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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) Ashpans; 



(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 arrangements; and 



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

 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 examination 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 re- 

 sponsible 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; 



(6) 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; 



(c) Or otherwise do or cause damage or injury to any of the fire-protective appli- 

 ances on the said engines. 



6. No such railway company shall permit fire, live coals, or ashes to be deposited 

 upon its tracks or right of way, unless they are extinguished immediately thereafter, 

 except in pits provided for the purpose. 



7. No such railway company shall burn lignite coal on its locomotive engines as 

 fuel for transportation purposes, unless otherwise ordered by the Board, — lignite coal 

 consisting of and including all varieties of coal between peat and bituminous, with a 

 carbon-hydrogen ratio of 11.2 or less, such ratio being based on analysis of air-dried 

 coal. 



8. Every such railway company shall establish and maintain fire-guards along the 

 route of its railway as the Chief Fire Inspector may prescribe. The nature, extent, 

 establishment and maintenance of such fire-guards shall be determined as follows: 



(a) The Chief Fire Inspector shall each year prepare and submit to every such 

 railway company a statement of the measures necessary for establishing and maintain- 

 ing the routes of such railways in a condition safe from fire, so far as may be practic- 

 able. 



(&) Said measures may provide for the cutting and disposal by fire, or otherwise, 

 of all or any growth of an inflammable character, and the burning or other disposal 

 of debris and litter, on a strip of sufficient width on one or both sides of the track; the 

 ploughing or digging of land in strips of sufficient width on one or both sides of the 

 track; and such other work as may, under the existing local conditions and at reason- 

 able expense, tend to reduce to a minimum the occurrence and spread of fire. 



