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 one State, and not shipped to or from a foreign country from or to any State or Territory as aforesaid.

defined.

The term " railroad" as used in "Railroad" 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;

cluded from act.

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 Intrastate exprovisions 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 one State and not shipped to or from a foreign country from or to any State or Territory as aforesaid.

and

The term 66 Express common carrier" as sleeping-car used in this Act shall include ex- companies. press 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 "transportation" shall include

cars and other vehicles and

all instrumentalities

and facilities

of shipment or carriage,

lines.

car

irrespective of ownership or of Private 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 Duty to transbe the duty of every carrier subject to the provisions of this Act to provide and furnish such transportation upon reasonable request therefor, and to establish through routes and just and reasonable rates applicable thereto.

port.

Through

routes.

reasonable.

All charges made for any service Charges to be rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property as aforesaid, or in connection therewith,

or for the receiving, delivering, storage, or handling of such property,

shall be reasonable and just and every unjust and unreasonable charge for such service

is prohibited and declared to be unlawful.

[SEC. 22, as amended March 2, 1889 (25 Stat., 855), and February 8, 1895 (28 Stat., 643). That part of section dealing with free transportation of passengers transposed to this place from p. 42. It is not specifically amended by act of June 29, 1906, and is still in force, so far as it does not conflict with latter act.]

That nothing in this act shall prevent the

* * *

All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property as aforesaid, or in connection therewith,

shall be just and reasonable; and every unjust and unreasonable charge for such service

or any part thereof

is prohibited and declared to be unlawful.

No common carrier subject to Antipass the provisions of this Act, shall, after January first, nineteen hundred and seven, directly or indirectly, issue or give any interstate

or the free carriage

free ticket, free pass, or free transportation for passengers,

[Part in brackets transposed from below. See p. 4.]

[nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent railroads from giving free carriage to their own officers and employees,]

antipass provi

except to its employees and their Exceptions to families, its officers, agents, sur- sion. geons, physicians, and attorneys at law;

of destitute and homeless persons transported by charitable societies, and the necessary agents employed in such transportation, or the issuance of mileage, excursion, or commutation passenger tickets;

a "Reasonable and just" reversed in new law.