Report of the Railroad CommissionerE.L. Freeman Company, state printers, 1904 |
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Page 82 - Company, on my oath do say that the foregoing return has been prepared under my direction, from the original books, papers, and records of said Company; that I have carefully examined the same, and declare the same to be a complete and correct statement of the business and affairs of said Company in respect to each and every matter and thing therein set forth, to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief...
Page 143 - ... shall have power to make and prescribe such by-laws, rules and regulations as to them shall appear needful and proper touching the...
Page 126 - Said company may abandon any lands or any interests or estates therein taken under the provisions of this act, by filing a notice of such abandonment in the office of the clerk of the court in which the proceedings hereinbefore provided for are pending, at any time before the confirmation of the report of the commissioners appointed to assessdamages.
Page 181 - Society has caused its corporate name to be hereunto subscribed and its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed at the City of Cincinnati, by Mrs.
Page 193 - Acts relating to train brakes, automatic couplers, grab irons, and the height of drawbars shall be held to apply to all trains, locomotives, tenders, cars, and similar vehicles used on any railroad engaged in interstate commerce...
Page 139 - The capital stock of said corporation shall be one hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of the par value of one hundred dollars each. Said corporation...
Page 154 - ... and shall be liable for any loss or injury that any person shall sustain by reason of any carelessness, neglect, or misconduct of its agents and servants, in the management, construction, or use of said tracks or streets...
Page 149 - Whenever said corporation shall take any lands or any interest or estate therein under the provisions of this act, it shall file in the common pleas division of the supreme court in the county in which such lands are located a certificate containing a general description of such lands...
Page 153 - The tracks' of said railways shall not be elevated above the surface of the street; shall be laid with modern improved rails, and shall be so laid that carriages and other vehicles can easily and freely...
Page 154 - ... any sums thus recovered against them, together with all costs and reasonable expenditures incurred by them respectively, in the defence of any such suit or suits in which recovery may be had ; and said corporation shall not incumber any portion of the streets or bridges not occupied by said road or tracks.