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Page 60 - Act, including the power to make and enforce any order or orders in the case, or relating to the matter or thing concerning which the inquiry is had excepting orders for the payment of money.
Page 58 - Act required to be done, such common carrier shall be liable to the person or persons injured thereby for the full amount of damages sustained in consequence of any such violation...
Page 42 - The surrender of this original order bill of lading properly indorsed shall be required before the delivery of the property.
Page 54 - ... charge, demand, collect, or receive from any person or persons a greater or less compensation for any service rendered, or...
Page 54 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers, or of like kind of property, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line or route in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance...
Page 58 - ... (d) Any person who willfully violates any of the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of a misdemeanor and be subject to a fine of not more than $10,000 or to imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
Page 53 - shall include cars and other vehicles and all instrumentalities and facilities of shipment or carriage, irrespective of ownership or of any contract, express or implied, for the use thereof and all services in connection with the receipt, delivery, elevation, and transfer in transit, ventilation, refrigeration or icing, storage, and handling of property transported...
Page 38 - ... for loading when actual loading is begun. NOTE — Private cars belonging to an industry which does its own switching, placed upon an interchange track for forwarding and refused by the carrier's inspector, shall be released from demurrage if withdrawn by the industry from the interchange track within twentyfour (24) hours after rejection. Private cars are not in railroad service (a) When loaded and unloaded on the tracks of the owner and not moved over the tracks of a carrier; (b) When placed...
Page 39 - When orders for cars held for disposition or reconsignment are mailed, such orders will release cars at 7 am of the date orders are received at the station where the freight is held...
Page 40 - A. When delivery of cars, consigned or ordered to any other than public-delivery tracks or to industrial interchange tracks cannot be made on account of the act or neglect of the consignee, or the inability of the consignee to receive, delivery will be considered...