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materials, but under proper care, and at proper times when fire, if set 

 can be kept under control. All locomotives which run through forest 

 lands shall be provided with approved and sufficient arrangements for 

 preventing the escape of fire from their furnaces or ashpans, and with 

 netting of steel or iron wire upon thxir smoke stacks to prevent the 

 escape of sparks of fire; and every engineer and fireman employed upon 

 a locomotive shall see that the appliarjces to prevent the escape of fire 

 are in use, and applied as far as it can be reasonably ai,d practically 

 done. No railroad company shall permit its employes to deposit fire 

 coals or ashes upon their track in the immediate vicinity of wood- 

 lands, or lands liable to be overrun by fires; and where any engineers, 

 conductors or trainmen discover that fences or other material, or sub- 

 stances along the right of way upon woodlands adjacent to the rail- 

 road are burning, or in danger from fire, they shall report the same at 

 their next stopping place, and the person in charge of such station 

 shall take prompt measures to extinguish such fires and shall imme- 

 diately notify the nearest firewarden or forester. la seasons of 

 drought, and especially during the first dry time in the spring after the 

 snows have gone and before vegetation has revived, railroad companies 

 shall employ a sufficient number of trackmen for the prompt extinguish- 

 ment of fires; and where a forest fire is raging near the line of their 

 road, they shall concentrate such help and adopt such measures as shall 

 most effectually arrest its progress. If any railroad company or any 

 of its employes violate any provision of this section the company shal* 

 forfeit to the people of the state the sum of one hundred dollars for 

 every such violation. 



§108. Powers and duties of certain officers in case of fire. The forest 

 commission, forest superintendent, forest inspector, foresters, and other 

 persons employed by or under the authority of the forest commission, 

 and who may be authorized by the commission to assume such duty, 

 shall in a town within or a part of the forest preserve, whenever the 

 woods in any such town shall be on fiiv, perform the duty imposed on 

 them, and in such case shall have the powers granted to justices cf the 

 peace, the supervisors and commissioners of highways, wiih reference 

 to the ordering of persons to assibt in extinguishing fires or stopping 

 their progress. The firewarden, or the supervisor, w T here acting in 

 general charge, may cause fences to be destroyed or furrows to be 

 ploughed, to check the running of fire; or, in case of great danger, back 

 fires maybe set along a road or stream, or other line of defense, to clear 

 off the combustible mateiial befoie an advancing fire. No action for 



