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in default of payment of such fine and costs, tlie offender shall be 

 imprisoned in the common gaol for a period not exceeding three 

 calendar months; and any railway company permitting any loco- 

 motive engine to be run in violation of the provisions of the ninth 

 section of this Act shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dol- 

 lars for each offence, to be recovered with costs in any court of 

 competent jurisdiction. 

 bringhig 12. Every suit for any contravention of this Act shall be corn- 



action, menced within three calendar months immediately following such 



contravention. 

 finls"^*^ ^^ ^^' ^^^ fines and penalties imposed and collected under this Act 



shall be paid one-half to the complainant or prosecutor and the 

 other half to Her Majesty for the public use of the Province, 

 agentTto%n- 14. It shall be the special duty of every Crown Land agent, 

 force this Act. Woods and Forest agent, Free Grant agent, and bush ranger, to 

 enforce the provisions and requirements of this Act, and in all cases 

 coming within the knowledge of any such agent or bush ranger to 

 prosecute every person guilty of a breach of any of the provisions 

 and requirements of the same. 

 iiuerifere'^with 15. Nothing in this Act contained shall be held to limit or inter- 

 fM^daiiages*" ^^i"® ^'^^^ the right of any party to bring and maintain a civil action 

 occasioned for damages occasioned by fire, and such right shall remain and 

 ^ '^'^' exist as though this Act had not been passed. 



Under this Act the following "Fire Districts" were created. 



Description of "Fire Districts" Under Cap. 23 of the Statutes of 



Ontario. 



District No. 1. — Commencing at a point on the north shore of Lake Huron 

 where Provincial Land Surveyor Albert P. Salter's meridian line between 

 ranges numbers twenty-one and twenty-two west intersects the water's edge, 

 said point being the southwest angle of the Township of Plummer; thence 

 easterly, following the turnings and windings of the shore along the 

 water's edge of Lake Huron and the Georgian Bay to the mouth of French 

 River; thence southeasterly, along the easterly shore of the Georgian Bay, 

 and taking in Parry Island, to the northwest angle of the Township of 

 Matchedash : thence southeasterly along the westerly boundaries of the Town- 

 ships of Matchedash and North Orillia to the southwest angle of North 

 Orillia; thence northeasterly along the southerly boundary of North Orillia 

 to the waters of Lake Couchiching; thence easterly across said lake to the 

 southwest angle of the Township of Rama; thence easterly along the south 

 boundaries of the Townships of Rama, Dalton, Digby and Lutterworth to 

 the northwest angle of the Township of Galway ; thence southerly along the 

 westerly boundaries of the Townships of Galway and Harvey to the south- 

 west angle of Harvey; thence easterly along the south boundaries of the 

 Townships of Harvev, Burleiorh, Methuen, Lake and Tudor, to the north- 

 west angle of the Township of Elzevir; thence southerly along the west 

 boundary of Elzevir to the southwest angle of said township; thence 

 easterly along the south boundaries of the Townships of Elzevir, Kaladar, 

 KennelDec, Olden, Oso and South Sherbrooke, to the southeast angle of the 

 Township of South Sherbrooke; thence northwesterly along the easterly 

 boundaries of the Townships of South and North Sherbrooke to the south- 

 erly boundary of the Township of Lavant; thence northeasterly along the 

 southerly boundaries of the Townships of Lavant and Darling, to the south- 

 easterly angle of the Township of Darling; thence northwesterly along the 



