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... freight traffic , often arbitrary , complicated , confused and varying . This evil will remain without remedy as long as a number of independent organ- izations exist , each exercising the right to make all such arrangements on the ...
... freight traffic , often arbitrary , complicated , confused and varying . This evil will remain without remedy as long as a number of independent organ- izations exist , each exercising the right to make all such arrangements on the ...
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... freight traffic alone in 1877 was 373,419,716 marks ( about $ 98,354,000 ) ; almost two- thirds of this amount , viz . , 245,265,634 , was from inter- changed freight , and only 128,154,072 marks from local freight traffic . In ...
... freight traffic alone in 1877 was 373,419,716 marks ( about $ 98,354,000 ) ; almost two- thirds of this amount , viz . , 245,265,634 , was from inter- changed freight , and only 128,154,072 marks from local freight traffic . In ...
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... freight , in important cases seldom ends in an agreement among the different roads as to each one's share of the responsibility , is readily explained by the many conflicting interests . Often enough a judicial decision is found ...
... freight , in important cases seldom ends in an agreement among the different roads as to each one's share of the responsibility , is readily explained by the many conflicting interests . Often enough a judicial decision is found ...
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... freight de- pots with their special loading apparatus , separate freight houses and freight offices , together with their own switching yards , costly of construction and operation , are found where one of the stations would be fully ...
... freight de- pots with their special loading apparatus , separate freight houses and freight offices , together with their own switching yards , costly of construction and operation , are found where one of the stations would be fully ...
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... freight cars owned by the Rhenish Railroad Com- pany in 1878 , an average of 2,798 were running daily on other lines , and that the number of Rhenish Railroad cars transferred to other lines , or foreign cars received by the Rhenish ...
... freight cars owned by the Rhenish Railroad Com- pany in 1878 , an average of 2,798 were running daily on other lines , and that the number of Rhenish Railroad cars transferred to other lines , or foreign cars received by the Rhenish ...
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STATE RAILROAD COMMISSIONS 10 State Railroad Commissions,William a. (William August) 181 Crafts No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 68 - State as to the manner in which they are operated, with reference to the security and accommodation of the public...
Page 48 - In all controversies, civil or criminal, the rates of fares and freights established by said Commission shall be deemed conclusively just and reasonable, and in any action against such corporation or company for damages sustained by charging excessive rates, the plaintiff, in addition to the actual damage, may, in the discretion of the Judge or jury, recover exemplary damages.
Page 48 - ... and other transportation companies, to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths, take testimony, and punish for contempt of their orders and processes, in the same manner and to the same extent as Courts of record, and enforce their decisions and correct abuses through the medium of the Courts.
Page 47 - ... and as nearly equal in population as practicable ; in each of which, one judge of the court of common pleas for said district, and residing therein, shall be elected by the electors of said subdivision.
Page 49 - The Legislature shall have power, by a twothirds vote of all the members elected to each house, to remove any one or more of said Commissioners from office, for dereliction of duty, or corruption, or incompetency...
Page 57 - Before proceeding to make such examination in accordance with such application or petition, said Commissioners shall give to the petitioners and the corporation reasonable notice in writing of the time and place of entering upon the same.
Page 64 - Board shall give notice and information, in writing, to the corporation of the improvements and changes which they deem to be proper...
Page 9 - ... the actual working of the system of railroad transportation in its bearing upon the business and prosperity of the state...
Page 47 - Said commission shall have the power to establish rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freight by railroads and other transportation companies, and no railroad or other transportation company shall charge or demand or collect or receive a greater or less or different compensation for such transportation...