Publications Presenting Results of Administrative Activities. The outcome of the above administrative publications and the activities thereunder is the following set of reports: Accidents. 1. Reports on individual accidents, published separately. 2. Summary of accident investigation reports. 3. Accident bulletin, collisions, derailments, and other accidents resulting in injury to persons, equipment, or roadbed, arising from operation of railroads used in interstate commerce. Quarterly. Accounts and Statistics. 1. Statistics of Railways in the United States-Annual report, 1888 to date. 2. Preliminary abstract of statistics of common carriers -Annual report, 1911 to date. 3. Operating revenues and expenses of large steam roads by months, July 1914 to date. 4. Tabulation of statistics pertaining to block signals and telephone and telegraph for transmission of train orders as used on railroads of United States-Annual report. 5. Annual statistical analysis of carriers' monthly hours of service reports, 1913 to date. 6. Annual report on statistics of express companies, 1909 to date. Valuation. Valuation Reports of the Interstate Commerce Commission.' Publications Relating to Judicial or Quasi-Judicial Activities. The decisions, reports, and opinions of the commission in construction on the Interstate Commerce Act and its amendments have been published in 61 volumes to May, 1921. Copies of volumes I to II may be obtained from the Lawyers Coöperative Publishing Company at Rochester, N. Y. Copies of all subsequent volumes may be secured from the Government Printing Office. The decisions and opinions are issued also in advance sheets, as soon as rendered, for the convenience of persons interested who do not wish to wait until the completion of the volume. For quick and convenient reference to these decisions, the commission also prepares annotations, tables of cases and opinions, and tables of commodities. Tables of cases, commodities, and localities cited and 'Three cases on the valuation docket have been published thus far (separately) as part of volume I of this series of reports. index-digests have been prepared for the unreported opinions of the commission." Publications Relating to Quasi-Legislative Activities. Various provisions of the Interstate Commerce Act and its amendments delegate to the commission the power to draw up regulations which have the force of law to meet certain specialized problems. Such regulations are revised from time to time. Publications of the commission reflecting these quasi-legislative activities are as follows: I. Regulations relative to bids of carriers subject to the Clayton Anti-Trust Act for securities, supplies, or other articles of commerce. 2. Regulations governing the destruction of records respectively, of electric railway companies, express companies, pipe lines, sleeping car companies, steam roads, telephone, telegraph, and cable, and carriers by water. 3. Regulations for the transportation of explosives and other dangerous articles by freight and express and specifications for shipping containers. 4. Regulations to govern forms and recording of passes. 5. Code of storage rules. 6. National code of rules governing weighing and reweighing of carload freight. Annual Reports to Congress. There are several general annual reports published by the commission besides those enumerated in the special classes mentioned above. The annual reports to Congress, the first of which covers the year 1887, give a general summary of the work done during the year by the commission and its various bureaus. Appendices are included showing the status of the commission's cases pending in the courts at the close of the year, the indictments returned during the year, and cases concluded and points decided by the commission in reported cases. A digest of federal court decisions and statistical summaries is also included in the appendix. Separate annual reports are published by the Locomotive Inspection Bureau and the Bureau of Safety, giving full accounts of the work performed during the year. 3 Volume 65 in this series has been reserved for those dockets which relate to requests of railroads to issue securities. Miscellaneous Publications. From time to time the commission has published the results of special investigations made on its own motion or at the request of Congress, such as the report made in 1907 of the relation between railroad discriminations and oil monopolies, the study of intercorporate relationships of railways in the United States as of June 30, 1906, and the report of April 11, 1916 on the extent of common control or ownership between rail and water carriers.* The commission publishes a compilation of laws (with index and annotations) relating to its activities including the Interstate Commerce Act with its amendments, the safety acts, the Valuation Act, standard time zone acts, etc. This compilation of laws is revised from time to time as the enactment of new legislation requires. Many of these investigations appear in the volumes of the commission's decisions. Others have been published as congressional documents. .24 Stat. L., 379, 386 25 Stat. L., 855, 861 34 Stat. L., 584, 595 40 Stat. L., 270 41 Stat. L., 456, 497 .24 Stat. L., 379, 386 25 Stat. L., 855, 861 34 Stat. L., 584, 595 40 Stat. L., 270 41 Stat. L., 456, 497 .24 Stat. L., 379, 385 25 Stat. L., 855, 861 40 Stat. L., 270 .24 Stat. L., 379, 383 .34 Stat. L., 584, 595 40 Stat. L., 270 41 Stat. L., 456, 497 .40 Stat. L., 270 .24 Stat. L., 379, 383 .24 Stat. L., 379, 383 25 Stat. L., 855, 861 34 Stat. L., 584, 595 40 Stat. L., 270 41 Stat. L., 456, 497 .24 Stat. L., 379, 385 Quorum Removal of commissioners .24 Stat. L., 379, 383 Terms of office .24 Stat. L., 379, 383 Vacancies Items of Appropriation1 Salaries Commissioners Employment of counsel 34 Stat. L., 584, 595 40 Stat. L., 270 .24 Stat. L., 379, 383 40 Stat. L., 270 41 Stat. L., 456, 497 1 All the items under this head are found in the Executive Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923 (42 Stat. L., 635, 641). Employment of special accounting agents or examiners Stenographic and clerical help to chief locomotive inspector Activities Administration of safety acts Information regarding and enforcement of safety acts Obtaining reports of accidents and making investigations thereof Investigation and test of train control systems and appliances Enforcing accounting by railroads Execution of laws to regulate commerce Locomotive inspection Valuation of property of carriers Physical valuation Information regarding securities Miscellaneous expenditures Purchases of books, reports, and periodicals Purchase of office furniture Rent of office furniture Rent of buildings Per diem in lieu of subsistence Access to accounts, correspondence, records, and memoranda Accident reports and investigations. .41 Stat. L., 456, 493 .36 Stat. L., 350 Accounts, records, and memoranda, form of, may be prescribed ..24 Stat. L., 379, 386 Agreements, contracts, and arrangements, traffic copies to be filed Aid of courts may be invoked .24 Stat. L., 379, 381 25 Stat. L., 855 34 Stat. L., 584, 587 .25 Stat. L., 855 26 Stat. L., 743 Allowances to owner of property transported, for ser vices .34 Stat. L., 584, 590 |