VOTE. In election of directors, each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of stock held by him, § 16, p. 719. VOTE OF PEOPLE. On construction of railways at public expense, provision for, On construction of railways at public expense, duty of board if VOUCHERS. Commissioners shall furnish comptroller with vouchers for their proper expenditures and compensation, § 10, pp. 714-716. WATER PIPES. Expenses of readjusting and supporting, must be borne by com- WAY FREIGHT. See also "FREIGHT;" "PROPERTY." Rapid transit railway shall transport, § 28, p. 724. WAY PASSENGERS. See also "PASSENGERS." Corporation shall transport, § 28, p. 724. WEAKENING. Railway buildings, machinery or other property, a misdemeanor, § 30, pp. 724, 725. WILFUL. Injury to, or interference with, railway property, a misdemeanor, § 30, pp. 724, 725. WITNESSES. Commissioner of appraisal may subpoena or swear, § 48, pp. 753, 754. WORKS. Wilful injury to, of rapid transit railway, a misdemeanor, § 30, pp. 724, 725. Rapid transit railroad owning, entitled to treble damages for wilful injury to, § 30, pp. 724, 725. APPENDIX B. THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT. Being an act of February 4, 1887, entitled "An act to regulate commerce and acts amendatory thereof. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.* Section 1. Application of Act - Interstate Commerce defined.-— That the provisions of this act shall apply to any corporation or any person or persons engaged in the transportation of oil or other commodity, except water and except natural or artificial gas, by means of pipe lines, or partly by pipe lines and partly by railroad, or partly by pipe lines and partly by water, who shall be considered and held to be common carriers within the meaning and purpose of this Act, and to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad (or partly by railroad and partly by water when both are used under a common control, management, or arrangement for 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 from one place in a Territory to another place in the same Territory, or from any place in the United States to an adjacent foreign country, 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 transshipment, 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 United States or an adjacent foreign country: Provided, however, That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to the transportation of passengers or property, or to the receiving, delivering, storage, or handling of property wholly within one State and not shipped to or from a foreign country from or to any State or Territory as aforesaid. § 1. Continued — Definitions — Common Carrier - Railroad Transportation. The term " common carrier" as used in this Act shall in *The head notes of sections are not part of the statute as enacted.-ED. clude express companies and sleeping car companies. The term "railroad," as used in this Act, shall include all bridges and ferries used or operated in connection with any railroad, and also all the road in use by any corporation operating a railroad, whether owned or operated under a contract, agreement, or lease, and shall also include all switches, spurs, tracks, and terminal facilities of every kind used or necessary in the transportation of the persons or property designated herein, and also all freight depots, yards, and grounds used or necessary in the transportation or delivery of any of said property; and the term "transportation" shall include cars and other vehicles and all instrumentalities and facilities of shipment or carriage, irrespective of ownership or of any contract, express or implied, for the use thereof and all services in connection with the receipt, delivery, elevation, and transfer in transit, ventilation, refrigeration or icing, storage, and handling of property transported; and it shall be the duty of every carrier subject to the provisions of this Act to provide and furnish such transportation upon reasonable request therefor, and to establish through routes and just and reasonable rates applicable thereto. § 1. Continued — Charges must be Reasonable.- All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property as aforesaid, or in connection therewith, shall be just and reasonable; and every unjust and unreasonable charge for such service or any part thereof is prohibited and declared to be unlawful. § 1. Continued - Free Transportation, when Prohibited.-No common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act shall, after January first, nineteen hundred and seven, directly or indirectly, issue or give any interstate free ticket, free pass, or free transportation for passengers, except to its employees and their families, its officers, agents, surgeons, physicians, and attorneys at law; to ministers of religion, traveling secretaries of railroad, Young Men's Christian Associations, inmates of hospitals and charitable and eleemosynary institutions, and persons exclusively engaged in charitable and eleemosynary work; to indigent, destitute, and homeless persons, and to such persons when transported by charitable societies or hospitals, and the necessary agents employed in such transportation; to inmates of the National Homes or State Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and of Soldiers' and Sailors' Homes, including those about to enter and those returning home after discharge and boards of managers of such homes; to necessary care takers of live stock, poultry, and fruit; to employees on sleeping cars, express cars and to linemen of telegraph and telephone companies; to railway mail service employees, post-office inspectors. customs inspectors, and immigration inspectors; to newsboys on trains. baggage agents, witnesses attending any legal investigation in which the carrier is interested, persons injured in wrecks and physicians and nurses attending such persons: Provided, That this provision |