ART. 23] PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION. 265

1912, Ch. 162.

435A.* Whenever the commission shall be of the opinion after a
hearing upon its own motion or upon a complaint made as provided in
this act, that the issuance by common carriers in this State of mileage,
excursion, school commutation Or commutation passenger tickets, or
joint interchangeable mileage tickets, would be a desirable advan-
tageous and reasonable thing for the people concerned to demand, it
shall be the duty of the commission to order the common carrier, or
common carriers, to establish such rates and issue such tickets as the
said commission may deem reasonable and proper; such tickets to be
good on any or all branches, lines or sections of the carrier's route in
this State, or only on certain specific branches, lines or sections, as the
commission may order and direct.

See article 23, section 326, et seq.

1914, ch. 668.

435B.+ 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 it would be reasonably advisable and proper to
require common carriers to give receipts for containers of dairy prod-
ucts or of other property or goods received for transportation within
this State, whenever said containers are intended to be returned; the
commission shall determine the form of said receipt and the proper
regulations in respect to the issuing of the same, and the return of
said containers, subject to the provisions of this section, and shall so
fix and prescribe the same by order to be served upon every common
carrier or other person or corporation to be bound thereby; and there-
after it shall be the duty of every such common carrier, or other person
or corporation, to observe and obey each and every requirement of
every such order so served upon it; and upon the day that any such
order shall become operative and effective, the following provisions of
this section shall become operative and effective and shall remain so as
long and for such time as any such order of the commission is in effect.

Any common carrier issuing a receipt for a container, as described
herein, shall be liable to the lawful holder thereof for any loss, damage
or injury to such container caused by it or by any other person, firm
or corporation to whom such container may be delivered, and no con-
tract, receipt, rule or regulation shall exempt such common carrier
from the liability hereby imposed; provided that nothing herein shall
deprive any holder of such receipt of any remedy or right of action

*Section 1 of the act of 1912, chapter 162, directs that section 435A be entitled
"The Regulation of the Issuance by Common Carriers in this State of Mileage,
Excursion, School Commutation or Commutation Passenger Tickets and Joint
Interchangeable Mileage Tickets."

+The act of 1914, chapter 191 (approved April 10, 1914), is identical with this
section down to the words "order so served upon it" and from the words "no
common carrier shall charge" to the end of the section. Chapter 668 was ap-
proved April 13, 1914.