The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-28
Commission FOR
2-CENT PASSENGER
RATE ON .D|G ROADS
CONTINUED from Fourth Pagc)

lntion OF the state Corporation
Commission, w. Atlantic Coast Limo
Railroad Company ct nls. City Of
Richmond. the 9th day Of April
1907. In tho matter of prescribing
Uniform freight classification and
rates Hereunder.
The state Corporation Commission
having carefully considered ell of the
proceedings. testimony exhibits and
statements ndduced and flied before 1t
in this proceeding. and having put its
conclusions In writing which are made
q part of the record herein, tho com
mission now. In order to carry out
Its said conclusions, makes the fol-
lowing order and regulation, and pre-
scribes the following requirements to
be observed by the following railroad
companies. defendants in this proceed
ing, viz: Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Company; the Chesapeake and Ohio
hallway Company; Norfolk and West
ern Railway Company; Seaboard Air
Line Hallway; Norfolk and Southern
Railroad Company; Baltimore and Ohio
railroad Company: Southern Railway
Company Valley Railroad Company. of
yirginin; Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road Company: New York. Philadelphia
and Norfolk Railroad Company vir-
6ii!d anu .'ohthWeSltIn INhli"uy IOHl-
pany Winchester and Potomac Rail-
road Company Winchester and s,ras-
burg Railroad Company.
First 1t Is ordered. that all Of the
said defendant railroad companies do
adopt and put into effect as the only
freight classification under which their
Virginia intrastate freight traffic Is to
be moved the classification filed In
this proceeding with the original notice
herein. issued on the third day of Au
gust, 1905, as changed, corrected and
added to by the printed paper contain
ing said changes. corrections and adj
ditions, filed with the order issued in
this proceeding on the 18th day of
March 1906, said papers embracing a
complete freight classification. with
general rules and regulations as APP
pearing therein; the said classification
to be known and hereafter denom-
mated as Virginia classification No
/. The said Virginia classification No
] is to go into effect on the LIST day of
july, 1907. and from and after that
date all class rates. except as here
matter ordered. shall be governed by
said classification. and no other classi-
fication shall be in effect or shall be
used on the lines of any of the said
defendant railroad companies in their
ihlids t1dihI, chN'Pt III bu lar us
may be hereafter allowed by the COM
mission.
Second. 1T Is further ordered that
each one of the defendant railroad
companies shall. as early as practi-
cable. and from time to time. before
the first day OF June, 1907. prepare and
submit to the State Corporation Com
mission, for it's inspection and con-
iirmation or correction. tariffs or
schedules of rates showing class rates
for its road. governed by said Vir-
ginia classification, so as to make said
classification applicable to all its
freight rates without the use OF or
application of any other classification,
provided. however, that in making and
preparing said tariffs or schedules OF
rates no one of the defendant rail-
reads shall increase any of its pres
ent rates or amount of money charged
on any article for any haul, nor shall
any road maintain rates which are
materially above the general level OF
standard rates in Virginia. as defined
in the opinion OF the commission, with
out the express authority of the COM
mission In each case. Any one OF the