Class Three. Class Four. Railroads omitted or hereafter constructed. of higher operate or con of a lower class, the latter shall thereafter be treated as a Class Three shall include: Southern Railway; Alabama Great Southern Railroad; Mobile & Ohio Railroad; Northern Alabama Railway; Mobile & Birmingham Railroad; Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Railroad; Chattanooga Southern Railroad; Illinois Central Railroad; Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad; Alabama Northern Railway. Class Four shall include: Chattahoochee Valley Railroad; Alabama, Tennessee & Northern Railroad; Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad; Union Springs & Northern Railway; Tuskegee Railroad; Tombigbee Valley Railroad; Tallassee & Montgomery Railroad; Birmingham Southern Railroad; Manistee & Repton Railroad; Hayneville & Montgomery Railroad; Mobile & Western Railroad; Alabama Central Railway. Any of the above mentioned classes shall also include such other railroads which may hereafter be constructed or operated in this State, or which may have been omitted from this classification, as the Railroad Commission may deem proper to place in such class. Sec. 2. When any railroad which is named in When ranroad either of the classes designated in section 1 of class shall own this act, or which may hereafter be placed in trol a railroad any of said classes, shall own or operate any other railroad, in whole or in part in this State, or shall own, directly or indirectly, or control a majority of the stock of any other railroad, in part of and in whole or in part in this State, such railroad so with the road Owned or operated and such railroad a majority of whose stock is so owned or controlled, shall, if it be a lower class, that is, in a class allowed to charge a higher rate than the railroad so owning the same class so controll ing it. or operating it, or so owning or controlling a majority of its stock-be considered and treated, for the purposes of this act, as a part of, and in the same class as the railroad so owning or operating it, or so owning or controlling a majority of its stock, and shall not charge, demand or receive any higher or greater rates than the railroad so owning or operating it or so owning or controlling a majority of its stock is, by this act or by an order of the Railroad Commission, permitted to charge, except as may otherwise be provided by law or by an order of said Railroad Commission. roads shall named in Sec. 3. Until otherwise provided by an order Maximum of the Railroad Commission, the maximum rates rates Group to be charged for the transportation, originating 4. and terminating in the State, of the articles or commodities named and specified in the following schedule of standard maximum rates of freight, known as Group 4, over any of the rail- Class One roads named in Class One, or over any railroad charge not exwhich may hereafter be placed in said class by ceeding rates law or by the Railroad Commission, when said schedule articles or commodities are offered for shipment, in the manner, condition and quantity in said schedule specified, shall not exceed, for the various distances therein specified, the rates named and specified in said schedule of standard maximum freight tariffs plus five (5) per cent; and for such transportation of such articles or com- roads modities over any of the railroads, named in schedule plus 20 per cent. class two or over any railroad which may hereafter be placed in said class the maximum rates to be charged shall not exceed the rates named and specified in said schedule, plus twenty (20) Class Two Class Three per cent for the various distances therein specified, when offered for shipment in the manner, condition and quantity therein specified; and for such transportation of such articles or commodiroads schedule ties over any railroad named in Class Three, or plus 25 per over any railroad which may hereafter be placed cent. in said class, the maximum rates to be charged shall not exceed the rates named and specified in said schedule, plus twenty-five (25) per cent for the various distances when shipped in the manner, condition and quantity therein specified; and for such transportation of such articles or commodities over any railroad named in Class Four or over any railroad which may hereafter roads schedule be placed in said class, the maximum rates to be charged shall not exceed the rates named and specified in said, schedule, plus fifty (50) per cent for the various distances, when shipped in the manner, condition and quantity therein specified. Class Four plus 50 per cent. GROUP 4. Rates in Cents Per One Hundred Pounds, Except When ON THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES. SCHEDULE OF STANDARD RATES OF FREIGHT Otherwise Specified. Distances in Miles. 60 miles 55 miles 50 miles 45 miles. 40 miles 35 miles 30 miles_ 25 miles. 20 miles. 15 miles_. 10 miles_. 5 miles Flour, in sacks, any quantity, C._R. Fruit, Bran, C. L., per car, of not less than 25,000 7 Ale and beer, in wood, C. L., O. R. Flour, in barrels (estimate weight 200 pounds per barrel), C. R., per barrel. (Without percentage.) 6 6 20 20 2112 2112 |