MISCELLANEOUS BILLS. 359

tickets, free pass or free transportation for passengers or prop-
erty between points within this State, except to its officers, em-
ployees, agents, pensioners, surgeons, physicians, attorneys-at-
law and their families; to ministers of religion, inmates of hos-
pitals, charitable and eleemosynary institutions and persons
exclusively engaged in charitable and eleemosynary work; and
to indigent, destitute and homeless persons, and to such persons
when transported by charitable societies or hospitals, and the
necessary agents employed in such transportation; to inmates
of the national homes or State homes for disabled volunteer
soldiers and of soldiers' and sailors' homes, including those
about to enter and those returning home after discharge, and
boards of managers of such homes; to necessary caretakers in
transit; to employees of sleeping-car companies, express com-
panies, telephone and telegraph companies doing business
along the line of the issuing carrier; to railway mail service
employees, post-office inspectors, custom inspectors, and immi-
gration inspectors; to newsboys on trains, baggage agents;
persons injured in accidents or wrecks, and physicians and
nurses attending such persons; to the carriage, free or at, re-
duced rates, of persons or property for the United States,
State or municipal governments, or of the property to or from
fairs and expositions for exhibit thereat; or the transporta-
tion, free, of any property as is provided by law. Nothing in
this Act shall be construed to prohibit the interchange oi tree
or reduced transportation between common carriers of or for
their officers, agents, employees, attorneys and surgeons and
their families, nor to prohibit any common carrier from carry-
ing passengers or property free with the object of providing
relief in cases of general epidemic, pestilence or other calami-
tous visitation; nor to prohibit any common carrier from
transporting persons or property as incident to or connected
with contracts for construction, operation or maintenance, and
to the extent only that such free transportation is provided
for in the contract for such work; nor to prevent any common
carrier from transporting children under five years of age free.

Provided, further, that nothing in this Act shall prevent the
issuance of mileage, excursion, school commutation or commu-
tation passenger tickets, or half-fare tickets for the transporta-
tion of children under twelve years of age, or joint interchange-
able mileage tickets, with special privileges as to the
amount of free baggage that may be carried under mileage
tickets of one hundred miles or more. But before any common
carrier, subject to the provision of this Act, shall issue any
such mileage, excursion, school commutation, commutation
passenger tickets, half-fare tickets, or joint interchangeable
mileage ticket, with special privileges as aforesaid, it shall file