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

official.
 Frank N. Julian.
 Secretary of State.
 No ID AN ACT. (S B.
 To fix and establish the maximum rates to be charged by railroads now oper- ating, or which may hereafter operate,
 as common carriers, in whole or in part in the State of Alabama, for the
 transportation, originating and termn-
 ating within the State, of certain ar ticles or commodities to be known Group 8, and for this purpose to clas sify said railroads.
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legis- lature of Alabama That for the pur- pose of establishing the maximum rates to be charged by the railroads, the
 owners, 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 s, 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: Western Railway of Ala
 bama; St. Louis and San Francisco Rail-
 road; Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; Louis- vile and Nashville Railroad. Class Two
 shall include; Central of Georgia Rail
 way; Seaboard Air Line Railway; At
 lanta and Birmingham Air Line Rail Nway; Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
 Louis Railroad. Class Three shall in-
 clude: Southern Railway; Alabama Great
 Southern Railroad; Mobile and Ohio
 Railroad; Northern Alabama Rail
 way; Mobile and Birmingham Railroad;
 Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City
 Railroad; Chattanooga Southern Railroad;
 Illinois Central Railroad; Atlanta, Br-
 mingham and Atlantic Railroad: Alabama
 Northern Railway. Class Four shall in-
 clude Chattahoochee Valley Railroad;
 Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Rail
 road; Birmingham and Atlantic Rail
 road; Union Springs and Northern Rail
 way; Tuskegee Railroad Tombigbee Val
 ley Railroad; Tallassee and Montgomery
 Railroad; Birmingham Southern Railroad
 Manistee and Repton Railroad; Haynes
 Vile and Montgomery Railroad; Mobile
 and Western Railroad Alabama Central
 Railway. Any of the above mentioned
 classes shall include such other rail-
 roads which may hereafter be constructed
 or operated in this State or which may
 have been omitted from this classification,
 as the Railroad Commission may deem
 proper to place in such class.
 Sec. ?. When any railroad which is
 named in either of the classes desig-
 mated in Section 1 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 indirect
 ly, 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 majority
 Of whose stock Is so owned or controlled,
 shall if 1t be a lower class-that is, in
 a class allowed to charge higher rate
 than the railroad so owning or operating
 it or so owning or controlling a ma
 jority of its stock-be considered and
 treated, for the purpose of this act, as a part of and in the same class as the railroad so operating it or so owning or controlling majority of its stock, and shall not charge, demand or receive any higher or greater rates than the railroad so owning or operating it or so owning or controlling majority of it's stock is, by this act, or by an order of the Rall- | road Commission. permitted to charge, except as may otherwise be provided by law or by an order of said Railroad Commission
 Sec g. Until otherwise provided by an order of the Railroad Commission, the maximum rates to be charged for the | transportation, originating and terminat- | ing in this State, of the articles or com
 modities named and specified fother than | those articles specified without percent age'o In the following schedule of stand | ard maximum rates of freight, 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 Commission, when said articles or commodities are of- | fered for shipment, in the manner. condi- 1 tion and quantity in said schedule speci- | fled, shall not exceed, for the various dis | tances therein specified In said schedule of I standard maximum rates of freight plus | five (5) per cent; and for such transporta- 1 tion of such articles or commodities over | any railroad named in Class Two, or over l 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 (20) per cent for the various dis | tances therein specified when offered for l shipment in the manner, condition and l quantity specified in said schedule: except
 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; piclSings or waste of cotton; hay, | fodder, straw syrup. molasses, potatoes l and soap, and for such transportation of l 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) per | 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 railroadr in Class Three | shall not exceed the rates specified in said schedule, plus ten Q0) per cent, viz: 1 ties. cotton or hay pickings or waste | cotton; hay, fodder, straw. syrup, mo-
 lasses, potatoes and soap; and for such
 transportation of such articles or commod- | tiles over any railroad in Class Four or | over any railroad which may hereafter ! be placed in said class, the maximum | rates to be charged shall not exceed the 1 rates named and specified fin said sched- ! ule, plus fifty 60) per cent, for the various /, distances when shipped in the manner,
 condition and quantity therein specified. | The characters "C. L." 'L c. L.," "C. | R. and 70. R. shall represent Car loads," "Less Than Car Loads,'' Car rier's Risk and Owners Risk" re- | spectively. Where the actual distance that l a shipment may be carried is less than one | hundred miles, and such distance is not | shown in the distance table. in the fore- going schedule, charges may be collected | for the distance that Is shown in the fore going schedule, most nearly approximat- | ing the actual distance. As an fllustra- | tion: If the actual distance is fifty-eg Tt l (5S) miles, the sixty (60) mile rate will apply; for twenty-seven (20 miles, the Il tu,opfv-fvo So5l milo ra to will apply FOR