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(c) Said statements of the Chief Fire Inspector shall be so arranged as to deal with 

 and prescribe measures for each separate portion of such railway upon and adjacent 

 to which the fire risk calls for specific treatment. The intention shall be to adjust 

 the protective measures to the local conditions and to make the expense proportionate 

 4;o the fire risk and possible damage. 



Xd) Said statements of the Chief Fire Inspector shall prescribe dates on or within 

 "Which the foregoing protective measures shall be commenced and completed, and the 

 fire guards maintained in a clean and safe condition. 



(e) No such railway company shall permit its employees, agents, or contractors 

 "to enter upon land under cultivation, to construct fire-guards, without the consent of 

 vlhe owner or occupant of such land. 



(/) Wherever the owner or occupant of such land objects to the construction of 

 "Hre-guards, on the ground that the said construction would involve unreasonable loss 

 or damage to property, the company shall at once refer the matter to the Board, giving 

 full particulars thereof, and shall in the meantime refrain from proceeding with the 

 work. 



(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 in- 

 jured or to do any other unnecessary damage to property, in the construction 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 com- 

 ipany 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 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 oflScer 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 methods of such force shall 

 be subject to the supervision and direction of the Chief Fire Inspector or other author- 

 ized officer of the Board. 



11. The Chief Fire Inspector shall, each year, prepare and submit to each and every 

 railway company a statement of the measures such railway companies shall take for 

 the establishment and maintenance of said specially organized force. Said statements 

 among other matters may provide for — 



(o) The number of men to be employed on the said force, their location and general 

 duties, and the methods and frequency of the patrol. 



(ft) The acquisition and location of necessary equipment for transporting the said 

 force from place to place, and the acquisition and distributing of suitable fire-fighting 

 tools; and 



(c) Any other measures which are considered by him to be essential for the imme- 

 diate control of fire and may be adopted at reasonable expense. 



12. Whenever and while all the locomotive engines used upon any such railway, 

 or any portion of it, burn nothing but oil as fuel, during the aforesaid prescribed period, 

 under such conditions as the Board may approve, the Board will relieve the said rail- 

 way of such portion of these regulations as may seem to it safe and expedient. 



13. Every such railway company shall instruct and require its sectionmen and 

 other employees, agents and contractors to take measures to report and extinguish fires 

 •on or near the right-of-way as follows: — 



(a) Conductors, engineers, or trainmen who discover or receive notice of the 

 ■existence and location of a fire burning upon or near the right-of-way, or of a fire which 



