STREET RAILWAY LAWS OF 1882

WITH

ADDITIONAL AND AMENDING STATUTES.

PUBLIC STATUTES, CHAPTER 112.

OF RAILROAD CORPORATIONS AND RAILROADS.

(The following Sections of this Chapter apply also to Street Railway Companies and Street Railways.)

words and

SECTION 1. In the construction of this and the following chapter, Definition of unless such meaning would be repugnant to the context or to the phrases. 1874, 372, § 2. manifest intention of the general court, the phrase "railroads and see § 221. railways" shall include all railroads and railways in this commonwealth, except tramways in mines and marine railways, whether operated by steam or by animal power, and whether operated by the corporations owning them or by other corporations or otherwise; "railroad" shall mean a railroad or railway usually operated by steam power; "street railway" shall mean a railroad or railway usually operated by animal power; "railroad corporation" and "railroad company" shall mean the corporation which lays out, constructs, maintains, or operates a railroad operated by steam power; "street railway company" shall mean a corporation by which a street railway is constructed, maintained, or operated; "the board" shall mean the board of railroad commissioners.

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BOARD OF RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS.

Railroad com. missioners

and clerk.

Appointment,

etc.

1874, 372, § 6. 1876, 206, § 1.

BOARD OF RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS.

SECTION 9. There shall be a board of railroad commissioners, consisting of three competent persons. The governor with the advice tenure of office, and consent of the council shall, before the first day of July in each year, appoint a commissioner, to continue in office for the term of See 1887, 364. three years from said day; and if a vacancy happens, he shall in the same manner appoint a commissioner for the residue of the term, and may in the same manner remove any commissioner. Said board shall have a clerk, to be appointed by the governor, who shall keep a full and faithful record of its proceedings, and serve such notices as the commissioners may require. The commissioners and clerk shall be sworn before entering upon the discharge of their duties. No person in the employment of or owning stock in a railroad corporation shall hold either of said offices. No such commissioner or clerk shall personally, or through a partner or agent, render any professional service or make or perform any business contract with or for a railroad corporation chartered under the laws of this commonwealth, excepting contracts made with them as common carriers, nor shall he directly or indirectly receive a commission, bonus, discount, present, or reward from any such corporation.

Disabilities.

Salaries, expenses, etc. 1874, 372, § 17. 1876, 185, § 3. 1879, 287, § 1. Amended. 1885, 119. 1885, 164.

1885, 224. 1890, 200.

Salary of clerk.

Repeal.

SECTION 10. The annual salary of the chairman of the board shall be four thousand dollars, that of the other commissioners three thousand five hundred dollars each, and that of their clerk [two thousand] twenty-five hundred dollars, payable [quarterly] monthly on the first day of each month from the treasury of the commonwealth. The commissioners shall be provided with an office in the state house, or in some other suitable place in the city of Boston, in which their records shall be kept. In the discharge of their official duties, they shall be transported over the several railroads and railways in the commonwealth free of charge, and may employ and take with them experts or other agents, whose services they deem to be temporarily of importance. The board may expend a sum not exceeding [five hundred] two thousand dollars annually in procuring necessary books, maps, statistics and stationery, and in defraying expenses incidental and necessary to the discharge of its duties, and a sum not exceeding [two thousand] twenty-five hundred dollars annually in defraying the compensation of an accountant, payable [quarterly] monthly on the first day of each month. A statement of such expenditures shall accompany its annual report.

Acts of 1885, Chapter 119.

An Act to establish the Salary of the Clerk of the Board of Railroad
Commissioners.

SECTION 1. The annual salary of the clerk of the board of railroad commissioners shall be twenty-five hundred dollars from the first day of January in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five.

SECTION 2. So much of section ten of chapter one hundred and twelve of the Public Statutes as is inconsistent with this act is hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved April 1, 1885.

[See page 4, Section 9.]

Assistant Clerk.

Acts of 1895, Chapter 313.

An Act to provide an Assistant Clerk for the Board of Railroad Com

missioners.

etc.

SECTION 1. The board of railroad commissioners may employ an assist- Assistant clerk. ant clerk at a salary not to exceed twelve hundred dollars a year, payable from the treasury of the Commonwealth. Said clerk shall do such clerical Salary, duties, and other office work as may be required by the board, and in case of the absence or disability of the official clerk may, when so directed by the board, perform the duties of said official clerk. The salary of the assistant clerk shall be borne and apportioned in the manner provided in section twelve of chapter one hundred and twelve of the Public Statutes.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved April 25, 1895.