W by sworn When any railroad company shall cause to be weighed cars loaded with freight to be Weighing shipped and charged for by the car-load, such weighing shall be done by a sworn weigher. weigher, such as is provided under the laws of this State for the weighing of cotton, rice and other products. When cars are weighed singly, they shall be uncoupled at both ends and weighed one at a time. from one When lumber, or other like article of freight, which from its length laps over from When lumone car to another, shall be transported, the company may cause two or three of such ber,etc.laps cars so loaded to be weighed together, after being uncoupled from other cars, and the car to anaggregate weight shall be averaged; Provided, In such cases, the shipper shall not pay less freight than the amount of freight due on full car loads. Acts 1882-3, p. 127. X other. crimina. No railroad corporation organized or doing business in this State shall make any un- Unjust dis just discrimination in its rates or charges of toll for the transportation of passengers, or tion profreight of any description, or for the use and transportation of any railroad car on its hibited. said road, or upon any of the branches thereof, or upon any railroads connected therewith, which it has license to operate, control or use. Code, Section 719(d). Nor shall any railroad company discriminate in its rates or tariffs of freight in favor of any line or route connected with it as against any other line or route, nor when a part of its own line is sought to be run in connection with any other route, shall such company discriminate against such connecting line, or in favor of the balance of its own line, but shall have the same rates for all, and shall afford the usual and like customary facilities for interchange of freight to patrons of each and all lines alike. Code, Section 719(a). The Proviso to the first section of the Interstate Commerce Law reads as follows: Provided, however, That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to the transportation of passengers or property, or to the receiving, delivering, storing or handling of property wholly within one State, and not shipped to or from a foreign country from or to any State or Territory as aforesaid. Equal accommodations in separate cars. to assign passengers 130 CARS FOR WHITE AND COLORED PASSENGERS. AN ACT. To require all railroads doing business in this State to furnish equal accommodations and separate cars or compartments for white and colored passengers, to require said companies to furnish comfortable seats, and to sufficiently light and ventilate said cars, to provide for keeping white and colored passengers in their respective cars or compartments, to give conductors and other employees of railroads and conductors of dummy, electric and street cars certain powers and authority over passengers, to comply with the regulations made by said companies under the provisions of this Act, to provide a penalty for the violation of the same, and for other purposes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, all railroads doing business in this State shall be required to furnish equal accommodations, in separate cars, or compartments of cars, for white and colored passengers; provided, that this Act shall not apply to sleeping cars. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That all conductors or other employees in charge of Employees such cars, shall be required to assign all passengers to their respective cars or compartments of cars, provided by the said companies under the provisions of this Act, and all their cars, conductors of dummy, electric and street cars shall be required, and are hereby empartments. powered, to assign all passengers to seats on the cars under their charge, so as to sepa or com rate the white and colored races as much as practicable, and all conductors and other employees of railroads, and all conductors of dummy, electric and street, cars shall have, and are hereby invested with, police powers to carry out the provisions of this Act. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That any passenger remaining in any car or compartPenalty for ment or seat, other than that to which he may have been assigned, shall be guilty of a violating provisions misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of this act. of the Code of 1882. Jurisdiction of such offences shall be in the county in which the same occurs. The conductor and any and all employees on such cars are hereby clothed with power to eject from the train or car any passenger who refuses to remain in such car or compartment or seat as may be assigned to him. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That when a railroad car is divided into compartments, Cars prop- the space set apart or provided for white and colored passengers, respectively, may be erly divided. proportioned according to the proportion of usual and ordinary travel by each on the road or line on which said cars are used. SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That it shall be unlawful for the officers or employees White and having charge of such railroad cars to allow or permit white and colored passengers to co'ored occupy the same car or compartment, and for a violation of this section, any such officer or employee shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished as is prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of 1882. passengers not to oc cupy same compartments. Cars to be comforta ble, etc. SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to nurses or servants in attendance on their employers. SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That all companies operating and using compartment cars or separate cars shall furnish to the passengers comfortable seats, and have such cars well and sufficiently lighted and ventilated, and a failure tɔ so do shall be a misdemeanor, punishable under section 4310 of the Code of 1882. SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are, hereby repealed. Approved October 21, 1891. APPENDIX A. RULES Tariffs and Classification GOVERNING EXPRESS COMPANIES, ADOPTED BY THE RAILROAD COMMISSION As Amended to October 15, 1894. APPLYING BETWEEN POINTS WITHIN THE STATE OF GEORGIA. DISTANCE. TARIFF A Merchandise Rates Per Hundred and Graduated Rates for Packages Weighing Less than One Hundred Pounds. AS FIXED BY THE RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA. Merchandise Rates. RATES PER 100 POUNDS. 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 105 115 120 130 135 140 MILES. 20 40 60 80 100 130 160 180 200 250 300 350 400 450 MILES. Packages weighing five pounds and under shall not be charged more than 25 cents by one company for any distance within this State, but when such packages are handled by two or more companies, each company may charge 25 cents, less 20 per cent. Rates Per Hundred Pounds and Graduated Rates for Packages Weighing Less than One Rates POUNDS. 30 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 MILES. per MILES. 20 40 60 80 100 130 160 180 200 250 300 350 400 450 Over 70, not over 80 30 30 35 45 55 60 80 85 181 to 200 65 Over 80, not over 90 30 30 35 40 45 50 55 65 70 75 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 201 to 250 70 Over 90, not over 100 30 NOTE.-Packages weighing five pounds and under shall not be charged more than 25 cents by one company for any distance within this State, but when such packages are handled by two or more companies, each company may charge 25 cents, less 20 per cent, |