Litchfield enquirer., 1874-01-15

to any other State. Persons and proper ty transported over any railroad shall be delivered at any station at charges not exceeding the charges for transportation of persons and property of the same class in the same direction to any more distant station: but excursion and communication tickets may be issued at special rates.
 Sec. 4. No railroad, canal or other cor poration, or the lessees, purchasers or managers of any railroad or canal corpor- poration, shall consolidate the stock, property or franchises of such corpora tlon with, or lease, or purchase the works or franchises of, or in any way control any other railroad or canal corporation owning or having under its control parallel or competing line; nor shall any officer of such railroad or canal corporation act as an officer of any other railroad or canal corporation owning or having the control of parallel or competing line; and the question whether railroads or canals are parallel or competing lines shall, when demanded by the party complainant, be decided by jury as in other civil issues.
 Sec. 5. No incorporated company do- ing the business of @ common carrier shall, directly or indirectly, prosecute or engage Tn mining or manufacturing arti- cles for transportation over it's works; nor shall such company, directly or indirectly, engage in any other business than that of common carriers, or hold or acquire lands, freehold or leasehold, directly or indirect y, except such as shall be necessary for carrying on its business; but any mining or manufacturing company may carry the products of its mines and manufactures on us railroad or canal not exceeding fifty
 Sec. 6. No president, director, officer, agent or employee of any railroad or canal company shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in the furnishing of material or supplies to such company, or in the business of transportation as a common carrier of freight or passengers over the works owned, leased. controlled or worked by such company.
 Sec. 2. No discrimination in charges or facilities for transportation shall be made between transportation companies and individuals, or in favor of either, by abatement, drawback or otherwise, and no railroad or canal company, or any les see, manager or employee thereof, shall make any preferences in furnishing cars or motive power.
 Sec. 8. No railroad, railway or other transportation compony shall grant free passes, or passes at discount, to any person except officers or employees of the company.
 Sec. g No street passenger railway shall be constructed within the limits of any city, borough or township, without the consent of it local authorities
 Sec. TO- No railroad, canal or other company, in existence at the time of the adoption of this article, shall have the benefit of any future legis- lation by general or special laws, except on condition of complete acceptance of all provisions of this article.
 Sec. Il. The existing powers and du- ties of the Auditor General in regard to canals and other transportation companies, except as to their accounts. are hereby transferred to the Secretary of Internal Affairs, who shall have a general supervision over them, subject to such regulations and alterations as shall be provided by law; and, in addition to the annual reports now required to be made, said Secretary may require special reports at any time upon any subject relating to the business of said companies from any officer or officers thereof.
 Sec. 12. The General Assembly shall enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article