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every reasonable care and precaution in the making and starting 

 of such fire, and in the managing of and caring for the same after 

 it has been made and started, in order to prevent such fire from 

 spreading or burning up the timber and forests surrounding the 

 place where it has been so made and started. 



6. Every person who shall between the first day of April and the jn^eo? oook- 

 first day of November, make or start within such fire district a i"&> etc. 



fire in the forest, or at a distance of less than half a mile therefrom, 

 or upon any island for cooking, obtaining warmth, or for any 

 industrial purpose, shall — 



(1) Select a locality in the neighborhood in which there is the 

 smallest quantity of vegetable matter, dead wood, branches, brush- 

 wood, dry leaves, or resinous trees; 



(2) Clear the place in which he is about to light the fire by remov- 

 ing 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. 



7. Any person who shall throw or drop any burning match, ashes I'recautionBin 

 of a pipe, lighted cigar, or any other burning substance, or who matches, bum- 

 shall discharge fire-arms within such fire district, shall be subject stfnces," etc. 

 to the pains and penalties imposed by this Act, if he neglect com- 

 pletely to extinguish before leaving the spot the fire of such match, 



ashes of a pipe, cigar, wadding of the fire-arm, or other burning 

 substance. 



8. Every person in charge of any drive of timber, survey or ^^^t u) be read 

 exploring party or of any other party requiring camp-fires, for by heads of 

 cooking or other purposes within such fire district, shall provide berers^%U'.""' 

 himself with a copy of this Act, and shall call his men together and 



cause said Act to be read in their hearing, and explained to them 

 at least once in each week during the continuance of such work or 

 service. 



9. All locomotive engines used on any railway which passes ^J^^y^°^^ 

 through any such fire district or any part of it, shall, by the com-fhre«. ^°^^' 

 pany 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, a^d 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 less 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 lea&t eleven wires 

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

 wires to the inch square. 



10. It shall be the duty of every engine driver in charge of a Dutr of 

 locomotive engine passing over any such railway within the limits ^°^°^ ^^'^^''' 

 of any such fire district, to see that all such appliances as 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 rea- 

 sonably possible to do so. 



11; Whosoever imlawfuUy neglects or refuses to comply with the penalty for 

 requirements of this Act in any manner whatsoever, shall be liable °^^e*'wTt^""this 

 upon a conviction before any justice of the peace to a penalty not Act. 

 exceeding fifty dollars over and above the costs of prosecution, and 



