TABLE OF CONTENTS. FREIGHT TARIFFS AND CLASSIFICATIONS. ADMINISTRATIVE RULINGS AND OPINIONS. INDEX TO TARIFF CIRCULAR NO. 15-A... INDEX TO ADMINISTRATIVE RULINGS AND OPINIONS. SUPPLEMENT NO. 1 TO TARIFF CIRCULAR No. 15-A... EXPRESS TARIFFS AND CLASSIFICATIONS. ADMINISTRATIVE RULINGS AND OPINIONS. INDEX TO TARIFF CIRCULAR No. 16-A. . . . . INDEX TO ADMINISTRATIVE RULINGS AND OPINIONS.. CONFERENCE RULINGS OF THE COMMISSION, BULLETIN No. 1.. PAGE CLASSIFICATION OF OPERATING REVENUES, FIRST ISSUE... SUPPLEMENT TO FIRST REVISED ISSUE OF THE CLASSIFICATION OF EXPENDITURES FOR ROAD AND EQUIPMENT..... ACT TO REGULATE COMMERCE. [Approved February 4, 1887, and in effect April 5. 1887 (24 Statutes at Large, 379: 1 Supp. to Rev. Stat. U. S. 529; amended by act approved March 2. 1889 (25 Statutes at Large, 855: 1 Supp. to Rev. Stat. U. S., 684), and by act approved February 10, 1891 (26 Statutes at Large, 743; 1 Supp. to Rev. Stat. U. S., 891), and by act approved February 8, 1895 (28 Statutes at Large, 643: 2 Supp. to Rev. Stat. U. S., 369), and by act approved June 29, 1906 (34 Statutes at Large, 584), and by act approved April 13, 1908.] Carriers and tation subject to the act. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SEc. 1. (As amended June 29, 1906, and April 13, 1908.) 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 transpor 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 rail road (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 apply one State and not shipped to or from a foreign country from or to any State or Territory as aforesaid. The term "common carrier' as used in this Act shall include 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 "trans portation" 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 overy carrier subject 3 Act does not to trans portation wholly within one State. Express companies and sleeping car companies included. What the terms "railroad " and transportation include. |