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put in with safety and the business therefor is sufficient to justify the same. • The Commission may upon application and investigation order the installation of such connection fixing a reasonable com pensation, and may order a discontinuance of such connection. 6. That there be filed with the Commis sion and be printed and open to public inspection schedules showing rates, fares and charges within the state, including joint rates. The schedules must include all clas sifications and terminal, storing, icing and other charges and all privileges or facilities as well as rules or regulations that may affect the rates or the value of the service rendered. The form of the schedules is to conform as closely as possible to that re quired by the Federal Commission under the Interstate Commerce Act. Changes may be made in the schedules so filed after thirty days' notice to the Commission and publication for a like period, and indicating the proposed changes and the time when they will take effect. The Commission may, however, order changes in rates without requiring the thirty day notice and publi cation. All carrier parties to a joint tariff agreement must file schedul?s or evidence of concurrence therein to schedules already filed. 7. That no common carrier shall after Nov. 1, 1907, engage or participate in the transportation of passengers, freight or property between points within the state, until its schedules have been filed and pub lished and no compensation shall be charged greater or less than that applicable and as specified in its schedules filed and in effect at the time, nor shall there be any re'funds or privileges or facilities in the transporta tion of passengers or property except such as are regularly and uniformly extended to all persons and corporations under like circumstances. 8. That no common carrier shall give free transportation for persons or property except to certain classes of persons, con

forming closely to the provisions of the Federal Act on this subject. . As to mileage, excursion or commutation, passenger tickets or joint interchangeable mileage tickets with special privileges as to the amount of free baggage that may be carried, a common carrier before issuing such must file with the commission copies of the tariffs of rates, fares or charges on which they are to be based. Exchange of passenger transporta tion for advertising space in newspapers at full rates is allowed, however. 9. That no common carrier in any man ner, shall assist or permit any person or corporation to obtain any kind of transpor tation at less than the rates then estab lished and in force by false billing, classifi cation, weight or weighing or false report of weight or by any other device or means. Furthermore, no person, corporation or its representative, who shall deliver freight or property for transportation, shall seek to obtain or obtain such transportation at less than the lawful rates by any false billing, classification, weight or weighing, false rep resentation of the contents of a package or of weight or by any other device or means whether with or without the consent or connivance of the common carrier or any of its officers, agents or employees. 10. That every common carrier shall file with the commission sworn copies of every contract, agreement or arrangement with any other common carrier relating in any way to the transportation of passengers, property or freight. 11. That even' common carrier must afford all reasonable proper and equal facili ties between its lines and the lines of other common carriers for the interchange of traffic and no discrimination as to rates or facilities shall be made between carriers or between passengers or freight. The hand ling and hauling of standard freight cars is required but the interchange of cars is not required except upon the terms and condi tions directed by the Commission, but this is not to be construed as requiring a com