PROVINCE OF QUEBEC. 

 46 VICTORIA, 1883, 



CHAPTER X. 



An Act to provide means for the more effectual prevention 

 of forest fires. 



{Assented to mh March, 1883.) 



Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the 

 Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows : 



1. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may, by proclama- 

 tion, declare any portion or part of the Province of Quebec, 

 which is included in any forest region to be a " Fire-District.' 

 Such proclamation shall be published in the " Quebec Ufficia 

 Gazette," and, fi-om and after the date of such publication, 

 the territory therein mentioned shall become and be known 

 as a " fire -district," within the meaning and for the purposes 

 of Ihis Act. 



Such territory shall cease to be a " fire-district," upon the 

 publication of a proclamation of the Lieuteaant-Goveruor In 

 Couacil revoking the one creating it. 



