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 FORTY-XINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 103, 104. 1887. 379 thereon, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously Plans. made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed the cost of two hundred thousand dollars; nor shall any site be purchased until estimates for the erection of a building which shall furnish Estimates. sufficient accommodations for the transaction of the public business, and which shall not exceed in cost the balance of the sum herein limited after the site shall have been purchased and paid tor, shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury; and no purchase of site, nor plan for said building, shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury involving an expenditure exceeding the said sum of two hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That no money to be appropriated for Proviaos. this purpose shall be available until a. valid title to the site for said Title. building shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of North Carolina shall cede to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same during the time the United States shalt be or remain the owner thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of civil process therein: Provided, That the site on which the said building shall be erected shall be Open spawso selected as to leave an open space around the same of not less than forty feet in width, including streets and alleys. Approved, February 4, 1887. CHAP. 104.——A¤ act to regulate commerce. Feb. 4, 1887. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of this act Interstate comshall apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the trauspon m"°° ¥°g°}°*‘°”· tation of passengers or property wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad APPh°‘m°"‘ and partly by water when both are used, under a common control, management, or arrangement, ior a continuous carriage or shipment, from one State or Territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, to any other state or Territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, or irom any place in the United States to an adjacent toreign conmry, or from any place in the United States through a foreign country to any other place in the United States, and also to the transportation in like manner of property shipped from any place in the United States to a foreign country and carried from such place to a port of trans— shipment, or shipped from a foreign country to any place in the United States and carried to such place from a port of entry either in the UnitedStates or an adjacent foreign country: Provided, however, That Promo. the provisions of this act shall not apply to the transportation of pas- Not applicable sengers or property, or to the receiving, delivering, storage, or hand. *°_t;:?°0 gag? ling of property, wholly within one State, and not shipped to or from a, "' ° ' foreign country irom or to any State or Territory as atoresaid. The term’ ** railroad"” as used in this act shall include all bridges and •*Railmad." ferries used or operated in connection with any railroad, and also all _"'I;,”¤*P°'*“‘ the road in use by any corporation operating a railroad, whether owned “‘;;‘é6um0u OL or operated under a contract, agreement, or lease; and the term ‘· transportation” shall include all insrrnmentalities of shipment or carriage. All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the Charges m be transportation of passengers or property as aforesaid, or in connection 1‘¢=¤°¤**b*°· therewith, or for the receiving, delivering, storage, or handling of such property, shall be reasonable and just: ; and every unjust and unreasonable charge lor such service is prohibited and declared to be unlawful. _ SBC. 2. That if any common carrier subject to the provisions of this b §P¤°¤;*1¤‘¤*¤¤i1F;: act shall, directly or indirectly, by any special rate, rebate, drawback, n‘;£°·° °*·P'° ' or other device, charge, demand, collect, or receive from any person or persons a greater or less compensation for any service rendered, or to be rendered, in the transportation of passengers or property, subject to the provisions of this act, than it charges, demands, collects, or receives