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under shall prevent the proper use of such roads by bona fide 

 travellers or by others requiring to cross such reserve in the 

 pursuit of their ordinary business or calling, but nothing in 

 this section shall operate to withdraw such roads from the 

 reserve. 



10. During the construction of any railway passing through 

 Dominion lands, the Minister of the Interior may appoint such 

 forest rangers as he deems necessary for the protection from 

 fire of the forests along or adjacent to such railway, and it shall 

 be the duty of every such ranger to enforce the provisions of 

 this Act and any regulations made thereunder, and of any other 

 Act either of the Parliament of Canada or of the province in 

 which such lands are situated, when and in so far as such acts 

 or any regulations made thereunder relate to the prevention of 

 fires and are in force in the district for which such ranger is 

 appointed; and for such purposes and within a tract of five 

 miles on either side of such railway every such ranger shall 

 have all the powers of a justice of the peace, and one-half of 

 the expenses incident to and connected with such fire ranging 

 shall be a debt due to the Crown from the person constructing 

 such railway and shall be payable upon demand of the Minister 

 of the Interior, and may be recovered at the suit of the Crown 

 in any court of competent jurisdiction. 



M. The Governor in Council may make such regulations as 

 he deems necessary or expedient to give full effect to the object 

 and intention of this section. 



11. The Governor in Council may secure from the holder of 

 any title to or interest in any land within the limits of a forest 

 reserve a waiver in writing of the exemption of such land from 

 the provisions of any regulations made under this Act for the 

 prevention of trespass and the protection of game, and, where 

 necessary, may make compensation therefor, and from the date 

 of such waiver, and to the extent therein agreed upon, this 

 Act and the regulations made thereunder shall apply to such 

 lands. 



12. Except as hereinafter otherwise provided, this Act shall 

 not apply to lands within the boundaries of any reserve set apart 

 and established under the provisions thereof the title to which 

 is not vested in the Crown in the right of Canada at the date 

 of the passing of this Act, and shall not apply to any lands 

 within such boundaries which at that date are held under lease 

 or are subject to a license to cut timber or to any other right 

 or interest therein or affecting the same, so long as such lease 

 or license remains in force or such right or interest continues to 

 exist; Provided that nothing contained in any lease or licen 

 heretofore granted shall be deemed to prevent the opera on 



