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4. To require its employees, contractors, and employees of contractors, both inde- 

 pendently and at the request of the Forest officers, to do all reasonably within their 

 power to prevent and suppress fires. 



5. To pay to the United States depository or other officer as aforesaid, on demand, 

 for any and all damage caused by fire or otherwise to the United States by reason of 

 the use and occupation by the Applicant of its right of way within the exterior bounda- 

 ries of said National Forest; and whenever any fire shall originate on or within 200 

 feet of such right of way it shall be conclusively presumed to have resulted from 

 said use and occupation, unless the Applicant shall show affirmatively either that the 

 fire was set by others than itself, its employees or contractors, or the employees of 

 such contractors, or that every locomotive, engine, and boiler used on said right of 

 way at the time of such fire used oil exclusively for fuel, or that such of them as did 

 not use oil exclusively for fuel were equipped with suitable spark arresters or other 

 standard equipment to prevent the escape of sparks or fire from smokestacks, ash pans, 

 fire boxes, and any other part. 



6. To allow the Forest Service without charge to install and maintain telephone 

 instruments in the railroad stations in said National Forest, and to string its telephone 

 wires upon the poles erected by the Applicant along said right of way for the official 

 business only of the Department of Agriculture: Provided, That no such instruments 

 or wires so installed or strung shall be used in connection with or in furtherance of 

 the transmission of messages by telegraph, except for the official business of the said 

 department; to require train crews to notify station agents of fires and of their direc- 

 tion and distance from the station by the quickest practicable method; and the station 

 agents to notify the Forest officers by means of such telephones of fires within said 

 National Forest coming to their knowledge. 



7. To adopt and put into effect such code or system of locomotive signals, for the 

 purpose of notifying station agents of forest fires, as. may hereafter be secured by the 

 Forest Service in cooperation with the officials of railway companies of the United 

 States operating railroads in National Forests. 



8. To allow officers of the Forest Service free and unrestricted access in, through, 

 and across all lands covered T^y said right of way in the performance of their official 

 duties; and the Forest Service may without charge construct or permit to be con- 

 structed in, through, or across the land covered by said right of way, roads, trails, con- 

 duits, and other means of transportation not inconsistent with the enjoyment of said 

 right of way by the Applicant, its successors and assigns. 



To make any assignment or transfer of said right of way only after and on condition 

 that the assignees or transferees, jointly and severally, covenant in writing to fulfill 

 and perform all the duties and obligations of the Applicant arising hereunder, includ- 

 ing its obligations under this paragraph. 



In witness whereof said Applicant has caused these presents to be executed, and 



its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed at , 



on this day of , 19... 



[CORPORATE SEAL.] By 



Attest: 



Secretary. 

 N. B. Evidence of authority to execute this instrument must be submitted with it. 



