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Page 97 - ... to comply with the provisions of this act shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty-five dollars...
Page 58 - In determining the amount to be paid, the district director will take into consideration all the facts and circumstances of the case, including the expenses to which the Government has been put In the matter. In no case shall the amount to be paid be less than the value of the interest of the United States in the property with respect to which the certificate of discharge Is...
Page 61 - ... from time to time, to fix, regulate, and receive the tolls and charges by them to be received for transportation...
Page 33 - State, except in cities and raiiroads.ver villages having power under their charters to regulate the height of such bridges, shall be at a height less than eighteen feet above the track of such railroad, except by the written consent of the Commissioner of Railroads; and any corporation managing, controlling, or operating any railroad in this State, the track of which is crossed by any bridge constructed less than eighteen feet above such track, except such bridge have the written approval of the...
Page 25 - ... such crossing. If any railroad company shall attempt to obstruct the opening of any such highway after such right of way has been secured and payment...
Page 66 - ... general ballot, and to inform such elector of the nature and purpose of it, and each elector shall be required, on coming out of the booth and tendering his vote to the inspectors of election, to produce and hand to such inspectors the ballot relating to such amendment, who shall place the same in the box prepared for that purpose. All votes cast therefor shall be taken, counted, canvassed ;ind returned as provided by law for the election of State officers.
Page 36 - ... go to the informer and the other half to the county; and the corporation shall also be liable for all damages which shall be sustained by any person by reason of such neglect.
Page 20 - All companies or corporations formed for such purposes shall have the exclusive right to use and operate any street railways constructed, owned or held by them ; Provided, that no such company or corporation shall be authorized to construct a railway under this act through the streets of any town or city without the consent of the municipal authorities of such town or city and under such regulations and upon such terms and conditions as said authorities may from time to time prescribe...
Page 27 - That it shall be unlawful for any railroad company doing business in the State of...
Page 99 - January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, it shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars.