Annual Report of the State Corporation Commission of Virginia, Volume 7, Part 1909

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Page 17 - The commission shall have the power and authority and be charged with the duty of supervising, regulating, and controlling all transportation and transmission companies doing business in this State, in all matters relating to the performance of their public duties and their charges therefor, and of correcting abuses and preventing unjust discrimination and extortion by such companies...
Page 31 - The company is not bound to see its property gradually waste, without making provision out of earnings for its replacement. It is entitled to see that from earnings the value of the property invested is kept unimpaired, so that at the end of any given term of years the original investment remains as it was at the beginning.
Page 31 - If a different course were pursued the only method of providing for replacement of property which has ceased to be useful would be the investment of new capital and the issue of new bonds or stocks. This course would lead to a constantly increasing variance between present value and bond and stock capitalization — a tendency which would inevitably lead to disaster either to the stockholders or to the public, or both.
Page 700 - Date of last closing of stock books before end of year for which this report is made: Do not close.
Page 857 - Iron, pig and bloom . Iron and steel rails . Other castings and machinery . Bar and sheet metal Cement, brick, and lime . Agricultural implements . . Wagons, carriages, tools, etc.
Page 1031 - If a consolidated company, name the constituent companies ? Give reference to charters of each, and all amendments of same.. 5. Date and authority for each consolidation? .6. If a reorganized company, give name of original corporation, and refer to laws under which it was organized?
Page 328 - Has each share of stock one vote? Yes. Has any issue of securities contingent voting rights ? No.
Page 18 - The authority of the commission (subject to review on appeal as hereinafter provided) to prescribe rates, charges and classifications of traffic, for transportation and transmission companies, shall...
Page 18 - Every common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act shall, according to their respective powers, afford all reasonable, proper, and equal facilities for the interchange of traffic between their respective lines, and for the receiving, forwarding, and delivering of passengers and property to and from their several lines and those connecting therewith, and shall not discriminate in their rates and charges between such connecting lines; but this shall not be construed as requiring any such common...
Page 269 - Did any other corporation or corporations, transportation or other, control the respondent on June 30, 1914? Yes. If control was so held, state: (a) The form of control, whether sole or joint. Sole control. ',b) The name of the controlling corporation or corporations.

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