The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-27

shall from time TO time otherwise by gen
eral or special orders determine, such sys-
TENS Of transportation shall remain sub
1ect to all existing. statutes and orders OF
regulating commissions of the various
states in which said systems any part
general special, hereafter made by said
director, shall have paramount authority
and be obeyed as such.
Nothing herein shall be construed as
now affecting the possession, operation and
control OF street electric passenger rail-
1nterurbans, whether such railways be or
be not owned or controlled by such rail-
quent order and proclamation, if any, when
1t shall be found necessary or desirable,
possession, control or operation may be
railway systems, including subways and
tunnels; and by subsequent order and
proclamation, possession, control apd
operation in whole or in part may also be
relinquished to the owners thereof of any
part of the railroad systems or rail and
water systems possession and control of
which are hereby assumed.
ihe directors shall, as soon as may be,
aIter having assumed such possession and
control, enter upon negotiations with the
several companies, looking to agreements
| the possession, use and control of their re-
spect1ve properties on the basis of an an
nuai guaranteed compensation, above ac-
crulng depreciation and the maintenance of
| their properties, equivalent, as nearly as
may be, to the average of the net operating
ending June so, 1917-the results of such
| negotiations to be reported to me for sneh
aeIion az may pc appropriate and lawful.
| But nothing herein contained, expressed
or implied, or hereafter done or suffered
hereunder, shall be deemed in any way to
| bondholders, creditors and other persons
! having interests in said system of trans
ce1Ve just and adequate compensation for
the use, control and operation of their
| property hereby assumed.
| Regular dividen Is hitherto declared and
maturing interest upon bonds, debentures
ana other obligations. may be paid in due
| course; and such regular dividends and
interest may continue to be paid until and and
unless the said director shall from time to
tine otherwise, by general or special orders
determine; and subject to the approval OF
the director, the various carriers may agree
upon and arrange for the renewal and ex-
| tension OF maturing obligations
| Except with the prior written assent of
said director, no attachment by mesne
| process or on execution, shall be levied on
or against any of the property used by any
of the said TRANSFORMATION. systems in the
| conduct of their business as common car
rlers; but suits may be brought by and
dered as hitherto until and except so far as
said director may. by general or special
orders otherwise determine
From and after II o'clock on said twenty.
t1ghth day of December, 1917, all transpor.
tation systems included in this order and
proclamation shall conclusively be deemed
within the possession and control of said
director, without further act or notice But
for the purpose of accounting said posses
sion and control shall date from II O'Clock
midnight on December 81 1917
In witness whereof, have hereunto SET
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed
Dne by the president thru Newton D
Baker; secretary of war, in the District OF
Columbia, this twenty sixth day of Deem
| Der, in the year of Our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and seventeen, and of the
independence of the United States, the one
| hundred and forty second.
| WOODROW WILSON
| NEWTON d. BAKER,
| Secretary of War.
By the President
ROBERT LANSING
Secretary of S tate.