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(&) Overflow pipes from lifting injectors, or from water pipes from injector- 

 delivery pipe, or from boiler, to be put into the front and back part of the ash 

 pans and used from the first day of April to the first day of November, or during 

 such portion of this period as the Board may prescribe, for wetting ash pans. 



4. Every such railway company shall provide inspectors at terminal or 

 divisional points where its locomotive engines are housed and repaired; and cause 

 them, in addition to the duties to which they may be assigned by the officials of 

 the railway companies in charge of such terminal or divisional points: — 



(a) To examine at least once a week: 



(1) The Nettings; 



(2) Dead Plates; 



(3) Ash Pans; 



(4) Dampers; 



(5) Slides; and 



(6) Any other fire-protective appliance or appliances used on any and 

 all engines running into the said terminal or divisional points. 



(&) To keep a record of every inspection in a book to be furnished by the 

 railway company for the purpose, showing: — 



(1) The numbers of the engines inspected; 



(2) The date and hour of day of such inspection; 



(3) The condition of the said fire-protective appliances and arrange- 

 ments; and 



(4) A record of repairs made in any of the above-mentioned fire-pro- 

 tective appliances. 



The said book to be open for inspection by any authorized officer of the Board. 



(c) In case any of the said fire-protective appliances in any locomotive are 

 found to be defective, said locomotive shall be removed from service and shall 

 not (during said prescribed period) be returned to service unless and until such 

 defects are remedied. 



(d) Every such railway company shall also make an independent examina- 

 tion of the fire-protective appliances on all the locomotives of such company, at 

 least once each month, and the conditions of such fire-protective appliances shall 

 be reported direct to the Chief Mechanical Officer of the railway company, or 

 other chief officer, held responsible for the condition of the motive power of the 

 said company. 



5. No employee of any such railway company shall — 



(a) Do, or in any way cause, damage to the netting on the engine smoke- 

 stack or to the netting in the front end of such engine; 



(&) Open the back dampers of such engine while running ahead, or the front 

 dampers while running tender first, except when there is snow on the ground, 

 and it is necessary to take such action in order to have engine steam properly ; 



