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 SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 208. 1910. 351 to make to the Interstate Commerce Commission, at its office in Washington, District of Columbia, a monthly report, under oath, of all collisions, derailments, or other accidents resulting in injury to persons, equipment, or roadbed arising from the operation of such railroad under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the ‘ said commission, which report shall state the nature and causes thereof and the circumstances connected therewith: Provided, That hereafter I;;'§,°'§’$;mm,,d ,,0,,, all said carriers shall be relieved from the duty of reporting accidents °¤°“¤l *’°P°"· in their annual financial and operating reports made to the commission. Sec. 2. That any common carrier failing to make such report within P°“°“Y- thirty days after the end of any month shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof by a court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for each and every offense and for every day during which it aliall fail tomake such report after the time herein specified for making e same. Sec. 3. That the Interstate Commerce Commission shall have Iugygsglsgtivn by authority to investigate all collisions, derailments, or other accidents c¤mr5i'§si’0¤,°mm°'°° resulting in serious injury to person or to the property of a railroad occurring on the line of any common carrier engaged in interstate or foreign commerce by railroad. The commission, or any impartial *““‘°'“"°°“‘°"°d• investigator thereunto authorized by said commission, shall have authority to investigate such collisions, derailments, or other accidents aforesaid, and all the attending facts, conditions, and circumstances, and for that pmépose may subpceni witnesses, administeroaths, take testimony, an require the production of books, papers, orders, memoranda, exhibits, and other evidence, and shall be cpmvided by said carriers with all reasonable facilities: Provided, hat @@2;,,0, ,,,,,, when such accident is investigated by a commission of the State in ¤¤¤•·¤ ¤¤¤¤¤¤i=*·¤i¤¤¤- which it occurred, the Interstate Commerce Commission shall, if convenient, make any investigation it may have previously determined upon, at the same time as, and in connection with, the state commission investigation. Said commission shall, when it deems it to the mi;g;>,g¢·¤¤¤·¤¤¤··¤f public interest, make reports of such investigations, stating the cause ' of accident, to ther with such recommendations as it deems proper. Such reports sggll be made public in such manner as the commission deems pro er. Sec. 4. That neither said re rt nor any report of said investiga- R°P°"¤ *¤···*§¤*¤· tion nor any part thereof shallwbe admitted as evidence or used for $§¤§°:¤$ii£°°°° in any purpose in any suit or action for damages growing out of any matter mentioned in said report or investigation. Sec. 5. That the Interstate Commerce Commission is authorised F•>¤¤ 0* *°r>°**·¤· to prescribe for such common carriers af method and form for making the reports hereinbefore provided. _ . Sec. 6. That the Act entitled “An Act requiring common carriers {’,{','{f§3f§,{°§‘§,§l""· engaged in interstate commerce to make full reports of all accidents to the Interstate Commerce C0IDmISS10D.7’ approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, is hereby repealed. _ Sec. 7. That the term "interstate commerce," as used in this Act, Qgginggysie com shall include transportation from any State orTerritory or the District mmy of Columbia to any other State or Territory or the District of Colum· __ bia, and the term " foreign commerce," as used in this Act, shall me,’;g5“‘K“ °°"" include transportation from any State or Territory or the District of Columbia to any foreign country and from any foreign country to any State or Territory or the District of Columbia. _ _ Sec. 8. That this Act shall take eifect sixty days after its passage. dsl; "“°°‘ ‘” “*"’ Approved, May 6, 1910.