304 THE GHOtTNDSWELL. 



Sec. 3. If any such railroad corporation shall charge, collect, or 

 receive, for the transportation of any passengers, or freight of any 

 description, upon its railroad, for any distance within this State, the 

 same, or a greater amount of toll or compensation than is at the same 

 time charged, collected, or received for the transportation, in the 

 same direction, for any passenger, or like quantity of freight of the 

 same class, over a greater distance of the same railroad ; or if it shall 

 charge, collect, or receive, at any point upon its railroad, a higher 

 rate of toll or compensation for receiving, handling, or delivering 

 freight of the same class or like quantity, than it shall, at the same 

 time, charge, collect, or receive at any other point upon the same road ; 

 or if it shall charge, collect, or receive, for the transportation of any 

 passenger, or freight of any description, over its railroad, a greater 

 amount as toll or compensation than shall, at the same time, be 

 charged, collected, or received by it for the transportation of any 

 passenger, or like quantity of freight of the same class, being trans 

 ported in the same direction, over any portion of the same railroad, 

 of equal distance ; or if it shall charge, collect, or receive from any 

 person or persons a higher or greater amount of toll or compensation 

 than it shall, at the same time, charge, collect, or receive from any 

 other person or persons, for receiving, handling, or delivering freight 

 of the same class and like quantity, at the same point upon its rail 

 road ; or if it shall charge, collect, or receive from any person or per 

 sons, for the transportation of any freight upon its railroad, a higher 

 or greater rate of toll or compensation than it shall, at the same 

 time, charge, collect, or receive from any other person or persons, for 

 the transportation of the like quantity of freight of the same class, 

 being transported from the same point, in the same direction, over 

 equal distances of the same railroad ; or if it shall charge, collect, or 

 receive from any person or persons, for the use and transportation of 

 any railroad car or cars upon its railroad, for any distance, the same 

 or a greater amount of toll or compensation than is, at the same time, 

 charged, collected, or received from any other person or persons, for 

 the use and transportation of any railroad car of the same class or 

 number, for a like purpose, being transported in the same direction f 

 over a greater distance of the same railroad; or if it shall charge, 

 collect, or receive from any person or persons, for the use and trans 

 portation of any railroad car or cars upon its railroad, a higher or 

 greater rate of toll or compensation than it shall, at the same time, 



