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(g) No agent, employee, or contractor of any such railway company shall 

 permit gates to be left open or to cut or leave fences down whereby stock or crops 

 may be injured or to do any other unnecessary damage to property, in the con- 

 struction of fire-guards. 



9. In carrying out the provisions of Section 297 of the Railway Act, which 

 enacts that "the Company shall at all times maintain and keep its right-of-way 

 free from dead or dry grass, weeds, and other unnecessary combustible matter," 

 no such railway company or its agents, employees or contractors shall, between 

 the first day of April and the first day of November, burn or cause to be burned 



Fig. 5 — Near view of plantation sliown in Fig. 4. 



:any ties, cuttings, debris, or litter upon or near its right-of-way, except under 

 such supervision as will prevent such fires from spreading beyond the strip being 



■ cleared. The Chief Fire Inspector or other authorized officer of the Board may 

 require that no such burning be done along specified portions of the line of any 

 such railway, except with the written permission or under the direction of the 

 Chief Fire Inspector or other authorized officer of the Board. 



10. The railway company shall provide and maintain a force of fire-rangers 



fit and sufficient for efficient patrol and fire-fighting duty during the period from 



the first day of April to the first day of November of each year; and the method? 



• of such force shall be subject to the supervision and direction of the Chief Fire 



Inspector or other authorized officer of the Board. 



