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FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Ch. 3591. 1906. 589 valuable consideration as a rebate or offset as aforesaid, to institute in any court of the United States of com tent jurisdiction a civil action to collect the said sum or sums so forlftited as aforesaid; and in the M=¤<>¤¤¢¤fr¤¤¤v¢v- trial of said action all such rebates or other considerations so received or accepted for a period of six years prior to the commencement of the action, may be included therein, and the amount recovered shall be three times the total amount of money, or three times the total value of such consideration, so received or accepted, or both, as the case may be." · Sec. 3. That section fourteen of said Act asamended March second, ¥;“*'g;**°:‘· 85,, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, be amended soas to read as follows: amended.` ° " Sec. 14. That whenever an investigation shall be madeby said Com- _,,§;g;“°,°ggj_'*;{j,°“‘ mission, it shall be its duty to make a re rt in writing in respect' `~ thereto, which shall state the conclusions ofmthe Commission, together with its decision, order, or requirement in the remises; and in case damages are awarded such report shall include the findings of fact on which the award is made. "All reports of investigations made b the Commission shall be R°°°"*· °°°· entered of record, and a copy thereof shall be furnished to the party who may have complained, and to any common carrier that may have been complained of. - "The (Jommission may provide for the publication of its re rts "“"“°‘"°”'- and decisions in such form and manner as ma be best adaptedofor public information and use, and such authorizedy publications shall be d§,fj§*“*’*° ” °'*‘ competent evidence of the reports and decisions of the Commission therein contained in all courts of the United States and of the several States without any further proof or authentication thereof. The Commission may also cause to be printed for early distribution its annual reports." Sec. 4. That section fifteen of said Act be amended so as to read as §*g}f*·*g¤j¤· P 384 follows: mended.` ’ "Sec. 15. That the Commission is authorized and empowered, and wggfegax gg; it shall be its duty, whenever, after full hearing upon acomplaint made sonable maximog-m as provided in section thirteen of this Act, or upon comp aint of any '"°"°°°°°’°" common carrier, it shall be of the opinion that andy of the rates, or charges whatsoever, demanded, charged, or collecte by any common carrier or carriers, subject to the provisions of this Act, for the transportation of persons or property as defined in the first section of this _ Act, or that any regulations or practices whatsoever of such carrier or carriers affecting such rates, are unjust or unreasonable, or unjustly discriminatory, or unduly preferential or prejudicial, or otherwise in violation of an of the provisions of this Act, to determine and prescribe what will be the just and reasonable rate or rates, charge or cha s, to be thereafter observed in such case as the maximum to be lelizrged; and what regulation or practice in respect to such ummm; transportation is just, fair, and reasonable to be therea ter followed; and to make an order that the 08l‘1'iel‘ Shall cease and desist from °*'d°'*°°*¤'*°'· such violation, to the extent to which the Commission find the same to exist, and shall not thereafter publish, demand, or collect any rate or charge for such transportation in excess of the maximum rate or ` charge so prescribed, and shall conform to the regulation or practice so prescribed. All orders of the Commission, except orders for mmm the iayment of money, shall take effect within such reasonable time, not less than thirty days, and shall continue in force for such period of time, not exceeding two years, as shall be prescribed in the order of the Commission, unless the same shall be suspended or modified or set aside by the Commission 0I' be Suspended or set aside by a court of A _ mt of competent jurisdiction. Whenever the carrier or carriers, in obe- gsm: mes, ew. dience to such order of the Commission or otherwise, in respect to joint rates, fares, or charges, shall fail to agree among themselves