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both sides of the track, and such other work as may, under the 

 existing local conditions and at reasonable expense, tend to reduce 

 to a minimum the occurrence and spread of fire. 



(c) Said statements of the Chief Fire Inspector shall be so 

 arranged as to deal with and prescribe measures for each separate 

 portion of such railway upon and adjacent to which the fire risk 

 calls for specific treatment. The intention shall be to adjust the 

 protective measttres to the local conditions and to make the expense 

 proportionate to the fire risk and the possible damage. 



{d) Said statements of the Chief Fire Inspector shall pre- 

 scribe dates on or within which the foregoing protective measures 

 shall be commenced and completed, and the fce-guards maintained 

 in a clean and safe condition. 



(e) No such railway company shall permit its employees, 

 agents, or contractors to enter upon land under cultivation, to con- 

 struct fire-guards, without the consent of the owner or occupant of 

 such land. 



(/) Wherever the owner or occupant of such land objects to 

 the construction of fire-guards, on the ground that the said con- 

 struction would involve unreasonable loss or damage to property, 

 the Company shall at once refer the matter to the Board, giving 

 full particulars thereof, and shall in the meantime refrain from 

 proceeding with the work. 



(g) No agent, employee, or contractor of any such railway 

 company shall permit gates to be left open or to cut or leave 

 fences down whereby stock or crops may be injured, or do any 

 other uimecessary damage to property, in the construction of 

 fire-guards. 



10. In carrying out the provisions of Section 297 of the Rail- 

 way Act, which enacts that "the company shall at all times main- 

 tain and keep its right-of-way free from dead or dry grass, weeds, 

 and other tinnecessary combustible matter," no such railway 

 company or its agents, employees, or contractors shall, between 

 the first day of April and the first day of November, bum or 

 cause to be burned an^^ ties, cuttings, debris, or litter upon or 

 near its right-of-way, except under such supervision as will pre- 

 vent such fires from spreading beyond the strip being cleared. 

 The Chief Fire Inspector or other authorized officer of the Board 

 may require that no such burning be done along specified por- 

 tions of the line of any such railway, except with the written 

 permission or under the direction of the Chief Fire Inspector or 

 other authorized officer of the Board. 



11. The railway company shall provide and maintain a force 

 of fire-rangers fit and sufficient for ^dent patrol and fire-fighting 

 duty during the period from the first of day April to the first day 

 of November of each year ; and the methods of such force shall be 

 subject to the supervision and direction of the Chief Fire Inspector 

 or other authorized officer of the Board. 



12. The Chief Fire Inspector shall, each year, prepare and 

 submit to each and every railway company a statement of the 



