728 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23

mission be of the opinion that it is safe and practicable to have a
connection, substantially as prayed for, established or maintained, and
that the business to be done thereon justifies the construction and main-
tenance thereof, it shall make an order directing the construction and
establishment thereof, specifying the reasonable compensation to be
paid for the construction, establishment and maintenance thereof, and
may in like manner upon the application of the railroad corporation,
order the discontinuance of such switch connection.

1910, ch. 180, sec. 15 (p. 356).

427. Every common carrier shall file with the commission having
jurisdiction, and shall print and keep open to public inspection, sched-
ules showing the rates, fares and charges for the transportation of passen-
gers and property within the State between each point upon its route
and all other points thereon; and between each point upon its route,
and all points upon every route leased, operated or controlled by it;
and between each point on its route or upon any route leased, operated
or controlled by it, and all points upon the route of any other common
carrier, whenever a through route and joint route shall have been estab-
lished or ordered between any two such points. If no joint rate over
the through route has been established, the several carriers in such
through route shall file, print and keep open to public inspection, as
aforesaid, the separately established rates, fares and charges applied to
the through transportation. The schedules printed as aforesaid shall
plainly state the places between which property and passengers will be
carried, and shall also contain the classification of passengers, freight
or property in force, and shall also state separately all terminal charges,
storages, icing charges, and all other charges which the commission
may require to be stated, all privileges or facilities granted or allowed,
and any rules or regulations which may in any wise change, affect or
determine any part or the aggregate of such aforesaid rates, fares and
charges, or the value of the service rendered to the passenger, shipper
or consignee. Such schedules shall be plainly printed; copies thereof
for the use of the public shall be kept posted in public and conspicuous
places in depots, stations and offices of every common carrier where
passengers or property are received for transportation, in such manner
as to be readily accessible to and conveniently inspected by the public
wherever and whenever so ordered by the commission. The form of
every such schedule shall be prescribed by the commission, and shall
conform as nearly as possible to the form of schedule required by the
interstate commerce commission under the act of congress entitled
"An Act to Regulate Commerce," approved February fourth, one thou-
sand eight hundred and eighty-seven, as amended by the act approved
June twenty-ninth, one thousand nine hundred and six, and other
amendments thereto. The commission shall have power, from time to
time, at. its discretion, to determine and prescribe by order such changes
in the form of such schedules as may be found expedient.