Section Fourteen. The said Commission shall have power and it is hereby made its duty either on its own motion or on complaint of individuals, corporations, shipping associations, municipal corporations or commercial bodies, to investigate the mode of operation of all common carriers of freight and passengers, doing business in the Territory and all freight and passenger tariffs and schedules of rates and charges, including demurrage, storage, switching and excess baggage tariffs, collected, charged, or demanded by common carriers on traffic originating and terminating in the Territory.
It shall have power and it is made its duty either of its own motion or on complaint of individuals, corporations, shipping associations, municipal corporations or commercial bodies, to investigate the mode of operation of common carriers operating in, into or through the Territory, engaged in Interstate traffic and all freight and passenger tariffs and schedules of rates and charges, including demurrage, storage, switching and excess baggage tariffs, charged, collected or demanded on Interstate traffic, by common carriers operating in, into or through the Territory.
Section Fifteen. That every common carrier subject to provisions of this Act shall file with the commission within 30 days from its passage, and thereafter 30 days before tariffs, rates and charges are made effective schedules showing all the tariffs, rates and charges for transportation of passengers and property between different points on its own route and points on the route of any other carrier, whenever a through route and joint rate have been established. If no joint rate over the through route has been established, the several carriers in such through route shall file as aforesaid, the separately established rates, fares and charges applied to the through transportation.
