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17. The Board may, upon the application of any railway company or other 

 party interested, vary or rescind any order or direction of the Chief Fire Inspector 

 made pursuant \o the provisions of this Order, 



(Sgd.) H. L. DRAYTON, 

 Chief Commissioner, 

 Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada. 



lioARD OF Railway Commissioners foe Canada. 



Examined and certified as a true copy under 

 Section 23 of " The Railway Act." 



A. D. Cartwright, 



Secretary of Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada. 



Ottawa, July 8th, 1913. 



The following is a summary of the powers given the Officers of the Board 

 of Railway Commissioners, under Order 107. 



Control and inspection of fire protective appliances on locomotives. 



Prevention of dumping of live coals, etc., along right-of-way. 



Regulation of cleaning right-of-way. 



Regulation of burning inflammable material along right-of-way. 



Railway shall establish special patrol when and where necessary as required 

 by the Chief Fire Inspector. 



Reporting and extinguishing fires by regular railway employees. 



In order to carry out a system of inspection for the enforcement of Order 107, 

 a co-operative arrangement was entered into between the Board of Railway Com- 

 missioners and the Province of Ontario. Under this arrangement the Provincial 

 Forester was appointed Provincial Fire Inspector, an Officer of the Board, with- 

 out additional compensation, to act under the direction of the Chief Fire Inspector. 



During this last fire season, eleven Divisional Inspectors were appointed to 

 devote their whole time to detailed field inspection. The Divisional Inspector is 

 appointed and paid by the Province but is also appointed an Officer of the Board 

 clothing him with the necessary power to act. Mr. J. H. White was temporarily 

 appointed as Assistant Provincial Fire Inspector to act during the fire season. 

 Mr. White's assistance was very much appreciated and it did much to place this 

 work upon an efficient basis. 



These men covered the lines of the following railways running through forest 

 regions: Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Northern Railway; Grand Trunk 

 Railway; Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway; Algoma Eastern Railway 

 and the Grand Trunk Pacific until the Ontario lines of this road were transferred 

 to the Dominion Railway System. 



It will be noted that the Board of Railway Commissioners has no jurisdiction 

 over the Timiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway nor ovet the Transcontinental 

 lines now a part of the Dominion Railway System. 



In addition to the work of field inspection, these men inspected about 450 

 locomotives. This work is being done under the direction of the Operating Depart- 

 ment of the Board. 



The duties of the Divisional Fire Inspector can best be explained by the 

 following memo, issued as part of their instructions. 



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