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

ut0 tEcikHt CakTIeQ entiTely InIOuSn the state to destination beyond the state; (tonnase under sub -division IT. lS and lS to be classified as in 16)S l20) tons of company or dead-head freight carried under each of the con ditions of subdivisions 16, IF. IS and ls; (2D the total revenue received rom each of the classes of freight in sub divisions Is, IT, IS and 19; (22) the total number of ton-miles or miles one ton was carried in each of the classes of freight in sub divisions 16, 1I. IS, 1s and 20; (23) total number of revenue passengers carried from points and to points as named in sub- divisions l6, IT, IS and 19 (24) total revenue from passenger transportation in each class as named in subdivision 2s; t26) total passenger miles in each class as named in subdivision g; (2s) total number of dead-head or non- paying passengers in each of classes named in ub-division 23. and totai number of dead-head passenger miles In each of such classes; (27) total number of passenger trains operated entirely within the State, total number of freight trains operated entirely within the State. and total number of mixed trains operated entirely within the State; (28) total tons of freight and total number of passengers, both revenue and dead-head (freight and passenger and revenue and dead-head stated separately carried on each class of trains; (29) total revenue from freight and passenger, stated sepa- rate1y. each class of train, total revenue from all other sources; (S0) total ton miles and total passenger miles in each class of train named in sub division 27; (SD number of train miles and number of car miles for each class of train named in subdivision 27; (32) the cost of operation of each of the classes of trains named in subdivision 27 cost to include. separately, fuel. water, oil, engine wages, train wages miscellaneous t3S) the total number of trains in the State (freighty passen- ger and mixed separately which carry exclusively intra state business; (s4) furnish for these trains information as indicated In sub divisions 2S, go, 80, 31 and S2. Provided. that the Railroad Commission shall have the power, and Is hereby authorized, to waive the keeping and furnishing of any of the above facts in this section required to be kept and furnished.
 Sec. 5. In case of the failure or re- fusal on the part of any such common carrier or railroad corporation to keep such accounts, records and memoranda as are prescribed In Sections 3 and of this Act. or as have been or may be prescribed by the Railroad Con- mission, and in such manner as is pre- scribed, or to submit all such accounts, records, memoranda. books, documents and contracts as are kept. to the in- spection and examination of said Com mission, or any member thereof, or any of its authorized agents or examiners or employees. or shall fail or refuse to furnish the information as required in said sections to be furnished, such com- mon carrier or railroad corporation shall forfeit to tho State of Alabama the sum of one hundred dollars for each such offense and for each and every day of the continuance of such offense; and the act of any director, officer. agent or other person acting for or employed by such carrier or railroa d corporation. acting within the scope of his official duties. in such failure or refusal, shall be, and be deemed to be. the act of such common carrier or railroad corporation.
 Sec. 6. The Railroad Commission shall prescribe the form of the annual and other reports required to be made by common carriers, railroad corpora The form of such reports made by railroad corporations shall conform as near as may be to that required from time to time of common carriers by the Interstate Commerce Commission, but the Commission may, from time to time. make such changes therein and addt- tions thereto as it may deem proper. When the report of any common car rier, railroad corporation or street railroad corporation is defective. or believed by the Commission to be er- roneous, the Commission shall notify the corporation to amend the same within thirty days. The originals of the reports shall be subscribed and sworn to and shall be preserved In the ofice of the Commission. The Com mission may also require such corpora tions to file monthly reports of earn ings and operating expenses within a specified time, and may require specific answers to questions upon which it may desire information, to be made in such monthly reports. or at any other time, or in any special, monthly or an- nual report. It shall be the duty of all such corporations to file the annual reports herein referred to with the Railroad Commission on or before the SOth day of September in each year. The Commission may extend the time for making and filing such reports for a period not exceeding sixty days. If any such corporation shall fail to make and file the annual report within the time above specified. or within the time as extended by the Railroad Com mission. or shall fail to make specific answers to any questions, or fail to make and file the mohthly reports when required by the Commission, as herein provided, within thirty days from the time when 1t is required to make and file any such report or answer, such corporation shall forfeit to the state of Alabama the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every day it shall continue to be in default with respect to such report or answers. Sucn TOT fetture shall be recovered in an action brought by the Commission in the name of the State of Alabama, in the Circuit Court or court of like jurisdtc- tion of Montgomery County. and the amount recovered in such action shall he paid into the State treasury and credited to the general fund.
 Sec. I. It shall be the duty of every railroad corporation and street railroad of every receipt or voucher or other corporation to keep an abstract or 1st showing the facts hereinafter provided, record or instrument, evidencing the payment of money by the corporation and to file with the Railroad Commits sion on or before the last day Of each month an abstract or list of all such vouchRs or receipts, covering all dis bursements for the month preceding. Such abstract or list to be filed with the Commission, shall be sworn to by tbe auditor or comptroller of the cor poration, or such other officer as may he designated by the Railroad Commits sion and shall show the following facts x,Ith respect to each receipt or vouch- CT: CD the number; @ the date; (3) amount; (4) to whom paid; (5) Tor what purpose expended; (6) to what ac- count charged. When the Commission
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