postal, military, and other purposes, and also of the act of July 2, 1864, and other acts amendatory of said first-named act, approved August 7, 1888 (25 Stat. L., 382; 1 Supp. to Rev. Stat. U. S., 602).

An act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes, approved March 2, 1893 (27 Statutes at Large, 531; 2 Supp. to Rev. Stat. U. S., 102), as amended by an act approved April 1, 1896 (29 Statutes at Large, 85; 2 Supp. to Rev. Stat. U. S., 455).

An act to amend an act entitled an act to promote the safety of employees and travelers, and so forth, approved March 2, 1893, and amended April 1, 1896, approved March 2, 1903 (32 Statutes at Large, 943).

An act authorizing the Commission to employ safety-appliance inspectors, approved June 28, 1902 (32 Statutes at Large, 444).

Joint resolution directing the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate and report on block-signal systems and appliances for the automatic control of railway trains, approved June 30, 1906 (34 Statutes at Large).

An act authorizing Commission to approve system of interlocking or automatic signals on certain railroads in Indian and Oklahoma Territories, approved February 28, 1902 (32 Statutes at Large, 50).

An act requiring common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to make full reports of all accidents to the Interstate Commerce Commission, approved March 3, 1901 (31 Statutes at Large, 1446).

Joint resolution instructing the Interstate Commerce Commission to make examinations into the subject of railroad discriminations and monopolies in coal and oil, and report on the same from time to time, approved March 7, 1906 (34 Statutes at Large).

Joint resolution amending joint resolution instructing the Interstate Com merce Commission to make examinations into the subject of railroad discriminations and monopolies, and report on the same from time to time, approved March 7, 1906, approved March 21, 1906 (34) Statutes at Large). An act concerning carriers engaged in interstate commerce and their employees, approved June 1, 1898 (30 Statutes at Large, 424).

An act to promote the security of travel upon railroads engaged in interstate commerce, and to encourage the saving of life, approved February 23, 1905 (33 Statutes at Large, 743), and regulations prescribed thereunder.

THE ACT TO REGULATE COMMERCE.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SEC. 1. (As amended June 29, 1906.) That the provisions of this Act shall apply to any corporation or any person or persons engaged in the transportation of Carriers and oil or other commodity, except water and except natural subject or artificial gas, by means of pipe lines, or partly by pipe lines and partly by railroad, or partly by pipe lines and partly by water, who shall be considered and held to be common carriers within the meaning and purpose of this Act, and to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad (or partly by railroad and partly by water when both are used under a common control, management, or arrangement for a continuous carriage or shipment), from one State or Territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, to any other State or Territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, or from one place in a Territory to another place in the same Territory, or from any place in the United States to an adjacent foreign country, or from any place in the United States through a foreign country to any other place in the United States, and also to the transportation in like manner of property shipped from any place in the United States to a foreign country and carried from such place to a port of trans-shipment, or shipped from a foreign country to any place in the United States and carried to such place from a port of entry either in the United States or an adjacent foreign country: Provided, however, That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to the transportation of passengers or property, or to the receiving, delivering, storage, or portation wholly handling of property wholly within one State and not State. shipped to or from a foreign country from or to any State or Territory as aforesaid,

Express panies and sleep

com- The term "common carrier" as used in this Act shall ing car compa- include express companies and sleeping car companies.

nies included.

"railroad" and

The term "railroad," as used in this Act, shall include all bridges and ferries used or operated in connection with any railroad, and also all the road in use by any corporation operating a railroad, whether owned or operated under a contract, agreement, or lease, and shall also in

What the terms clude all switches, spurs, tracks, and terminal facilities transporta of every kind used or necessary in the transportation of

tion" include.

Charges must be just and reasonable.

