GENERAL QUESTIONS.

Please send any rates, general or special; instructions to agents; schedules; and contracts, oral or written, not heretofore sent, and reply whether you have sent all, it being the duty of the Commission to keep them on file.

ANSWER-Whether the rates, rules and regulations have been, and are now, posted, according to law, at all stations of your road, and whether the said rules have been complied with, in the operations of your road; this also being required by law.

Especially-Whether there has been an impartial observance of the rates and rules towards communities and individuals on your line, and whether any secret rebates have been paid, or any agreement made whereby such rebates were or are to be paid elsewhere, in the State or out of it; and, if any, state what and to whom.

ANSWER-Also, as to any discrimination or partiality towards other lines of connecting roads, in the way of passenger and freight connections and transfers; joint rates, etc.; accepting freight from any one line on different terms from those exacted of others. What offices or officers have you in common with other companies?

ANSWER-As to compliance with the common law rules of due diligence as to reasonable accommodations on your cars, as to heat, light, ventilation, water, and cleanliness in saloons, spittoons, etc., and keeping cars in order, doors, windows, blinds, etc., and preserving order and decorum on your trains; also, as to accommodations for regular passengers, whether they have been in any way lessened to favor express, sleeping car or parlor car companies.

ANSWER-As to inspection of road and track, bridges, trestles, culverts, etc.; also, of equipment, engines, cars, trucks, wheels, etc., for safety of employes and passengers; also, as to use of brakes, of the telegraph, etc., as precautions, lights at night, watchmen, etc., for the protection of the public and the employes of the company; also, the limit of tonnage on Express and Baggage cars, to prevent hazard.

If any of the questions in this report or on this page are difficult to answer, apply for time to get the needful information.

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OATH.

I do solemnly swear that the answers to the questions in the foregoing report are just and true; that the valuations affixed to the property are as full and correct as we can make them; that the liabilities, and the ground of the same, are stated fully; that the details of the aggregate items have been examined by the proper officers, and the profit and loss account applied to the best of our skill and knowledge, and that the showing made is as honest, truthful and correct as we have the means of making it; that there has been no evasion and no delay without adequate and lawful All this I swear to the best of my knowledge and belief. Sworn to and subscribed

cause.

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NOTE.-The_difference between the foregoing forms and the forms in ordinary use, we may hereafter illustrate by examples. When the same matter, as expressed in the common form, is reduced to the systematic form proposed, one will be surprised at the increased clearness of the statement, and the mastery it affords-at once in Comprehension and Detail-over the condition and business of a Railroad Company.