Biennial Report of the Railroad Commission of the State of Mississippi, for the Two Years Ending ..., Volume 3The Commission, 1891 |
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1-Telegram additional waiting room Amount capital stock April 20 Average daily compensation Average distance carried cabooses carried earning revenue carried one mile cent Cincinnati CONTRACT WITH EXPRESS CONTRACT WITH SLEEPING CONTRACT WITH TELEGRAPH depot earnings from operation earnings per mile earnings per train employees killed ending June 30 February Freight earnings Gen'l Freight Georgia Pacific Gross earnings Harriston J. M. Edwards June 30 Length of main Less operating expenses main line Memphis mile of road Minter City Natchez November 18 Number new rails Number of employees Number of passengers Number of shares Number of stockholders Number of trespassers Number passengers carried Number tons freight Orleans Passenger earnings passengers carried earning passengers injured Railroad Commission railroad company SLEEPING CAR Southern Express Companies Station agents STATIONS IN MISSISSIPPI stockholders at last stockholders for election tariff of charges tons freight carried train mile trespassers injured trespassers killed Vicksburg watchmen Western Union York
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Page 68 - Commissioners, in writing, who upon receiving such notice, or upon public rumor of such accident, may repair, or dispatch one of their number to the scene of said accident, and inquire into the facts and circumstances thereof...
Page 76 - ... inspector or other person in the performance of his duty in connection with this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or...
Page 76 - The first section of the statute enacts "that all railway companies carrying passengers in their coaches in this state, shall provide equal but separate accommodations for the white, and colored races, by providing two or more passenger coaches for each passenger train, or by dividing the passenger coaches by a partition so as to secure separate accommodations: provided, that this section shall not be construed to apply to street railroads.
Page 78 - We also reproduce section 4, c. 88, p. 107, of the Acts of 1890, as follows: "Every railroad company shall establish and maintain such depots as shall be reasonably necessary for the public convenience...
Page 64 - ... whose term of office shall be two years and until their successors are appointed.
Page 69 - That any person that shall knowingly make a false affidavit for such purpose shall be deemed guilty of perjury and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by...
Page 71 - The remedies hereby given shall be regarded as cumulative to the remedies now given by law against railroad corporations, and this act shall not be construed as repealing any statute giving such remedies. Suits commenced under the provisions of this act shall have precedence over all other business, except criminal business. SEC. 11. The term "railroad corporation...
Page 75 - Commission finds that a through rate charged from a point without the state to a point within the state, or from a point within the state...
Page 66 - Commission, with said 5 certificate of approval, within ten days after said approval, in some conspicuous place at such depot ; and it shall be unlawful for any such person or corporation to make any rebate or reduction from such tariff in favor of any person, locality or corporation, which shall not be made in favor of all other persons, localities or corporations by a change in such published rates, except as may be allowed by the Commission ; and when any change is contemplated to be made in the...
Page 70 - Commission, or any of them deliberating in the discharge of duty, such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined...