Volume 28 · 78
Public Law 53–77
To provide for the sale of new tickets by the street railway companies of the District of Columbia.
Approved May 25, 1894
Statutory text
An Act
To provide for the sale of new tickets by the street railway companies of the District of Columbia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That after thirty days from the passage of this Act, each street railway and street herdic transportation company in the District of Columbia. shall issue its own tickets, and sell no tickets issued by any other company. Such tickets shall be printed and sold in sheets of six tickets each, and after having been once used shall be canceled by the company which issued the same:
Proviso.
Interchange of tickets.
Provided, That all street railway companies and herdic transportation companies doing business in the District of Columbia, shall receive and exchange tickets with each other, and said companies shall make monthly settlements with each other, and shall redeem in money any tickets in excess of the number of tickets exchanged.
Sec. 2.
That any street railway or street herdic transportation Company
Penalty for violation.
doing business in the District of Columbia which shall violate the provisions of this act shall be liable to a tine of not to exceed ten dollars for each offense, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Approved, May 25, 1894.