Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-07-04

TDdTSeS DIS required ny SdIu dCtS, VI
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 fine of not less than
s1.0OGnor more than $4,000 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-
fstion of any property in interstate or
foreign commerce by any common car
rier subject to said act to regulate
commerce and the acts amendatory
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 fled by
to regulate commerce and the acts
amendatory 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-
qept, or receive any such rebates, con-
dession, or discrimination shall be
deemed guilty or misdemeanor, and
oa conviction thereof shall be punished
by a fine of not less than $1,000 nor
more than $4,000: Provided, that any
Lserson, or any officer or director of any
deportation subject to the provisions
az this act, or the act to regulate COM
rperce and the acts amendatory there
Cf. or any receiver, trustee, lessee,
agent or person acting for or employed
tE any such corporation, who shall be
convicted as aforesaid, shall, in addi-
t3on to fine herein provided for, be liza
he to imprisonment in the peniten-
t1ary for a term of not exceeding two
years, or both such fine and imprison-
raent, 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 vio-
lation was committed, or through
which the transportation may have
ffe1 conducted; and whenever the Of
tense is begun in one jurisdiction and
completed in another it may be dealt
with. inquired of, tried, determined,
Iand punished in either jurisdiction in
the same manner as if the offelse had
been actually and wholly committed
therein
Authorized to Fix Rates.
Section Is authorizes the interstate
commerce commission to fix rates as
follows:
Sec. 4. That section Is of said act be
attended so as to read as follows:
Sec. Is. That the commission is au-
t!lorized and empowered, and it shall
be its duty, whenever, after full hear
H1g upon complaint made as provided
I'M section IL of this act, or upon COM
plant of any common carrier, 1t 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 or property as defined
5Dithe first section of this act, Or that
any regulations or practices whatso-
ever of such carrier or carriers affect
ING such rates, are unjust or unreason-
able, or unjustly discriminatory, or un-
duly preferential or prejudicial, or 9TH
erFise in violation of any of the pro-
Visions of this act, to determine and
prescribe what will be the just and
Reasonable rate or rates, charge or
charges, to be thereafter observed in
su9h case as the maximum to be
charged; and what regulation or prac-
ticf in respect to such transportation is
just. fair and reasonable to be there
dfter followed; and to make an order
that the carrier shall cease and desist
from such violation, to the extent to
which the commission find the same to
exist, and shall not thereafter publish,
demand, or collect any rate or charge
forlsuch transportation in excess of the
nia 6imum rate or charge SO prescribed,
and shall conform to the regulation or
practice so prescribed. All orders of
thel commission, except orders for the
payment of money, shall take effect
thin such reasonable time, not less
than 0days, and shall continue in
fo,tn for such period of time, not ex-
cecfing two years, as shall be pre-
scr5hed in the order OF the commits
sion, unless the same shall be suspend
ed or modified or set aside by the COM
mission or be suspended or set aside
by q court of competent jurisdiction.
Any person, corporation, or company
who shall deliver property fer inter-
static transportation to any common
c1rfier, subject to the provisions of
this act, or for whom, as consienor or
ccnSignee, any such carrier shall trans
port property from one state, territory.
OF district OF the United States to any
ether state, territory or district of the
United States or foreign country, who
shall knowingly and willfuIly, by en-
ploYe. agent, officer or otherwise. di-
rectay or indirectly. by or through any
Eeans or device whatsoever, receive or
accept from such common carrier any
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