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4. What regulations govern your employees in regard to crossings of public highways? And are these regulations found to be sufficient?

5. What platform and coupler between passenger cars, do you use?

6. What kind of brakes do you use on passenger trains?

U. 8. MAIL.

7. What is the compensation paid you by the U. S. Government for the trausportation of its mails, and on what terms of service?

EXPRESS COMPANIES.

8. What express companies run on your road, and on what terms, and on what conditions as to rates, use of track, machinery, repairs of cars, etc.; what kind of business is done by them, and do you take their freights at the depot, or at the office of such express companies?

TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES.

9. What freight and transportation companies run on your road, and on what terms, and on what conditions as to rates, use of track, machinery, repairs of cars, etc.? Do they use the cars of your company, or those furished by themselves, and are their cars or their freight given any preference in speed or order of transportation, and if so, in what particular?

SLEEPING CARS.

10. Do sleeping or dining cars run on your road, and if so, on what terms are they run, by whom are they owned, and what charges are made in addi. tion to the regular passenger rates?

ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS.

11. * Date of original charter of the road and that of any road consolidated with it, with the names of the companies.

12.

Date of foreclosure and sale under which road and each branch is now held, and terms and amount of each sale.

13. Rates and dates of all cash dividends on stock of original and consolidated companies, as far as known.

14. Rates and dates of stock and other dividends, not cash, of original and consolidated companies.

15. Date when main line (giving termini and length) was completed and put in operation.

16. * Date of the commencement of operating of each branch line, giving termini and length?

17. Roads operated under lease (whether temporary or permanent) giving name, termini, length, address of lessors and terms of lease.

18. What running arrangements have you with other railroad companies, setting forth the contracts for the same?

*NOTE.-If the answer to this question was given in full last year, it is only necessary to refer to the page in the annual report of the Railroad Commission on which the answer may be found.

| No. of Accidents.

19. What is the total number of acres of swamp or other state lands granted to your company by the state?

20. What is the total number of acres United States lands granted to your company by congress directly, or through the state?

21. What number acres received by your company, directly or indirectly? 22. What number acres sold and conveyed?

23. Average price, per acre, realized?

24. To what corporations have you sold land? How much, and at what price?

25. Number of acres now held by company?

26. Average price asked for lands now held by company?

27. Value of donations of right of way or other real estate?

28. Amount of city, county and town aid granted to company in exchange for stock, or otherwise? Specify particulars.

29. Total cash amount realized from such aid?

30. Amount of land sold, but not conveyed, under contracts now in force? 31. The whole amount of cash, principal and interest, received for lands hitherto sold and conveyed?

32. Whole amount of cash received, principal and interest, on outstanding contracts in force?

33. Whole amount of cash received, principal and interest, on contracts forfeited?

34. Whole amount of cash received for stumpage, trespasses, etc.?

35. What have been your total receipts from lands sold, and contracted to be sold, the past year?

36. What is the aggregate sum of receipts, on account of lands, from all sources whatever, up to the present time?

37. What is the amount now due the company on lands sold, or contracted to be sold?

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1. Of the above accidents, those numbered as follows were caused by broken rails: Total No..

2. Of the above accidents, those numbered as follows were caused by INATTENTION OF EMPLOYEES: Total No.

3. Of the above accidents, those numbered as follows were caused by COLLISIONS not properly coming under 2: Total No.

4. Of the above accidents, those numbered as follows were caused by explosions: Total No.

5. Amount paid as damages on account of stock killed by trains, $

6. Amount paid as damages caused by fire from locomotives, $

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sworn, depose and say that they have caused the foregoing statements to be prepared by the proper officers and agents of this company, and having carefully examined the same, declare them to be a true, full and correct statement of the condition and affairs of said company, on the first day of July, A. D. 187, to the best of their knowledge and belief.

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COMPLAINTS OF VIOLATION OF LAW BY RAILROAD COMPANIES SINCE OCT. 1, 1874.

J. L. ROOD, OF MONROE, VS. THE C., M. & ST. P. R. R. CO.

J. H. OSBORN, Com'r, Madison:

MONROE. October 17, 1874.

DEAR SIR: I wish to address you a line, setting forth the present condition of affairs in respect to the railroad company at this place.

