EXPENSES OF OPERATING THE RAILWAY. Repairs of road-bed and track, Repairs of cars and other vehicles, harness, and horse-shoeing, Repairs of buildings, Keeping good the stock of horses, Wages and salaries of all persons employed, excepting president, treasurer and superintendent, and their clerks, Provender, United States taxes, State taxes, Local taxes, Rent and tolls paid other companies for use of their roads, specifying amount to each, Amount paid other companies for use of bridges and ferries, specifying amount to each, Insurance, . Damages for injuries to persons, General salaries, and office expenses, and all other expenses except interest not included above, Total expenses, Per mile of single track operated, not including sidings, &c., REVENUE FOR THE YEAR. Received from passengers on railways operated by this company, and for Received from other railways, as tolls or rent, specifying amount from each, Received for sales of manure, Total earnings, Income from other sources, Total income, [F.] Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-One. AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-TWO OF THE ACTS OF THE YEAR EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY, REQUIRING RAILROAD TRAINS TO BE FURNISHED WITH CERTAIN TOOLS AND APPLIANCES. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: SECTION 1. Section one of chapter three hundred and seventytwo of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy is hereby amended, by striking out the words "two traversing jack-screws " in the third and fourth lines, and inserting in the fifth and sixth lines the words "ropes and chains suitable for hauling cars" instead of the words "chains, ropes and blocks suitable for hauling cars and engines." SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [G.] Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-One. AN ACT REQUIRING SAFETY SWITCHES TO BE PLACED UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES IN THE MAIN LINES OF RAILROADS. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: SECTION 1. Every railroad hereafter constructed in this Commonwealth shall be equipped, throughout its main line of road, with the Tyler, or such other form of safety switch as shall previously receive the approval in writing of the board of railroad commissioners. All railroad corporations of this state, whenever any additional switches are placed in their main lines of road, or any switches now in use on their main lines of road, and of patterns not approved by the board of railroad commissioners, are worn out or require for any cause to be renewed, shall lay down in such main line only safety switches approved as aforesaid. SECTION 2. Any railroad corporation disregarding the provisions of this act, shall forfeit to the Commonwealth the sum of two hundred dollars for each and every switch put down in violation of it, and a further sum of twenty-five dollars for each and every month that any such switch is kept in use. It shall be the duty of the railroad commissioners to see that this act is complied with, and the attorney-general shall sue for any forfeiture incurred under its provisions. [The Tyler switch was referred to in the last report of the Hon. George B. Wright, commissioner of railroads and telegraphs in the State of Ohio, and a careful description of it can there be found. (Annual Report, 1869, p. 13.)] [H.] Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-One. AN ACT TO REGULATE CHARGES FOR THE CARRIAGE OF MERCHANDISE ON RAILROADS. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: SECTION 1. No railroad corporation of this Commonwealth shall charge or collect for the transportation of goods or merchandise for any shorter distance, any larger amount as toll or freight than is charged or collected for the carriage of similar quantities of the same class of goods over a longer distance upon the same road. SECTION 2. Any railroad corporation offending against the provisions of this act, shall be liable for each offence to a penalty not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, to be recovered by any party aggrieved in an action of tort. [Laws of Michigan, 3d April, 1869, No. 109, § 17, cl. 9.] [I.] PETITION OF THE FITCHBURG RAILROAD COMPANY, that the Board of Railroad Commissioners will fix and determine what compensation shall be made by the Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg Railroad Company, for entering on the Fitchburg Railroad, and for the past, present, and future use of said railroad and its appurtenances, &c. The facts in this case as they appeared by the statements of counsel, which were not controverted, are as follows:— The Boston, Clinton & Fitchburg Railroad, which is the successor of the Fitchburg & Worcester Railroad, has a legal connection, by a suitable and convenient track, with the Vermont & Massachusetts Railroad, and with the Cheshire Railroad, which by lease uses the track of the Vermont & Massachusetts Railroad, in the town of Fitchburg. This connection is entirely independent of the Fitchburg Railroad, but for many years the Vermont & Massachusetts Railroad and the Cheshire Railroad, by some arrangement with the Fitchburg Railroad, have brought their freight trains upon the tracks and into the yard of the latter road, where the freight has been distributed or reloaded, and trains made up for further transportation over the Fitchburg Railroad and its connections, and the merchandise and cars consigned or directed to the Fitchburg & Worcester or Clinton line have been made up and delivered to said Clinton line. This labor of shifting merchandise and cars has been performed by the Fitchburg Railroad, over which road the greater part of the freight coming from the upper roads was transported to Boston or intermediate stations. No claim for compensation was ever made by the Fitchburg Railroad upon the Fitchburg & Worcester Railroad for thus shifting merchandise and cars; but since the completion of the Boston, Clinton & Fitchburg road and the opening of another and competing line between Fitchburg and Boston, a claim has been made for compensation for such labor upon all freight destined for Boston by this competing line, and upon no other. It appears also to have been the practice for the Vermont & Massachusetts and the Cheshire roads to load freight upon their roads, destined for the Fitchburg |