Volume 39 · 922
Public Law 64–84
To define the rights and privileges of the trustees of municipally owned interstate railways and construing the Act to regulate commerce with reference thereto.
Approved February 17, 1917
Statutory text
An Act
To define the rights and privileges of the trustees of municipally owned interstate railways and construing the Act to regulate commerce with reference thereto.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That nothing contained in the Act to regulate commerce, approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, or the Acts amendatory thereof, shall be so construed by the Interstate Commerce Commission, or by the courts, as to prevent the lessee of the Cincinnati Southern Railway from complying with its obligation assumed in leasing said railway to furnish free transportation to the trustees of said Cincinnati
Proviso.
For official business.
Southern Railway, their officers and agents: Provided, That the free transportation referred to shall be furnished only when persons entitled thereto are traveling on the business of the company.
Approved, February 17, 1917.