Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-07-05
Synopsis of the Important Pro-
visions of the New Law.

and publish the tariffs or rates and
charges as required by said acts, or
strictly to observe such tariffs until
changed according to law, shall be a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof the corporation offending shall
be subject to a fine of not less than
S i.O0Onor more than 10000 for each Of
tense; and it shall be unlawful for any
person, persons or corporation to offer,
grant or give, or to solicit, accept or
receive any rebate, concession or dis
elimination in respect to the transpor-
tstion of any property in interstate or
foreign commerce by any common car
rier subject to said act to regulate
commerce and the acts a~mendatory
thereto whereby any such property
shall by any device whatever be trans
ported at a less rate than that named
in the tariffs published and filed by
such carrier, as is required by said act
to regulate m and the acts
arendatory thereto, or whereby any
other advantage is given or discrimin-
alton is practiced.
Every person or corporation who
shall offer, grant or give, or solicit, ac-
cept, or receive any such rebates, con-
cession, or discrimination shall be
deemed guilty or a misdemeanor, and
on conviction thereof shall be punished
by a fine Of not less than $1,000 nor
more than 10000: Provided, that any
person, or any officer or director Of any
corporation subject to the provisions
OF this act, or the act to regulate COM
merce and the acts amendatory there
| or, or any receiver, trustee, lessee
agent or person acting for or employed
by any such corporation, who shall be
convicted as aforesaid, shall, in addi-
ton to fine herein provided for, be liza
BILE to Imprisonment in the peniten-
| tiary for a term of not exceeding two
years, or both such fine and imprison-
ment, in the discretion of the court
! Every violation of this section shall be
prosecuted in any court of the United
States having jurisdiction OF crimes
within the district in which such VIC
lation was committed, or through
which the transportation may have
teen conducted; and whenever the Of
tense is begun in n jurisdiction ant
completed in another it may be deal
with. inquired of, tried, determined
ard punished in either jurisdiction II
the same manner as if the offense hat
been actually and wholly committed
therein.
Authorized to Fix Rates.
Section Is authorizes the interstate
commerce commission to fix rates a!
follows:
Sec. 4. That section Is of said act b.
amended so as to read as follows:
Sec. Is. That the commission is au
thorized and empowered, and it shall
be it's duty, whenever, after full hear
ing upon a complaint made as provided
in section 10 of this act, or upon com
plant of any common carrier, it shall
be of the opinion that any of the rates
or charges whatsoever, demanded
charged, or collected by any common
carrier or carriers, subject to the pro
visions of this act, for the transporta
ton of persons OF property as define,
in the first section of this act, or tina
any regulations OF practices whatso
ever of such carrier or carriers affect
ing such rates, are unjust or unreason
able, or ~unjustly discriminatory, or I'm
duly preferential or prejudicial, or 9th
erwise in violation of any Of the pro
visions of this act, to determine an
prescribe what will be the just an
reasonable rate or rates, charge o
charges, to be thereafter observed l.
such case as the maximum to b
charged; and what regulation or praC
tico in respect to such transportation
after followed; and to make an orde
that the carrier shall cease and desis
from such violation, to the extent t
which the commission find the same t
} exist, and shall not thereafter publish
; demand, or collect any rate or charg
for such transportation in excess of tn
maximum rate or charge so prescribet
and shall conform to the regulation c
) practice so prescribed. All orders {
> the commission, except orders for tt
: payment of money, shall take effe'
within such reasonable time, not les
. than 3 0days, and shall continue
forrn for a,lrh nert0d of time NOT a.
. ceeding two years, as shall be pr
7 scribed in the order of the commi
i sion, unless the anne shall he suspen,
4 ed or modified or set aside by the con
I mission or be suspended or set ASH
by a court of competent %jurisdictio
d Any person, corporation, or compar
who shall deliver property for int
o state transportation to any commc
> carrier, subject to the provisions
this act, or for whom, as consignor
consignee, any such carrier shall tran
n port property from one state, territor
or district of the United States to al
n other state, territory or district of t
h United States or foreign country, W
!" shall knowingly and willfully, by Ell
l. ploye, agent, officer or otherwise,
rectly or indirectly, by or through a
II means or device whatsoever, receive
le accept from such common carrier a
Observation-Disclosures
Unfortunate.