The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-04-01
NEW RAILROAD LAW.
An Effort to Prevent Discrimination
Against Virginia Cities.

The following bill in relation to common
carriers has become law:
Be it enacted by the GeneraiASsembly Of
Tirq1nia, That sections %, a, and 26 Of
chapter 81 of Code of 1878 be amended and
reenacted so as to read as follows:
SECTION %. No railroad, canal, steamboat,
steamship, or transportation company, or
her common carrier chartered by or doing
business in this State shall c1arge, takey or
receive greater sum for the transportation
of any person, or passenger, or matter Of
freight over o portion of its line or route,
whether such shall in whole or only in
part be within the limits of this State,
than is charged by such company or other
common carrier for the like transportation of
the like class of persons or passengers or
matter of freight over the entire length OF
its line or route: nor shall any such COM
pany or other common carrier charge, take,
or receive higher rate of compensation
for transporting any person or matter OF
freight over q portion or the whole length
of its line, (whether such transportation sha
be done directly by tho agents, engines,
clrs, boats, or other vehicles of such COM
pany, or by those Of other persons, parties.
or corporations, as such may be expressly
allowed by law going from any city
within the State and destined for any
point beyond, than is charged, taken,
or received by such company or other
carrier on its own account directly or by any
other agent or agency is charged, received,
or taken at the same time for the like trans
portation over the entire length of its line
of the like class of persons or passengers, or
the like matter Of freight, coming from any
point beyond the State and destined for or
consigned to the same place; nor shall any
such company or other common carrier
charge, take, or receive, or allow to be
charged. taken, or received, for Transporter
ton of any person or matter Of freight COM
ing from the same point .beyond the
limits of the State and destined for any
one of the cities OF Virginia higher rate
tnan is charged at the same time for the like
transportation over the entire length Of its
line Of the like class OF persons or the like
matter Of freight coming from the same
point and destined for any place beyond the
limits of the State; nor shall any such COM
pany or other common carrier violate or
eyade such conditions ia or under any man.
ner of arrangement by schedule, through.
ticket fares, thr0ugh.transportation bills and
rates, nor by contract or otherwise un.
dertake to rent, let, or farm out the
whole or any part OF its local or through.
Tonnage business, nor employ on shares or
on commissions any person. plrty, ag'ny,
or corporation to solicit or otherwise procure
the whole or any part OF such tonnage bust.
ness; nor shall any such compsny or other
common carrier allow through tickets or
through-baggage checks to be issued over its
line by any company or transportation line,
lis agents, or agencies, not incorporated by
this State, " hich company or line shall re-
fuse or inhibit by any means any other such
company or transportation line incorporated
by this State the privilege of issuing by its
own local agents and such agents or agen.
cies as it may establish in any city or else
where through tickets and baggage-cbecks
over such compsny's road or transportation
line not incorporated by this State.
SECTION "a. No railroad, canal company.
or other common carrier chartered By or
doing business in this State shall make or give
any undue or unreasonable preference or adj
vantage to or IN ftVor of any particular citi-
zen Of this State, or any particular descrlp.
ton OF traffic, in any respect whatsoever;
nor shall any such company or common car
rler subject any particular citizen of this
State or any particular description of traffic
to any undue or unreasonable. prejudice or
disadvantage in any respect whatsoever.
SECTION 26. ANY person or company com.
planning against any railroad, canal COM
pany, or other common carrier, of anything
done or of any omission made in violation
or contravention OF this act, embracing Sec
tions % and "a, may apply TO circuit court
or to judge thereof, who may hear and de-
termine the matter Of such complaint; and
if it appear to such court or judge on such
hearing, or on the report OF any commits.
sioner to whom the subject Of the complaint
may have been referred, that anything has
been done or omission made in vic.
lation or contravention OF this act
by such company or common carrier
such court or judge shall issue writ of iu-
junction restraining such company from fur
ther continuing such violation or contrayeu.
ton Of this act, and enjoinipg obedience to
the same. Any person or company violating
any of the provisions of sections % and "a
OF said chapter 81 shall for The first VIOLA
ton be fined 5000, and for the second and
each succeeding violation 5000, for the use
of the Commonwealth, to be recovered by
motion in any court OF record after ten days
notice that such motion snail be made.
2. This act shall be In force from its pas
sage. E&T sr