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 FORTY-XINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II Ch. 104. 1887. 38]. Any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act receiving Schedules of freight: in the United States to he carried through n foreign country to fwig ht *h’°}‘¥·'h any place in the United States shall also in like manner print and keep f°"°’g" °°""t"°°' lor public inspection, at every depot where such freight is received for shipment, schedules showing the through rates established and charged by such common carrier to all points in the United States beyond the ioreign country to which it accepts freight for shipment; and any freight shipped from the United States through a foreign country into the United States, the through rate on which shall not have been made public as required by this act, shall, before it is admitted into the United G°°•‘¤ ¤¤b1¤•=* (0 States from said foreign country, he snlgiect; to customs duties as if said §;‘,$;‘5'QfGsdu“(f;°S6_}f freight were of foreign production; und any law in conflict with this uq_ P ` section is hereby repealed. No advance shall be made in the rates, fares, and charges which haw- Advances not to been established aud published as aforesaid by any common 08l'l‘lt·‘l‘ in W ******1*; “¤*$1 aim! compliance with the requirements of this section, except after ten •lays’ 10 day" "°t'°°‘ public notice, which shall plainly state the onanges proposed to be made iu the schedule then in force, and the time when the increased rates., fares, or charges will go into effect ; and the proposed changes shall be shown by printing new schedules, or shall be plainly indicated upon the schedules in force at the time and kept for public inspection. Re- R¢d¤¤>¢i<>¤§ may elnetious in such published rates, fares, or charges may be made with- Q:H';“d° ‘"‘l‘°“” out previous public notice; but whenever any such reduction is made, ' notice of the same shall immediately be publicly posted and the changes made shall immediately be made public by printing new schedules, or shall immediately be plainly indicated upon the schedules at the time in force and kept. for public inspection. And when any such common carrier shall have established and pub- Deviation from lished its rates, iares, and charges in compliance with the provisions ;€g?;‘g° '°‘°“ P"' of this section, in shall he unlawful for such common carrier to charge,I ' demand, collect, or receive from any person or persons a greater or less - compensation for the transportation of passengers or property, or for any services in connection therewith, than is specified in such published schedule of rates, fares, and charges as may at the time be in force. Every common carrier subject to the provisions of this act shall tile Copies of whenwith the Commission hereinafter provided for copies of its schedules of 2}*% _'F:§·é *° l*° rates, fares, and charges which have been established and published in sifn_“’ °"‘"“s' compliance with the requirements of this section, and shall promptly notify said Commission of all changes made in the same. Every such common carrier shall also tile with said Commission copies of all contracts, agreements, or arrangements with other common carriers in relation to any traffic atlected hy the provisions of this act to which it may be a party. And in cases where passengers and freight pass over continuous lines or routes operated by more than one common carrier, and the several common carriers operating such lines or routes establish joint tariils of rates or fares or charges for such continuous lines or routes, copies of such joint tariffs shall also, in like manner, be tiled with said Commission. Such joint rates, fares, and charges on such continuous lines so tiled as aforesaid shall he made public by such common carriers when directed by said Commission, in so far as may, in the judgment of the Commission, be deemed practicable; and said Gommission shall from time to time prescribe the measure of publicity which shall be given to such rates, fares, and charges, or to such part of them as its may deem it practicable for such common carriers to publish, and the places in which they shall be published; but no common carrier party tc any such joint taritf shall he liable for the failure of any other common carrier party thereto to observe and adhere to the rates, fares, or charges thus made and published. _ _ If any such common carrier shall neglect or refuse to file or publish f ¥;¤><=¤¢:i¤¤t€¤ 0¤ its schedules or tarihs of rates, fares, and charges as provided in this PQ"b‘{f:h S21]? df, é; section, or any perl: of the same, suvh common carrier shall, in addition Pm_ to other penalties herein preseaibo el, l-e sulgiect to a wxitof mandamns,