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provided with and have in use all the most improved and 

 eiScient means used to prevent the esciipp of fire from the 

 furnace or ash-pan of such engines ; and the smoke-stack of 

 each locomotive so used shall be provided with a bonnet or 

 screen of iron or steel wire netting ; the size of the wire used 

 in making the netting to be not less than number nineteen of 

 the Birmingham wire guage, or three sixty-fourth parts of an 

 inch in diameter, and shall contain, in each square inch, at 

 least eleven wires each way at right angles to each other, 

 ^at is in all twenty two wires to the square inch. 



T. It shall be the duty of every engine" driver, in charge of 

 a locomotive-engine, passing over any such railway, to see 

 that all such appliances above mentioned are properly used 

 and applied, so as to prevent the unnecessary escape of fire 

 from any such engine as far as it is reasonably possible to 

 do so. 



S. Any railway company, running or permitting any loco- 

 motive engine to be run in violation of the provisions of the 

 preceding sections of this Act, shall be liable to a penalty of 

 one hundred dollars for each offence, to be recovered wilh 

 costs in any court of competent jurisdiction. 



9. All railway companies, whose lines pass through any 

 lands comprised in any such fire-district or any part (hereof, 

 shall be bound, under a penalty of one hundred dollars, re- 

 coverable in the manner provided in the preceding section 

 and subject in addition to the liability for all damages caused 

 by fires originating from sparks issuing from their locomo- 

 tives, to clear off from the sides of their respective roadways 

 all comhustible materials, by carefully burning the same or 

 otherwise. And it shall not be necessary, in any such action 

 for penalty or damages, to prove the name or number of the 

 locomotive or the name of the engineer or fireman in charge 

 of the same. 



10. For the purposes of this Act, all Fire Superintendents, 

 agents for the sale of Crown lauds, employees of the Depart- 



