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ACT IN RELATION TO TESTIMONY, ETC.

Attendance and testimony of wit duction of documentary evidence compulsory before the Commission, and in any case, criminal or other

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AN ACT In relation to testimony before the Interstate Commerce Commission, and in cases or proceedings under or connected with an act entitled "An act to regulate commerce," approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and amendments thereto.

[Approved February 11, 1893 (27 Statutes at Large, 443; 2 Supp. to Rev. Stat. U. S., 80).]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producing books, papers, tariffs, contracts, agreements and documents before the Interstate Commerce Commission, or in obedience to the subpoena of the Commission, whether such subpoena be signed or issued by one or more Commissioners, or in any cause or proceeding, criminal cr otherwise, based upon or growing out of any alleged violation of the act of Congress, entitled "An act to regulate commerce, "approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, or of any amendment thereof on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him, may tend to criminate him or Immunity to tes- subject him to a penalty or forfeiture. But no person shall be prose

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tifying witnesses.

cuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing, concerning which he may testify, or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, before said Commission, or in obedience to its subpoena, or the subpoena of either of them, or in Perjury ex any such case or proceeding: Provided, That no person so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying.

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Any person who shall neglect or refuse to attend and testify, or to answer any lawful inquiry, or to produce books, papers, tariffs, contracts, agreements, and documents, if in his power to do so, in obedience to the subpoena or lawful requirement of the Commission, shall be guilty of an offense and upon conviction thereof by a court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by fine not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than one year or by both such fine and imprisonment.

ACT DEFINING IMMUNITY.

AN ACT Defining the right of immunity of witnesses under the Act entitied "An act in relation to testimony before the Interstate Commerce Commission," and so forth, approved February eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and an act entitled "An act to establish the Department of Commerce and Labor," approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and an act entitled "An act to further regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the States," approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and an act entitled "An act niaking appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes," approved February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred

and three.

[Approved June 30, 1906 (34 Statutes at Large, 798).]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That under the immunity provisions in the Act entitled "An Act in relation to testimony before the Interstate Commerce Commission," and so forth, approved February eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, in section six of the Act entitled "An Act to establish the Department of Commerce and Labor," approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and in the Act entitled "An act to further regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the States," approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes, "approved February twentyfifth, nineteen hundred and three, immunity shall extend only to a natural person who, in obedience to a subpoena, gives testimony under oath or produces evidence, documentary or otherwise, under oath.

Immunity extends only to natural persons who give testimony under subpoena.

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Award of damages by Commission. (See Money damages.)

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Classification, freight:

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Schedules shall contain.

Commodities, railroads prohibited from transporting, in which they are interested.
Commutation tickets.....

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Appeal to Supreme Court...

Attorney's fees.

Compulsory testimony

Contempt of...

Contracts, etc., filed with Commission prima facie evidence.

Costs and expenses

Elkins Act

Enforce disobeyed order.

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Findings of fact of Commission awarding damages prima facie evidence.

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No costs for petitioner in money-damage cases.

Persons interested parties defendant..

Proceedings to enjoin departures from published rates.

Provisions of expediting act to apply in suits against Commission.

Self-crimination...

Service of process.

Suits for recovery of damages.

Suits for forfeitures...

Suits for switch connections..

Suits instituted to enforce law..

Venue of suits against Commission.

Criminal provisions.....

Damages, money. (See Money damages.)

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