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4. The Board may order, upon such terms and conditions as it 

 deems expedient, that fire guards be established and maintained by 

 the company along the route of its railway and upon any lands, of His 

 Majesty or of any person, lying along such route, and, subject to the 

 terms and conditions of any such order, the company may at all times 

 enter into and upon such lands for the purpose of establishing and 

 maintaining such fire guards thereon, and freeing, from dead or dry 

 grass, weeds and other unnecessary inflammable matter, the land between 

 such fire guards and the line of railway. 



Through the power bestowed upon the Board by the Eailway Act a number 

 of Orders have been issued in relation to Eailway Fire Protection. At present 

 we are working under Order 107, as given below: — 



General Order No. 107. 



The Board of Eailway Commissioners for Canada. 



Friday the Jfth day of July, A.D. 1913. 

 It i§ Ordered as follows: — 



1. Order No. 16570, dated May a2nd, 1912, is hereby rescinded. 



2. Until further order, every Eailway subject to the legislative authority 

 of the Parliament of Canada, under construction or being operated by steam, 

 shall, unless exempted by a special order of the Board, cause every locomotive 

 engine used on the said railway, or portion of railway, being constructed or 

 operated by it, to be fitted and kept fitted with netting mesh as hereinafter set 

 forth^ namely; 



(a) On every engine equipped with an extension smoke box, the mesh shall 

 not be larger than 21^ x 2i/^ per inch of No. 10 Birmingham Wire Gauge, and 

 shall be placed in the smoke box so as to extend completely over the aperture 

 through which the smoke ascends, the openings of the said mesh not to exceed 

 a quarter of an inch and one sixty-fourth (that is, seventeen sixty-fourths) of 

 an inch to the square. 



{!)) On every engine equipped with a diamond stack, the mesh shall not 

 ibe more than 3 x 3 per inch of No. 10 Birmingham Wire Gauge, and shall be 

 placed at the flare of the diamond of the stack, so as to cover the same completely, 

 the openings of said mesh not to exceed three-sixteenths and one-sixty-fourth 

 (that is, thirteen sixty-fourths) of an inch to the square. 



3. Every such railway company shall cause: — 



{a) The openings of the ash pans on every locomotive engine used on the 

 railway, or portion of railway, operated or being constructed by it, to be covered, 

 when practicable, with heavy sheet iron dampers; and, if not practicable, with 

 screen netting dampers 21/2 x 21/2 per inch of No. 10 Birmingham Wire Gauge, 

 such dampers to be fastened either by a heavy spring or by a split cotter and pins, 

 or by such other method as may be approved by the Board. 



