The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-02

# 81 CHAPTER 344-II IF II 1s1. ~: Sc
AN ACT to repeal Chapter 313 of the Gen
4 eral Laws Of. 1911, and relating to joint
! freight rates over two or more connecting
lines of railway between points within thi.
state e and relating to The powers and duties
Or OIL the railroad and warehouse commission MI
Be. 1t enacted by the Legislature OF the
State of Minnesota ~ n - 81 u X .Ss.
freight to be transported by railway from an,
point: within this state TO any other point
within this state shall have the right t.
over two or more connecting lines OF railway
| to- be transferred at the connecting point o.
points without change OF car or cars If II
car or cars if in less than carload lots, when
ever the distance from the place Of; shipment
less over two or more connecting lines !: q
1 railway than it is over single line OF rail-
way, or where the initial line does not reach
! the place of destinations and it shall be, the
duty, upon the request OF any such owner OF
consisnor Of freight made to the initial com
pany, OF such railway companies whose line:
so connect, to transport the freight without
change of car or cars if: the shipment be
in carload lot lots. and with change o.
from the place of shipment to. destination
whenever the distance from the place of ship
ment to destination. both being within TIL:
line, or when. the initial line does not reach
the point Of destination for a reasonable join
through rate. This section shall not apply to in
1
cept as to freight Or cars transported over twt
or more such interurban railways having
similar equipment so as to make 1t physical
~ practicable to comply with the provision!
! OF this section
Sec. 2 The board of Railroad and Ware
house Commission shall. within ten days afte
this act takes effect. notify in writing ever.
railway company owning or operating a rail
way within this state that it will, upon ;
not be more than thirty days after giving
said notice. take up for investigation the sub
ject Of establishing joint through rates, a
herein provided. between the railway line
in this state. 1t shall also give simila
and SO publish the same, that it will hav'
general circulation throughout the state AL
corporations, partnerships and persons inter
ested In the subject may present themselve
and regulations as the board may prescribe
At the end of the investigation, which shall
be carried on with all due diligence, the sait
board of Railroad and Warehouse Commits
sion shall make and publish a schedule Of join
through railway rates for such traffic an.
on such routes as in it's Judgment the fai
snail be done by carriage over two or NOR
lines Of railway. and will promote the In
making thereof, and in changing, revising o
adding to the same, the board shall be gov
erned as nearly as may be by the preceding
sections Of this chapter and shall take int
consideration, among other things, the rate
established for shipments within this stat
fG IKE bX tan single the
such connecting lines for joint interstate
shipments, and the increased cost, if any
with shipment over "a single line for lk
distances. In establishing such rates TO-
shipments in less than carload lots, in case
the line Of shipments the connecting railway
have not and are not required to have
common station or stopping place for load
make such lawful regulations In its judg
ment Will be fair and just respecting tn
Transportation of such freight from the usua
unloading place Of one railway to the usua
loading place Of the other The joint through
rates thus established shall be promulgated
by, mailing printed copy thereof to eacl
go into effect within ten days after they ar
so PROMULGATED; and from and after tina
be prima facie evidence. In all courts of thi
state, that the rates therein fixed jus
the lines described therein. The said boart
shall deliver printed copy of said schedule
TO- to any n.y. person making application therefor
joint through rate shall not be construed
to fix the charge that it may make for trans
OF its line for any single rate shipment o.
the SHARE of any other joint rate. The board
upon such reasonable notice as it may pre-
scribe, may. upon its own motion or upor
the application of any person. firm cor
poration interested therein, revise, change o,
add to any, joint through rates fixed o,
promulgated hereunder; and any such revised
| changed or added Joint rates shall have the
same force and effect as the rate or rate.
originally established The said board is en-
powered to authorize upon proper hearing
any railway company whose line connects
the point of shipment with the point of destn
alton, but requires. longer haul than tn,
joint haul over which joint rate has beer
established, to charge the joint rate withou
affecting the charge upon any other part Of
its line. except the charge for like kline
Of property must not be greater for shorte,
| than for longer distance over its railroad
all Of the shorter haul being included within
the longer. This section shall apply to inter
urban railways and their connection with
ordinary steam railways.
Sec, 8. Chapter 313 Of the General Law.
Of 1911 is hereby repealed
Sec. 4. This act shall-~take effect and be
| in force from and after January l. 1914.
Iss Approved April 49, 1913