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agents Alabama Rail Road annual returns bale boxed Cairo and Henderson car load Central Rail Road Chattanooga & St Cincinnati Class H Columbus & Western Columbus and Hickman Commission of Alabama DAY OF SEPTEMBER earnings East Cairo EFFECT AT SHIPPING ending June 30th Eufaula Railway Evansville expenses Fifth Class Fourth Class freight rates FREIGHT TAKING EFFECT FREIGHT TARIFF Girard Rail Road Goodwater HUNDRED POUNDS JAMES CROOK Jeffersonville Louis Store Door Louisville & Nashville Memphis Depot Mobile & Girard Mobile & Montgomery Montgomery & Eufaula Nashville & Decatur Nashville Rail Road North Alabama Rail Opelika Orleans owner's risk passenger trains Pekin and Havanna Pensacola & Selma Rail Road Commission Rail Road Company RATES OF FREIGHT receipts revised Road of Alabama Savannah South & North Southern Express Company station statute Third Class Union Springs W. L. BRAGG Western Rail Road Western Railway Wetumpka
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Page xxii - ... separately from each other and from all other articles : and the package, box, cask, or other vessel containing the same shall be distinctly marked on the outside, with the name or description of the article contained therein.
Page xxii - ... nor shall gunpowder be carried on any such vessel, except under special license; nor shall oil of vitriol, nitric or other chemical acids be carried on such steamers except on the decks or guards thereof, or in such other safe part of the vessel as shall be prescribed by the inspectors.
Page 104 - ... stations or station houses, or any change in its rates of fare for transporting freight or passengers, or any change in the mode of operating its road and conducting its business is reasonable and expedient in order to promote the security, convenience and accommodation of the public...
Page 94 - Commission shall then append a certificate of its approval to said tariff of charges ; but in revising or establishing any and every tariff of charges, it shall be the duty of said Commission to take into consideration the character and nature of the service to be performed and the entire business of such railroad, together with its earnings from the passenger and other traffic...
Page 36 - December in each year, for transmission to the legislature, of their doings for the year ending...
Page clx - Company, who being duly sworn, do depose and say that they caused the foregoing statements to be prepared by the proper agents and officers of this Company, and having carefully examined the same, declare them to be a true, full and correct statement of the condition and affairs of said Company for the year ending June 30th, 1881, according to the best of their knowledge and belief.
Page 26 - ... or of any person or locality ; Provided, that nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent contracts for special rates for the purpose of developing any industrial enterprise, or to prevent the execution of any such contract now existing.
Page 104 - The board shall have power to administer oaths in all matters relating to its duties, so far as necessary to enable it to discharge such duties, shall have general supervision of all railroads and shall examine the same and keep informed as to their condition, and the manner in which they are operated for the security and accommodation of the public and their compliance with the provisions of their charters and of law.
Page xxii - ... the United States, or between a place in one State, Territory or District of the United States, and a place in any other State, Territory, or District thereof...
Page 96 - ... good and sufficient security to be approved by the clerk of the...