Most of my lumber comes from Oshkosh and Fond du Lac. From Oshkosh to Janesville I am charged $13.50. What I wish to ascertain is, whether the railroad company is entitled to $26.50 for hauling one car of lumber from Oshkosh to Monroe. An answer will much oblige,

Yours truly,

4--R. R.-Doc.

J. L. ROOD.

COMMISSIONER OSBORN TO J. L. ROOD.

OFFICE OF RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS,

J. L. ROOD, Esq., Monroe:

MADISON, Oct. 17, 1874.

DEAR SIR: Yours of the 16th is at hand. They have over-charged you. The distance from Oshkosh to Monroe is 136.1 miles: charge of a car load of lumber of 137 miles, $20.50.

(102.4 × 137), the legal See sec. 5 of chap. 273: In computing the rate of carrying any freight according to the provisions of this act, the distance of carrying such freight shall be computed from where it is received, notwithstanding it may pass from one railroad to another."

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Your letter is received. Enclosed you have a letter I received from O. E. Britt. You see what he claims in relation to freight coming first over N. W.R. from Oshkosh to Janesville, and then from Janesvile, by M. & St. P. R. R. to Monroe. I have been paying these rates of freight (under protest), on about fifty cars. I would like to know if there is any other way to correct this matter than for me personally to sue the railroad company, or whether it is in the power of the Railroad Commissioners to correct this matter. Can the companies refuse to carry other cars than their own on their respective roads? Please answer and oblige,

J. L. ROOD.

COPY OF MR. BRITT'S LETTER TO MR. ROOD.

CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL RAILWAY,

J. L. ROOD, Esq., Monroe, Wis.:

Freight Department, MILWAUKEE, October 14, 1874.

GENT:-I have no arrangement with the Chicago and Northwestern Railway to haul lumber which they may deliver us at anything less than the rates made in the Commissioners' distance tariff. This tariff gives us $13 for hauling 35 miles. The Commissioners' tariff says, "distances are to be computed from localities where freight is received, notwithstanding it may pass from one railroad to another." The locality from which we received this lumber is Janesville, and we have computed our rate from there. I have no bargain with any one to haul lumber from Oshkosh to Monroe, part of

the way on the Northwestern, and part of the way over our road. As you appear to have been in correspondence with the Commissioners, what rate do they say I am entitled to for hauling this lumber from Janesville to Monroe? Truly yours,

O. E. BRITT

COMMISSIONER HOYT TO J. L. ROOD.

J. L. ROOD, Esq., Monroe, Wis.

MADISON, OCTOBER 21, 1874.

DEAR SIR: Your communication of the 9th addressed to Commissioner Os. born, and enclosing a letter of the 14th from O. E. Britt, General Freight Agent of the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, is at hand. From these letters it appears (1) that you have been considerably overcharged by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company, for the transportation of lumber from Janesville to Monroe; and (2) that such charge has been properly made by authority of Mr. Britt, on the theory that the law allows the St. Paul Co., to compute the distance on which their charge shall be based, not from the place where the freight was received by the first company carrying it on its way to the place of consignment, but from the point where they, the said Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Co., received it.

If your lumber was delivered to the C & N. W. R. R. Co., at Oshkosh to be carried from that place through to Monroe, and was received by said company for continuous transportation from the Junction to the latter place, without objection or stipulation as to delivery at Janesville and transshipment therefrom, then it is unquestionable that the construction put upon the law by Mr. Britt is wholly without warrant, and that, if insisted on, it will necessitate legal proceedings in pursuance of the injunction recently granted by the supreme court.

With the view to such a contingency, the Railroad Commissioners have laid your case before the Attorney General, and forward herewith the form of an affidavit to be duly executed and returned to them at your earliest convenience.

In concluding your letter of the 19th, you ask, “can the companies refuse to carry other cars than their own on their respective roads?" I know of no law compelling them to haul other cars than their own over any portion of their roads respectively; but if the shipment is made on the above named conditions, there will be little inducement to transship, and if transshipment is made, it cannot be at the expense of the shipper.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Per H. A. TENNEY, Clerk of the Board.

JOHN W. HOYT,

Railroad Commissioner.

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