(2) A brief of the argument, exhibiting a clear statement of the points of fact or law to be discussed, with the reference to the pages of the record and the authorities relied upon in support of each point. Every brief of more than 10 pages shall contain on its top fly leaves a subject index with page references, the subject index to be supplemented by a list of all cases referred to, alphabetically arranged, together with references to pages where the cases are cited. Briefs must be printed in 10 or 12 point type on good unglazed paper 8 inches by 1011⁄2 inches, with inside margins not less than 1 inch wide, and with double-leaded text and single-leaded citations. Oral arguments will be had only as ordered by the Commission. XV. ADDRESS OF THE COMMISSION. All communications to the Commission must be addressed to Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D. C., unless otherwise specifically directed. OF APPENDICES, B to J. INCLUSIVE. Page. An act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in inter- state commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes, and their locomotives with driving- wheel brakes, and for other purposes, approved March 2, An act to amend an act entitled an act to promote the safety of employees and travelers, and so forth, approved March 2, 1893, amended April 1, 1896; approved March 2, 1903 (32 An act to supplement an act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with auto- matic couplers and continuous brakes, and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes, and other safety-appliance acts, and for other purposes approved April 740 An act authorizing the Commission to employ safety-appliance An act requiring common carriers engaged in interstate and for- eign commerce to make full reports of all accidents to the Interstate Commerce Commission and authorizing investiga- An act to promote the security of travel upon railroads engaged in interestate commerce, and to encourage the saving of life, approved February 23, 1905 (33 Statutes at Large, 743), and regulations prescribed thereunder An act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by limiting the hours of service of employees there- on, approved March 4, 1907 (34 Statutes at Large, 1415) An act to promote the safety of employees on railroads, approved May 30, 1908 (35 Statutes at Large, 476) An act to promote the safe transportation in interstate commerce of explosives and other dangerous articles, and to provide penalties for its violation, approved March 4, 1909 (35 Stat- 744 749 An act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon 757 SAFETY APPLIANCE ACTS. An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, it shall be unlawful for any common carrier en. gaged in interstate commerce by railroad to use on its line any locomotive engine in moving interstate traffic not equipped with a power driving-wheel brake and appliances for operating the train-brake system, or to run any train in such traffic after said date that has not a sufficient number of cars in it so equipped with power or train brakes that the engineer on the locomotive drawing such train can control its speed without requiring brakemen to use the common hand brake for that purpose. Sec. 2. That on and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, it shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars. Sec. 3. That when any person, firm, company, or corporation engaged in interstate commerce by railroad shall have equipped a sufficient number of its cars so as to comply with the provisions of section one of this act, it may lawfully refuse to receive from connecting lines of road or shippers any cars not equipped sufficiently, in accordance with the first section of this act, with such power or train brakes as will work and readily interchange with the brakes in use on its own cars, as required by this act. Sec. 4. That from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, until otherwise ordered by the Interstate Commerce Commission, it shall be unlawful for any railroad company to use any car in interstate commerce that is not provided with secure grab irons or handholds in the ends and sides of each car for greater security to men in coupling and uncoupling cars. Sec. 5. That within ninety days from the passage of this act the American Railway Association is authorized hereby to designate to the Interstate Commerce Commission the standard height of drawbars for freight cars, measured perpendicular from the level of the tops of the rails to the centers of the drawbars, for each of the several gauges of railroads in use in the United States, and shall fix a maximum variation from such standard height to be allowed between the drawbars of empty and loaded cars. Upon their determination being certified to the Interstate Commerce Commission, said Commission shall at once give notice of the standard fixed upon to all common carriers, owners, or lessees engaged in interstate commerce in the United States by such means as the Commission may deem proper. But should said association fail to determine a standard as above provided. it shall be the duty of the Interstate Commerce Commission to do so, before July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and immediately to give notice thereof as aforesaid. And after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, no cars, either loaded or unloaded, shall be used in interstate traffic which do not comply with the standard above provided for. Sec. 6. (As amended April 1, 1896.) That any such common carrier using any locomotive engine, running any train, or hauling or permitting to be hauled or used on its line any car in violation of any of the provisions of this act, shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every such violation, to be recovered in a suit or suits to be brought by the United States district attorney in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction in the locality where such violation shall have been committed; and it shall be the duty of such district attorney to bring such suits upon duly verified information being lodged with him of such violation having occurred; and it shall also be the duty of the Interstate Commerce Commission to lodge with the proper district attorneys information of any such violations as may come to its knowledge: Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall apply to trains composed of four-wheel cars or to trains composed of eight-wheel standard logging cars where the height of such car from top of rail to center of coupling does not exceed twenty-five inches, or to leccectives used in hauling such trains when such cars or locomotives are exclusively used for the transportation of logs. Sec. 7. That the Interstate Commerce Commission may from time to time upon full hearing and for good cause extend the period within which any common carrier shall comply with the provisions of this act. Sec. 8. That any employee of any such common carrier who may be injured by any locomotive, car, or train in use contrary to the provisions of this act shall not be deemed thereby to have assumed the risk thereby occasioned, although continuing in the employment of such carrier after the unlawful use of such locomotive, car, or train had been brought to his knowledge. Public, No. 113, approved March 2, 1893, amended April 1, 1896. Standard-gauge NOTE. Prescribed standard height of drawbars: roads, 341⁄2 inches; narrow-gauge roads, 26 inches; maximum variation between loaded and empty cars, 3 inches. |