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Rh Every common carrier operating in, into or through the Territory shall file with the Commission copies of all reports required to be filed by it with the Interstate Commerce Commission as provided for in Section twenty, Act to Regulate Commerce as amended June twenty-ninth, 1906.

Section Sixteen.&emsp;Whenever any common carrier or carriers operating in, into or through this Territory shall feel aggrieved in that the rates and charges collected, charged or demanded by it, or them on Intra-Territorial or Interstate traffic are unreasonably low or that the mode of operation under which it or they are then operating is working a hardship on it or them, it or they may file with the Commission proper complaint, in the name of the complainant and against the Commission as defendant, asking that the same be investigated, and for a finding or opinion of the Commission, whenever such complaint is filed; the Commission shall file or cause to be filed, answer controverting the same, and the Attorney for the Commission shall appear and defend.

Whenever the Commission after investigation find or are of the opinion that the rates and charges, collected, charged or demanded by a common carrier or carriers, are unreasonably low, or that the mode of operation under which they are operating is working a hardship on it or them, the Commission shall notify the Interstate Commerce Commission of such finding or opinion and request the Interstate Commerce Commission to make an order in conformity with the opinion or finding, permitting the common carrier to make such change or correction as is necessary.

The Commission shall, at the time of making the request certify to the Interstate Commerce Commission, copies of all records of the proceedings, together with the evidence and finding or opinion of the Commission.