NEW BRUNSWICK FORESTRY CONVENTION 135 



year section men on all railways should be required to patrol the read at 

 least twice a day and that railway companies be compelled to issue special 

 instructions to all section men and employees to do all they 'can to guard 

 against grass or forest fires and to promptly report any which may occur. 

 And they further recommend that the Department of Railways and Canals 

 of Canada and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company be stion^ly urged by 

 this convention to take necessary and effective means to prevent forest and 

 grass fires being caused by the operation of their respective railway. 

 



5. That one or more officials be appointed with the title of "Inspector 

 of Sealers," whose duty it shall be during the lumbering season to visit the 

 different camps and lumber operations throughout the Province for the pur- 

 pose of seeing that the sealers are faithfully carrying out their duties and 

 are taking proper account of the amount of lumber that is cut and that 

 undersized lumber is not being cut and that the laws with regard to the cut- 

 ting on Crown Lands are being strictly lenforced, and it shall be the further 

 duty of such inspectors to carefully observe the methods of cutting carried 

 on by different lumbermen and to report to the Crown Land Office if, in their 

 opinion, wasteful methods in cutting are being used by any of the operators. 



6. Your Committee further recommend in this connection that the 

 inspectors discharge their duties, so far as the times of visiting the operations 

 are concerned, along the lilies adopted by inspectors of banks, so that sealers 

 and the persons whose lumbering operations they are to inspect will have 

 no means of knowing beforehand the date or dates at which the Inspectors 

 will make their inspection. 



7. Your Committee further urge upon the Lieutenaut-Governor-in- 

 Council the desirability of carrying out the law already upon the Statute 

 Book authorizing the setting apart of a portion of the public domain for a 

 forest reservation. 



(Signed) A. R. McCLELAN, 



Chairman. 



THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL While this makes proper mention cf 

 the protectioa of lands along the railroad * it does not appear to go far 

 enough, because it would not be effective if simply passed ii its present 

 form. 



