Railway and Traffic ProblemsAmerican academy of political and social science, 1907 - 195 pages |
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Page 293 - shall include cars and other vehicles and all instrumentalities and facilities of shipment or carriage, irrespective of ownership or of any contract, express or implied, for the use thereof and all services in connection with the receipt, delivery, elevation, and transfer in transit, ventilation, refrigeration or icing, storage, and handling of property transported...
Page 294 - No complaint shall at any time be dismissed because of the absence of direct damage to the complainant.
Page 283 - ... upon terms of paying the then value (exclusive of any allowance for past or future profits of the undertaking, or any compensation for compulsory sale, or other consideration whatsoever) of the tramway; and all lands, buildings, works, materials, and plant of the promoters suitable to and used by them for the purposes of their undertaking...
Page 298 - ... venue of suits brought in any of the circuit courts of the United States against the commission to enjoin, set aside, annul, or suspend any order or requirement of the commission shall be in the district where...
Page 304 - If any person fails or neglects to obey any order of the Commission other than for the payment of money...
Page 383 - Impossible to give precise figures of the marine commerce of the principal ports of the United States for comparison with Duluth-Superior Harbor, for the reason that at ocean ports of the United States as well as of foreign countries, no record of domestic tonnage is kept at the custom-houses, whereas on the Great Lakes a record Is kept of the total marine commerce, both foreign and domestic. In the principal ocean ports of the United States the tonnage of the local and coastwise (domestic) marine...
Page 309 - Any carrier, any officer, representative, or agent of a carrier, or any receiver, trustee, lessee, or agent of either of them, who knowingly fails or neglects...
Page 282 - He must, on tho first day of February and on the first day of August of each year, report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction a statement of the securities belonging to the School Fund, of the moneys in the Treasury subject to apportionment, and the several sources from which they accrued.