Report, Volume 16, Part 1907 |
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Antonio & Aransas Aransas Pass Railway articles taking Authority Beaumont Brazos Valley Brownsville Canceled by Circular carload shipments cents per 100 charge Colorado & Santa Commission of Texas Commodity Tariff cotton seed crated Dallas Distances Eagle Pass East & West effective April effective July Effective March effective October effective September El Paso employes ending June 30 Fort Worth freight Galveston Harrisburg & San Houston & Texas Houston East interline interstate intermediate points June 30 Kansas & Texas less than carload lines of railroad loaded Louis Southwestern Railway lumber and articles lumber rates Mdse mileage minimum weight mixed carloads Nacogdoches Northern Railroad Orleans Railroad Paso points in Texas pounds per car Railroad Commission railroad company Railway Company Railway of Texas San Antonio Railway Santa Fe Railway shipper Sour Lake stations Sugarland tariff Texarkana Texas & Pacific Texas Central Railroad Texas Mexican Railway Total track way-bill Wichita Falls Worth & Denver
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Page 48 - That in case any common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act shall do, cause to be done, or permit to be done, any act. matter, or thing in this Act prohibited or declared to be unlawful, or shall omit to do any act.
Page 312 - Every such corporation shall start and run their cars for the transportation of passengers and property at regular times to be fixed by public notice, and shall furnish sufficient accommodations for the transportation of all such passengers and property, as shall within a reasonable time previous thereto, offer or be offered for transportation, at the place of starting...
Page 43 - 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 47 - Any common carrier violating this provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and for each offense, on conviction, shall pay to the United States a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two...
Page 28 - No railroad or other corporation, or the lessees, purchasers, or managers of any railroad corporation, shall consolidate the stock, property, or franchises of such corporation with, or lease or purchase the works or franchises of, or in any way control any railroad corporation owning or having under its control a parallel or competing line...
Page 312 - ... discharge such passengers and property at, from, and to such places, on the due payment of the tolls, freight, or fare legally authorized therefor.
Page 34 - And said witnesses shall receive for such attendance two dollars per day, and five cents per mile, traveled by the nearest practicable route in going to and returning from the place of meeting of said...
Page 149 - No. 1 contain rates to apply on shipments transported over a single line of railroad or over two or more lines of railroad which are under the same management and control; columns headed No. 2...
Page 28 - No railroad hereafter constructed in this State shall pass within a distance of three miles of any county seat without passing through the same, and establishing and maintaining a depot therein, unless prevented by natural obstacles, such as streams, hills, or mountains ; provided, such town or its citizens shall grant the right of way through its limits, and sufficient ground for ordinary depot purposes.
Page 28 - No private corporation shall be created except by general laws. SEC. 2. General laws shall be enacted providing for the creation of private corporations, and shall therein provide fully for the adequate protection of the public and of the individual stockholders.