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

No. 65.) AN ACT (S. 34 To fix and establish the maximum rates
 to be charged by railroads now oper
 ating, or which may hereafter oper-
 ate, as common carriers, in whole or in
 part in the State of Alabama, for the
 transportation, originating and termi-
 mating within the State, of certain ar
 tces or commodities, to be known as
 Group No. ', and for this purpose to
 classify said railroads.
 Section 1. Be 1t enacted by the Legisla- ture of Alabama, That for the purpose of establishing the maximum rates to be charged by the railroads, or the owners, operators, managers, trustees or lessees of the railroads which are now oper- ating or which may hereafter operate in whole or in part in this State, as common carriers, for the transportation, originating and terminating within the State, of certain articles hereinafter speci- fled, to be called and known as Group r. all such railroads shall be, and are hereby, until the classification hereby made as changed by the Railroad Com mission, divided into four classes, to be known as Class One, Class Two, Class Three and Class Four.
 Class One shall include: St Louis and San Francisco Railroad; Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; Louisville and Nashville Railroad; Western Railway of Alabama
 Class Two shall include: Central of Georgia Railway; Seaboard Air Line Railway: Atlanta and Birmingham Air Line Railway; Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad.
 Class Three shall includes: Southern Railway; Alabama. Great Southern Rail- road; Mobile and Ohio Railroad; Northern Alabama Railway; Mobile and Birming- ham Railroad; Mobile, Jackson and Kan sas City Railroad; Chattanooga Southern Railroad; Illinois Central Railroad; Atlan- ta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad Alabama Northern Railway.
 E Class Four shall include: Chattahoo- chee Valley Railroad; Alabama, Tennes- see and Northern Railroad; Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad; Union Springs and Northern Railway; Tuskegee Railroad; Tombigbee Valley Railroad; Tallassee and Montgomery Railroad; Birmingham and Southern Railroad; Manistee and Repton Railroad; Hayneville and Montgomery Railroad; Mobile and Western Railroad; Alabama Central Railway
 Any of the above 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 classification, ass the Railroad Commission may deem proper to place in such class.
 Sec. 2. When any railroad which is named in either of the classes designated 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 indirectly, or con- trol 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, a majority of whose stock is so owned or controlled. shall, if it be lower class than is, in class al- lowed to charge higher rate than the railroad so owning or operating 1t or owning or controlling a majority of it's stock-be considered and treated, for the purposes of this act, as a part of, and in the same class as the railroad so own- ing or operating 1t, or so owning or con- trolling majority of it's stock, and shall not charge, demand or receive any higher or greater rates than the railroad so owning or operating 1t or so owning or controlling a majority 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 Commis- sion.
 Sec. 8. Until otherwise provided by an order of the Railroad Commission, 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 the Railroad Commits sion, when sad articles or commodities are offered for shipment, in the man ner condition and quantity in said schedule. shall not exceed, except as hercinafter provided, for the various distances therein specified the rates named and specified in said schedula of standard maximum freight tariffs.