Federal Liabilities of Carriers: A Treatise Upon the Duties and Liabilities of Common Carriers by Railroads Under All Federal Laws, with an Appendix Containing a Copy of the Federal Statutes Affecting Railroads, and the General Orders of the Director General of Railroads Under the Federal Control Act of 1918, Volume 1 |
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Page 2058 - That if any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act shall, directly or indirectly, by any special rate, rebate, drawback, or other device, charge, demand, collect, or receive from any person or persons a greater or less compensation...
Page 2059 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers or of like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line, in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance...
Page 2087 - (4) Whenever in any such investigation the Commission, after full hearing finds that any such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice causes any undue or unreasonable advantage, preference, or prejudice as between persons or localities in intrastate commerce on the one hand and interstate or foreign commerce...
Page 2053 - ... transportation" shall include cars and other vehicles and all instrumentalities and facilities of shipment or carriage, irrespective of ownership or of any contract, express or implied, for the use thereof and all services in connection with the receipt, delivery, elevation, and transfer in transit, ventilation, refrigeration or icing, storage, and handling of property transported...
Page 2075 - The Commission may, in its discretion, prescribe the forms of any and all accounts, records, and memoranda...
Page 2055 - Commission; (6) to make such just and reasonable directions with respect to car service without regard to the ownership as between carriers of locomotives, cars, and other vehicles, during such emergency as in its opinion will best promote the service in the interest of the public and the commerce of the people...
Page 2067 - In so prescribing and determining the divisions of joint rates, fares and charges, the Commission shall give due consideration, among other things, to the efficiency with which the carriers concerned are operated, the amount of revenue required to pay their respective operating expenses, taxes, and a fair return -on their railway property held for and used in the service of transportation...
Page 2064 - ... prescribe the rate, fare, or charge, or the maximum or minimum, or maximum and minimum, thereafter to be charged, and the classification, regulation, or practice thereafter to be observed ; in such manner as, in its judgment, will remove such advantage, preference, prejudice, or discrimination.
Page 2052 - The transportation of oil or other commodity, except water and except natural or artificial gas, by pipe line, or partly by pipe line and partly by railroad or by water...
Page 2069 - In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall initiate, modify, establish or adjust such rates so that carriers as a whole (or as a whole in each of such rate groups or territories as the Commission may from time to time designate) will, under honest, efficient and economical management and reasonable expenditures for maintenance of way, structures and equipment...
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| Title | Federal Liabilities of Carriers: A Treatise Upon the Duties and Liabilities of Common Carriers by Railroads Under All Federal Laws, with an Appendix Containing a Copy of the Federal Statutes Affecting Railroads, and the General Orders of the Director General of Railroads Under the ..., Volume 1 Federal Liabilities of Carriers: A Treatise Upon the Duties and Liabilities of Common Carriers by Railroads Under All Federal Laws, with an Appendix Containing a Copy of the Federal Statutes Affecting Railroads, and the General Orders of the Director General of Railroads Under the Federal Control Act of 1918, Maurice G. Roberts |
| Author | Maurice G. Roberts |
| Publisher | Callaghan & Company, 1920 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 8 Jan 2008 |
| Length | 77 pages |
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