Chap. 301.—An ACT to require common carriers doing business in this State
to receive and receipt for all freights delivered to them, and to provide a
penalty for neglect or refusal therefor.

Approved March 17, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall be
the duty of each and every common carrier doing business in this State
to receive and receipt for all freight delivered for transmission at any
of their freight receiving depots, when delivered ready for shipment,
during the business hours established at such depots: provided, that this
act shall not apply to live stock, lumber, perishable freight, or to such
freight as requires special cars for shipment.

2. For failure to comply with section one of this act every common
carrier shall be subject to a fine not less than ten nor more than twenty-
five dollars. Each and every refusal to constitute a separate offense.