...extortion and unjust discrimination in the rates charged for transportation of passengers and freight and to punish the same and prescribe a mode of procedure and rules of evidence in relation thereto.. (Laws of 1873, p. 135.) Section 2 of that act provided that if any railroad corporation should make...

...LJ] THE NEW RAILROAD LAW OF ILLINOIS. The Illinois legislature, on the 1st inst., passed a bill to prevent extortion and unjust discrimination in the...transportation of passengers and freights on railroads in the State, and also to repeal an act, passed in K; 1 , to prevent unjust discrimination in the rates...

...define the duties of the board of railroad commissioners in relation to the same; to prevent and punish extortion and unjust discrimination in the rates charged...for the transportation of passengers and freights ; and to furnish a mode of procedure and rules of evidence in relation thereto." It contains thirty-three...

...APPROVED May 1, 1873. RAILROADS. AN ACT to prevent extortion and unjust discrimination in the ratee charged for the transportation of passengers and freights on railroads in this State, and to punish the samo, and proscribe a mode of procedure and rules of evidence in relation thereto, and to repeal an...

...5:30 PM, moved that the House adjourn; which was Not »greed to. Sonate bill, No. 357, for "An act to prevent extortion and unjust discrimination in the rates charged for the transportation of freight on railroads," was read a second time. Mr. Gray moved to refer the bill to the committee on...

...debating the various measures submitted, and eventually passed a law which is here given : An Act to prevent extortion and unjust discrimination in the...passengers and freights on railroads in this State, and to repeal an act entitled, "An Act to prevent unjust discriminations and extortions in the rates to be...

...passed the General Assembly May 1, 1873, and was approved the following day, under the title " An act to prevent extortion and unjust discrimination in the...transportation of passengers and freights on railroads in tli is State, and to punish the same mill prescribe a mode of procedure, and rules of evidence in relation...

...extortions and unjust discriminations in the rates charged for the transportation of freights and passengers on railroads in this State, and to punish the same, and prescribe a mode of proceeding and rules of evidence in relation thereto. Read first and second time, ordered printed and...

...consent), from the committee on railroads, to which was referred House bill, No. 884, for "Au act to prevent extortion and unjust discrimination in. the rates charged for the transportation of freight cars on railroads in this state, and to punish the same, and prescribe a mode of procedure...

...the State, and I submit this proposition to the careful consideration of the Legislature. The law to prevent extortion and unjust discrimination in the...for the transportation of passengers and freights on the railroads in this State, lias been in force about eighteen mouths, and the schedules prepared by...