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

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

 or number, for a like purpose, being transported from the same point, 

 in the same direction, over an equal distance of the same railroad ; 

 all such discriminating rates, charges, collections, or receipts, 

 whether made directly, or by means of any rebate, drawback, 



Obsolete Method of Transportation in the Tobacco Country. 



or other shift or evasion, shall be deemed and taken, against such 

 railroad corporation, as prima facie evidence of the unjust dis 

 criminations prohibited by the provisions of this act; and it shall 

 not be deemed a sufficient excuse or justification of such discrimina 

 tions on the part of such railroad corporation, that the railway 

 station or point at which it shall charge, collect, or receive the same 



