Railroad Traffic and Rates: Passenger, express, and mail servicesD. Appleton, 1911 |
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accounts Adams Express Co Adams Express Company advertising amount Assistant General Passenger Auditor Baggage Agent berths Bureau cash cent Chairman charge Chicago City Class Passage commerce court common carrier competition Conditions of Contract conductor Contract THIS COUPON destination DETACHED Division Ticket Agents earnings electric lines electric railways excess excursion tickets express rates first-class foreign freight I. C. C. Reps immigrant increased interline Interstate Commerce Commission interurbans issued joint limited merchandise mile mileage monthly NORTHERN CENTRAL RAILWAY operating paid Passenger Association passenger business passenger service Passenger Traffic Manager PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY points post office postal pounds Pullman Company PUNCH purchaser rail Railway Company Railway Mail Service railway post office regular revenue roads routes second-class Section senger shipments shipper sleeping cars sold stamped Station steam railroads Subject to Conditions tariffs Ticket Receiver tion tourist trains transportation trip United York
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Page 386 - That any common carrier, subject to the provisions of this act, or, whenever such common carrier is a corporation, any director or officer thereof, or any receiver, trustee, lessee, agent, or person acting for or employed by such corporation, who.
Page 379 - Provided, however, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to the transportation of passengers or property, or to the receiving, delivering, storage, or handling of property, wholly within one State, and not shipped to or from a foreign country from or to any State or Territory as aforesaid.
Page 378 - That the provisions of this Act shall apply to any corporation or any person or persons engaged in the transportation of oil or other commodity, except water and except natural or artificial gas, by means of pipe lines, or partly by pipe lines and partly by railroad, or partly by pipe lines and partly by water, who shall be considered and held to be common carriers within the meaning and purpose of this Act...
Page 388 - ... hereby declared to be a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof in any court of the United States of competent jurisdiction within the district in which such offense was committed, be subject for each offense to a fine of not exceeding five thousand dollars or imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Page 386 - ... of any infraction of this act, or shall aid or abet therein, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof in any district court of the United States within the jurisdiction of which such offense was committed, be subject to a fine of not to exceed five thousand dollars for each offense...
Page 363 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers or of like kind of property, 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 within the longer distance...
Page 384 - ... to charge any greater compensation as a through route than the aggregate of the intermediate rates subject to the provisions of this Act...
Page 380 - All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property as aforesaid, or in connection therewith, or for the receiving, delivering, storage, or handling of such property, shall be reasonable and just; and every unjust and unreasonable charge for such service is prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
Page 374 - Provided, That the appeal must be taken within thirty days from the entry of such order or decree, and it shall take precedence in the appellate court ; and the proceedings in other respects in the court below shall not be stayed, unless otherwise ordered by that court or by the appellate court or a judge thereof, during the pendency of such appeal...
Page 397 - ... is in disobedience of the same, the court shall enforce obedience to such order by a writ of injunction, or other proper process, mandatory or otherwise, to restrain such carrier, its officers, agents, or representatives, from further disobedience of such order, or to enjoin upon it, or them, obedience to the same...