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Page 82 - To take and hold such voluntary grants of real estate and other property as shall be made to it, to aid in the construction, maintenance and accommodation of its railroad; but the real estate received by voluntary grant shall be held and used for the purposes of such grant only.
Page 77 - Municipal and other corporations and individuals invested with the privilege of taking private property for public use shall make just compensation for property taken, injured or destroyed by the construction or enlargement of their works, highways or improvements, which compensation shall be paid or secured before such taking, injury or destruction.
Page 96 - ... a greater or less compensation for any service rendered, or to be rendered, in the transportation of passengers or property...
Page 74 - The rolling stock, and all other movable property belonging to any railroad company or corporation in this State, shall be considered personal property, and shall be liable to execution and sale in the same manner as the personal property of individuals, and the general assembly shall pass no law exempting any such property from execution and sale.
Page 96 - ... in the transportation of passengers or property . . . than it charges, demands, collects, or receives from any other person or persons for doing for him or them a like and contemporaneous service in the transportation ... of a like kind of traffic . . . under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, such common carrier shall be deemed guilty of unjust discrimination, which is prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
Page 80 - The amount of its capital stock and the number of shares into which the same shall be divided.
Page 96 - That if any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act shall, directly or indirectly, by any special rate, rebate, drawback, or other device, charge, demand, collect •or receive from any person or persons a greater or less compensation...
Page 96 - Any railroad corporation that shall be guilty of extortion or unjust discrimination, or of giving to any person or locality or to any description of traffic, an undue or unreasonable preference or advantage, shall, upon conviction, be fined...
Page 97 - ... property of like kind, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line, in the same direction, the shorter being included...
Page 103 - Commission in the discharge of its duty, shall (be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined for each offense not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars...