The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1895-12-18
ARTICLE TX.
the same.
CORPORATIONS.

used in this article includes all assocla-
tions and joint stock companies having
powers and privileges not possessed by
individuals or partnerships and ex-
cludes municipal corporations.
Sec. 2. No charter Of incorporation
shall be granted, changed or amended
by special law, except in the case OF
such charitable, educational, penal or
reformatory corporations as may be
under the control of the State, or may
be provided for in this Constitution.
but the general assembly shall provide
by general laws for changing Or amend
ing existing charters, and for the or
ganization of all corporations here
after to be created, and any such law
so passed, as we'll as all charters now
existing or hereafter created. shall be
subject TO future repeal or alteration;
provided. that the general assembly
may by two-thirds vote Of each honse
on concurrent resolution allow bill
for a special charter to be introduced,
and when SO introduced may pass the
same as other bills.
Sec. 3. All railroad, express. canal
and other corporations engaged IN
transportation for hire and all tele-
graph and other corporations engaged
in the business of transmitting lntelil-
gence for hire are common carriers in
their respective lines of buslne IS, and
are subject to liability and taxation as
such. It shall be unlawful for any
such corporation to make any contract
relieving it of its common law liabil-
itv or limiting the same, In reference
to the carriage of passengers.
Sec. 4. Every corporation organized
or doing business il this State, other
than religious, educational or benevo-
leptassociations, shall have and maintain
at least one agent in this State upon
whom process may be served, and at
least one public Office for the transac
tion of it's business. Provided, This
section shall not apply to mercantile
corporations: Provided, That nothing
contained in this section shall be con-
strued to prohibit the general assem-
bly, from providing for the service of
process on any agent Of a corporation
so as to bind such cooperation.
Sec. 5. No discrimination in
charges or facilities for transportation
of the same classes of freight or pas
senqeis, or for the transmission of in
telligence within this State, or coming
from or going to any other State, shall
be made by any railroad or other
transportation or Transmission compa-
ny between places or persons.
Persons and property transported
by any railroad or any other transpor
tation or transmission company or cor
poration, shall be delivered at any
| station, landing oc port at charges not
| exceeding the charges for the tr~ns-
:portation of persons and property Of
the same class, in the same direction,
to any more distant station, landing
or port. Excursion and communication
tickets may be issued at special rates.
This section shall not prevent the rail-
road commission from making such
competitive rates as shall, in their judg-
ment, be just and equitable between
the railroads and the public, at all
functional and competitive points or at
points where water competition con-
trolls the traffic or at points where the
competition Of points located in other
| States may make necessary the pre-
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lection of the commerce of this State.
Sec. G. Any railroad or other trans
portation corporation, and any tele-
graph or other transmitting corpora
ton, organized under the laws OF this
; State, shall have the right to connect
its roads or lines, at the State line, with
those in other States, and shall have
the right to intersect with or cross any
other railroad, street railway, trans.
portation road or transmitting line,
! and shall each receive and transport
the freight, passengers, cars lloaded or
empty and messages delivered to
it by another without delay or dis
elimination,
Sec. 7. No railroad, or other trans
portation company, and no telegraph
or other transmitting corporation, or
the lessees, purchasers or managers of
any such corporation, shall consolidate
the stock, property or franchises Of
such corporation with, or lease or pur-
chase the works or franchises of, or in
any way control, any other railroad or
other transportation, telegraph or other
transmitting company owning or hay
F! ing under its control parallel or com
peting line; and the question whether
railroads Or other transportation, tele-
| graph or other transmitting companies
are parallel or competing lines shall,
when demanded by the party COM
! plainant, be decided by jury as in
other civil causes.
Sec. S. The general assembly shall
not grant to any foreign corporation
or association license to build. oper-
ate or lease any railroad in this State;
but in all cases where a railroad is to
be built or operated, or is now being
operated, in this State, and the same
shall be partly in this State and partly