General Provisions. Transportation Companies Must Accept the Provisions of this Constitution to Obtain the Benefits of Future Legislation. Sec. Art. General Provisions. freight or passengers over the works owned, leased, controlled or worked by such company; nor in any arrangement which shall afford more advantageous terms or greater facilities than are offered or accorded to the public. And all contracts and in arrangements violation of this section shall be void. 12. XVII. Until the Legislature shall district the State, the following shall be the railroad districts: The first district shall be composed of the counties of Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano, Sonoma, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Yolo and Yuba, from which one railroad commissioner shall be elected. The second district shall be composed of the counties of Marin, San Fransico and San Mateo, from which one railroad shall be Lands belonging to, or under the control of the State, shall never be donated directly, or indirectly, to private corporations or individuals, or to railroad companies. Nor shall such land be sold to corporations or associations for a less price than that for which it is subject to sale to individuals. This, however, shall not prevent the Legislature from granting a right of way, not exceeding one hundred feet in width, as a mere easement, to railroads across State land, and the Legislature shall never dispose of the land covered by said right of way so long as such easement exists. commissioner 22. XII. No director, president, agent or employe of any railroad company shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in furnishing material or supplies to such company, or in the business of transportation as a common carrier of freight or passengers over the works owned, leased, controlled or worked by such company. No obligation or liability of any railroad or other corporation, held or owned by the Commonwealth, shall ever be exchanged, transferred, remitted, postponed or in any way diminished by the General Assembly, nor shall such liability or obligation be released, except by payment thereof into the State treasury. 6. XVII. No president, director, officer, agent or employe of any railroad or canal company shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in the furnishing of material or supplies to such company, or in the business of transportation as a common carrier of freight or passengers over the owned, leased, controlled worked by such company. 8. XVII. works or No railroad, railway or other transportation company shall grant free passes, or passes at a discount, to any person except officers or employes of the company. 11. XVII. The existing powers and duties of the Auditor-General in regard to railroads, canals and other transportation companies, except as to their accounts, are hereby transferred to the Sec Sec. Art. retary of Internal Affairs, who shall have a general supervision over them, subject to such regulations and alterations as shall be provided by law; and, in addition to the annual reports now required to be made, said secretary may require special reports at any time upon any subject relating to the business of said companies from any officer or officers thereof. 12. XVII. The General Assembly shall enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article. 7. X. TEXAS. No law shall be passed by the Legislature granting the right to construct and operate a street railroad within any city, town or village, or upon any public highway, without first acquiring the consent of the local authorities having control of the street or highway proposed to be occupied by such street railroad. 3. XIV. The Legislature shall have no power to grant any of the lands of this State to any railway company except upon the following restrictions and conditions: First. That there shall never be granted to any such corporation more than sixteen sections to the mile, and no reservation of any part of the public domain for the purpose of satisfying such grant shall ever be made. Second. That no land certificate shall be issued to such company until they have equipped, constructed and in running order at least ten miles of road, and on the failure of such company to comply with the terms of its charter, or to alienate its land at a period to be fixed by law, in no event to exceed twelve |