Excerpt from Report of the Royal Commission on the Grain Trade of Canada, 1906At many stations the provisions of The Manitoba Grain Act for the distribution of cars through the order book have been grossly violated to the prejudice of both farmers and elevators, in the placing of fictitious names upon the order book, and the transferring of rights in cars from one individual to another. T o overcome these violations we propose amendments to the Act providing for the deposit with the railway agent of a fee of two dollars with every application for a car, either through the shipper himself or his qualified agent. We provide for the filling in of such order book by the agent himself in ink, and the issuing of a receipt to the applicant or his agent for the fee of two dollars paid. (see Appendix A.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

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