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wood, and -dry leaves from the soil within a radius of ten 

 feet from the fire ; 



3. Exercise and observe every reasonable care and precau- 

 tion to prevent such fire from spreading, and carefully ex- 

 tinguish the same before quilting the place. 



T. Any person who shall throw or drop any burning 

 match, ashes of a pipe, lighted cigar or" any other burning 

 substance, or who shall discharge any fire-arm within such 

 fire district, shall be subject to the pains and penalties im 

 posed by this Act, if he neglect completely to extinguish 

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

 cigar, wadding of the fire-arm or other burning substance. 



8. Every person in charge of any drive of timber, survey 

 or exploring party, or of any other party requiring camp- 

 fires, for cooking or o'ther purposes, within such fire district, 

 shall provide himself with a copy of the Act, and shall call 

 his men together and cause said Act to b3 read in their 

 hearing and explained to them at least once in each week 

 during the continuation of such work or service. 



O. All locomotive engines used on any railway, which 

 passes' through any such fire district, or any part of it, shall • 

 by the company using the same, be provided with and have 

 in use all the m,ost approved and efficient means used to 

 prevent the escape of fire from the furnace or ash-paii of such 

 engines, and that the smoke-stack of each locomotive engine 

 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 gauge, or three sixty-fourth parts of an 

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

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

 that is in all twenty-two wires to the inch square. 



lO- It shall -be the duty of every engine driver in charge 

 of a locomotive engine passing over any such railway within 



