Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-05-21

SEC g. The Railroad and Warehouse Commits
sioners are hereby directed to make, for each of
inc railroad corporation. doing business in this
otaCe, as soon as practice )le, schedule of
able maximum rates of charges for the transporta-
uon OF passengers and freight and cars on each of
SAID railroads; and said schedule SHALL in all suits
brought against any such railroad corporations,
charges of any sncb railroad V corporao one
freight or cars or unjust discrimination in relation
thereto, be deemed and taken in all courts of this
STATE as pr1ma facie evidence that the rates there
ID hXed are reasonable maximum rates or charges
FOR the transportation of passengers and reghs and
cars upon the railroads for which said schedules
may nave been respectively prepared Said Com
mlssloners shall, from time to time and often
circumstances may require, change and revise said
schedules When such schedules shall have been
made or revised, as aforesaid it shall be the duty
OF SAID commissioners to cause publication thereof
to be made for three successive weeks, in some
public newspaper in the City of rngield in this
State; Pr00ided that the schedules thus prepared
shal! not be taken as prima facie evidence as
nereln provided until schedules shall have
been prepared and published aforesaid for all
OF this State, and until the 18th day of January A
d. 1874 or until ten days after the meeting of the
next session of this General Assembly, pro-
yIded a session of the General Assembly
shall be held previous to the 10th day of Jan
uary aforesaid All such schedules, purport-
ing to be printed and published as aforesaid,
shau be received and held in all such suits, as
prima facie the schedules of said Commissioners,
without further proof than the production of the
paper III which they published, together
with the certificate of the publisher of said paper
that the schedule therein contained is true COPY
OF the schedule furnished for publication by said
Commissioners, and that it has been published the
above specified time; and any such paper, purport-
ing to have been published at said city, and to be
public newspaper shall be presumed to have been
so published at the date thereof, and to be public
| newspaper.
SEC. 9. In all cases under the provisions of this
act, the rules of evidence shall be the as in
other civil actions, except as herenbefore other
wise provided. All fines recovered under the pro-
visions of this act shall be paid into the County
Treasury of the county in which the suit is tried,
now provided by law to be used for county purposes
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 repeating any statute giving such
remedies Suits commenced under the provisions
of this act shall have precedence over all other
business, except criminal business.
SEC 10. The term railroad corporation,' con-
tanned in this act, shall be deemed and taken to
mean all corporations, companies individuals
now owning, operating which may hereafter
own operate, any railroad, in whole in part,
in this State and the provisions of this shall
apply to all persons, firms and companies. and to
or otherwise, that shall do business common car
rerS upon any of the lines of railways in this State
(street railways excepted) the as to railroad
corporations hereinbefore mentioned.
SEC. II. An act entitled IAN act TO prevent I'M
just determinations and extorons in the rates to
be charged by the different railroads in this State
for the transportation of freights said roads,
approved April Z, A. d. 1871, is hereby repealed
but such repeal shall not affect repeal any pen
atty incurred, right accrued, under said act prior
to the time this act takes effect any proceed
ings or prosecutions to enforce such rights or pen