Excerpt from Five Years' Railway Cases, 1889-1893: With Acts of Parliament and of Sederunt and the Railway and Canal Commission Rules; Being a Supplement to Railway Rights and Duties The following pages are published as a supplement to Railway Rights and Duties, produced in January 1889. The cases have been arranged as far as possible under the same headings as those used in that book, and the Digest of Scottish Cases on other branches of Railway Law appended to it. English cases on all branches of Railway Law have, however, been included in the present Digest. The last five years have not added much to the public statutory law affecting railways. They have seen the com pletion of the great work of the revision of the rates and charges authorised upon our railway system, which was contemplated by the Railway and Canal Traffic Act of 1888. In 1889-90 the inquiry by the Board of Trade provided for under sect. 24 of that Act was carried out by Lord Balfour of Burleigh and Mr. Courtenay Boyle. In the session of 1891 a Joint-committee of both Houses of Parliament considered the provisional orders embodying the classification and schedules approved by the Board of Trade in the case of nine of the leading English railway companies, and the petitions against them. In 1892 Parliament completed the confirmation of the provisional orders affecting all the railways of the United Kingdom. The new rates and charges came into force on lst January 1893. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.