Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of California, Volume 7 |
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... mail to the President , Secretary , or General Superintendent of each railroad company in this State . The following amended rules of procedure were introduced on the nine- teenth , and adopted on the twenty - sixth of February , 1883 ...
... mail to the President , Secretary , or General Superintendent of each railroad company in this State . The following amended rules of procedure were introduced on the nine- teenth , and adopted on the twenty - sixth of February , 1883 ...
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... mail to W. A. Bis- sell , Pacific Coast Freight Agent of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company , at his office in the City of San Francisco , an attested copy of the communication following : DEAR SIR : The Board of Railroad ...
... mail to W. A. Bis- sell , Pacific Coast Freight Agent of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company , at his office in the City of San Francisco , an attested copy of the communication following : DEAR SIR : The Board of Railroad ...
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... mail a certified copy to J. A. Williamson , General Solicitor Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company , at Albuquerque , New Mexico . The answer being fully concurred in by all the Commissioners , excepting only the dissent of ...
... mail a certified copy to J. A. Williamson , General Solicitor Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company , at Albuquerque , New Mexico . The answer being fully concurred in by all the Commissioners , excepting only the dissent of ...
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... 15. Sleeping cars . 16. Passenger cars . Mail cars .. Baggage cars . 17. Freight cars . Other cars . 18. Total for equipment .. Equipment . Number .. To December 31 , 1884 . Cost . [ Page 5. ] Rail . Company . PROPERTY PURCHASED 6.
... 15. Sleeping cars . 16. Passenger cars . Mail cars .. Baggage cars . 17. Freight cars . Other cars . 18. Total for equipment .. Equipment . Number .. To December 31 , 1884 . Cost . [ Page 5. ] Rail . Company . PROPERTY PURCHASED 6.
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... mail , and baggage cars . 14. Freight and other cars . 15. Purchase of other roads , specifying what [ No ... No .. No ... No ... No .. [ No .. [ Page 10. ] Rail Company . EXPENDITURES CHARGED TO PROPERTY ACCOUNT DURING THE YEAR ...
... mail , and baggage cars . 14. Freight and other cars . 15. Purchase of other roads , specifying what [ No ... No .. No ... No ... No .. [ No .. [ Page 10. ] Rail Company . EXPENDITURES CHARGED TO PROPERTY ACCOUNT DURING THE YEAR ...
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amount paid Average monthly pay Average number Average rate Average weight baggage cars Berkeley Branch Railroad Board of Railroad Bonds bruised California Pacific Railroad California Southern Railroad Capital stock authorized cash assets Central Pacific Railroad cents Commissioners Carpenter COST OF ROAD Coupling cars crossings of highways debt liabilities December 31 double track Eight-wheel Employé fare per mile freight cars freight department freight trains Funded debt injured July Leland Stanford Length in Miles Length of main length of track locomotives main line mileage MILES OF ROAD Miles run Notary Public number of cars Number of crossings Number of highway Number of stockholders Number of tons Pacific Railroad Company Passenger cars passenger department passenger trains passengers on roads Profit and loss property account Railroad Commissioners rate of fare rate of freight Repairs roads operated San Francisco single track sinking funds Southern Pacific Railroad steel rail Total length Total number traffic expenses train mile
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Page 55 - ... namely, to promote the public interest and welfare by the construction of said railroad and telegraph line, and keeping the same in working order, and to secure to the Government at all times (but particularly in time of war) the use and benefits of the same for postal, military and other purposes, Congress may, at any time, having due regard for the rights of said companies named herein, add to, alter, amend, or repeal this act.
Page 58 - In America, the powers of sovereignty are divided between the government of the Union and those of the States. They are each sovereign, with respect to the objects committed to it, and neither sovereign with respect to the objects committed to the other.
Page 58 - The sovereignty of a State extends to everything which exists by its own authority or is introduced by its permission ; but does it extend to those means which are employed by Congress to carry into execution powers conferred on that body by the people of the United States ? We think it demonstrable that it does not.
Page 59 - All general laws and special acts passed pursuant to this section may be altered from time to time or repealed.
Page 53 - It is the accepted doctrine in this country that a railroad corporation cannot escape the performance of any duty or obligation imposed by its charter, or the general laws of the state, by a voluntary surrender of its road into the hands of lessees.
Page 54 - Provided, That if said route shall be found upon the line of any other railroad route to aid in the construction of which lands have been heretofore granted by the United States, as far as the routes are upon the same general line, the amount of land heretofore granted shall be deducted from the amount granted by this act...
Page 10 - Act, shall be paid out of any money in the General Fund not otherwise appropriated, and the Controller of State is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants from time to time for such purposes, and the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay the same.
Page 54 - AN ACT granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the States of Missouri and Arkansas to the Pacific coast.
Page 8 - No president, director, officer, agent or employe of any railroad or canal company shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in the furnishing of material or supplies to such company, or in the business of transportation as a common carrier of freight or passengers over the works owned, leased, controlled or worked by such company.
Page 59 - The principle we are discussing has its limitation, a limitation growing out of the necessity on which the principle itself is founded. That limitation is, that the agencies of the Federal government are only exempted from State legislation, so far as that legislation may interfere with, or impair their efficiency in performing the functions by which they are designed to serve that government.