especially have the right and power and it shall be its duty to fix and regulate the rates or tolls to be charged by the owners or operators of all such telephone lines, stations or exchanges, for the transmission of intelligence for hire, and to require reasonable connections to be made and maintained when practicable, between such lines, stations, or exchanges, and to fix and regulate reasonable rates, tolls, or compensation therefor, and also to require reasonable connections to be made and maintained when practicable, between any such lines, stations or exchanges, and the lines or stations of private individuals, firms or corporations desiring such connections, and to fix and regulate the rates, tolls or compensation therefor; and also to make and enforce rules and regulations by which all persons, firms or corporations, owning or operating telephone lines, stations, or exchanges in this State for the transmission of intelligence for hire, shall be governed in the conduct of said business: Provided, That in cities and towns where franchises have been granted by any city or town to operate and maintain a telephone exchange or exchanges and the rates and tolls are fixed in any such franchise so granted, nothing herein shall permit any increase in the rates and tolls so fixed for service now furnished whether local or otherwise, except by agreement with the municipal authorities in any such city or town and the subscribers: Provided, further, That, except by agreement with the subscribers, no change shall be made in any existing rates without a hearing by said Commission, which shall be had at such time and place as shall be designated by said Commission most convenient to the parties interested, and of which the said Commission shall publish a notice in at least one newspaper most likely to give notice to the parties interested, once a week for at least four weeks.

SEC. 2. That for the purpose of enforcing any carrying into effect the provisions of this Act, and making such investigations as may be necessary and proper in enabling it to discharge the duties hereby imposed, the said Commission is hereby invested with all the rights, powers, and privileges conferred upon it and charged with all the duties imposed upon it or its members as Railroad Commissioners, by the laws of this State for like purposes in regard to railroads, express and telegraph lines, and the persons, firms or corporations owning or operating them.

Enforcement of this Act.

Acts 1904.

No. 281.

Penalty.

Proportion

of expenses.

SEC. 3. That any person, firm or corporation owning or operating any telephone line, stations or exchange in this State, for the transmission of intelligence for hire, who shall wilfully violate any of the provisions of this Act, or fail or refuse to obey any of the orders of said Commission, shall forfeit and pay as a penalty therefor the sum of twenty-five dollars per day for each day in default, to be recovered by suit in the name of the State on the relation of any person, firm or corporation, aggrieved, in any County in which such violation or default shall be committed or occur. And the sum so recovered shall, after paying all expenses of said suit, be paid into the Treasury of the State. It shall be the duty of the Attorney-General and of the Solicitors of the State to prosecute said suits.

SEC. 4. That the persons, firms or corporations owning or operating telephone lines, stations or exchanges in this State for the transmission of intelligence for hire, shall bear their proportion of the salaries of the said Railroad Commission and the salaries of their Clerk and other assistants and of the expenses of their office along with the several corporations mentioned in Sections 2066 and 2221, of Volume I, of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1902, and to that end the Comptroller-General and the fiscal officers named in said Sections shall place all such persons, firms and corporations in the same category as to the pay of the said salaries and expenses as said other corporations, and shall assess and collect their pro rata of said salaries and expenses in the same manner as the pro rata of the said other corporations, and all the duties, requirements, and penalties which the law provides for or against the said other corporations with regard to said salaries and expenses shall devolve upon and be incurred by every person, firm or corporation owning or operating any telephone line, station or exchange in the State for the transmission of intelligence for hire.

Approved the 25th day of February, A. D. 1904.

THIRTIETH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

Railroad Commission

OF

South Carolina

For the Year Ending December 31st, 1908

PART TWO

INCLUDING:

Southern Classification No. 35.

South Carolina Exception Sheet No. 4.

Mileage of All Steam Railroads.

Special Rates.

Class and Commodity Rates.

SOUTHERN CLASSIFICATION No. 35.

GENERAL RULES

SOUTHERN CLASSIFICATION NO. 35 WILL APPLY ON ALL ROADS IN
SOUTH CAROLINA, SUBJECT TO THE CLASSIFICATION AND

NOTE.

RULES AS PROVIDED IN THE SOUTH CAROLINA
EXCEPTION SHEET.

The following is Southern Classification No. 35 in effect at the time of this publication, and is subject to such changes as may be approved by the Commissioners.

1. The reduced rates specified in this classification will apply only Rates will apon property shipped subject to the conditions of the Carrier's Bill ply of Lading.

only on property shipped subject to If the shipper elects not to accept the said reduced rates and condi- the conditions tions, he should notify the agent of the receiving carrier, in writing, of the Carrier's Bill of Lading. at the time his property is offered for shipment, and if he does not give such notice it will be understood that he desires the property carried subject to the Carrier's Bill of Lading conditions in order to secure the reduced rate thereon. Property carried not subject to the conditions of the Carrier's Bill of Lading will be at the carrier's liability, limited only as provided by common law and by the laws of the United States and of the several States, in so far as they apply. Property thus carried will be charged twenty (20) per cent. higher (subject to a minimum increase of one (1) cent per hundred. pounds) than if shipped subject to the conditions of the Carrier's Bill of Lading.

2. This classification is subject to change without other notice than required Changes. by law.

3. Transportation Companies do not furnish Tank Cars.

Tank Car Service.

of

4. (a) Contents of all packages, as near as practicable, must be stated in Description shipping receipt. When an article is differently classified, when differently contents of prepared or packed, the actual character of the article must be specified, packages. otherwise it will be charged at the highest class named on each article. No shipment, will be accepted when designated on the shipping receipt as Merchandise (or "Mdse."), Sundries, or Fancy Goods.

(b) 1. Each package, bundle or piece of less than car load freight must be plainly and legibly marked by brush, stencil, crayon (not chalk), rubber or metal type, pasted label, or securely fastened durable tag, showing the name of the consignee and the name of the station, town or city, and the State to which destined. (See Note.)

NOTE.-Pasted labels or securely fastened durable tags should be used only when the character of freight prevents marking as above specified.

2. The marks on packages, bundles or pieces, must be compared with the Less than car shipping order and bill of lading, and corrections, if necessary, made by the load shipments consignor or his representative before receipt is signed; old marks must be removed or effaced before packages, bundles or pieces, will be accepted for transportation.

to be marked or tagged.