Goods Hidden from View by Wrapping and Boxing: Hearing[s] Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Sixty-foruth Congress, First Session, on S. 538, a Bill to Amend an Act Entitled "An Act to Amend an Act Entitled "An Act to Regulate Commerce,"' Approved Feb. 4, 1887, and All Acts Amendatory Thereof, and to Enlarge the Powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission," Approved Mar. 4, 1915; S. 3069, a Bill to Amend an Act Entitled "An Act to Amend an Act Entitled 'An Act to Amend an Act Entitled "An Act to Regulate Commerce,"' Approved Feb. 4, 1887, and All Acts Amendatory Thereof, and to Enlarge the Powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission," Approved Mar. 4, 1915; S. 3954, a Bill to Amend an Act Entitled "An Act to Amend an Act Entitled 'An Act to Amend an Act Entitled "An Act to Regulate Commerce,"' Approved Feb. 4, 1887, and All Acts Amendatory Thereof, and to Enlarge the Powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission," Approved Mar. 4, 1915, Parts 1-2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 |
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Page 35 - ... any common carrier, railroad, or transportation company to which such property may be delivered or over whose line or lines such property may pass...
Page 25 - An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to amend an act entitled "An act to regulate commerce," approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all acts amendatory thereof, and to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission...
Page 46 - That any common carrier, railroad, or transportation company receiving property for transportation from a point in one State to a point in another State shall issue a receipt or bill of lading therefor and shall be liable to the lawful holder thereof for any loss, damage, or injury to such property caused by it...
Page 35 - Columbia to a point in another state or territory, or from a point in a state or territory to a point in the District of Columbia, or from any point in the United States to a point in an adjacent foreign country...
Page 37 - The southern classification, which, speaking in general, applies in the territory east of the Mississippi and south of the...
Page 47 - Provided, that nothing in this section shall deprive any holder of such receipt or bill of lading of any remedy or right of action which he has under existing law.
Page 35 - ... full actual loss, damage, or injury to such property caused by it or by any such common carrier, railroad, or transportation company to which such property may be delivered or over whose line or lines such property may pass within the United States or within an adjacent foreign country when transported on a through bill of lading, notwithstanding any limitation of liability or limitation of the amount of recovery or representation or agreement, as to value in any such receipt or bill of lading,...
Page 36 - The official classification, which, speaking generally, applies in the territory east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers...
Page 4 - Provided, however, That the provisions hereof respecting liability for full actual loss, damage, or injury, notwithstanding any limitation of liability or recovery or representation or agreement or release as to value, and declaring any such limitation to be unlawful and void...
Page 58 - ... agreed upon; and the commission is hereby empowered to make such order in cases where rates dependent upon and varying with declared or agreed values would, in its opinion, be just and reasonable under the circumstances and conditions surrounding the transportation. The term