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Act to Regulate affidavit agent American Railway Association amount arrival ascertain average agreement bill of lading car-miles carrier or party caused cent Chicago claimant classification commodities common carrier connection consignee consignor contract Cummins Amendment delay delivered delivery Demurrage Bureau demurrage charges demurrage rules destination documents filed Fort Valley freight bill freight charges Freight Claim freight train grain handling Interstate Commerce Commission investigation invoice issued June 30 LASALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY less-than-carload live stock loading or unloading locomotives loss or damage ment mileage miles of line notice Oelwein order bill overcharge owner package cars party in possession passenger point of shipment rail Railway Traffic reasonable received Regulate Commerce result revenue rier road route seal ship shipper South Dakota station statute storage tank cars tariff Territory thereof tion ton-miles tons track transit privileges transportation treatise uniform bill uniform code weight
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Page 6 - Whatever subjects of this power are in their nature national, or admit only of one uniform system, or plan of regulation, may justly be said to be of such a nature as to require exclusive legislation by Congress.
Page 30 - That any common carrier, railroad, or transportation company receiving property for transportation from a point in one State to a point in another State shall issue a receipt or bill of lading therefor and shall be liable to the lawful holder thereof for any loss, damage, or injury to such property caused by it or by any common carrier, railroad, or transportation company to which such property may be delivered or over whose line or lines such property may pass, and no contract, receipt, rule, or...
Page 36 - An Act to regulate commerce,' approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof, and to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission...
Page 36 - Columbia to a point in another state or territory, or from a point in a state or territory to a point in the District of Columbia, or from any point in the United States to a point in an adjacent foreign country...
Page 11 - The amount of any loss or damage for which any carrier is liable shall be computed on the basis of the value of the property (being the bona fide invoice price, if any, to the consignee, including the freight charges, if prepaid) at the place and time of shipment...
Page 41 - ... to obtain transportation for property at less than the regular rates then established and in force on the line of transportation of such common carrier...
Page 2 - In all cases where at the time of delivery of property to any railroad corporation being a common carrier, for transportation subject to the provisions of this Act to any point of destination, between which and the point of such delivery for shipment two or more through routes and through rates shall have been established as in this Act provided to which through routes and through rates such carrier is a party...
Page 37 - Rules. Cars held for or by consignors or consignees for loading, unloading, forwarding directions, or for any other purpose, are subject to these Demurrage Rules, except as follows: (a) Cars loaded with live stock.
Page 2 - ... deliver the same to a connecting line or lines according to such through route, and it shall be the duty of each of said connecting carriers to receive said property and transport it over the said line or lines and deliver the same to the next succeeding carrier or consignee according to the routing instructions in said bill of lading...
Page 4 - Surety, are held and firmly bound unto the United States of America, hereinafter called the Government, in the penal sum of dollars, lawful money of the United States, for the payment of which sum well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, administrators, and successors, Jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.