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 INDEX. 955 References are to the Sections. RAILROAD COMPANIES— ( continued). liability of connecting lines as common carriers, 354, 362-364. liability of, for injuries to employes, 365, 366. to trespassers, 370-372. to persons on track, 368. for negligence of flagman, 368. for fires caused by sparks, 368. to fence railroad, 369. not charageable with knowledge of contents of packages carried by them, 369. may make reasonable regulations regarding passengers, 348. rigbt of, to tolls on leased roads, 416. state may compel them to perform tbeir functions, 454, 455. to erect suitable stations, 454. state may control them by virtue of its police power, 475. state may regulate fares, 475, 476, 476a. taxation of, 479, 485. railroad tracks in streets, 175-177. when liable in exemplary damages, 377, 378. liability for contracts of station agents, 193, note, 201. when shareholder may enjoin from extending road, 556. contractors 1 liens, 817, 818. provisions in mortgages, 816. mortgages of, covering property to be acquired, 676, 817. covering rolling stock, 819. covering separate portions of road, 819. foreclosure sales, 669, note, 682, note, 711, 813. not dissolved by sale of road, 432, note. right to earnings of, as between bondholders and judgment creditors, 820. appointment of receiver in foreclosure of, 821, 822. priority of receiver's orders, 823, 824. payment of current expenses on foreclosure, 821, 822. incorporated by two states, 403-409. See Common Carriers, Emi- nent Domain, Mortgages, Bondholders, Trustees under Railroad Mortgages. RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES, 638, 639. RAISE MONEY. See Money. RATES OF RAILROAD COMPANIES, regulation of, by the state, 475, 476a, 4766. RATIFICATION: of acts of promoters, 86-90. of bonds issued before incorporation, 90, note. of subscription contracts of infants, 95. by acquiescence, 110, 193, 212. formal ratification not requisite, 212. by shareholders, 187, 213. / by accepting benefit of act, 214.