Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1885-01-22

power, upon application OF any person or per
sons, firms, railroads, or other corporations or
associations, alleging undue and unjust dis
| elimination against person In violation Of tie
provisions Of this act, TO issue wri,s Of mand1
mus against such person commanding sucl.
person 10 move and transport freight or "
furnish facilities for transportation for the
party applying for a writ upon such terms and
In such manner as shall seem Just and proper
TO the court In order TO prevent any undue or
unjust discrimination against the rrlator. The
proceedings shall be as in other cases Of man
damus, and in cases Of urgent necessity or IT,
volving the transportation Oi pCrishahlc goods
writs OF alternative mandAmus may be made
returnnhle forthwith; provided that no writ or
percmptOy mandamus shall issue under this
act until the rcaor shall have given security in
such sum as shall be named by the court to
pay the defendant proper and legal charges for
the services required to be performed by the
writ aforesaid; and provided, further, that the
remedy herein given by the writ Of mandamus
shall be cumulative and shall not exclude or
interfere with other remedies herein provided.
No cause brought under this act in any state
court competent OF jurisdiction shall be Tc.
moved to any United States court.
SEC. s. That any director or officer Of any
corporation or company acting or engaged as
aforesaid, or any receiver or trustee, lessee, or
person AclluE OF CuEhEtu us doItNdlu' or
any agent Uf any such corporation or
company, receiver, trustee, or person aforc-
said, or OF one Of them alone, or with any other
corporation, company person or party who
shall willfully do or cause, or willingly suffer
or permit To he done, any act. matter, or thing
In this act prohibited or forbidden, OrwhO shall
aid or abet therein, or shall willuly omit or fail
TO do any act, matter, or thing in this act re-
quired To be- done, or cause or wilingly suf-
fer or permit any act matter, or thing so di-
rCCted or required 10y this act 10 bc done not to
he so done, or shall aid ar abct any such Omis-
sion or failure, or shall bc guilty Of any infrac-
tiOn Of this net, or aid or abct therein, shall be
guilty Of misdcmcan0r, and upon conviction
thereof I've fined not more than $1,000
SEC. . That nothing in this act shall apply
TO the carriage receiving, storage, handling, or
forwarding Of property wholly within one
state, and not shipped from or destined TO
some foreign country or other state or terri
tory; nor shall 1t apply 10 property carried for
the United States at lower rates NJ freight and
charges than for the general public, or to the
transportation Of articles for or at reduced
rates Of freight for charitable purposes, or to
or from public fairs and cypositiOns for cXhibi
tiOn.
SEC. 10. That the words, "pcrson or per-
sons' as used in this act, except where other
wise provided, shall he construed and held to
mean person or persons, officer or officers Of a
corporation or corporations, company or com
paniCs, receiver or receivers, trustee or tTuS-
tees, lessee or lcssCcs. agent or agents, or
other person or persons acting or engaged in
any matters and things mentioned in this act