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§§ 140-141 business, is reasonable and expedient in order to promote security, convenience and accommodation of the public, said commissioners shall inform such railroad corporation of the improvements and changes which they deem to be proper, by notice in writing, to be served by leaving a copy thereof, certified by the commissioners' clerk, with any station agent, clerk or treasurer, or any director of said corporation; and a report of the proceedings shall be included in the report of the railroad commissioners to the legislature. Nothing in this section shall be construed as relieving any railroad company from their present responsibility or liability for damage to persons or property.

§ 140. The said railroad commissioners shall, on or before the first Monday in December in each year, make a report to the governor, of their doings for the preceding year, containing such facts, statements and explanations as will disclose the workings of the system of railroad transportation in the territory, and its relation to the general business and prosperity of the citizens of the territory; and such suggestions and recommendations in respect thereto as may to them seem appropriate. Said report shall also contain, as to every railroad corporation doing business in this territory:

1. The amount of its capital stock.

2. The amount of its preferred, if any, and the amount of its preferment.

3. The amount of its funded debt and the rate of interest

4. The amount of its floating debt.

5. The cost and present value of its roads and equipment, including permanent way buildings and rolling stock, all real estate used exclusively in operating the road, and all fixtures and conveniences for transacting its business.

6. The estimated cash value of all property owned by such corporation, with a schedule of the same, not including lands granted in aid of its construction.

7. The number of acres originally granted in aid of construction of its roads, by the United States or by this territory.

8. Number of acres of such land remaining unsold.

9. A list of its officers and directors, with their respective places of residence.

10. Such statistics of the road and of its transportation business for the year, as may in the judgment of the commissioners be necessary and proper for the information of the legislative assembly, or as may be required by the governor. Such report shall exhibit and refer to the condition of such corporation on the first day of July of each year, and the details of its transportation business transacted during the year ending June thirtieth.

11. The average amount of tonnage that can be carried over each road in the territory with an engine of given power.

§ 141. To enable said commissioners to make such report, the president or managing officer of each railroad corporation doing business in this territory, shall annually make to the said commissioners, on the fifteenth day of the month of September, such returns, in the form which they may prescribe, as will afford the information required for their said official report. Such returns shall be verified by the oath of the officer making them, and any railroad corporation wl returns shall not be made as herein prescribed by the fifteenth day of September shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every day after