PROVINCE OF QUEBEC. 



34 VICTORIA, 1870, 



I CHAPTER XIX. ' 



An Act respecting the clearing of Lands, and the protection 

 of Forests against Fires. 



{Assented to 'HAth December, 1870.) 



Whereas, it is expedient to determine the periods of the 

 year during which fires may be hghted in forests, for the 

 purpose of clearing or improving lands ; and whereas it is 

 further necessary to protect forests against fires ; Her Majesty, 

 by and with the advice and consent of the Ijcgislature of 

 Quebec, enacts, as follows : 



1. No person shall, at any time, set fire to or cause to bum, 

 any tree, shrub or other plant, growing or standing in any 

 forest, or at a distance of less than one mile from any forest. 



2. No person shall set fire to, or cause to burn, any pile of 

 wood, branches or brushwood, or any tree, shrub, or other 

 plant, which shall be situate or felled in the forest, or at a 

 distance of less than a mile, or any turf, peat, stumps, fallen 

 trees or other timber, at any period of the year, for any cause 



