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 ILLINOIS 187 NAME OF CORPORATION. TERMINI. Length com- pleted a state, miles. Total length when different from pre- ceding. Total asseised value of rail- road twck and rolling stock. Capital stock paid in, 1872. 108 $1,045,817 SO 781,207 p,. ^, ,- ; " * ' 6,723,641 $6,103,962 ( 75 242 Wisconsin division -J 137 f 1 1 " 121 j 85 48 M d' u 26 141 Chicago and Milwaukee, Wis 48 86 182 493 8,145,859 7,877,882 46 35 135 142.088 . 146,020 Streator and Louisville 128 200 611,880 1,350,000 Streator and Pekin 68 357,350 240,000 83 75 859 218 22 814 260,6-29 581,810 6 55 62,572 110 918,361 2,000,000 24 269,628 Illinois Central -j Cairo and Dunleith 455 25,447,140 East St. Louis and Belleville 14 218,610 61 8,01 '0 188 202 1,016,764 8,052,881 102 185 Branches in progress -J 82 188 261 1,881,947 80 152 658,850 976,978 SO 125 245830 Buffalo, N. Y., and Chicago 14 589 818,484 478,000 29 150 110,208 Michigan Central Detroit, Mich., and Chicago 6 2S4 153,986 28 44 163509 Cincinnati, O., and St. Louis, Mo. . . . 146 840 1,802,448 9,018,691 84 263,5T5 Paris and Decatur 76 746,659 1,600,000 88 Peoria, Pekin, and Jacksonville Peoria and Jacksonville 88 14 468 775,388 259,417 1,289,700 1,016,405 Sterling and East St Louis. 262 281 2,146,932 6,490,579 18 St. Louis Alton and Terre Haute East 8t. Louis and Du Quoin 11 828,174 4,768,400 East St. Louis and Nashville, Tenn.. 182 816 2,020,388 8,458,500 42 St Louis Vandalia, and Terre Haute 159 289 1,916,274 2,877,460 228 1,360,897 8,776,600 29 150 151,853 Warsaw to Indiana state line 287 2,629,867 6,700,000 10 Toledo, Wabash, and Western Toledo, O., and Camp Point Decatur to East St. Louis 209 108 454 8,708,181 9,840,000 67 771,553 1,500,000 Leased 1 Cannibal an( j N a pl eg Bluffs and Hannibal 60 472,404 457,000 1 j Lafayette, Bloomington, & Mississippi Bloomington and Lafayette, Ind 77 126 118 197 876,670 1,114,905 1,000,000 4,000,000 The state exercises a general supervision over the railroad companies within its limits. In the constitutional convention of 1870 the sub- ject of railroad corporations was thoroughly considered, and a provision was incorporated in the new constitution requiring the legisla- ture to pass laws establishing reasonable maxi- mum rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freight. In the following year a general railroad law was passed, which, hav- ing been pronounced in part unconstitutional by the state supreme court, was repealed, and a new one was passed in 1873. To secure the enforcement of such laws the legislature pro- vided for the appointment by the governor of three railroad and warehouse commissioners, whose duty it is to examine into and report annually concerning the railroad and ware- house interests of the state. By the act of 1873 every railroad company in the state is prohibited, under penalty of fines reaching as high as $25,000 for the fourth offence, from charging more than a reasonable rate for the transportation of passengers or freight, and from making unjust discriminations in freight schedules. The companies are required to re- port in writing and under oath to the commis- sioners, and to comply with the schedules of reasonable maximum rates for transporting pas- sengers and freight prepared by the commis- sioners. The latter are required to see that the law is obeyed, and to bring actions against the companies in case of violation. The navi- gation of Lake Michigan is connected with that of the Illinois river by the Illinois and Michi- gan canal, completed in 1848, which extends