CHAP. 23.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 24 of chapter 61
of the Code of 1878, as amended by section 1 of an act approved
March 31, 1875, in relation to works of internal improvement.

Approved March 28, 1879.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section
twenty-four of chapter sixty-one of the Code of eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-three, as amended by section one of an act
approved March the thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-
five, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 24. No railroad company or canal company or other com-
mon carrier chartered by or doing business in this state shall
make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advan-
tage to or in favor of any particular person or company, or
any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatever ;
nor shall any such company or other common carrier subject
any particular person or company, or any particular descrip-
tion of traffic, to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or dis-
advantage in any respect whatsoever: and every railroad com-
pany and canal company and other common carrier shall,
according to their respective powers, afford all reasonable
facilities for the receiving and forwarding and delivering of
traffic upon and from the several railroads and canals and
steam or sail vessels belonging to or worked by such compa-
nies respectively, and for the return of carriages, boats, trucks
and other vehicles. Every railroad company and canal com-
pany and other coinmon carrier having or working railroads or
canals or vessels, which form part of a continuous line of rail-
road or canal or other communication, or which have the ter-
minus, station or wharf of the one near the terminus, station
or wharf of the other, shall atford all due or reasonable facili-
ties for receiving and forwarding all the traffic arriving by one
of such railroads or canals or other lines by the other, without
any unreasonable, delay, and without any such preference or
advantage, or prejudice or disadvantage, as aforesaid, and so
that no obstruction may be offered to the public desirous of
using such railroads or canals or other lines as a continuous
line of communication, and so that all reasonable accommoda-
tion may, by means of the railroads and*canals and other lines
of the several companies, be at all times afforded to the public
in that behalf.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage,