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

No. 64) AN ACT (S. 5o An act to fix and establish the max
 imum rates to be charged by railroads
 now operating, or which may here
 after operate, as common carriers, In
 whole or in part in the State of Ala
 bama, for the transportation origina-
 ting and terminating within the State,
 of certain articles or commodities, to
 be known as Group 3, andf for this
 purpose to classify said railroads.
 Section l. Be it enacted by the Legis- lature of Alabama, That for the purpose of establishing the maximum rates to be charged by the railroads, or the own CTS, operators, managers, trustees or lessees of, the railroads which are now operating or which may hereafter oper- ate, in whole or in part in this State, as common carriers for the transporta- tion, originating and terminating within the State, of certain articles hereinafter specified, to be called and Known as Group 3, all of 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 Glass One, Class Two, Class Three and Class Four.
 Class One shall include: Louisville and Nashville Railroad; Western Railroad of Alabama; St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad; Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.
 Class Two shall include: Central of Georgia Railway; Seaboard Air Line Rail way; Atlanta and Birmingham Air Line Railway; Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Railroad. = Class Three shall include: Southern Railway; Alabama Great Southern Rail road; Mobile and Ohio Railroad; North ern Alabama Railway; Mobile and Blr- lningham Railroad Mobile Jackson and Kansas City Railroad; Chattanooga Southern Railroad; Illinois Central Rail road; Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad; Alabama Northern Railway.
 Class Four shall include: Chattahoo- chee Valley Railroad Alabama, Tennes- see and Northern Railroad; Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad; Union Springs and Northern Railway; Tuskegee Rail- road; Tombigbee Valley Railroad; Tal- 1assee and Montgomery Railroad; Bir- mingham Southern Railroad; Manistee ana heDUOn l1HyueSNlhc dH" Montgomery Railroad; Mobile and Vest ern Railroad; Alabama Central Railway.
 Any of the above mentioned classes shall include also such other railroads which may hereafter be constructed or operated in this State, or which may have been omitted from this classifica- tion, as the Railroad Commission may deem proper to place in such class
 Sec. ?. When any railroad which is named in either of the classes designated in Section l of this act or which may hereafter be placed in any of said classes, shall own or operate any other railroad, in whole or in part, in this State or shall own, directly or indirectly, or con trol a ma ajority 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 a lower class-that Is, in class allowed to charge higher rate than the railroad so owning or operating it or so owning or controlling it or so owning or controlling majority of its stock-to 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 of