Chap. 360.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 23, 24, and 26, of
chapter 61, Code of 1873, in relation to Common Carriers.

Approved March 31, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the gencral assembly of Virginia, That
sections twenty-three, twenty-four and twenty-six of chapter
sixty-one of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-
three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

€ 23. No railroad, canal, steamboat, steamship or trans-
portation company, or other common carrier chartered by
or doing business in this state, shall charge, take or receive
a greater sum for the transportation of any person, or pas-
senger, or matter of freight, over a portion of its line or
route, whether such shall, in whole or only in part, be within
the limits of this state, than is charged by such company, or
other common carrier, for the like transportation of the like
class of persons. or passengers, or matter of freight, over the
entire length of its line or route; nor sball any such com-
pany, or other. common carricr, charge, take or receive a
higher rate of compensation for transporting any person or
matter of freight over a portion or the whole length of its
line, (whether such transportation shall be done directly by
the agents, engines, cars, boats or otber vehicles of such
company, or by those of other persons, parties or corpora-
tions, as such may be expressly allowed by law), going from
any city within the state and destined for any point beyond,
than is charged, taken or received by such company or other
carrier on its own account directly, or by any other agent
or agency is charged, received or taken, at tho same time,
for the like transportation over the entire length of its line,
of the like class of persons or passengers, or the like matter
of freight, coming from any point beyond the state and
destined for or consigned to the same place; nor shall any
such company, or other common carrier, charge, take or re
ceive, or allow to be charged, taken or received, for tran
portation of any person or matter of freight coming fron
the same point beyond the limits of the state and destine:
for any one of the cities of Virginia, a higher rate than ‘:
charged at the same time for tho like transportation over
the entire length of its line, of the like class of persons ¢:
the like matter of freight coming from the same point an:
destined for any place beyond the limits of the state; n™
shall any such company or other common carrier violate ©
evade such conditions in or under any manner of arranze
ment by schedule, through tickets, fares, through transpour
tation bills and rates, nor by contract or otherwise underta«:
to rent, let or farm out the whole or any part of its local u:
through tonnage business, nor employ on shares or commi:
sions any person, party, agency or corporation to solicit
otherwise procure the whole or any part of such tonnay:
business; nor shall any such company or other common
carrier allow through tickets or through baggage checks t
be issued over its line by any company or transportation
line, its agents or agencies, not incorporated by this state.
which such company or line shall refuse or inhibit by any
means any other such company or transportation line incor.
porated by this state, the privilege of issuing by its owt
local agents, and such agents or agencies as it may establisé
in any city or elsewhere, through tickets and baggage check
over such company’s road or transportation line, not incoat-
porated by this state.

§:24. No railroad, canal company, or other common csr
rier, chartered by or doing business in this state, shall mak-
or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantag:
to or in favor of any particular citizen of this state, or any
particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever.
nor shall any such company or common carrier subject any
particular citizen of this state, or any particular descriptioz
of traffic, to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disad-
vantage in any respect whatsoever.

§ 26. Any person or company complaining against anys
railroad, canal company, or other common carrier, of any
thing done, or of any omission made, in violation or contra
vention of this act, embracing sections twenty-three an!
twenty-four, may apply to a circuit court, or to a jadge
thereof, who may hear and determine the matter of suct
complaint; and if it appear to such court or judge on sack
hearing, or on the report of any. commissioner to whom th’
subject of the complaint may have been referred, that any
thing bas been done, or omission made, in violation or con
travention of this act, by such company or common carrier
such court or judge shall issue a writ of injunction restrain.
ing such company from further continuing such violation or
contravention of this act, and enjoining obedience to the
same. Any person or company violating any of the pro-
visions of sections twenty-three and twenty-four of said
shapter sixty-one, shall, for the first violation, be fined five
bundred dollars, and for th€ second and each succeeding vio-
lation, five thousand dollars, for the use of the common-
wealth, to be recovered by motion in any court of record,
after ten days’ notice that such motion will be made.

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