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or more other common carriers. This section shall not be con-
strued to require a common carrier to permit or allow any
other common carrier to use its tracks or terminal facilities.
Every common carrier, as such, is required to receive from
every other common carrier, at a connecting point, freight cars
of proper standard, and haul the same through to destination,
if the destination be upon a line owned, operated or controlled
by such common carrier, or if the destination be upon a line
of some other common carrier, to haul any car so delivered
through to the connecting point upon the line owned, operated,
controlled or leased by it, by way of route over which such car
is billed, and there to deliver the same to the next connection
carrier. Nothing in this section shall be construed as in any
wise limiting or modifying the duty of a common carrier to
establish joint rates, fares and charges for the transportation
of passengers, freight and property over the lines owned, oper-
ated, controlled and leased by it and the lines of other com-
mon carriers, nor as in any manner limiting or modifying the
power of the Commission to require the establishment of such
joint rates, fares and charges. A railroad corporation and a
street railroad corporation shall not be required to interchange
cars except on such terms and conditions as the Commission
may direct.

LONG AND SHORT HAULS: POWER OF COMMISSION: DISTRIBUTION

OF CARS.

SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That no common carrier,
subject to the provisions of this Act, shall charge or receive
any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transporta-
tion of passengers or of a like kind of property, under sub-
stantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter
than for a longer distance over the same line in the same direc-
tion, the shorter being included within the longer distance;
but this shall not be construed as authorizing any such com-
mon carrier to charge and receive as great a compensation for
a shorter as for a longer distance or haul. Upon application of
a common carrier the Commission may, by order, authorize it
to charge less for longer than for shorter distances for the
transportation of passengers or property in special cases after
investigation by the Commission, but the order must specify
and prescribe the extent to which the common carrier making
such application is relieved from the operation of this section,
and only to the extent so specified and prescribed shall any
common carrier be relieved from the operation and require-
ments of this section.