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3. If found necessary the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council may, 

 by proclamation, declare any part of the Province to be a "wooded 

 district" within the meaning of this Act. 



7. Any person who shall kindle and leave a fire burning, without 

 taking effectual means to prevent its spreading in or on any woods, 

 prairies, meadows, marshes or other open grounds, not his own 

 property, or who, intentionally or by gross carelessness, permits any 

 such fire to pass from his own land to the injury of the property of 

 any other person, shall, on conviction therefor, be fined in a sum 

 not exceeding $100, nor less than $20, and, in default of payment 

 thereof, shall be imprisoned for a term not exceeding six months. 



9. (Synopsis). Any person shall be permitted to start a fire for 

 cooking, warmth or other industrial purpose, but before doing so 

 shall select a spot where there is the least amount of combustible 

 material and the least danger of the fire spreading, and shall clear 

 the ground of brushwood, leaves, and other inflammable matter for a 

 radius of ten feet from the fire. He shall also exercise every pre- 

 caution to prevent the fire spreading and shall carefully extinguish 

 it before leaving the place. 



10. (Synopsis). In any wooded district any person who, by him- 

 self or his agent, shall (a) after cutting down trees on any road allow- 

 ance or railway or telegraph line, or on any other lands, set fire to the 

 same, or (b) gather trees into log heaps and set fire thereto, or (c) set 

 fire to trees lying on the ground, or (d) for any purpose whatever set 

 fire to any standing trees, brush, meadow or hay on other land under 

 such conditions as shall render it dangerous or probable that the fire 

 will spread and cause destruction of timber or property, shall on 

 conviction of any of the foregoing offences be fined in a sum not 

 exceeding $200 nor less than $20 for each offence, and in default 

 of payment shall be committed to jail for a term not exceeding twelve 

 months. i 



11. No person shall from the first day of April to the fifteenth 

 day of November in any year light a fire in any wooded district 

 for any purpose whatsoever, excepting by this Act otherwise provided, 

 unless and until permission in writing shall have first been given 

 by the nearest fire guardian, or fire guardian specially appointed 

 by the Minister for carrying out the provisions of this section, under 

 and subject to the penalty set forth in the last preceding section. 

 A permit may be refused if the season is specially dangerous or if the 

 conditions are such that in the opinion of the fire guardian or forest or 

 fire ranger there is danger of the fire spreading beyond control, or if 

 the conditions which the fire guardian or forest or fire ranger considers 

 necessary to prevent fire spreading have not been complied with. 



13. Any person who throws away or drops any burning match, 

 ashes of a pipe, lighted cigar or cigarette, or any other burning sub- 



