Chap. 104.—An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the
Regulation of Railroads and Canals within the State, passed March
2, Ist7. .

Passed April 25, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the third
section of the act entitled an act to provide for the regula-
tion of railroads and canals within the state of Virginia,
passed March second, eszhteen hundred and sixty-seven, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows;

“$3. No railroad or canal company in this state shall, for
transportation over the same distance and in the same cha-
racter of trains, charge, take or receive a higher rate for
freight consigned to or from any point within this state, than
is charged, taken or received tor like freight consigned to or
from any point beyond the units of the state. No such
company ‘shall charge a ereater sum for the tr ansportation of
freight over a part of its line than is charged for the trans-
portation of similar fretght over the whole leneth of its
line; and all frei¢ht and all passengers of the same class.
transported over the entire length of any railroad or canal
Within this state, shall pay the same rate of charge. When
however, any railroad or canal company in this state has en.
tered into or shall enter into any schedule arrangement with
the internal improvement companies of other states as to the
transportation of passengers and freight under a system 0!
through ticketsand through bills of k: uling, the provisions of this
section shall not apply as to charges for such passengers and
freight: provided, that it shall not be lawful for any railroad
or canal company within this state to enter into or form any
schedale under which a greater sum is charged for transpor
tation from any point beyond the state to any point within
this state, than is charged for like transportation from suc
point and through this state to any point beyond the same
2. This act shall be in force from its passage. -