Free passes and free transportation hibited.

the persons or property designated herein, and also all freight depots, yards, and grounds used or necessary in the transportation or delivery of any of said property; and the term "transportation" shall include cars and other vehicles and all instrumentalities and facilities of shipment or carriage, irrespective of ownership or of any contract, express or implied, for the use thereof and all services in connection with the receipt, delivery, elevation, and transfer in transit, ventilation, refrigeration or icing, storage, and handling of property transported; and it shall be the duty of every carrier subject to the provisions of this Act to provide and furnish such transportation upon reasonable request therefor, and to establish through routes and just and reasonable rates applicable thereto.

All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property as aforesaid, or in connection therewith, shall be just and reasonable; and every unjust and unreasonable charge for such service or any part thereof is prohibited and declared to be unlawful.

No common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act pro- shall, after January first, nineteen hundred and seven, directly or indirectly, issue or give any interstate free ticket, free pass, or free transportation for passengers, except to its employees and their families, its officers, agents, surgeons, physicians, and attorneys at law; to ministers of religion, traveling secretaries of railroad Young Men's Christian Associations, inmates of hospitals and charitable and eleemosynary institutions, and persons

Excepte d

classes.

Interchange a u thorized

exclusively engaged in charitable and eleemosynary work; to indigent, destitute and homeless persons, and to such persons when transported by charitable societies or hospitals, and the necessary agents employed in such transportation; to inmates of the National Homes or State Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and of Soldiers' and Sailors' Homes, including those about to enter and those returning home after discharge and boards of managers of such Homes; to necessary care takers of live stock, poultry, and fruit; to employees on sleeping cars, express cars, and to linemen of telegraph and telephone companies; to Railway Mail Service employees, post-office inspectors, customs inspectors and immigration inspectors; to newsboys on trains, baggage agents, witnesses attending any legal investigation in which the common carrier is interested, persons injured in wrecks and physicians and nurses attending such persons: Provided, That of this provision shall not be construed to prohibit the inter- passes. change of passes for the officers, agents, and employees of common carriers, and their families; nor to prohibit any common carrier from carrying passengers free with the object of providing relief in cases of general epidemic, pestilence, or other calamitous visitation. Any common Jurisdiction and penalty for carrier violating this provision shall be deemed guilty of violation. a misdemeanor and for each offense, on conviction, shall pay to the United States a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars, and any person, other than the persons excepted in this provision, who uses any such interstate free ticket, free pass, or free transportation, shall be subject to a like penalty. Jurisdiction of offenses under this provision shall be the same as that provided for offenses in an Act entitled "An Act to further regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the States," approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and any amendment thereof. Stedes prohib(See section 22.)

Raflroad com

from porting commodities in which they are

Interested. Tim

From and after May first, nineteen hundred and eight, It shall be unlawful for any railroad company to trans therees excepted.

tions.

port from any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, to any other State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or to any foreign country, any article or com modity, other than timber and the manufactured products thereof, manufactured, mined, or produced by it, or under its authority, or which it may own in whole, or in part, or in which it may have any interest direct or indirect except such articles or commodities as may be necessary and in. tended for its use in the conduct of its business as a common carrier.

Any common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act, upon application of any lateral, branch line of railroad, or of any shipper tendering interstate traffic for transportation, shall construct, maintain, and operate

Switch connec upon reasonable terms a switch connection with any such lateral, branch line of railroad, or private side track which may be constructed to connect with its railroad, where such connection is reasonably practicable and can be put in with safety and will furnish sufficient business to justify the construction and maintenance of the same; and shall furnish cars for the movement of such traffic to the best of its ability without discrimination in favor of or against any such shipper. If any common carrier shall fail to install and operate any such switch or connection as aforesaid, on application therefor in writing by any shipper, such shipper may make complaint to the Commission, as provided in section thirteen of this Act, and the Commission shall hear and investigate the same and shall determine as to the safety and practicability thereof

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and justification and reasonable compensation therefor Switch conner and the Commission may make an order, as provided in the section fifteen of this Act, directing the common carrier to comply with the provisions of this section in accordance with such order, and such order shall be enforced as hereinafter provided for the enforcement of all other orders by the Commission, other than orders for the payment of money.