OFFICE OF RAILROAD COMMISSION, STATE OF FLORIDA, TALLAHASSEE, FLA., February 20, 1890. F. E. Bond, Esq., Superintendent Orange Belt Railway, Oakland, Fla.: A complaint has been filed with the Commission by Mr. D. Moffett, of St. Petersburg, of an overcharge made him by your road on a shipment of oranges from St. Petersburg to Port Tampa, the charge made being twenty-five cents per box. In investigating this case the Board desires the information ⚫from you as to whether the same proportionate charge is made from all stations on the line of your road, i. e., do you make the regular mileage charge from stations and add the wharfage, or is the uniform charge of twenty-five cents made on all shipments, regardless of the distance of the haul on your road? Yours truly, JOHN G. WARD, Secretary. No reply was received in time for insertion in this report. C. E. JOHNSON VS. ORANGE BELT RAILWAY. Damage caused by misrouting freight consigned to New York. On January 18, 1890, Mr. Johnson wrote the Commission that he shipped on the Orange Belt Railway several carloads of oranges to New York, via Atlantic Coast Line, but at Savannah two of the carloads were transferred to the Ocean Steamship Company, which caused delay and damage to the extent of $300, and asked if the Commission had any jurisdiction of the matter. The Commission replied that they had no control of such matters under the law, and referred him to the courts. COMPLAINT OF W. M. DEHART. This was a complaint by Mr. DeHart, of Starke, Fla., dated August 7, 1889, of loss of freight consigned to him from LaFayette, Indiana, and asking that the Commission aid him in collecting damages. The Commission answered that this was an Inter-State matter, over which they had no control, and advised Mr. DeHart to consult a lawyer, if necessary. PIERCE & TORRey Investment Co., operating the These are applications under Section 18, Chapter 3862, amendatory of Chapter 3746, known as the Railroad Commission law, for track connections; by the first with the Tavares, Orlando and Atlantic, near Apopka, and by the latter at Or lando, with the South Florida, and have been under investigation for some time. They are still pending, March 10, 1890, having been set for a final hearing. It may be observed that both the Tavares, Orlando and Atlantic and the South Florida deny the authority of the Commission to compel the connection asked for, and that the former only ask for a track connection with the latter in the event the application of the Clay Springs and Apopka Railroad Company shall be granted. OFFICE EXPENSE ACCOUNT FLORIDA RAILROAD 1889. COMMISSION. . 7 20 9 60 4 40 I 25 I 25 I 50 8 00 March 20- -Paid Times-Union advertising Circular 18 $3 00 May June July Paid J. B. Whitfield, copy decision in P. & Paid Times-Union advertising Cir cular 20 Paid Times Union advertising No- 5 00 5 00 2 00 12 24 5 00 5 00 12 85 12 80 4 00 16 80 2 80- 16 00 Less overcharge February 4. August 1-Paid Postoffice account for July. Paid Telegram to Inter State Com. Com. Paid Postoffice box rent to September 30 Paid Gainesville Record advert'g Circular 22 10 50 Brought forward $320 44 Paid Times-Union advertising Circular 22 cular 22. Paid J. H. Estill lithographing letter heads. October 1-Paid Robert, office boy, for September. Paid Postoffice account for September Nov. I-Paid Postoffice account for October. Dec. IO 50 7 00 IO 50 10 50 7 00 IO OO IO 50 70 1 65 40 40 40 5 00 4 00 4 50 Paid Needham, office boy, for October. Paid Orlando Reporter protest notice J., T. Paid Leesburger protest notice J., T. & K. 2 00 Paid Ocala Banner protest notice J., T. & K. W. Railway 2 00 23 1890. Paid postal orders for foregoing Paid 150 Woodruff files, base and shelving. 172 00 January 1-Paid Needham, office boy, for December. Paid E. W. Clark record book . . Paid Postoffice box rent to April 1, 1890. Feb. 28-Paid Needham, office boy, for February |