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Page 11 - Ninth, To regulate the time and manner in which passengers and property shall be transported, and the tolls and compensation to be paid therefor ; but such compensation for transporting any passenger and his or her ordinary baggage, not exceeding in weight one hundred and fifty pounds, shall not exceed the following prices, viz. : For a distance not exceeding five miles in the lower peninsula, three cents per mile, and for a distance not exceeding ten miles in the Upper Peninsula...
Page 11 - For a distance not exceeding five miles, three cents per mile; for all other distances, for all companies the gross earnings of whose passenger trains, as reported to the commissioner of railroads for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight...
Page 8 - That the Interstate Commerce Commission may from time to time upon full hearing and for good cause extend the period within which any common carrier shall comply with the provisions of this act.
Page 16 - Authority is hereby given to said commissioner, and it shall be his duty, if he shall deem it practicable, to prescribe the use of the interlocking switch and signal system, or some other system that will secure equal safety of the operation of trains of cars at all crossings and junctions of railroads in this state.
Page 18 - January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, to so adjust, fill, or block the frogs, switches, and guard rails on their roads, in all yards, divisional and terminal stations, and where trains are made up, as to prevent the feet of employes or other persons from being caught therein.
Page 11 - That in future whenever the earnings of any company doing business in this State, as reported to the commissioner of railroads...
Page 11 - Railroads for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, equaled or exceeded the sum of $3,000 for each mile of road operated by said company, two cents per mile; and for all companies the earnings of whose passenger trains reported as aforesaid were over...
Page 12 - ... exceed the sum of two thousand or three thousand dollars per mile of road operated by said company, then in such case said companies shall thereafter, upon the notification of the commissioner of railroads, be required to only receive as compensation for the transportation of any passenger and his or her ordinary baggage, not exceeding in weight one hundred and fifty pounds, a rate of two cents and a half, or two cents per mile, as hereinbefore provided...
Page 11 - ... fifty pounds, shall not exceed the following prices, viz : for a distance not exceeding five miles, three cents per mile ; for all other distances, for all companies, the gross earnings of whose passenger trains, as reported to the commissioner of railroads...
Page 8 - Congress commonly known as the safety-appliance act enacted that no train carrying interstate traffic should be run from and after January 1, 1898, unless so equipped with power or train brakes that its speed could be controlled from the engine, and that no car used in interstate traffic should be hauled after that date unless equipped with a coupler which would couple automatically by impact, and which could be uncoupled without going between the cars. Section 7 of that...