Biennial Report of the Railroad Commission of the State of Mississippi, for the Two Years Ending ..., Volume 4The Commission, 1893 - Railroads and state |
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additional waiting room Amount capital stock assessment Average daily compensation Bayou Sara carried one mile cent Chicago Cincinnati Coahoma commissioners common carrier CONTRACT WITH SLEEPING COUNTY depot earnings per mile earnings per train February Freight earnings Gen'l Georgia Pacific R. R. Grenada Gross earnings Income from operation JUNE 30 Length of main Less operating expenses Louisville main line Memphis mile of road miles main track miles side track Miss Mississippi Natchez Number of employes Number of passengers Number of shares Number of stockholders Number of trespassers Number passengers carried Number tons freight Ohio R. R. Orleans Passenger earnings person Postal Telegraph Cable Pullman Palace Car railroad commission railroad company Ship Island sleeping car sleeping car companies Southern Express Co Southern Express Company Station agents stockholders at last stockholders for election TABLE thereof tons freight carried train mile transportation trespassers injured Valuation Vicksburg Western Union Western Union Telegraph Yazoo Branch York
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Page 127 - 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.
Page 119 - Any contract or agreement, express or implied, made by any employee to waive the benefit of this section shall be null and void...
Page 120 - 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.
Page 131 - The track of every railroad, which carries persons or property for hire, is a public highway, over which all persons have equal rights of transportation for themselves and their property, and for passengers, freight and cars...
Page 131 - ... seal of the commission ; and whenever any matter has been determined by the commission, in the course of any proceeding before it, the fact of such determination, duly certified, shall be received in all courts and by every officer in civil cases as prima facie evidence that such determination was right and proper ; and the record of the proceedings of the commission shall be deemed a public record, and shall at all seasonable times be subject to the inspection of the public.
Page 4 - 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...
Page 119 - Knowledge by any employee injured, of the defective or unsafe character or condition of any machinery, ways or appliances, shall be no defense to an action for injury caused thereby, except as to conductors or engineers in charge of dangerous or unsafe cars, or engines voluntarily operated by them.
Page 128 - California in the sum of ten thousand dollars, with two or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by the governor, for the faithful performance of his duties, which bond shall be filed in the office of secretary of state.
Page 119 - Every employs of a railroad corporation shall have the same rights and remedies for an Injury suffered by him from the act or omission of the corporation or its employes as are allowed by law to other persons not employes...
Page 132 - ... by the commission, or by such person or corporation with its approval, or more than the rate specified in a bill of lading issued by authority of the railroad ; or if any railroad shall, for its advantage or for the advantage of a connecting line, or for that of...