THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE RAILROAD COMMISSION OF- FLORIDA. MARCH 1, 1890. STANFORD LIBRARY JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA: 1890. a STANFORD COMMISSIONERARY REPORT OF RAILROAD COMMISSION, OFFICE OF RAILROAD COMMISSION, TALLAHASSEE, FLA., March 1st, 1890. His Excellency, Francis P. Fleming, Governor of Florida: AMENDMENTS TO THE LAW. Since the date of our last report several important changes have been made in the law respecting the powers and duties of the Commission. One of these is contained in section 6 of the new Act. Section 5 of the former statute directed the Commissioners to make and fix reasonable and just rates of freight and passenger tariffs;" whereas section 6 of the present law directs the Commissioners to require each railroad company "to make a schedule of just and reasonable rates of charges for the transportation of freights, passengers and cars, on its railroad, and for all railroads under its control and management, which schedule, before being acted upon or put in operation by said railroads, shall be submitted to the Railroad Commissioners for their revision and adoption, and thereupon the Commissioners shall carefully investigate said schedules, and revise such schedules in such particulars as they may deem necessary so as to make all of said rates and charges to be just, fair and reasonable, and such schedules as revised and adopted by said Commissioners shall be the tariff of rates for freight, passengers and cars, by which such roads shall be governed respectively." Provided that the rules and regulations and schedules heretofore made by said Commissioners, in force at the date of the passage of the amended act, shall, unless changed or abrogated by the said Commissioners, be and remain in full force until the schedules herein provided for shall have been made, revised, adopted or allowed by the Commissioners. 1 |