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By direction of the Board, all telegrams in answer to messages 

 from a railway company, or telegrams the immediate effect of which 

 would prove beneficial, or of special interest to the Company, 

 shoiild be sent collect. Where we want information or want a 

 railway company to take some action which they wotdd not be 

 likely to take of their own initiative, the message should be paid 

 for. In case a message sent collect in accordance with the above, 

 is refused by a railway official, the charge necessary for delivery 

 should be paid by the sender, and the matter should immediately 

 be reported to the Chief Fire Inspector by mail. 



The Board of Railway Commissioners can pay no accounts 

 for fire-fighting work. This is a matter which must be handled 

 between the Railway Companies on the one hand, and the Domin- 

 ion or Provincial authorities on the other, according to the regula- 

 tions of the Board and existing Dominion or Provincial legislation. 

 In cases where co-operative agreements can be made between the 

 Companies and the Dominion or Provincial Department con- 

 cerned, this will simplify the matter very materially. It is assimied 

 that the first effort will, in any event, be to extinguish the fire 

 immediately, leaving the question of re-imbursement for the cost 

 to be settled later. It is also assumed that, in case of a fire for 

 which the Railway Company is presumably responsible, the rail- 

 way official will be in charge ; and the local officer of the Board 

 will assist so far as possible, but will not take charge, unless so 

 requested by the railway representative. 



A careful check should be made in case of every fire to deter- 

 mine definitely whether trainmen and agents have compUed with 

 the requirements of Regulation 14, with regard to notifying railway 

 employees and forest officers of fires occurring along rights-of-way. 

 Each case of infraction should be reported to the higher officials of 

 the Company, in order to secure complete observance of the Order, 

 in case of future fires. 



The condition of the right-of-way should be reported on at 

 the end of each season, but a special report shoidd be submitted 

 whenever immediate attention is needed with regard to any par- 

 ticular portion of the line. Successive reports should then be 

 submitted at short intervals on the progress of the work, in order 

 that the matter may be further taken up with the Company if 

 necessary. 



Infractions of Regulations 6, 7, and 8, when observed, should 

 be reported to the Chief Fire Inspector, and the matter should, 

 at the same time, be taken up direct with the General Superin- 

 tendent of the railway company concerned. 



The inspection of fire-protective appliances on locomotives 

 will be handled in general by the Inspectors, stationed at Calgary, 

 Winnipeg, Toronto, and Montreal, appointed for this work, under 

 the Operating Department of the Board. Fire Inspectors are 

 requested to co-operate as fully as possible with the Operating 

 Department in this connection, by promptly notifying the nearest 



