Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-05-24

authorized to require annual reports
from all common carriers subject to the
provisions of this act, and from the own
ers of all railroads engaged in interstate
m as defined In this act, 10 pre-
scribe the manner in which such reports
shall be made. and to require from UGH
carriers specific answers to all questions
upon which the commission may need in
formation. such annual reports shall
show in detail the amount of capital
stock issued, the amounts paid therefor
and the manner of payment for the
same; the dividends paid, the surplus
fund, If any,, n the number of stock
holders; the funded and floating debts
and the interest paid thereon; the cost
and value of the carriers property, fran
chises and equipments, the number Of
employees and the salaries paid each
class; the accidents to passengers, m
ployes and other persons, and the causes
thereof; the amounts expended for i'm
provement each year, how expended,
and the character of such improvements;
the earnings and receipts from each
branch of business and from all sources;
the operating and other expenses; the
balances of profit and loss, and a COM
piete exhibit of the financial operations
of the carrier each year, including an
nnu balance sheet. Such reports shall
also contain such information in relation
to rates or regulations concerning fares
or freights or agreements, arrangements
or contracts affecting the same. as the
fJ ~ KIN Vie SoIIl-
mission may, in its discretion, for the
purpose of enabling it the better to car
fy out the purposes of this act, pre-
scribe a period of time within which all
common carriers subject to the prov1-
sions of this act shall have, as near as
may be, a uniform system of accounts
and the manner in which such accounts
shall be kept.
Filing of Sworn Statements.
Said detailed reports shall contain all
the required statistics for the period of
twelve months ending on the 30th day
OF June in each year, and sail be made
out under oath and filed with the COM
mission at its office in Washington on or
before the Both day of September then
next following, unless additional time be
granted In any case by the commission;
ana II any carrier, person or corpora
ton, subject to the provisions of this act.
reports within the time above specif1ed,
or within the time extended by the COM
mission for making and filing the same,
or shall fail to make specific answer to
any question authorized by the provl-
sions of this section within thirty lays
from the time it is lawfully required to
do so, such party shall forfeit to the
United States the sum of 500 for each
and every day it shall continue to be IN
default with respect thereto.
The commission shall also lave au.
thority to require said carrier to file
monthly reports of earnings and expenses
or special reports within a specified perl
%, and II any such carrier shall fail to
file such reports within the time fixed by
the commission, it shall be subject to
the forfeitures last above provided.
said forfeitures shall be recorded in the
manner provided for the recovery of for
textures under the provisions of this act.
The oath required by this section may
be before any person authorized to
administer an oath by the law of the
state in which the same is taken.
Strict Rule Over Accounts.
The commission may. in it's discretion.
prescribe the forms of any and all &C.
counts, records and memoranda to be
Kept by carriers, subject to the provl>
slons of this act including the accounts,
records and memoranda of the moves
ment OF traffic, as well as the receipts
and expenditures of moneys. The com
mission shall at all times have access to
all accounts, records and memoranda
Kept by carriers subject to this act, and
It snail be unlawful for such carriers to
Keep any other accounts, records or MEM
oranda than those prescribed or approved
by the commission, and it may employ
special agents OF examiners, who shah
have authority under the order of the
commission to inspect and examine any
and all accounts, records and memorials
da kept by such carriers. This provision
snail apply to receivers of carriers and
operating trustees.
In case of failure or refusal on the
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trustee to keep such accounts. records
and memoranda on the books and in tne
manner prescribed by the commission,
or to submit such accounts, records and
memoranda as are kept to the inspection
or the commission, or any of its author
lied agents or. examiners, such carrier,
receiver or trustee shall forfeit to the
United States the sum of $500 for each
such %offense, and for each and every day
of the continuance of such ~offense, such
forfeitures to be recoverable in the same
manner as other forfeitures provided for
in this act.
Misdemennor in False Record
Any person Who shall willfully make
any false entry in the accounts or any
book tof accounts, or in any record or
memoranda kept by a carrier, or who
shall willfully destroy, mutilate, alter o..
by any other means or device talsify the
record of any such account, record or
memorandum, or who shall willfully neg
lect or fail to make full, true and correct
entries in such accounts, records or MEM
oranda of all facts and transactions APP
pertaining to the carriers business, or
shall keep any other accounts, recoras or
memoranda than those prescribed or APP
proved by the commission shall be deem-d
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be
subject, upon conviction in any court Of
the United States of competent jurisdic-
ton, to a fine of not less than $1,000 or
more than $4,000, or imprisonment for
a term of not less thar one year nor more
ii1i NiiCC JSotof III bplii DNtlI lliIG dllu
imprisonment.
Any examiner who divulges any fact
or information which may come to his
knowledge during the course of such ex-
animation, except in so far as he may be
directed by the commiss Ion or by a court
or Judge thereof, shall be subject, upon
conviction III any court of the United
States of competent jurisdiction, to a fine
of not more than $500 or Imprisonment
for a term not exceeding two years, or
both.
That the circuit and district courts of
the United States shall have jurisdiction
upon the application of the attorney-gen-
efal of the United States, at the request
of the commi as.on, alleging a failure to
comply with or a violation of any of the
provisions of said act to regulate com
merce. or any act supplementary tfersto
or amendatory thereof by any common
carrier, to issue a writ or writs of man
damus commanding such common carrier
to comply with the provisions Of said
acts, or any of them.
And to carry out and give effect to the
provisions of said acts, or any Of them,
the commission is hereby authorized to
employ special agents or examiners, who
shall have power to administer oaths, ex-
anime witnesses and receive evidence.
ELL of Lnding Liability.
That any comm IN carrier, railroad or
transportation company receiving prop
erty for transportation from a pint in
one state to a point IN another state shall
issue a receipt or bill of lading therefor
and shall be liable, to the holder thereof
for any loss, damage or injury to such
property caused by 1t or by any common
carrier, railroad or transportation COM
pany to which such property may be de-
livered or over whose line or lines such
property may pass, and no contract. re-
ceipt, rule or regulation shall exempt
such common carrier, railroad or trans
portation company from the liability
herein imposed.
That the common carrier, railroad or
transportation company issuing such re-
ceipt or bill of lading shall be entitled to
recover from the common carrier, rail-
road or transportation company through
whose negligence the loss, damage or in
jury shall have been sustained, the
amount of such loss, damage or injury as
it may be required to pay to the owners
Of such property.
Sec. s.. That all existing laws relat-
Ing to the attendance Of witnesses and
of testimony under the act to regulate