Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 34 Part 1.djvu/617

. FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3591. 1906. 587 by a general order applicable to special or peculiar circumstances or conditions. · “The names of the several carriers which are parties to any joint m{}§;°§§’,°§§‘f§§,{,_j°mt tariff shall be specified therein, and each of the parties thereto, other than the one filing the same, shall file with the Commissionv such evidence of concurrence therein or acceptance thereof as may be required or approved by the Commission, and where such evidence of concurrence or acceptance is filed it shall not be necessary for the carriers filing the same to also file copies of the tariffs in which they are named as parties. Lvery common carrier subject to this Act shall also file with said m°§,§*§’,§‘,*L{“,?Q°¤§§§’ Commission copies of all contracts, agreements, or arrangements with i ° ` other common carriers in relation to any trafiic affected by the provisions of this Act to which it may be a party. " The Commission may determine and prescribe the form in which F°"““°* °°'*°“¤1°°· the schedules required by this section to be kept open to public inspection shall be prepared and arranged and may change the form from time to time as shall be found ex dient. · "No carrier, unless otherwise providdd by this Act, shall engage or ,,,§Q},‘,j“P°,,§,*;j, “r,f£•; participate in the transportation of passengers or property, as defined ¤1e<1.e¢c. in this Act, unless the rates, fares, and charges upon which the same are transported by said carrier have been file and published in accordance with the rovisions of this Act; nor shall any carrier charge or Ghgrzes w be as demand or codect or receive a greater or less or different compensa— °p°° °d` tion for such transportation of passengers or property, or for any service in connection therewith, between the points named in such tariffs ‘ than the rates, fares, and char es which are specified in the tariff filed and in effect at the time; nor 51all any carrier refund or remit in any Rebates pmmmm. manner or by any device any portion of the rates, fares, and charges so specified, nor extend to any shipper or person any privileges or facilities in the transportation of passergggers or property, except such Pr _ as are specified in such tariffs: Prmzi d, That wherever the word Mgiiiiig or ··¤n~. "carrier" occurs in this _Act it shall be held to mean "common "*°'-" carrier." _ " That in time of war or threatened war preference and precedence ,,,§;*f,}°;,Y_,_ °’¤”*° *¤ shall, upon the demand of the President of the United States, be ° given, over all other trafic, to the transportation of troops and material of war, and carriers shall adopt every means within their. control to facilitate and expedite the military traHic." That section one of the Act entitled "An Act to further regulate com- cQ,?,’}gs'f*°‘°¤ °°*¤m°¤ nie:-ee with foreign nations and among the States," approved February viii gz, p. su, nineteenth, nineteen hundred and three, be amended so as to read as "““° ° ‘ follows: _ " That, anything done 0I' omitted to be done by a corporation com- mggggmigr mon carrier, subject to the Act to regulate commerce and the Acts rez¤1¤¤<>¤¤,em. amendatorv thereof, which, if done or omitted to be done by any director or officer thereof, or any receiver, trustee, lessee, agent, or person acting for or· employed by such corporation, would constitute a misdemeanor under said Acts or under this Act, shall also be held to be a misdemeanor committed by such corporation, and upon conviction thereof it shall be subject to like penalties as are prescribed in said Acts or by this Act with reference to such persons, except as such penalties are herein cllmlgiéd. The _W1llful fai ure uplon thegpart mgpfgslgcfcruotmm of any carrier subject to said Acts to file and publish the tarr s or ’ ' rates and charges as required by said Acts, or strictly to observe such tariffs until changed according to law, shall be a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof the corporation offending shall be sublect to a fine of not less than one thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars for each offense; and It shall be unlawful for anyperson, per-- Si(l$1c§b;¥,;Pp°q1£ib€t•;és1i sons, or corporation to offer, grant, or give, or to solicit, accept, or ’