356 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

transportation, shall construct, maintain and operate upon rea-
sonable terms a switch connection or connections with a lat-
eral line of railroad or private side-track owned, operated or
controlled by such shipper, and shall, upon the application of
any shipper, provide upon its own property a side-track and
switch connection with its line of railroad, whenever such side-
track and switch connection is reasonably practicable, can be
put in with safety and the business therefor is sufficient to
justify the same.

If any railroad corporation shall fail to install or operate
any such switch connection with a lateral line or railroad, OF
any such side-track and switch connection as aforesaid, after
written application therefor has been made to it, any corpora-
tion or person interested may present the facts to the Commis-
sion by written petition, and the Commission shall investigate
the matter stated in such petition, and give such hearings there-
on as it may deem necessary or proper. If the Commission be
of the opinion that.it is safe and practicable to have a connec-
tion, substantially as prayed for, established or maintained,
and that the business to be done thereon justifies the construc-
tion and maintenance thereof, it shall make an order directing
the construction and establishment thereof, specifying the rea-
sonable compensation to be paid for the construction, estab-
lishment and maintenance thereof, and may in like manner
upon the application of the railroad corporation, order the dis-
continuance of such switch connection.

TARIFF SCHEDULES.

SEC. 15. And be it further enacted. That every common car-
rier shall file with the Commission having jurisdiction, and
shall print and keep open to public inspection, schedules show-
ing the rates, fares and charges for the transportation of pas-
sengers 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 established 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 inspec-
tion, 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