Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-03-11

AMI fares and charges which have been es.
tablished and published in compliance with
the requirements OF this section, and shall
promptly notify said commissioner of all
changes made IN the same.
FALSE BILLING, CLASSIFICATION AND WEIGH
ING PROHIBITED.
6. Any common carrier subject to the pro
visions of this act, or, whenever such common
carrier is a corporation, any officer OF agent
thereof, or any person acting for or employed
by such corporation, who, by means of false
billing. false classification, false weighing.
or false report of weight, OF by any other
device OF means, shall knowingly and will
fully assist, OF shall willingly suffer or per-
nit any person OF persons to obtain trans
portation for property at less than the regular
rates then established and in force on the line
of transportation of such common carrier,
shall be deemed guilty of msdemeanor, and
shall, upon conviction thereof in any court of
competent jurisdiction within the county or
city in which such offense was committed be
bject to the penalties hereinafter prescribed
in section thirteen.
Any person and any officer OF agent of any
corporation or company who shall deliver
property for transportation to any common
carrier subject to the provisions of this act or
for whom as consignor or consignee any such
common carrier shall transport property, who
shall knowingly and willtully, by false bill
ing, false classification, false weighing, false
representation Of the contents Of the package.
Or false report of weight, or by any other
fraudulent device Or means, whether with or
without the consent or connivance Of the car
rier, its agent OF agents, obtain transportation
for such property at less than the regular
rates then established and in force on the lire
of transportation, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction
thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction
within the county or city in which such offense
was committed, be fined not less than one
hundred dollars nor more than five hundred
dollars for each offense
Ii any such person, or any officer OF agent
OF any such corporation OF company, shall,
by the payment of money or other thing of
value, solicitation OF otherwise, fraudulently
induce any common carrier subject to the pro-
visions OF this act, or any of its officers OF
agents, to discriminate unjustly in his, its, Or
their favor as against any other consignor or
consignee in the transportation of property,
or shall aid or abet any common carrier in
any such unjust discrimination, such per-
son, OF such officer OF agent of such corpora
ton OF company, shall be deemed guilty Of a
misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction
thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction
be fined not less than one hundred dollars
nor more than five hundred dollars for each
offenSe.
DUPLICATE BILLS OF LADING TO BE ISSUED.
Z. All common carriers doing business in
this State shall, on demand, issue duplicate
freight receipts to shippers, in which shall
be stated the class or classes of freight ship
ped and the freight charges over the road
giving the receipt
1t shall be the duty Of every company, upon
the arrival of freight shipped to any of its
depots OF stations to notify the consignee by
mail or otherwise when such freight is ready
for delivery, and give reasonable time for
the removal of the same, making due allow
ance for its class, and for bad weather and
holidays.
EXPENSE BILLS TO BE FURNISHED.
8. Every common carrier doing business in
this State shall, at the time such company
delivers any article shipped OF transported
over its line. furnishto the owner OF consignee
thereof, OF to his agent, bill plainly stating
the class of freight to which said articles be-
long, the weight thereof, and the rate charged
for transporting the same.
TELEGRAPH OFFICES TO BE ESTABLISHED AND
MAINTAINED AT DEPOTs.
8. Every railroad company doing business
in this State shall establish and maintain
along its line, at depots OF stations not more
than ten miles apart, telegraph Offices. to be
operated for the protection of its train service
by competent persons in the employ OF such
company: provided, however, that the rail
road commissioner may grant such company,
in special cases, permission to have its tele-
graphic Offices at the distance from each other
greater than ten, but not more than fifteen
miles. 1t shall be the duty of every such op-
orator to telegraph the arrival and departure
of every train, as soon as it shall leave the
depot OF station, to the train dispatcher OF
other person regulating the running of trains,
and if there be no such persons, then to the
nearest telegraph Office in the direction in
which such train is going. The person re-
ceiving the telegram shall forthwith give
such order Oh notification by telegraph as may
be necessary to prevent any collision of
trains.
OPENING OF TICKET OFFICES IN DUE TIME.
10. 1t shall be the duty of every railroad
company in this state to have its ticket .ffces
opened, and its agents for the sale of tickets
in attendance, and at the termini of its road
the passenger cars open for the admission of
passengers, and baggage cars Tor the reception
of baggage at least 4hirty minutes before the
advertised hour Of departure of every passen-
ger train.
COMMISSIONER REQUIRED TO MAKE ANNUAL
REPORTS.
II. The railroad commissioner shall annu-
ally, on the first day of November, make a
report of all his transactions during the pre-
ceding year, and transmit the same to the
governor, to be laid by him before the Gener-
al Assembly at the next meeting thereof The
report shall contain such information derived
from the reports of railroad companies as the
commissioner may deem useful and proper ::
also such statements and explanations as will
describe the actual working of the system of
railroad transportation in its bearing upon
the business and prosperity of the state, and