736 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23

common carrier or other corporation subject to the provisiona of this
sub-title under this section, it shall be its duty to make and file an
order either dismissing the petition or complaint or directing the
common carrier complained of to satisfy the cause of complaint in
whole or to the extent which the commission may specify and require.

1910, ch. 180, sec. 23 (p. 365).

435. Whenever the commission shall be of the opinion, after a
hearing, upon its own motion or upon a complaint made as provided
in this sub-title, that the rates, tolls, fares or charges demanded,
exacted, charged or collected by any common carrier, railroad or street
railroad, railroad corporation, street railroad corporation, or other
corporation subject to the provisions of this sub-title, for the transporta-
tion of persons, freight or property within the State, or that the regu-
lations or practices of such common carrier or corporation affecting
such rates, tolls or services are unjust, unreasonable, unjustly discrim-
inating or unduly preferential, or in anywise in violation of any provi-
sion of law, the commission shall determine the just and reasonable
rates, tolls, fares and charges to be thereafter observed and in force as
the maximum to be charged for the service to be performed, and shall
fix the same by order to be served upon all common carriers or other
corporations by whom such rates, fares and charges are thereafter to

be observed. And whenever the commission shall be of the opinion,
after a hearing, had upon its own motion or upon complaint, that the
regulations, practices, equipment, appliances or services of any com-
mon carrier or other such corporation in respect to any services, trans-
portation of persons, freight or property within this State, are unjust,
unreasonable, unsafe, unreasonably improper or inadequate, the com-
mission shall determine the just, reasonable, safe, reasonably adequate
and proper regulations, practices, equipment, appliances and service
to be in force and to be observed in respect to such transportation of
persons, freight and property, and so fix and prescribe the same by
order to be served upon every common carrier or other corporation to
be bound thereby; and thereafter it shall be the duty of every such
common carrier or other corporation to observe and obey each and
every requirement of every such order so observed upon it, and to do
everything necessary or proper in order to secure absolute compliance
with and observance of every such order by all its officers, agents or
employees. The commission shall have power by order to require any
two or more common carriers whose lines, owned, operated, controlled
or leased, form a continuous line of transportation, or which could be
made to do so by the Construction and maintenance of switch connec-
tion, to establish through routes and joint rates, fares and charges for
the transportation of passengers, freight and property within the State
as the commission may by its orders designate; and in case such
through routes and joint rates be not established by the common
carriers named in any such order within the time specified therein,
the commission shall establish just and reasonable rates, fares and