The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-20

No, TOD AN ACT. tS. 32. To fix and establish the maximum
 rates to be charged by railroads now
 operating, or which may hereafter
 operate, as common carriers, in whole
 or in part in the State of Alabama,
 for the transportation, originating
 and terminating within the State of
 certain articles or commodities, to be
 known as Group 5, and for this pur-
 pose to classify said railroads
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the Leg islature of Alabama, That for the pur- pose of establishing the maximum rates to be charged by the railroads, or the owners, operators, managers, trustees or lessees of, the railroads which are now operating, or which may hereafter operate, in whole or in part, in this State, as common carriers, for the transportation, originating and terminating within the State, of cer- tain articles hereinafter specified, to be called and known as Group 5, all such railroads shall be, and are hereby, until the classification hereby made Is changed by the Railroad Commission, divided into four classes, to be known as Class One, Class Two. Class Three and Class Four.
 Class one shall include: Louisville and Nashville Railroad; Western Rally way of Alabama; St. Louis and San Francisco railroad; Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.
 Class Two shall include: Central of Georgia Railway; Seaboard Air Line Hallway; Atlanta and Birmin gham Air Line Railway; Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad.
 Class Three shall includes: Southern Railway; Alabama Great Southern Rail- road. Mobile and Ohio Railroad; North Alabama Railway; Mobile and Birming- ham Railroad; Mobile, Jackson and Kan sas City Railroad; Chattanooga southern Railroad; Illinois Central Railroad; Att lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad; Alabama Northern Railway
 Class Four shall in..ude: CLattahoochee Valley Railroad; Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad; Birmingham and At lantc Railroad; Union Springs and Northern Railway; Tuskegee Railroad; ; Tombigbee Valley Railroad; Tallassee and Montgomery Railroad; Birmingham Southern Railroad; Manistee and Repton Railroad; Hayneville and Montgomery Railroad; Mobile and Western Railroad. 1. Alabama Central Railway.
 Any of the above mentioned classes shall also include such other railroads which may hereafter be constructed or operated in this State, or which may have been omitted from this classifica- ton, as the Railroad Commission may deem proper to pidce III suci ciass-
 Sec g. When any railroad which is named In either of the classes designated in Section 1 of this act. or mich may hereafter be placed in any of sad classes. shall own or operate any other rail- road in whole or in part in this State, or shall own. directly or indirectly, or control a majority of the stock of any other railroad in whole or in part in this State, such railroad so owned or operated, and such railroad a majority of whose stock Is so owned or controlled, shall, if it be lower class. that is, in a class allowed to charge higher rate than the railroad so owning or operating 1t. or so owning or controlling a majority of It's stock-be considered and treated, for the purposes of this act, as a part of, and in the same class as the railroad so owning or operating 1t or so owning or controlling a majority Aof It's stock. and shall not charge. de- hand or receive any higher or greater