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FEDERAL

LIABILITIES OF CARRIERS

A TREATISE UPON THE DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF COMMON
CARRIERS BY RAILROADS UNDER ALL FEDERAL LAWS,
WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING A COPY OF THE
FEDERAL STATUTES AFFECTING RAILROADS,
AND THE GENERAL ORDERS OF THE
DIRECTOR GENERAL OF RAIL-
ROADS UNDER THE FEDERAL
CONTROL ACT OF 1918.

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OCT 15 1927

APPENDIX R.

TRANSPORTATION ACT, 1920.1

[Public-No. 152-66th Congress.]

[H. R. 10453.]

AN ACT to provide for the termination of Federal control of railroads and systems of transportation; to provide for the settlement of disputes between carriers and their employees; to further amend an Act entitled "An Act to regulate commerce," approved February 4, 1887, as amended, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.

TITLE I.-DEFINITIONS.

Section 1. This Act may be cited as the "Transportation Act, 1920.”
Sec. 2. When used in this Act-

The term "Interstate Commerce Act" means the Act entitled "An

Act to regulate commerce," approved February 4, 1887, as amended;

1 With the exception of amendments to certain sections of the Act to Regulate Commerce (appendix A, supra) and contained in title 4 of the Transportation Act, the duties and liabilities of carriers to shippers and employees, as discussed and expounded in this treatise on "Federal Liabilities of Carriers" have not been affected or changed by the enactment of the Transportation Act. The provisions of the Carmack Amendment as amended by the Cummins Amendments (sections 305 to 348, inclusive, supra), the Federal Bill of Lading Law (sections 349 to 351, inclusive, supra), the Federal Employers' Liability Act (sections 413 to 718, inclusive, supra), the Federal Safety Appliance Acts (sections 719 to 891, supra), Federal Hours of Service Act (sections 892 to 922, supra), Federal 28-Hour Live Stock Law (sections 923 to 930, supra), Federal Boller Inspection Act (sections 931 to 947, supra) and other laws of similar character affecting interstate carriers

by railroad, are not in any way affected or amended by the Transportation Act, 1920.

The primary purpose of the enactment of the Act of Congress officially known as the Transportation Act, 1920, approved February 28, 1920, was to provide for the termination of federal control of railroads under the Federal Control Act, approved March 21, 1918 (appendix D, supra). Title II of the Transportation Act deals with the adjustment of matters between the Government and the individual railroad companies arising while the Government operated the railroads. Title III deals with the settlement of disputes between carriers and their employes concerning wages and working conditions after the termination of federal control, Title IV contains amendments to the various sections of the Act to Regulate Commerce, approved February 4, 1887, as amended (see appendix A, supra). Title V contains miscellaneous provisions.

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2 Control Carriers Appendix-1.

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