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An act to regulate commerce, approved February 4, 1887, and in effect April 5,
1887 (24 Statutes at Large, 379), as amended by an act approved March 2,
1889 (25 Statutes at Large, 855), by an act approved February 10, 1891 (26
Statutes at Large, 743), by an act approved February 8, 1895 (28 Statutes
at Large, 643), by an act approved June 29, 1906 (34 Statutes at Large, 584), by
a joint resolution approved June 30, 1906 (34 Statutes at Large, 838), by an
act approved April 13, 1908 (35 Statutes at Large, 60), by an act approved
February 25, 1909 (35 Statutes at Large, 648), by an act approved June 18, 1910
(36 Statutes at Large, 539), by an act approved August 24, 1912 (37 Statutes
at Large, 566), by an act approved March 1, 1913 (37 Statutes at Large, 701),
by an act approved March 4, 1915 (38 Statutes at Large, 1197), by an act
approved August 9, 1916 (39 Statutes at Large, 441), and by an act approved
August 29, 1916 (39 Statutes at Large, 556). . .
An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915, and for other purposes, approved August
1, 1914 (38 Statutes at Large, 627)..
An act to amend an act entitled "An act to codify, revise, and amend the laws
relating to the judiciary," approved March 3, 1911, being chapter 231 of
Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, approved January 20, 1914 (38 Statutes at
Large, 278)....
An act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations
for the fiscal year 1913, and for other purposes, approved October 22, 1913
(38 Statutes at Large, 219)...
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, and amendments thereto," approved February 11,
1893 (27 Statutes at Large, 443)....
An act defining the right of immunity of witnesses under the act entitled "An
act in relation to testimony before the Interstate Commerce Commission, and
so forth," approved February 11, 1893, and an act entitled "An act to es-
tablish the Department of Commerce and Labor," approved February 14, 1903,
and an act entitled "An act to further regulate commerce with foreign nations
and among the States," approved February 19, 1903, and an act entitled "An
act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses
of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, and for other
purposes," approved February 25, 1903; approved June 30, 1906 (34 Statutes
at Large, 798)...
An act to further regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the States,
approved February 19, 1903 (32 Statutes at Large, 847), as amended by an act
approved June 29, 1906 (34 Statutes at Large, 584)..
An act to expedite the hearing and determination of suits in equity pending
or hereafter brought under the act of July 2, 1890, entitled "An act to protect
trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies," an act to
regulate commerce, or any other acts having a like purpose that may be here-
after enacted, approved February 11, 1903 (32 Statutes at Large, 823), as
amended by an act approved June 25, 1910 (36 Statutes at Large, 854).....
An act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies,
and for other purposes, approved October 15, 1914 (38 Statutes at Large,
730), as amended by a joint resolution approved August 31, 1916 (39 Statutes
at Large, 674)....
An act relating to bills of lading in interstate and foreign commerce, approved
August 29, 1916 (39 Statutes at Large, 538).......
An act supplementary to the act of July 1, 1862, entitled "An act to aid in the
construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the
Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal,
military, and other purposes," and also of the act of July 2, 1864, and other
acts amendatory of said first-named act; approved August 7, 1888 (25 Stat-
utes at Large, 382).
An act to incorporate the Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal, to define the
powers thereof, and to facilitate interstate commerce, approved June 30,
1906 (34 Statutes at Large, 809)...
An act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, and for other purposes, approved
August 24, 1912 (37 Statutes at Large, 558), as amended by an act approved
July 28, 1916 (39 Statutes at Large, 412).
An act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by com-
pelling 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, approved March 2, 1893 (27
Statutes at Large, 531), as amended by an act approved April 1, 1896 (29 Stat-
utes at Large, 85)...
An act to amend an act entitled "An act to promote the safety of employees and
travelers, and so forth," approved March 2, 1893, and amended April 1, 1896;
approved March 2, 1903 (32 Statutes at Large, 943). ..
An act to supplement an act to promote the safety of employees and travelers
upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate com-
merce to equip their cars with automatic 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 14, 1910
(36 Statutes at Large, 298); also amendment of March 4, 1911 (36 Statutes at
Large, 1397)...
An act authorizing the Commission to employ safety-appliance inspectors,
approved June 28, 1902 (32 Statutes at Large, 444)..........
An act requiring common carriers engaged in interstate and foreign commerce
to make full reports of all accidents to the Interstate Commerce Commission
and authorizing investigations thereof by said Commission, approved May 6,
1910 (36 Statutes at Large, 350)...................
An act to promote the security of travel upon railroads engaged in interstate
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 limit-
ing the hours of service of employees thereon, approved March 4, 1907 (34
Statutes at Large, 1415), as amended by an act approved May 4, 1916 (39
Statutes at Large, 61).
An act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by com-
pelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their loco-
motives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto, approved
February 17, 1911 (36 Statutes at Large, 913), as amended by an act approved
March 4, 1915 (38 Statutes at Large, 1192).....
Joint resolution directing the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate
and report on block-signal systems and appliances for the automatic control
of railway trains, approved June 30, 1906 (34 Statutes at Large, 838)...
An act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations
for the fiscal year 1913, and for other purposes, approved October 22, 1913
(38 Statutes at Large, 219)..
THE ACT TO REGULATE COMMERCE AS AMENDED.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
Carriers and transportation
SEC. 1. (As amended June 29, 1906, April 13, 1908, and June 18, 1910.) That the provisions of this Act shall ap- subject to the ply 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, and to tele- Telegraph, graph, telephone, and cable companies (whether wire or cable wireless) engaged in sending messages from one State, Territory, or District of the United States, to any other State, Territory, or District of the United States, or to any foreign country, 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 Railroads and 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 fron 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 Act does not of this Act shall not apply to the transportation of pas-portation wholly within sengers or property, or to the receiving, delivering, stor- one State.
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