Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners of the State of Wisconsin

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Página 184 - What freight and transportation companies run on your road, and on what terms and on what conditions as to rates, use of cars, track, machinery, repairs of cars, etc.?
Página 337 - Every railroad corporation owning or operating a railroad in this state shall be liable for all damages sustained by any agent or servant thereof by reason of the negligence of any other agent or servant thereof...
Página 340 - But in case it shall appear that the United States have, when the lines or routes of said roads are definitely fixed, sold any sections, or any parts thereof, granted as aforesaid, or that the right of pre-emption has attached to the same...
Página 342 - State, to select, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, from the lands of the United States nearest to the tiers of sections above specified, so much land in alternate sections or parts of sections as shall be equal to such lands as the United States have sold or otherwise appropriated, or to which the right of preemption has attached as aforesaid; which lands (thus selected in lieu of those sold, and to which preemption rights have attached as aforesaid...
Página 342 - Wisconsin, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of a railroad from Portage city, Berlin, Dotys Island, or Fond du Lac, as said State may determine, in a northwestern direction, to Bayfield, and thence to Superior, on Lake Superior, every alternate section of public land, designated by odd numbers for ten sections in width on each side of said road...
Página 339 - Whether any such accidents have arisen from carelessness or negligence of any person in the employment of the corporation, and whether such person is retained in the service of the corporation.
Página 337 - Inflamed, swollen, and red, and show an unnatural discharge within two weeks after the birth of such infant, he shall immediately give notice thereof In writing over his own signature to the selectmen or board of health of the town; and: if he refuses or neglects to give such notice, he shall forfeit not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars for each offense.
Página 170 - ... do they use the cars of your company, or those furnished by themselves, and are their cars or their freight given any preference in speed, or order of transportation, and if so in what particular?
Página 196 - No railroad or other corporation, or the lessees, purchasers or managers of any railroad corporation, shall consolidate the stock, property or franchises of such corporation with, or' lease or purchase the works or franchises of, or in any way control, any railroad corporation owning or having under its control a parallel or competing line...
Página 341 - That any and all lands heretofore reserved to the United States by any act of Congress, or in any other manner by competent authority, for the purpose of aiding in any object of internal improvement, or for any other purpose whatsoever, be, and the same are hereby reserved to the United States from the operation of this act...

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