The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-02-21

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The General Assembly of North Car
DINA do enact:
Section /. That no railroad com
pany doing business as a sommou
| carrier of passengers In the State OF
! North Carolina shall charge, demand
or receive for transporting any pas
| scnger and his or her baggage, not
| exceeding In. weight two hundred
pounds, In excess of the following
charges:
(a) All railroads whose gross pas
sengcr earnings per mile of road OPP
eraled, owned, controlled or leased by
item, as reported TO- the North Caro-
lima corporation commission for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1906, are
$3.50 per mile of road so operated
by said companies, or in excess there
of, two cents per mile.
(b) All railroads whose gross pas
senger earnings per mile of road OPP
Grated, controlled, owned or leased
by them, as reported to the North
Carolina corporation commission for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1906,
are less than $3.50 per mile of road
IopeTated by said companies, bntz in.
excess of $1,000 per mile or road
operated by said companies, two and
one half cents per- mile.
(c) All railroads whose gross pas
scnger earnings per mile OF road OPP
Grated, controlled, owned or leased
by them, as reported to the North
Carolina corporation commission for
the year 1905, are $1,000 or less per
nile of road so operated by said COM
panies, a rate not exceeding three
cents per mile, to be fixed and deter
LINED by the North Carolina corpora
ton commission upon hearing and
investigation duly made by it.
Section 2. In the case that any
railroad company operated as a COM
mon carrier of passengers In the State
of North Carolina is owned, eontrOll-
ed or operated by lease of other
agreement by any other railroad
company doing business in said State
the rate for carrying the passengers
as prescribed In section / of this act
shall be determined for said railroad
by the average gross passenger re-
ceipts per mile of all roads operated
by said railroad company, whether
the same be owned or leased lines,
as reported to the North Carolina
corporation commission for the year
1906.
s2Sec. 3, That all passenger accom-
,modations onerailroad trains operated
from one point in the State of North
Carolina to any other point shall be
provided in every railroad train Sc
parate coaches for white persons and
'colored persons: Provided, That on
roads, the business of which will not
justify the hauling of separate pas
senger coaches for the two races, the
North Carolina corporation commits
SION may allow such railroads to
place partitions in cars to provide for
the separation of the races: Provid-
ed, further, that in every frst-class
passenger coach there shall be at
least n apartment used as a smOk-
ing apartment, unless where there
is a separate smoking. car on the
train.
See. a. That mileage books of 1000
miles in each book shall be kept on
sale at all railroad ticket Offices In
North Carolina, and when such books
are purchased they shall be good In
the hands of any person or. persons
named therein on all railroads on
which the fare is the same as or less
than the fare. ON the road of the
company selling such mileage book;
and when the mileage. is detached
from said books by any other rail-
road company than the one which
sold it, the said mileage shall be re-
deemable on demand by the railroad
company which sold it.
See. 5. That section 1105 of the
Revisal of 1905 or North Carolina be
amended by striking out the word
"nothing, " in line 26, down to and
including the word consideration"
in line 30, and inserting In lieu there
Of the following: No act regulating
the carriage of passengers shall be
construed to prevent or restrict tran
sportation companies from contract
ing with managers, owners OF pub
IlouC1S VI hOWSOuPOAo W
space in said newspapers published
by them at the usual price at which
said space. Is sold, and payment for
said advertising space-by transport
tation at the lawful rate; which tram
sportation may be issued to the edi-
tor, manager or publisher of said
newspaper, or any bona fde employee
of said newspaper. Or any member of
the family of the said editor, pub
Usher or manager dependent on him
for support.
See. 6. That any railroad company
violating any provision of this act
shall be liable to ,aspenalty of $1,000
for each violation, payable to the per-
SON aggrieved by such violation, and
recoverable in an action to be insti-
tuted in the name of said person in
any court of the State having com
petent jurisdiction thereof.
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