Office at eapitol. Expenses paid quarterly. Secretary can not hold stock. Twenty-Sixth. The amount expended for improvements. Twenty-seventh. The amount expended for motive power and cars. Twenty-eighth. The amount expended for station house, buildings, and fixtures. Twenty-ninth. All other expenditures for management of road, maintenance of way, motive powers and cars. Thirtieth. The rate of fare for passengers in this state for each month. Thirty-first. A copy of each published rate of fare for passengers and tariff of freight in force or issued for the government of its agents during the same time. Thirty-second. What express companies run on its roads, the kind of business done by them, and whether they take their freights at the depots or at the offices of such express companies. Thirty-third. What freight and transportatation companies run on its road. Thirty-fourth. Whether such freight and transportation companies use the cars of the railroad or the cars furnished by themselves. Thirty-fifth. Whether the freight or cars of such companies are given any preference in speed or order of transportation, and if so, in what particular. SEC. 5. Said commissioners shall hold their office at the capitol of the state. SEC. 6. The expenses of said commissioners and salaries of said secretaries shall be paid quarterly from the treasury out of the general fund. SEC. 7. No person in the employ of any railroad corporation, or holding stock in any railroad corporation shall be employed as secretary. powers of com SEC. 8. The said commissioners shall have General power in the discharge of the duties of that missioners. office, to examine the books, papers, documents, or tariff schedules of any such corporation, or to examine under oath or otherwise, any officer, director, agent, or employe of any such corporation; they are empowered to issue subpoenas and admininister oaths in the same manner and with same power to enforce obedience thereto in the performance of their said duties as belong and pertain to courts of law in this state; and any person who may wilfully obstruct said commissioners in the performance of their duties, or who may refuse to give any information within his possession that may be required by said commissioners, within the line of their duty, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be liable on conviction thereof, to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars; the cost of such subpoenas and investigation to be first paid by the state on the certificate of said commissioners. for violations. SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the governor Prosecution on the request of said commissioners, to direct the district or county attorney of the proper district or county, or the attorney general of the state, to institute and prosecute any and all suits and proceedings for a violation of this act, or any law of the state concerning railroad or railroad corporations. tigate upon SEC. 10. It shall be the duty of said board of Duty to inves commissioners when any complaint under oath complaint. shall be made to them by any citizen of this state of any unreasonable charges made by any railroad company for the performance of any service as such railroad company, or of any discrimination exercised or authorized by any such railroad company, or of any matter or thing wherein the said railroad company shall be charged with the violation of any law of this state, said board shall investigate the cause of such complaint with all the facts and statements of the parties concerned, and if on such investigation it shall appear to such commissioners that there is probable cause for such complaint, they shall notify the railroad company so complained of, of the matter of such complaint, and shall suggest what in their opinion is equitable and just in the premises, and if such railroad companies do not agree with such recommendation or suggestion of such board, the railroad company shall at once notify such board in writing to that effect, and such board shall then appoint a day for a hearing of the matter of such complaint, and if upon said hearing they shall again make a recommendation to such railroad company of what in their judgment shall be proper and just to be done in the premises, and if such railroad company shall refuse or neglect to comply with the recommendation of such board, then such board shall cause such complaint to be filed with the clerk of the district court in the county wherein such complaint arose, and the same shall stand therein as information, which it shall be the duty of the district or county attorney to prosecute at the term of Prosecution. the district court, wherein said complaint shall be filed, holden next after the filing of said complaint, and if a verdict of guilty on such trial shall be returned by the jury against such railroad company, they shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall forfeit and pay such sum not exceeding ($1,000) one thousand dollars, as the court shall deem proper and just, together with all costs of the entire proceedings from the time of filing such complaint with the board of railroad commissioners. upon SEC. 11. Upon the occurrence of any acci- Accidents dent upon any railroad which shall result in railroads. bodily harm or loss of life either to passenger, employe, or other person, the corporation operating the road upon which the accident occured, shall give immediate notice thereof to the railroad commissioners, whose duty it shall be to investigate the same and to promptly report to the governor the extent of the personal injury or loss of life, and whether the same was the result of mismanagement or neglect of the corporation that operated the line on which the injury or loss of life occurred. road," etc., SEC. 12. In the construction of this act, the Phrase "railphrase "railroad" shall be construed to include construed. all railroads and railways operated by steam, and whether operated by the corporations owning them or by other corporations, or otherwise. The phrase "railroad corporation" and "railroad company" shall be construed to mean the corporation, or company, or individual that maintains or operates a railroad operated by steam power. Quorum. Actions against railways. Power of secretaries. SEC. 13. A majority of said board of commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of all business. SEC. 14. Nothing in this act shall be construed to stop or hinder persons or corporations from bringing suit against any railroad company for any violation of any of the laws of this state for the government of railroads. SEC. 15. To carry out the provisions of this act without undue burden to the state officers who compose the board of commissioners, their secretaries are hereby empowered in all matters of examinations or investigations, to perform the duties prescribed for the board themselves; Provided, That in final judgments, or in the fixing or changing of rates, shall only be done by the board themselves. Approved, March 5th, A. D. 1885. CHAPTER 66. Land claims may be recorded. AN ACT entitled "An act providing for the record of certain papers and documents" in the county clerk's office, and to make the same evidence. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of SECTION 1. Whenever any person referred to in the third section of the act of congress entitled "An act to provide for the location of certain confirmed land claims in the state of Missouri, and for other purposes," approved |
