Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-02-21
TnE mELARkEY BILL.
Its Text as 1t Finally Passed i'm the
House Amended.

House Amended.
The celebrated Melarkey bill which has
been SO much discussed and which our
correspondent remarks has become politi-
cally historical, We publish in full this
morning in order that everybody may
read and understand it.:
An Act to regulate the charges for carry
ing, hauling and storing of property by
interstate railroads within the State Of
Nevada, and prescribing penalties for
the violation Of its provisions.
Section l.. 1t shall be unlawful for any
person, persons, company or corporation
organized or doing business in this State,
and engaged, either alone or associated
with others, in carrying or transporting
property by railroad, whose railroads run
continuously from any boundary of the
State of Nevada, to any other boundary of
said State, within this State, to carry or
transport such property beyond the place
of its final destination within this State,
or to carry any such property in any di-
~rection other ,han its final destination, or
any greater distance than is actually neces-
sary to enable such person, persons, or
corporation to deliver such property at its
destination.
Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any
such person, persons, company or corpo-
ration to charge, demand, collect or re-
ceive a greater compensation for carrying
or transporting property from any point
upon the line of such railroad within this
State to any other point upon the line of
such railroad within this State than is
| charged by such carriers for carrying or
transporting goods or property OF like
character from the same point OF ship
ment over q greater distance of the same
road. And it shall be unlawful for such
carrier to charge, receive, collect or de-
mand a greater compensation for carrying
or transporting property received by it at
any point within this State to be trans
| ported or carried to any other point in this
State than is charged or collected by such
carrier or carriers for transporting similar
property for the same destination over a
greater distance of the same in this State;
provided, however, that in no case shall
the compensation so charged exceed the
sum of six cents per ton, of 1000 pounds,
per mile for each mile such property may
be actually carried within this State.
Sec. 3. 1t shall be unlawful for any
such person or persons company or cor
poration, directly or indirectly, to charge
to or receive from any person. persons or
corporation, any greater or less rate or
amount of freight, compensation or re-
ward than is charged to or received from
any other person, persons or corporation,
for like services in the carrying, receiving,
delivering, storing or handling of property
so as aforesaid carried or to be carried
over such railroad; and all persons, COM
panies or corporations engaged as afore-
said, shall furnish, without discrimina-
ton, the same facilities for the carrying,
receiving, delivery and hauling of all
property of like character carried by him,
them, or it, and shall perform with equal
expedition the same kind of service con-
nected with the transportation thereof as
aforesaid. No break, stoppage, or interrupt
ton. nor any contract, agreement or under
standing shall be made to prevent the car
riage of any property from being treated
as one continuous carriage from the place
of shipment to the place of destination,
unless such %stoppage, interruption, CON
tract, agreement of understanding be or
WAS made in good faith for ZONE practical
or necessary purpose, without any intent
to avoid or interrupt such continuous car
riaee, or to evade any Of the provisions of
this Act.
Sec. 4. 1t shall be unlawful for any
person or persons, company or corporation
engaged in the carrying or transporting of
property, as provided in the first section
of this Act, to charge or receive any
greater compensation per carload of SINH
lar property for carrying, receiving, stor-
ing, forwarding or handling the same for
q shorter than for a longer distance in one
continuous carriage.
Sec. 5. No individual, company or cor
poration mentioned in the first section of
this Act, owning, operating or managing
any railroad in this State, the termini of
which are not in this State, shall charge a
greater or higher rate for the transporta-
ton of passengers between any points,
places or localities within this State than
four cents per mile for each passenger
over the age Of 10 years, with ordinary
baggage not exceeding 100 pounds in
weight; and for each passenger OF the age
of IL years or under, not exceeding two
cents per mile, with baggage not exceeding
so pounds in weight. Fractions Of q mile
may be reokoned az full mile In eomput-
ing fares and freights.
Sec. 6. 1t shall be unlawful for any
individual, company or corporation oper-
ating or managing any such railroad with
in this State, to refuse to receive. carry
and deliver any lawful, proper and custom
airy freight, or passengers, at any station,
uCDob IA bldCtt v ANY, SAAbtAbS "a WALSlA
may hereafter be established.
Sec. 7. II any person, persons, company
or corporation mentioned in the first Sec
ton Of this Act shall make any unjust
discrimination in its rates or charges of
toll or compensation for the transportation
Of passengers or freight Of any description,
or for the use and transportation OF any
railroad car upon its said road, it shall be
deemed guilty Of having violated the pro-
visions OF this ACT. And il any such per-
son, persons, company or corporation
shall charge, collect or receive from any
person or persons for the transportation of
any freight upon its railroad coming from
without this State and intended to be
delivered to any citizen or resident Of this
State, within this State, a higher or greater
rate Of toll or compensation than it shall
at the same time charge, collect or receive
from any other person or peEaona for the
transportation Of a like quantity OF freight
Of the Same class over the entire road in
the same direction, shall also be deemed
guilty Of q violation Of the provisions Of
this Act,
Sec. y. That each and every act, matter
or thing in this Act declared to be unlaw-
full, is hereby prohibited; and in case any
person or persons, company CIR corpora
ton, engaged as aforesaid, shall do, suffer
Of permit to be done any act, matter or
thing in this Act prohibited, or declared
to be unlawful, or shall omit to do any
act, matter or thing in this Act required
to be done. such person or persons, COM
pany or corporation, shall forfeit and pay
10 the PERSON or persons. who may sus-
tain damage thereby. all damages sus-
tanned, to be recovered by the person or
persons co damaged. in any OF the courts
Of this State having Jurisdiction, OF the
sur, 10 claimed. and all cases where dam
persons, company or corporation shall, for
the violation o: any Of the provisions Of
this Act, forfeit and pay a penalty of not
less than 81 900 and not more than s 5000,
to be recovered in the name Of the State Of
Magsda in any oonrt Of competent iurisdic-