Annual Report of the Rail Road Commissioners of Alabama, for the Year Ending ...: 1880/1881, Volume 1Office of Rail Road Commission of Alabama, 1881 - Railroads |
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accident Aggregate length Average number baggage bama caboose Capital stock carried one mile charter class passenger cars cost of entire E. W. Cole ending June 30th Fort Deposit freight carried funded debt further enacted Guage of road injured JAMES CROOK Legislature Length of main Length of sidings main line mile of road Miles of track Mobile Montgomery mortgage bonds due Nashville number of daily Number of locomotives Number of miles Number of passenger number of persons number of train Opelika operating rail roads passenger and freight persons operating rail President rail per yard Rail Road Commission Rail Road Commissioners Rail Road Company rates regulation of rail Savannah Selma Division Session Acts Southern Car Company Southern Express Company statute tariffs Tenn Tennessee tion tons of freight Total earnings freight Total expenses Total income Total number track ballasted trains over road W. L. BRAGG Western Rail Road
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Page 30 - But the power of governing is a trust committed by the people to the government, no part of which can be granted away. The people in their sovereign capacity have established their agencies for the preservation of the public health and the public morals and the protection of public and private rights. These several agencies can govern according to their discretion, if within the scope of their general authority while in power, but they cannot give away nor sell the discretion of those that are to...
Page 177 - ... shall be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. And...
Page 169 - Sec. 20. Be it further enacted, that the managers operating the several railroads of this state shall furnish the said commission with all the information required, relative to the management of their respective lines, and particularly with copies of all leases, contracts, and agreements for transportation, with express, sleeping-car, or other companies, to which they are parties, with schedules of tariff rates.
Page 170 - ... shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Page 24 - Corporations may be formed under general laws, but shall not be created by special laws except for municipal purposes. All laws passed pursuant to this section may be altered, amended or repealed, but not so as to impair or destroy any vested corporate rights.
Page 180 - If any passenger shall refuse to pay his fare, it shall be lawful for the conductor of the train and the servants of the corporation to put him and his baggage out of the cars, using no unnecessary force, at any usual stopping place, or near any dwelling house, as the conductor shall elect, on stopping the train.
Page 34 - ... the manner in which they are operated with reference to the security and accommodation of the public, and the compliance of the several corporations with their charters and the laws of the state.
Page 177 - ... be sentenced to hard labor for the county for not less than six months nor more than twelve months.
Page 168 - ... or any change in the rates of fares for transporting freight or passengers, or any change in the mode of operating the road and conducting its business, is reasonable and expedient in order to promote the security, convenience and accommodation of the public...
Page 7 - State, which shall secure such uniform control of railroad transportation in the several States, and from one State into or through another State, as will best subserve the interest of trade and commerce of the whole country ; and said commission shall include in their annual report to the governor an abstract of the proceedings of any such conference or convention.