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accident Aggregate length approved February 26th Average number baggage caboose Capital stock carried one mile charter class passenger cars cost of entire E. W. Cole ending June 30th Fort Deposit freight carried freight trains 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 Nashville number of daily Number of locomotives Number of miles Number of passenger number of persons Opelika operating rail roads passenger and freight passenger trains persons operating rail rail per yard Rail Road Commission Rail Road Commissioners Rail Road Company rates road crossings Savannah Selma Division Session Acts Southern Car Company Southern Express Company statute tariffs Tenn Tennessee tion tons of freight Total expenses Total income Total number track ballasted train miles trains over road W. L. BRAGG Weight of rail Western Rail Road
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Page 177 - ... shall be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. And...
Page 33 - 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 come after them in respect to matters the government of which, from the very nature of things, must ' vary with varying...
Page 32 - 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...
Page 26 - 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 All laws passed pursuant to this section may be altered, amended or repealed, but not so as to impair or destroy any vested corporate rights.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 36 - ... 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 9 - State, which shall secure 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.
Page 24 - That it shall be lawful for the company hereby incorporated, from time to time to fix, regulate and receive the tolls and charges by them to be received for transportation of persons or property on their railroad...