The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-20
GENERAL LAWS
Enacted by the Legislature of Alabama.

Mo. s41 AN ACT { (S. 30 An Act to fix and establish the max
 fmum rates to be charged by rail-
 roads now operating. or which may
 hereafter operate. as common car
 riers. in whole or in part in the
 portation. originating and termi-
 hating within the State, of lcertain
 articles or commodities, to be
 known as Group 3, and for this pur-
 -cse to classify 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. trustees pr lessees Of. the railroads which are now operating or which may hereafter 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 3, all of such riiroads shall be. and are hereby. un- til the classification hereby made Is changed by the Railroad Commission, di- vided into four classes. to be known IS Class One, Class Two. Class Three and Glass Four.
 Class One shall include: Louisville and Nashville Railroad; Western Rail- way of Alabama; St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad; Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.
 Class Two shall include: Central of Georgia Railway; Seaboard Air Line Railway; Atlanta and Birmingham Air Line Hallway; Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad.
 Class Three shall include: Southern Railway; Alabama Great Southern Railroad; Mobile and Ohio Railroadi Northern Alabama Railway; Mobile and Birmingham Railroad; Mobile Jackson and Kansas City Railroad; nois Central Railroad; Atlanta, Birm- ingham and Atlantic Railroad; Ala bama Northern Railway.
 Class Four shall include: Chattahco- chee Valley Railroad; Alabama, Ten nessee and Northern Railroad; Birm- ingham and Atlantic Railroad; Union Springs and Northern Railway; Trus- kegee Railroad: Tombigbee Valley Railroad; Ta1lassee and Montgomery Itailroad; Birmingham Southern Rail- road; Manistee and Repton Railroad Haynevfl1e and Montgomery Railroad Mobile and Western Railroad; Ala bama 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 classifi- cation. 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 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 tor indi- rect1y, or control majority of the stock of any other railroad. in whole pr in part in this State. such railroad. so owned or operated, and such rail- road a majority of whose stock is so owned or controlled shall, if it be a lower class--that fs, in class allowed to charge a higher rate than the rail- road so owning or operating it or so owning or controlling a majority of it's stoclx--to be considered and treat ed. for the purposes of this act, as . part of, and in the same class as. the railroad so owning or operating it, or so owning or controlling majority O