Annual Report of the Secretary of Internal Affairs: Railroad, canal, navigation, telegraph and telephone companies. Part 4, Part 4 |
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00 Capital stock 00 Current liabilities 00 Grand total Accounts payable Allegheny assets as follows ASSIGNED FOR OPERATION BALANCE SHEET Baltimore Branch Capital stock Cash and current Cash on hand Chester Chicago and St Company Operated Cost of equipment Cost of line Cost of road Creek Current assets Current liabilities Date of charter Date of organization Delaware Delaware River DIRECTORS employed entire system George Ziegler Harrisburg Indicates that road interest on funded John Kinzua Lake Erie LEASED OR OTHERWISE liabilities as follows Material and supplies Miles of line Number of instruments number of persons Official Address Ohio OTHERWISE ASSIGNED passenger Philadelphia Pittsburg Profit and loss PROPERTY LEASED PROPERTY OPERATED RAILROAD COMPANY receipts from entire report mileage road and equipment road is operated road named Samuel Rea Schuylkill Scranton Secretary and Treasurer Stewartstown Superintendent Susquehanna Terminals Total number tract operated Traction Company Vice President Western Wilkes-Barre Williamsport York
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Page 129 - That the provisions of this act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad and partly by water when both are used, under a common control, management, or arrangement, for a continuous carriage or shipment...
Page lvi - All individuals, associations and corporations shall have equal right to have persons and property transported over railroads and canals, and no undue or unreasonable discrimination shall be made in charges for, or in facilities for, transportation of freight or passengers within the State or coming from or going to any other State.
Page xlix - Commission may deem proper, the privilege to construct, maintain and operate their lines of railway over, along and upon public highways, now laid out and in actual use, which lie within or border on any...
Page xlvi - Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, entitled " An act to authorize the formation and regulation of railroad...
Page xlviii - ... order a view, in the manner provided for in the case of roads, and if on the report of viewers, it shall appear to the court, grand jury, and commissioners of the county, that such bridge is necessary, and would be too expensive for such township or townships, it shall be entered on record as a county bridge.
Page lviii - Secretary shall carefully investigate such charges, and may require from said corporation a special report, as enjoined in the Constitution of the State; and in case he believes the charges are just, and the matter complained of is beyond the ordinary province of individual redress, he shall certify his opinion to the Attorney General of the State, whose duty it shall be, by an appropriate legal remedy, to redress the same by a proceeding in the courts at the expense of the State.
Page l - ... action of its board of directors, with the approval of a majority of its stockholders present at a meeting to be specially called for that purpose, after thirty days notice, and upon filing a copy of such action, duly certified by the president and secretary, under the seal of the company, in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and also with the proper local authorities. Every company incorporated under this act shall have the right to use any part or all of the tracks or railway...
Page lxiv - ... of one-half of one per centum on the amount so paid over, and if any register of wills shall fail to pay over, as required by this section, the state treasurer shall give notice to the attorney general of the state, whose duty it shall be to institute suit on the official bond of such register of wills, for the use of the state, to recover the amount due from such register of wills, and in such suit the amount appearing to be due, with interest thereon...
Page xlix - ... shall pay a certain part or portion of the whole contract price or cost of the work, including damages; or may stipulate that each shall construct, or pay for the construction of, a certain part or portion of the work, and may otherwise provide for the payment of the damages. When any railroad company, street railway or other company, or other parties...
Page xlix - The Act of April 14th, 1905, (PL 156), provides as follows: "That the Commissioner of Forestry and the Forestry Reservation Commission are hereby authorized and empowered to give to boroughs and other municipalities of this Commonwealth, upon such terms and subject to such restrictions and regulations as said Commissioner and Commission...