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State, through or into which the line of the railroad corporation sued 

 for violating this act may extend. And such railroad and warehouse 

 commissioners are hereby authorized, when the facts of the case pre 

 sented to them shall, in their judgment, warrant the commencement of 

 such action, to employ counsel to assist the attorney-general in con 

 ducting such suits on behalf of the State. No suits commenced by 

 said commissioners shall be dismissed, except said railroad and ware 

 house commissioners and the attorney-general shall consent thereto. 



Sec. 8. The railroad and warehouse commissioners are hereby di 

 rected to make, for each of the railroad corporations doing business 

 in this State, as soon as practicable, a schedule of reasonable maxi 

 mum rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freight 

 and cars on each of said railroads ; and said schedule shall, in all suits 

 brought against any such railroad corporations, wherein is in any way 

 involved the charges of any such railroad corporation, for the trans 

 portation of any passenger or freight or cars, or unjust discrimination 

 in relation thereto, be deemed and taken, in all courts of this State, 

 as prima facie evidence that the rates therein fixed are reasonable 

 maximum rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and 

 freight and cars upon the railroads for which said schedules may have 

 been respectively prepared. Said commissioners shall, from time to 

 time, and so often as circumstances may require, change and revise 

 said schedules. When such schedules shall have been made or re 

 vised, as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of said commissioners to cause 

 publication thereof to be made for three successive weeks, in some 

 public newspaper in the city of Springfield, in this State ; Provided, 

 that the schedules thus prepared shall not be taken as prima facie 

 evidence, as herein provided, until schedules shall have been prepared 

 and published as aforesaid, for all the railroad companies now or 

 ganized under the laws of this State, and until the 15th day of Jan 

 uary, A. D. 1874, or until ten days after the meeting of the next ses 

 sion of the general assembly, provided a session of the general assem 

 bly shall be held previous to the 15th of day of January aforesaid. 

 All such schedules, purporting to be printed and established as afore 

 said, shall be received and held, in all such suits, as prima facie the 

 schedules of said commissioners, without further proof than the pro 

 duction of the paper in which they were published, together with the 

 certificate of the publisher of said paper that the schedule therein 

 contained, is a true copv of the schedule furnished for publication by 



