The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-20
Frank N. Julian.
 Secretary of State.

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 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
 Alabama, for the transportation,
 originating and terminating with
 in the State, of certain articles or
 commodities, to be known as Group
 No. z. and for this purpose to clas-
 sify said railroads.
 Section l.. Be 1t 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. trus- tees or lessees of, the railroads which are now operating or which may here after operate, in whole or in part in this State. as common carriers. for the transportation, originating and termi- hating within the State of certain ar- ticles hereinafter specified to be called and known as Group 2. all such rail- roads shall be. and are hereby, until the classification hereby made is cha ged by the Railroad Commission. divided into four classes, to be known as Class One. Class Two, Class Three and Class Four. t5.
 Class one shall include: St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad; Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; Louisville & Nashville < Railroad. Western Railway of Ala baina.
 Class Two shall include: Central of Georgia Railway; Seaboard Air Line Railway; Atlanta and Birmingham Air Line Railway; Nashville. Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad.
 Glass Three shall inciude: Southern Railway; Alabama Great Southern Railroad: Mobile & Ohio Railroad; Northern Alabama Railway; Mobile & Birmingham Railroad; Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Railroad; Chattanooga Southern Railroad; Illinois Central Railroad; Atlanta. Birmingham & Att lantic Railroad; Alabama Northern Railway.
 Class Four shall include: Chatta- hoochee Valley Railroad; Alabama, Tennessee & Northern Railroad; Bir- mingham & Atlantic Railroad; Union Springs & Northern Railway; Tuske- gee Railroad; Tombigbee Valley Rail- road; Tailassee & Montgomery Rail- road; Birmingham 6 Southern Rail- road: Manistee & Repton Railroad; Hayneyille & Montgomery Railroad; Mobile s&s Western Railroad; Alabama Central Railway. " .
 Any of the apove 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 classifca- tion 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 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 indi- rectIy, or control 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 majority of whose stock Is so owned or controlled, shall, if it be a lower class that is. in a class allowed to charge a higher rate than the rail road 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 part of, and in the same class as the railroad so owning OF operating 1t or so owning or controlling a majority of its stock, and shall not charge, demand or re- ceive any higher or greater rates than the railroad so owning or operating it or so owning or controlling major ity of its stock is. by this act or by an order of the Railroad Commission, permitted to charge, except as may otherwise be provided by law or by an order of said Railroad Commission.
 Sec ,. Until otherwise provided by an order of the Railroad mmission, the maximum rates to be charged for the transportation. originating and ter minating in the State of the articles or commodities named and specified in the following schedule of standard maxi mum rates of freight. known as Group '. 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 tho Railroad Commits sion. when said articles or commodities are offered for shipment. in the man. ner condition and quantity in said schedule. shall not exceed. except as hereinafter provided. for the various distances therein specified, the rates named and specified in said schedule of standard maximum freight tarins. plus five (5) per cent, and for such transportation of such articles or com modities over any of the railroads named in Class Two or over any rail road which may hereafter be placed in said class, the maximum rates to be charged shall not exceed. except as hereinafter provided the rates named and specified in said schedule. plus twenty (20) per cent for the various distances theren specified, when of fered for shipment in the manner, condi- ton and quantity therein specified: and for such transportation of such articles or commodities over any railroad named in Class Three, or over any rail- road which may hereafter be placed in said class, the maximum rates to be charged shall not exceed, except as hereinafter provided. the rates named and specified in said schedule. plus twenty-five (25) per cent for the vari- ous distances. when shipped in the manner. condition and quantity there in specified; and for such transporta- ton of such articles or commodities over any railroad named fin Glass Four raflFnad which after be placed in said class. the maxi mum rates to be charged shall not ex- ceed except as hereinafter provided, the rates named and specified in said sched - die. plus fifty (5o) per cent for the va