§ 10. Equal facilities to connecting lines; discrimination in rates

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Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1888

   Pub. L. 50–772 § 2 · 25 Stat. 382

   Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 10

   Aug. 7, 1888, ch. 772, § 2, 25 Stat. 383

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Aug. 7, 1888, ch. 772, § 2, 25 Stat. 383

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 2. That whenever any telegraph company which shall have Equal facilities to be given to connecting R. S., Title LXV. p. 1019. accepted the provisions of title sixty-five of the Revised Statutes shall extend its line to any station or office of a telegraph line belonging to any one of said railroad or telegraph companies, referred to in the first section of this act, said telegraph company so extending its line shall have the right and said railroad or telegraph company shall allow the line of said telegraph company so extending its line to connect with the telegraph line of said railroad or telegraph company to which it is extended at the place where their lines may meet, for the prompt and convenient interchange of telegraph business between said companies; and such railroad and telegraph companies, referred to in the first section of this act, shall so operate their respective telegraph lines as to afford equal facilities to all, without discrimination in favor of or against any person, company, or corporation whatever, and shall receive, deliver, and exchange business with connecting telegraph lines on equal terms, and affording equal facilities, and without discrimination for or against any one of such connecting lines; and such exchange of business shall be on terms just and equitable.

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