12 COMMISSION OF CONSERVATION 



Note. — ^Any fire starting or burning withia 300 feet of the 

 railway track, shall be presumed to have started from the railway, 

 unless proof to the contrary is furnished. 



15. Every such railway company shaU give particular 

 instructions to its employees in relation to the foregoing regulations, 

 and shall cause appropriate notices to be posted at all stations along 

 its lines of railway. 



16. Every such railway company allowing or permitting the - 

 violation of, or in any respect, contravening or failing to obey any 

 of the foregoing regulations, shall, in addition to any other liability 

 which the said company may have incurred, be si^bject to a penalty 

 of one hundred dollars for every such offence. 



17. If any employee or other person included in the said 

 regulations, fails or neglects to obey the same, or any of them, he 

 shall, in addition to any other liability which he may have incurred, 

 be subject to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for every such offence. 



(Sgd.) D'ARCY SCOTT, 



Assistant Chief Commissioner 



Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada 



Board of Railway Commissioners for 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, May 28th, 19 12. 



Improvements Over Previous Orders 



In this Order, the provisions of preceding orders relative to fire- 

 protective appliances, the use of lignite, and the construction of fire- 

 guards are, in substance, included, with the following additions : — 



Railways under construction are included in the scope of the Order, 

 in addition to those under operation ; 



A more thorough inspection of fire-protective appliances by railway 

 employees ; (Reg. 4) 



Provision for removing from service locomotives found defective 

 as to fire-protective appliances, pending repair ; (Regs. 4 and 5) 



Provision requiring immediate extinguishment of fire, live coals or 

 ashes deposited upon rights-of-way; (Reg. 7) 



Improved definition of lignite coal (Reg. 8) 



Complete elasticity in administering the requirement for the con- 

 struction of fire-guards, as to how, when, and where these shall be con- 

 structed ; (Reg. 9) 



Regulation of burning of inflammable material along rights-of-way 

 under Sec. 297 of the Railway Act; (Reg. 10) 



