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Returns to be made by railway companies.
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The lords of the said committee may order and direct every railway company to make up and deliver to them . . . a table of all tolls, rates, and charges from time to time levied on each class passengers, and on cattle and goods, conveyed on the said railway; and if the returns herein specified shall not be delivered within thirty days after the same shall have been required, every such company shall forfeit to her Majesty the sum of twenty pounds for every day during which the said company shall wilfully neglect to deliver the same; and every such penalty may be recovered in any of her Majesty’s courts of record: Provided always, that such returns shall be required, in like manner and at the same time, from all the said companies, unless the lords of the said committee shall specially exempt any of the said companies, and shall enter the grounds of such exemption in the minutes of their proceedings.
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[2 Rep., except so much as relates to a table of tolls, rates, and charges, 34 & 35 Vict. c. 78, s. 17.] |
