The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-04-02
Chapter 2l9.


Az ACT alAeG,!atory Of and additional to chapter
fttyone of the Revised Statutes concerning Rail-
roads.
Be it enacted BY the Senate oad House of Represen-
tltires IN Legislature assembled, as follows:
SEcNos l.. Section thirty of chapter ffty-one of
the revised statutes is amended as to read fol-
lows.
Sec. 80. Every railroad corporation shall make
an annual report to the railroad commissioners
before December first, of its operations for each
year ending September thirtieth to be verified by
the oath Of its treasurer. 1t to state: first the
length Of the road in operation, the length OF sin
lie track the length Of double track, the length of
i!dlngs and OF spur tracks, the time when laid, the
length laid with steel rails the weight of rail per
yard the length laid with fShed Joints and of what
sort, the length laid in chair joints and the length
laid with Whitnan'a improved cross-ties; second
the capital stock, and the amount called and paid
nv third, the whole cost of the road, showing the
amount expended in the purchase Of lands, for
-tading, for masonry, for bridging, for IRON for
penses OF engineering for passenger cars for freight
and other cars, for locomotives, and for the total
expense OF equipment; fourth. the amount and
ture of its Indebtedness and its Dues fifth, the whole
cost vi operating; sixth, number of passenger trains
during the year. seventh, number of freight trains
during the year; eighth, number of mixed trains
during the year; ninth, average number of passen-
gers per train tenth, average number of tons of
freight per train eleventh, the number Of through
and way passengers aud rates of fare; twelfth,
erago receipts per passenger per mile thirteenth,
average receipts per ton Of freight per mile; four
teenth, the number of through and way passengers
and the rates Of fare; fifteenth, the amount of
ceipts from passengers and freight chatting along
the line Of the road; sixteenth, the amount of re-
cciptS from passengers and freight brought to the
road by other railroads; seventeenth, the amount
received for the transportation OF passengers, of
property, of the mails, and from other sources;
eighteenth the number of depots, engine houses,
engines and cars OF their several sort; nineteenth,
the number Of miles run by passenger, freight, mix
cd and other trains respectively, and the average
rate of and speed of each twentieth the whole
number of stockholders and the number who reside
IN this state; twenty first the amount of each divi
dend and when made, twenty second, the amount
charged for depreciation of road and other proper
Veil n NO N JraH in
life or limb, the cause of injury and whether pass
engers, persons employ ed twenty fourth wheth-
any such accident arose from careessness or neg
ligence of any person in the employ of the corpo-
ration, and whether such person is retained in its
service; twenty-hfth the number Of employees of
lowing grades: conductors, baggage masters, sta
ton agents, switch men, engine drivers, fremen,
hrakemen, foremen OF track sections. If any rail-
road company neglects to make such report, it for
iets thousand dollars; and it shall be the duty
Of the attorney general to prosecute for the
cry of the same upon complaint thereof made to
him, and the same shall be published in the annual
report of the railroad commissioners
SEC. ?. When in the opinion of the railroad COM
mlsSOnerS the passage OF passenger trains any
portion Of any railroad by passenger trains would
be attended with imminent danger, they may mott
fy the president Superintende Mt of such road OF
such unsafe condition of said portion of said road
and order the immediate stopping of all passenger
trains about to run over the same. In said
der is not obeyed said commissioners shall at once
apply to some Judge of the supreme judicial court,
who may, upon satisfactory proof of the necessity
for such order, and without notice to said company
issue an injunction prohibiting the running of pas
the court.
(Approyed March 3, lS1i.)