Order no. G.O. 298

Upon hearing the matter at the sittings of the Board held in Ottawa, February 10, 1920, the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, the Western Live Stock Shippers' Association, the Winnipeg Live Stock Exchange, the Calgary Live Stock Exchange, the Cattlemen's Protective Association of Western Canada, the Express Traffic Association, the Toronto Humane Society, the Western Canada Live Stock Union, the Canadian Council of Agriculture, the United Farmers of Ontario, the United Farmers' Co-operative Company, the Eastern Canada Live Stock Union, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Swifts Canadian Company, the Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific Railway Companies, the Canadian National Railway Company and the Michigan Central Railroad Company being represented at the hearing, and what was alleged,—

It is ordered as follows:

1. That the forms of Live Stock Contract and the Special Contract with Attendants in Charge of Stock, attached hereto marked Schedule A and Schedule B respectively, be, and they are hereby, approved.
2. That the form of the Special Contract with Attendants in Charge of Stock (Schedule B) be printed on the back of the Live Stock Contract form (Schedule A).
3. That on and after the Ist day of July, 1920, the forms herein approved shall be the only contracts for the carriage of live stock to be used by all the railway companies subject to the legislative authority of the Parliament of Canada.

F. B. Carvell
Chief Commissioner,
The Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada.