Port Series, Issue 37

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Page vii - ... to investigate any other matter that may tend to promote and encourage the use by vessels of ports adequate to care for the freight which would naturally pass through such ports...
Page xiv - The commission for good cause shown may allow changes without requiring the thirty days' notice under such conditions as it may prescribe. No corporation or municipality shall charge, demand, collect or receive a greater or less or different compensation for any service rendered or to be rendered than the rates and charges applicable to such...
Page vii - ... to advise with communities regarding the appropriate location and plan of construction of wharves, piers, and water terminals ; to investigate the practicability and advantages of harbor, river, and port improvements in connection with foreign and...
Page xiv - ... receiving the prescribed signal: Provided, That the draw shall not be opened when a train is approaching so closely that it cannot safely be stopped before reaching the bridge, or when a passenger or mail train is approaching within sight or hearing of the drav/ tender.
Page xiv - ... are unjust, unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory, or unduly preferential, or in anywise in violation of any provision of law, the commission shall determine and prescribe the just and reasonable rates and charges...
Page 71 - LAOS, for the common good of shippers and carriers, by providing just and economical cooperation between the steamship lines operating in such trades...
Page xiv - ... Commission, or that any rule, regulation, practice, or contract affecting such rate, charge, or classification is unjust, unreasonable, unduly discriminatory, or preferential, the Commission shall determine the just and reasonable rate, charge, classification, rule, regulation, practice, or contract to be thereafter observed and in force, and shall fix the same by order...
Page xiv - Two long distinct blasts of a whistle, horn or megaphone, or two loud and distinct strokes of a bell, to be repeated at regular intervals until acknowledged by the vessel.
Page xiv - And whenever the commission shall be of opinion, after a hearing, had upon its own motion or upon complaint...
Page xiv - When fog prevails by day or by night the draw tender, after repeating the call signal, shall toll a bell continuously during the approach and passage of the vessel.

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