Regulations Governing Military Transportation Over Land-grant and Bonded Railroads, and the Settlement of Accounts for Such Service: With a Compendium of U.S. Laws Showing the Conditions of the Grants Or SubsidiesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1899 - 61 pages |
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Page 37 - State shall be subject to the disposal of the legislature thereof, for the purposes aforesaid and no other; and the said railroad and branches shall be and remain a public highway, for the use of the government of the United States, free from toll or other charge upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States.
Page 36 - ... performed for the government for transportation of the Army and transportation of the mails, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to make such entries upon the books of the department as will carry to the credit of said companies the amounts so earned or to be earned by them during each fiscal year and withheld under the provisions of section fifty-two...
Page 48 - ... upon said railroad for the Government whenever required to do so by any Department thereof, and that the Government shall at all times have the preference in the use of the same for all the purposes aforesaid, (at fair and reasonable rates of compensation, not to exceed the amounts paid by private parties for the same kind of service...
Page 56 - That no part of the money appropriated by this act shall be paid to any railroad company for the transportation of any property or troops of the United States over any railroad which, in whole or in part, was constructed by the aid of a grant of public land, on the condition' that such railroad should be a public highway for the use of the government of the United States...
Page 35 - The Secretary of the Treasury is directed to withhold all payments to any railroad company and its assigns, on account of freights or transportation over their respective roads of any kind, to the amount of payments made by the United States for interest upon bonds of the United States issued to any such company, and which shall not have been reimbursed, together with the fIve per centum of net earnings due and unapplied, as provided by law.— Sec.
Page 47 - That the said company shall not charge the government higher rates than they do individuals for like transportation and telegraphic service.
Page 35 - ... troops, and munitions of war, supplies, and public stores upon said railroad for the Government, whenever required to do so by any department thereof, and that the Government shall at all times have the preference in the use of the same for...
Page 47 - ... shall, from time to time, fix, determine, and regulate the fares, tolls, and charges to be received and paid for transportation of persons and property on said road, or any part thereof.
Page 45 - ... stores upon its road for the Government of the United States, free from all cost or charge therefor to the Government, when required to do so by any Department thereof.
Page 61 - We think the contemporaneous construction thus given by the executive department of the government, and continued for nine years through six different administrations of that department — a construction which, though inconsistent with the literalism of the act, certainly consorts with the equities of the case — should be considered as decisive in this suit.