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thereof as may be required or approved by the Commission;
and where such evidence of concurrence or acceptance is filed,
it shall not be necessary for the carriers filing the same to also
file copies of the tariffs in which they are named as parties.

Every common carrier shall file with the Commission sworn
copies of every contract, agreement or arrangement with any
other common carrier or common carriers relating in any way
to the transportation of passengers, property or freight.

UNJUST DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED.

SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That no common carrier
shall, directly or indirectly, by any special rate, rebate, draw-
back or other device or method, charge, demand, collect or re-
ceive from any person or corporation a greater or less compen-
sation for any service rendered or to be rendered in the trans-
portation of passengers, freight or property, except as author-
ized in this Act, than it charges, demands, collects or receives
from any other person or corporation for doing a like and con-
temporaneous service in the transportation of a like kind of
traffic under the same or substantially similar circumstances
and conditions.

No common carrier shall make or give any undue or unrea-
sonable preference or advantage to any person or corporation,
or to any locality, or to any particular description of traffic in
any respect whatsoever, or subject any particular person or
corporation, or locality, or any particular description of traffic
to any prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever.

No common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act
shall after the first day of November, one thousand nine hun-
dred and ten, engage or participate in the transportation of
passengers, freight or property between points within the
State until its schedules of rates, fares and charges shall have
been filed and published in accordance with the provisions of
this Act. No common carrier shall charge, demand, collect or
receive a greater or less or different compensation for transpor-
tation of passengers, freight or property, or for any service in
connection therewith, than the rates, fares and charges appli-
cable to such transportation as specified in its schedules filed
and in effect at the time; nor shall any such common carrier
refund or remit in any manner, or by any device, any portion of
the rates, fares or charges so specified, nor extend to any ship-
per or person any privileges or facilities in the transportation
of passengers or property except such as are regularly and
uniformly extended to all persons and corporations under like
circumstances. No common carrier subject to the provisions
of this Act shall, directly or indirectly, issue or give any free