The Laws of Wisconsin

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Atwood & Culver, 1905
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Page 16 - ... to compel obedience by attachment proceedings for contempt, as in the case of disobedience of the requirements of a subpoena issued from such court, or a refusal to testify therein.
Page 26 - The commission or any commissioner or any party may, in any investigation or hearing before the commission, cause the deposition of witnesses residing within or without the state to be taken in the manner prescribed by law for like depositions in civil actions in the superior courts of this state and to that end may compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, waybills, documents, papers and accounts.
Page 27 - Nothing herein shall prevent the carriage, storage or handling of freight free or at reduced rates for the United States, the state, or any...
Page 25 - In case of disobedience on the part of any person or persons to comply with any order of the commission or any commissioner or any subpoena, or on the refusal of any witness to testify to any matter regarding which he may be lawfully interrogated...
Page 15 - Each of said committees may by subpoena, issued over the signature of the chairman or acting chairman of said committee and served in the manner in which circuit court subpoenas are served, summon and compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of all books, papers, documents and records necessary or convenient to be examined or used by them in the course of the discharge of their duties.
Page 28 - Upon any shipment of live stock or other property of such nature as to require the care of an attendant, the railroad may furnish to the shipper, or some person or persons designated by him, free transportation for such attendant, including return passage to the point at which the shipment originated...
Page 35 - ... from the first day of October to the first day of December of each year; and except that in dams used exclusively to hold water in lakes for storage or flooding purposes such fishways shall be kept open during the entire year.
Page 37 - September, shall forfeit not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each such violation, to be recovered in a civil action brought in the name of the State by the State fish and game warden or one of his deputies.
Page 11 - If for a representative in congress, by at least two per cent of the voters of his party, in each of at least onehalf of the counties of the congressional district, and in the aggregate not less than two per cent nor more than ten per cent of the total vote of his party in such district.
Page 28 - ... a. The commission shall have control over private tracks in so far as the same are used by common carriers, in connection with any railroad for the transportation of freight, in all respects the same as though such tracks were a part of the track of said railroad.

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