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stance, or who discharges any firearms, shall completely extinguish, 

 before leaving the spot, the fire of such match, ashes of a pipe, cigar, 

 cigarette, wadding of the firearm or other burning substance. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF SASKATCHEWAN 

 The Prairie and Forest Fires Act, Chapter 21, 1917 



3. Any person who directly or indirectly, personally or through 

 a servant, employee or agent : 



(a) kindles a fire and lets it run at large in any woods, or, on 

 prairie, meadow, marsh or other open ground not his own property ; or 



(b) kindles and leaves a fire burning, without taking effectual 

 means to prevent its spreading in any woods, or on prairie, meadow, 

 marsh or other open ground not his own property ; or 



(c) intentionally or by carelessness permits fire to pass from his 

 own land to the injury of the property of another person ; shall be 

 guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to the penalties 

 mentioned in section 34 of this Act. 



4. (Synopsis). Any person may kindle a fire in a wood or prairie 

 or other open ground for cooking, warmth, branding or other indus- 

 trial purpose on condition that he shall select a place where there is 

 the smallest quantity of combustible material or the least likelihood 

 of the fire spreading, and that he shall before lighting the fire 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 before leaving the 

 place carefully extinguish it. 



7. Any person who, by himself, his servants or agents or anyone 

 acting by or under his authority, in the process of opening up a road 

 allowance, private road or trail, obtaining fuel, clearing the right of 

 way for a railway, telephone or telegraph line or route, or clearing 

 land for any purpose whatever, cuts any timber bush or brush, shall 

 cause the fallen timber, timber slashings and refuse to be collected 

 into piles suitable for burning on such right of way, road allowance, 

 private road, trail or clearing, and shall burn the same at the time 

 of cutting, provided that : 



(a) the circumstances and surrounding conditions are such that 

 there will be no probable danger from spread of the fire ; or 



(b) a sufficient number of men are present to prevent it from 

 spreading ; otherwise such fallen timber, timber slashings and refuse 

 shall be burned between the fifteenth day of November following the 

 date of cutting and the first day of April then next ensuing. 



8. Any person who, by himself, his servants or agents or any one 

 acting by or under his authority, sets fire to timber standing in the 



