12. Adequate penalties for the falsification or concealment of earnings and expenditures, or other facts.

13. Efficient means for the prompt enforcement of all provisions of the law, at the expense of the state.

Respectfully submitted,

JOSEPH H. OSBORN,

GEORGE H. PAUL,
JOHN W. HOYT,

OFFICE OF THE RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS,

MADISON, January, 1875.

Commissioners.

OFFICIAL PAPERS

OF THE RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS, WITH PORTIONS OF

THEIR CORRESPONDENCE.

[CIRCULAR No. 3]

CLASSIFICATION OF ROADS AND RATES OF FARE AND FREIGHT.

OFFICE OF RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS,

MADISON, May 14, 1874.

To any individual, company or corporation, owning, operating, managing or leasing any railroad or part of a railroad in the state of Wisconsin:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the undersigned, Railroad Commissioners for the state of Wisconsin, appointed in pursuance of chap. 273 of the general laws of said state, approved March 11, 1874, that the following classification of railroads, classification of freights, maximum rates of fare, and maximum rates of freight, have been established by law, and by said commissioners, in pursuance of authority conferred upon said commissioners by said act.

CLASSIFICATION OF ROADS.

CLASS A.-All railroads or parts of railroads, in the state of Wisconsin, now owned, operated, managed or leased, either by the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, or the Western Union Railway Company.

CLASS B. All railroads, or parts of railroads, owned, operated, managed or leased by the Wisconsin Central Railway Company, the Green Bay and Minnesota Railway Company, or the West Wisconsin Railway Company. CLASS C.-All railroads, or parts of railroads, in this state, not herein before enumerated.

CLASSIFICATION OF FREIGHT.

All freights hereafter transported upon any railroad, or part of railroad, in this state, are divided into four general classes, to be designated as First, Second, Third and Fourth Classes, and into seven special classes, to be designated D, E, F, G, H, I, J.

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GENERAL CLASSES.

Said four General Classes shall include all merchandise and other articles of transportation, included in the standard Classification of the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, which took effect December 1, 1873, and at this date used by said company for all business done in Wisconsin, except such articles as are hereinafter assigned in accordance with law to special classes hereinafter named.

SPECIAL CLASSES.

The special classes hereinafter named shall include the following articles, respectively:

D-All grain, in car loads.

E-Flour in lots of fifty bbls., or more; lime in lots of twenty-four bbls., or

more.

F-Salt in lots of sixty bbls., or more; cement, water-lime and stucco, in lots of twenty-four bbls., or more.

G-Lumber, lath and shingles, in car loads.

H-Live stock, in car loads.

I-Agricultural implements, furniture and wagons.

J-Coal, brick, sand, stone and heavy fourth class articles, in car loads.

RATES OF FARE AND FREIGHT.

LIMITATION OF CHARGES FOR FARES.

Any individual, company or corporation owning, operating, managing er leasing any railroad, or part of a railroad, in the classification of roads herein before prescribed, is limited to a compensation for the transportation of any person, with ordinary baggage not exceeding one hundred pounds in weight, as follows:

CLASS A-Three cents per mile.

CLASS B-Three and one-half cents per mile.

CLASS C-Four cents per mile.

Provided, That no such individual, company or corporation, herein before designated, shall charge, demand or receive any greater compensation per mile for the transportation of children of the age of twelve years or under, than one-half the respective rates above prescribed.

LIMITATION OF CHARGES FOR FREIGHT ON RAILROADS CLASSED A AND b.

No individual, company or corporation owning, operating, managing or leasing any railroad mentioned in Classes A and B, is entitled to charge for or receive, a greater or higher rate for carrying any freight belonging to either of the four general classes of freight herein before named, than was charged for carrying freights now belonging to said four general classes, on said railroad, on the first day of June, 1873.

Nor is any individual, company or corporation owning, operating, managing or leasing any railroad belonging to said Classes A and B, entitled to charge for, or receive, a greater or higher rate for carrying articles belonging to any of the special classes herein before named than is specified in the annexed table:

Railroads "A" and "B,"-Freight Tariff-Special Classes.

When rates are not shown in the above table for the exact distance, the rates given for the next greater distance should be used.

In all cases, distances are to be computed from localities where freight is received, notwithstanding it may pass from one railroad to another.

LIMITATION OF CHARGES FOR FREIGHT ON RAILROADS CLASSED C.

No individual, company or corporation owning, operating, managing or leasing any railroad mentioned in class C, is entitled to charge or receive a greater or higher rate for carrying any freight belonging to either the general or special classes herein before designated, than was charged for carrying such freight on said railroad on the first day of June, 1873.

Chapter 273, of the General Laws of 1874, entitled "an act relating to railroads, express and telegraph companies, in the state of Wisconsin," in pur