Biennial Report of the Railroad Commission of the State of Mississippi, for the Two Years Ending ..., Volumen6

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Página 92 - No corporation shall issue stocks or bonds except for money, labor done, or money or property actually received, and all fictitious increase of stock or indebtedness shall be void.
Página 82 - ... nor more than one thousand dollars, to be recovered by an action in the name of the state, and on collection...
Página 98 - Commission to take into consideration the character and nature of the service to be performed and the entire business of such railroad, together with its earnings from the passenger and other traffic...
Página 71 - They may carry, however, at less than the prescribed rates : Provided, that if they carry for less for one person, they shall for the like service carry for the same lessened rate for all persons except as mentioned hereafter; and if they adopt less freight rates from one station, they shall make a reduction of the same per cent, at all stations along the line of the road so as to make no unjust discrimination as against any person or locality.
Página 82 - ... such person or persons shall severally forfeit and pay the sum of fifty pounds, with costs of suit, for every such offence, to be recovered by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in...
Página 84 - The first section of the statute enacts "that all railway companies carrying passengers in their coaches in this state, shall provide equal but separate accommodations for the white, and colored races, by providing two or more passenger coaches for each passenger train, or by dividing the passenger coaches by a partition so as to secure separate accommodations: provided, that this section shall not be construed to apply to street railroads.
Página 98 - Commission shall regulate and fix the rates to be charged on short hauls in excess of what may be charged on long hauls, and it shall determine in all cases whether the circumstances and conditions be or be not substantially similar.
Página 85 - ... only such force as may be necessary to accomplish such removal; and the conductor may command the assistance of the employes of the company and of the passengers on such train to assist in such removal...
Página 101 - ... required of arbitrators, giving such time and latitude to each side, and regulating the opening and conclusion of any argument, as the commission may consider best adapted to arrive at the truth, and when the hearing is concluded, the commission shall give notice of any change deemed proper by them to be made, to the person or corporation operating the rail road.
Página 79 - Any railroad company, having the right of way, may run locomotives and cars, by steam, through cities, towns and villages, at the rate of six miles an hour, and no more ; and...

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