RAILWAY FOREST FIRES 



removed from service and shall not, (during said prescribed period), 

 be returned to service, tmless and until such defects are remedied. 

 {d) Every such railway company shall also appoint one or 

 more Special Inspectors, as may be needed whose duties shall 

 be to make an independent examination of the fire-protective 

 appliances on all the locomotives of such company, at least once 

 each month, and report the conditions of such fire-protective 

 appliances direct to the Chief Mechanical Officer of the railway 

 company, or other chief officer, held responsible for the condition 

 of the motive power of the said Company. 



5. Any authorized officer of the Board, shall have power 

 to inspect at any time any and all locomotives, and may remove 

 from service any locomotive which is found to be defective in the 

 said fire-protective appliances ; and any such locomotive so 

 removed from service, shall not (during the said prescribed period), 

 be retiimed to service, unless and until such defects are remedied. 



6. No employee of any such railway company shall — 



(a) Do, or in any way cause, damage to the netting on the 

 engine smoke-stack or to the netting in the front end of such en- 

 gine ; 



(b) Open the back dampers of such engine while running 

 ahead, or the front dampers while running tender first ; 



(c) Or otherwise do or cause damage or injury to any of the 

 fire-protective appliances on the said engine. 



7. No such railway company shall permit fire, live coals, or 

 ashes, to be deposited upon its tracks or right-of-way outside of the 

 yard limits, unless they are extinguished immediately thereafter. 



8. No such railway company shall bum lignite coal on its 

 locomotive engines as fuel for transportation purposes, unless 

 otherwise ordered by the Board, — ^lignite coal consisting of and 

 including all varieties of coal between peat and bitimiinous with 

 a carbon-hydrogen ratio of 11.2 or less, such ratio being based on 

 analysis of air-dried coal. , 



9. Every such railway company shall establish and maintain 

 fire-guards along, the route of its railway as the Chief Fire In- 

 spector may prescribe. The nature, extent, establishment, .and 

 maintenance of such fire-guards siiall be determined as follows: 



(a) The Chief Fire Inspector shall each year prepare and 

 submit to every such railway company a statement of the mea- 

 sures necessary for establishing and maintaining the routes of 

 such railways in a condition safe from fire, so far as may be practi- 

 cable. 



(6) Said measures may provide for the cutting and disposal 

 by fire, or otherwise, of all or any growth of an inflammable char- 

 acter, and the burning or other disposal of debris and litter, on a 

 strip of sufficient width on one or both sides of the track ; the 

 ploughing or digging of land in strips of sufficient width on one or 



