrangements for preventing the escape of fire from their furnace or ash-pan and 

 netting of steel or iron wire upon their smoke stack to check the escape of sparks 

 of fire. It shall be the duty of every engineer and fireman employed upon a 

 locomotive to see that the appliance for the prevention of the escape of fire are 

 in use and applied, as far as it can be reasonably and possibly done. 



NOT TO DEPOSIT ASHES, AND TO REPORT FIRES. 



27, No railroad company shall permit its employees to deposit fire, coals or 

 ashes upon their track in the immediate vicinity of wood lands liable to be over- 

 run by fire, and in all cases where any engineers, conductors, or trainmen, discover 

 that fences along the right-of-way, on woodlands adjacent to the railroad, are 

 burning, or in danger from fire, it shall be their duty to report the same at their 

 next stopping place and the person in charge of such station shall take prompt 

 measures for extinguishing such fires. 



RAILROAD COMPANIES. IN CASE OF FIRE. 



28. In season of drought, and especially during the first dry time in the 

 spring after the snows have gone and before vegetation has revived, the railroad 

 companies shall employ a sufficient additional number of trackmen for the prompt 

 extinguishment of fire. And where a forest fire is raging near the line of their 

 road, they shall concentrate such help and adopt such measures as shall most 

 effectually arrest its progress. 



