Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of California

paper is published in such county, then in a newspaper published in an adjacent county, such publication to be paid by the State in the manner as other publications authorized by law are paid.

SEC. 6. The Board shall have a seal, to be devised by its members, or a majority thereof. Such seal shall have the following inscription surrounding it: "Railroad Commission, State of California." The seal shall be affixed only to, first, writs; second, authentications of a copy of a record or other proceedings, or copy of a document on file in the office of said Commission.

SEC. 7. The process issued by said Board shall extend to all parts of the State. The Board shall have power to issue writs of summons and of subpoena in like manner as courts of record. The summons shall direct the defendant to appear and answer within fifteen days from the day of service. The necessary process issued by the Board may be served in any county in this State by the Bailiff of the Board, or by any person authorized to serve process of courts of record.

SEC. 8. The Secretary of said Board shall issue all process and notices required to be issued, and do and perform such other duties as the Board may prescribe. The Bailiff shall preserve order during the sessions of said Board, and shall have authority to make arrests for disturbances. He shall also have authority, and it shall be his duty, to serve all process, orders, and notices issued by said Board when directed by the President, and make return of the same.

SEC. 9. All complaints before said Board shall be in writing and under oath. All decisions of said Board shall be given in writing, and the grounds of the decisions shall be stated. A record of the proceedings of said Board shall be kept, and the evidence of persons appearing before said Board shall be preserved.

SEC. 10. Whenever the Board shall render any decision within the purview and pursuant to the authority vested in said Board by section twenty-two of article twelve of the Constitution, said Board, or the person, co-partnership, company, or corporation making the complaint. upon which such decision was rendered, is authorized to sue upon such decision in any court of competent jurisdiction in this State.

SEC. 11. Whenever said Board, in the discharge of its duties, shall establish or adopt rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freight, pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution, said Board shall serve a printed schedule of such rates, and of any changes that may be made in such rates, upon the person, co-partnership, company, or corporation affected thereby; and upon such service, it shall be the duty of such person, co-partnership, company, or corporation to immediately cause copies of the same to be posted in all its offices, stationhouses, warehouses, and landing offices affected by such rates, or change of rates, in such manner as to be accessible to public inspection during usual business hours. Said Board shall also make such further publication thereof as they shall deem proper and necessary for the public good. If the party to be served, as herein before provided, be a corporation, such service may be made upon the President, Vice-President, Secretary, or Managing Agent thereof, and if a co-partnership, upon any partner thereof. The rates of charges established or adopted by said Board, pursuant to the Constitution and this Act, shall go into force and effect on the twentieth day after service of said schedule of rates, or

changes in rates, upon the person, co-partnership, company, or corporation affected thereby, as herein before provided.

SEC. 12. When jurisdiction is, by the Constitution, conferred on the Board of Railroad Commissioners, all the means necessary to carry it into effect are also conferred on said Board; and when, in the exercise of jurisdiction within the purview of the authority conferred on said Board by the Constitution, the course of proceeding be not specifically pointed out, any suitable process or mode of proceeding may be adopted by the Board which may appear most conformable to the spirit of the Constitution.

SEC. 13. The said Board shall, immediately after entering upon the performance of its duties, demand and receive from the Transportation Commissioner, appointed under an Act approved April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, section nine, chapter one, all public property belonging to the office of said Transportation Commissioner, in his possession, or under his control, and it is hereby made his duty to deliver the same to the said Board.

SEC. 14. The term "transportation companies" shall be deemed to mean and include:

First-All companies owning and operating railroads (other than street railroads) within this State.

Second-All companies owning and operating steamships engaged in the transportation of freight or passengers from and to ports within this State.

Third-All companies owning and operating steamboats used in transporting freight or passengers upon the rivers or inland waters of this State.

The word "company," as used in this Act, shall be deemed to mean and include corporations, associations, partnerships, trustees, agents, assignees, and individuals. Whenever any railroad company owns and operates, in connection with its road and for the purpose of transporting its cars, freight, or passengers, any steamer or other watercraft, such steamer or other watercraft shall be deemed a part of its said road. Whenever any steamship or steamboat company owns and operates any barge, canal-boat, steamer, tug, ferry-boat, or lighter in connection with its ships or boats, the things so owned and operated shall be deemed to be part of its main line.

SEC. 15. The salaries of the Commissioners, Secretary, Bailiff, and all other officers and attachés in any manner employed by the Board of Commissioners, and all expenses of any kind created under this Act, shall be paid out of any money in the General Fund not otherwise appropriated, and the Controller of State is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants from time to time for such purposes, and the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay the same. SEC. 16. This Act shall take effect immediately.

REPORTS OF RAILROAD COMPANIES.

FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1896.

SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY.

HISTORY.

1. Name of common carrier making this report: Southern Pacific Company.

2. Date of organization: March 17, 1884.

3. Under laws of what Government, State, or Territory organized: Chartered by the Act of the State of Kentucky, Chap. 403, approved March 17, 1884; amended by Chap. 601, approved March 21, 1888.

ORGANIZATION.

Names of Directors.

C. P. Huntington
Chas. F. Crocker
Thos. H. Hubbard
John C. Stubbs.
N. T. Smith
Thos. E. Stillman
H. E. Huntington
Russell J. Wilson
W. H. Crocker.
C. G. Lathrop

A. L. Tubbs

Date of expiration of terms of Directors: April 8, 1897.

Total number of stockholders at date of last election: 162.

Post Office Address.

-23 Broad Street, New York. San Francisco.

-23 Broad Street, New York. San Francisco. ..San Francisco.

23 Broad Street, New York.

San Francisco.

Date of last meeting of stockholders for election of Directors: April 8, 1896.

Post Office address of general and operating offices: No. 4 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, Cal.

Name and address of officer to whom correspondence regarding this report should be addressed: E. C. Wright, Secretary, 4 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, Cal.