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592 FIETY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3591. 1906. APP°“"°B“P'°'“° “From an action upon such petition an appeal shall lie by either cw"` party to the Supreme Court of the United States, and in such court the case shall have priority in hearing and determination over all other causes except criminal causes, but such appeal shall not vacate or suspend the order appealed from. venue of suits "The venue of suits brought in any of the circuit courts of the "“i”°°°°mmj”`°°' United States against the Commission to enjoin, set aside, annul, or ‘ suspend aqly or or or requirement of lthe Comlmisgon shall be in the istrict w ere the carrier against w om suc or er or re uirement may have been made has its principal operating office, adh may be _nym¤nmme¤- brought at any time after such or er is promulgated. And if the "“”‘ order or requirement has been made against two or more carriers then in the district where any one of said carriers has its principal oiperating office,_ and if the carrier has its principal operating] office in th; Distrnqt of Colulmbia then the pypnuq shall be in the district w ere said carrier as its rinci office- and jurisdiction to _ nxpeamng nm- hear and determine such suits is hereby vested in such courts. The "'€¤T,L32, pm, provisions of ‘ An Act to elxtpedite the hearing and determination of suits in equity, and so fo ,’ approved Fe ruary eleventh, nineteeqlhunored and tinge, shgllhbe, and are hereby, made applicable to a suc suits including the caring on an a lication for a reliminary injunction; and are also made applicablbpto any proceelding in equity to enforce any order or requirement of the Commission, or any verm, nm. p t:-islproqilstzqns of tlée-cqct tg regqlate commeroe approved February ou eng n un an eig y-seven an a cts amendator H or Amr- thereof or supplemental thereto. It shall bé the duty of the Attorney`? ‘ ‘ General in every such case to file the certificate provided for in sand expediting Act of February eleventh, nineteen hundred and three, as Pricrlrycnaprenl. necessary to the application of the provisions thereof, and upon appeal as therein authorized to the Supreme Court of the United States, the case shsll have in such court priority in hearing and determination “ mmm. over a other causes except criminal causes: Hwided, That

 injunction, interlocutory ordier or decree suspending or restrainiilig

the enforcement of an order of the Commission shall be granted except on hearing after not less than five days’ notice to the Commission. An appeal may be taken from any interlocutory order or decree granting or continuing an injunction in any suit, but shall lie onlv to the d¤1;j’;¤°•;_¤;’mrw+ Supreme Court of the United States: Provided fzerdher, That the appeal must taken within thirty days from the entry of such order or decree and it shall take precedence in the a pellate court over all other causes, excqpt causes of like character and criminal causes. seuedaiu or nm. The copies o schedules and tariffs of rates, fares, and charges,

f,°,;mf°,ec‘Q,°,d.'f°" '”’ and of all contracts, agreements, or arrangements between common

oarriersmtiled wgtlgthe Commission as herein provided, and the statis- ‘ ics ta es an gures contained in the annual re rts of ' mjadpbgo the Corgmissiopi as reqqired by the pgovididns of this- s a preserve as pu 10 recor s in the custo y of the secreta f de%:¤;f¤v¤¤1¤ M wi- the Commission, and shall be received as prima facie evidence of Iwyhiit they purport to be_for the pugpose of investigations by the Commis- °°.pK;ct ot certified Sign andnn all (judicial proce, Ings; and COPIBS of O1' 6Xtl‘3(•ts from any of said sche ules, tariffs, contracts, arrreements, arrangements, or replorts mzgdolpulblao ieacords as aforesaid, certified by the secretary un er its , s received in evidence with like effect as the originals." neimnngs. Sec. 6: That a new section be added_ to said Act immediately after section sixteen, to be numbered as section sixteen a, as follows: m¢;g{•Lj¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤· “Sec. 16a. That aftera decision, order, or requirement has been made . gy the Commission in any proceeding any party thereto may at any me make appl1cation for rehearing of the same, or any matter determined therem, and it shall be lawful for the Commission in its discre-