Safety of Employees and Travelers on Railroads - Railway Clearance: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Sixty-fourth Congress, First Session, on S. 3194, a Bill to Promote the Safety of Employees and Travelers on Railroads by Requiring Common Carriers Engaged in Interstate Commerce by Railroad to Afford a Safe and Sufficient Clearance Between Structures Located on Their Roadways and Locomotives and Cars Passing Over Their Lines, and for Other Purposes, April 25, 27, and May 3, 1916U.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 - 87 pages |
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Page 3 - railroad" as used in this Act shall include all bridges and ferries used or operated in connection with any railroad, and also all the road in use by any corporation operating a railroad, whether owned or operated under a contract. agreement, or lease ; and the term "transportation" shall include all instrumentalities of shipment or carriage.
Page 3 - ... in the District of Columbia, or in any Territory of the United States...
Page 4 - That the Interstate Commerce Commission may from time to time upon full hearing and for good cause extend the period within which any common carrier shall comply with the provisions of this act.
Page 20 - SEC. 8. That any employee of any such common carrier who may be injured by any locomotive, car, or train in use contrary to the provision of this act shall not be deemed thereby to have assumed the risk thereby occasioned, although continuing in the employment of such carrier after the unlawful use of such locomotive, car, or train had been brought to his knowledge.
Page 29 - States having jurisdiction in the locality where such violation shall have been committed ; and it shall be the duty of such district attorney to bring such suits upon duly verified information being lodged with him of such violation having occurred.
Page 4 - ... shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every such violation, to be recovered in a suit or suits to be brought by the United States district attorney in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction in the locality where such violation shall have been committed...
Page 4 - ... of this Act shall be liable to a penalty of $500 for each and every violation, to be recovered in a suit or suits to be brought by the United States district...
Page 23 - ... action in the name of the State in any court of competent jurisdiction...
Page 28 - January, eighteen hundred and ninetyeight, it shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars.
Page 17 - Resolved, That it is the sense of this Convention that the Cryptic degrees should be under the exclusive jurisdiction of Grand Councils, and that no one should be recognized as a regular Companion of the Rite who...