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Excerpt from Conference Rulings of the Interstate Commerce Commission The rulings of the Commission in conference are announced in formally from time to time through the public press and are later edited and issued in this form for the information of shippers, car riers, and others interested in transportation matters. The rulings express the views of the Commission on informal inquiries involving special facts or requiring an interpretation and construction of the law, ' and are to be regarded as precedents governing similar cases. This bulletin contains all the rulings promulgated by the Commis sion Since it adopted the practice of publishing them, and takes the place of previous bulletins. It will be observed that in the light of a wider knowledge of the subjects involved some of the rulings have been withdrawn, while others have been modified and restated in later rulings. In such in stances the text of the original ruling has been omitted, while the title and number have been retained with annotations directing at tention to the development of the principle in the subsequent ruling. 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.