Greater New York: Bulletin of the Merchants' Association of New York, Volume 9The Association, 1920 - New York (N.Y.) |
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Adds new Section Altman and Company amend Section American Anti-Litter Bureau Assem Asso Association Association's Bank bill of lading Board of Directors Canal carriers cars Chairman Chamber of Commerce chants charge Charity Organization Society Commission Committee Company Congress Corporation cost Customs daylight saving delay delivery Department District employees export Federal follows Foreign Trade freight Government Governor Greater New York important increase Industrial interest Interstate Commerce Commission labor Law in relation Legislature letter lines longshoremen Manager Manufacturing meeting ment merchandise Merchants mittee National operation organization pany persons piers pneumatic tube port Post Office present President providing railroad rates received request S. C. Mead Secretary Senator sent ship shipments shippers sixty-five cents steamship Street strike tion Trade and Welfare Traffic Bureau transportation trucking truckmen union United Vice-President wage William Fellowes Morgan Woolworth Building York City
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Page 11 - No county, city, town or village shall hereafter give any money or property, or loan its money or credit to or in aid of any individual, association or corporation, or become directly or indirectly the owner of stock in, or bonds of, any association or corporation; nor shall any such county, city, town or village be allowed to incur any indebtedness except for county, city, town or village purposes.
Page 11 - ... shall not exceed twenty years, and a sinking fund shall be created on the issuing of the said bonds for their redemption, by raising annually a sum which will produce an amount equal to the sum of the principal and interest of said bonds at their maturity.
Page 16 - ... save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract.
Page 11 - No county or city shall be allowed to become indebted for any purpose or in any manner to an amount which, including existing indebtedness, shall exceed ten per centum of the assessed valuation of the real estate of such county or city subject to taxation, as it appeared by the assessment rolls of said county or city on the last assessment for state or county taxes prior to the incurring of such indebtedness...
Page 20 - ... provided that if such loss, damage, or injury was due to delay or damage while being loaded or unloaded, or damaged in transit by carelessness or negligence, then no notice of claim nor filing of claim shall be required as a condition precedent to recovery.
Page 7 - ... from the day when notice in writing is given by the carrier to the claimant that the carrier has disallowed the claim or any part or parts thereof specified in the notice.
Page 3 - ... 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, earn an aggregate annual net railway operating income equal, as nearly as may be, to a fair return upon the aggregate value of the railway property of such carriers held for and used in the service of transportation...
Page 6 - If the proceeding has not been concluded and an order made within the period of suspension, the proposed change of rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice shall go into effect at the end of such period, but, in case of a proposed increased rate or charge for or in respect to the transportation of property...
Page 7 - ... the Commission shall not permit the establishment of any charge to or from the more distant point that is not reasonably compensatory for the service performed...
Page 18 - That it shall be the duty of the board, in cooperation with the Secretary of War, with the object of promoting, encouraging, and developing ports and transportation facilities in connection with water commerce over which it has jurisdiction, to investigate territorial regions and zones tributary to such ports, taking into consideration the economies of transportation by rail, water and highway and the natural direction of the flow of commerce...