Railway Legislation in the United StatesMacmillan, 1903 - 329 pages |
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... use of this material in the present volume . Part II was included in a more general form in a report published in Volume IX of the Report of the United States Industrial Commission , " Railway Regulation under Foreign V PREFACE.
... use of this material in the present volume . Part II was included in a more general form in a report published in Volume IX of the Report of the United States Industrial Commission , " Railway Regulation under Foreign V PREFACE.
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Balthasar Henry Meyer. United States Industrial Commission , " Railway Regulation under Foreign and Domestic Char- ters . " It is hoped that the addition of specific references will add to the value of this material in the present volume ...
Balthasar Henry Meyer. United States Industrial Commission , " Railway Regulation under Foreign and Domestic Char- ters . " It is hoped that the addition of specific references will add to the value of this material in the present volume ...
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... laws . The observance of general laws Diversity in regulative features Defect of railway legislation Constitutional tendencies I 3 4 5 7 78 9 · IO • II II · 12 13 CHAPTER III FOREIGN SIDE - LIGHTS International relationship of railway vii.
... laws . The observance of general laws Diversity in regulative features Defect of railway legislation Constitutional tendencies I 3 4 5 7 78 9 · IO • II II · 12 13 CHAPTER III FOREIGN SIDE - LIGHTS International relationship of railway vii.
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Balthasar Henry Meyer. CHAPTER III FOREIGN SIDE - LIGHTS International relationship of railway charters Public and private activity in different countries Extent of special legislation in Europe Classification of railways · The doctrine ...
Balthasar Henry Meyer. CHAPTER III FOREIGN SIDE - LIGHTS International relationship of railway charters Public and private activity in different countries Extent of special legislation in Europe Classification of railways · The doctrine ...
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... the less our constitutions are concerned with such changeable matters , the better will schemes of public regulation achieve their ends . CHAPTER III FOREIGN SIDE - LIGHTS 1 In these times 13 CHARACTERISTICS Constitutional tendencies.
... the less our constitutions are concerned with such changeable matters , the better will schemes of public regulation achieve their ends . CHAPTER III FOREIGN SIDE - LIGHTS 1 In these times 13 CHARACTERISTICS Constitutional tendencies.
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Page 298 - Commission (and produce books and papers if so ordered) and give evidence touching the matter in question ; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.
Page 297 - ... keep itself informed as to the manner and method in which the same is conducted, and shall have the right to obtain from such common carriers full and complete information necessary to enable the Commission to perform the duties and carry out the objects for which it was created...
Page 287 - 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 287 - America in congress assembled, that the provisions of this act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad and partly by water when both are used, under a common control, management or arrangement, for a continuous carriage or shipment...
Page 298 - Such attendance of witnesses, and the production of such documentary evidence, may be required from any place in the United States, at any designated place of hearing.
Page 297 - ... the date of the taking effect of this Act, the term of each to be designated by the President, but their successors shall be appointed for terms of seven years, except that any person chosen to fill a vacancy shall be appointed only for the unexpired term of the commissioner whom he shall succeed.
Page 313 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Page 307 - That nothing in this act shall prevent the carriage, storage, or handling of property free or at reduced rates for the United States, State, or municipal governments...
Page 295 - ... done, or shall aid or abet any such omission or failure, or shall be guilty 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 307 - ... or the issuance of mileage, excursion, or commutation passenger tickets; nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit any common carrier from giving reduced rates to ministers of religion, or to municipal governments for the transportation of indigent persons, or to inmates of the National Homes or State Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and of Soldiers