The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-20
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AN ACT

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 riers. in whole or in part in the
 State of Alabama, for the trans
 portation, originating and termin-
 ating within the State, of certain
 articles or commodities to be
 known as Group 8, and fer this
 purpose to classify said railroads.
 Section. Be it enacted by the Legis- Iatlire 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 lesees of the railroads which are now operating or which may hereafter operate, in whole or In part in this State. as common carriers. Tor the transportation, originating ana terminating within the State, of cer- tain articles hereinafter specified. to be called and known as Group 8. all such railroads shall be, and are here by until the classification hereby made is changed by the Railroad Com mission, divided into four classes, to be known as Glass One, Class Two. Glass Three and Glass, Four. Class one shall include: Western Railway of Alabama; St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad; Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; Louis- vile and Nashville Railroad. Class Two shall include: Central of Georgia Railway; Seaboard Air Line Railway; Atlanta and Birmingham Air Line Railway: Nashville. Chattanooga and St Louis Railroad. Class Three shall include: Southern Railway; Alabama Great Southern Railroad: Mobile and
 Ohio Railroad; Northern Alabama Railway; Mobile and Birmingham Rail-
 road; Mobile. Jackson and Kansas City
 Railroad; Chattanooga Southern Rail-
 road; Illinois Central Railroad; Allan
 ta, Birmingham and Atlantic Rail-
 road; Alabama Northern Railway.
 Class Four shall include: Chatta-
 hoochee Valley Railroad; Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad;
 Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad;
 Union Springs and Northern Rail-
 way; Tuskegee Railroad; Tombigbee Valley Railroad; Tallassee and Mont gomery Railroad; Birmingham South ern Railroad; Manistee and Repton Railroad; Haynesville and Montgomery Railroad: Mobile and Western Rail-
 road; Alabama Central Railway Any Of the above mentioned classes shall | include such other railroads which may hereafter be constructed or | operated in this State or which may | have been omitted from this classifica- 1 ton, as the Railroad Commission may | deem proper to place in such class. Sec. 2. When any railroad which Is named in either of the classes desig- mated in Section of this act. or which
  classes. shall own or operate any other. | railroad in whole or in part in this State, or shall own. directly or in- | directly. 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 rail- road a majority of whose stock Is so owned or controlled. shall, if it be 1 lower ciass--that is, in a class allowed | to charge a higher rate than the rail- | road so owning or operating it or so l owning or controlling a majority of its stock--be considered and treated. for | the purpose of this act. as part of | and in the same class as. the railroad so operating it or so owning or con- | trolling a majority of its stock, and | shall not charge. demand or receive any higher or greater rates than the | railroad so owning or operating 1t or so owning or controlling majority | of it's stock is, by this act. or by an | order of the Railroad Commission, per mitted to charge, except as may other
 wise be provided by law or by an order of said Railroad Commission.
 Sec. B. Until otherwise provided by an order of the Railroad Commission.
 the maximum rates to be charged for the transportation. originating and terminating in this State. of the ar ticles or commodities named and speci- fled (other than those articles speci- fled without percentage') in the fol- lowing schedule of standard maximum rates of reight, known as Group 8. over any of the railroads named in Class One, or over any railroad which
 may hereafter be placed in said class
 by law or by the Railroad Commis-
 sion, when said articles or commodi-
 ties are offered for shipment. in the
 manner. condition and quantity in said
 schedule specified. shall not exceed,
 for the various distances therein speci-
 fled in said schedule of standard maxi
 mum rates of freight, plus five o5) per
 cent; and for such transportation of such articles or commodities over any
 railroad named in Class Two, or over any railroad which may hereafter be
 placed in said class. the maximum
 rates to be charged shall not exceed the rates named and specified in said schedule. plus twenty t2O) per cent
 for the various distances therein speci-
 fled when offered for ship ment in the manner condition and quantity specified in said schedule; ex-
 cept that on the following articles. the
 rates to be charged by said railroads shall not exceed the rates specified in
 said schedule. plus five (5) per cent.
 viz, ties, cotton or hay; pickings or
 waste of cotton: hay. fodder. straw.
 syrup, molasses. potatoes and soap; and for such transportation of such
 articles over any railroad In Class
 Three or. over any railroad which may
 hereafter be placed in said class. the
 maximum rates to be charged shall not
 exceed the rates named and specified
 in said schedule. plus twenty-five (25)
 ner cent, for the various distances, when shipped in the manner. condition and quantity therein specified: except that on the following articles. the
 rates to be charged by said railroads in Class Three shall not exceed the
 rates specified in said schedule. plus fen (1O) per cent. viz; ties. cotton or hay: pickings or waste cotton; hay. fodder, straw. syrup, molasses. pota- toes and soap; and for such transporta- | ton of such articles or commodities | over any railroad in Class Four or over any railroad which may hereafter be placed in said class, the maximum | rates rates to be charged shall not exceed the rates named and specified | in said schedule, plus fifty (50) per cent for the various distances when ! shipped in the manner, condition and l quantity therein specified.
 The characters ''C. L." ''I1. c. L..." "C R." and 70. R." shall represent
 "Carloads,' Less than Car Loads" | Carriers Risk" and owners Pizko respectiVely Where the