...the United Slates of America in Congress assembled, that on and alter the first day of July. 1893, U shall be unlawful for any common carrier engaged in interstate commerce by railroad to put into use on its line any new loromolive to be used in moving interstate traffic that is not equipped...

...shipment thereof, subject to the provisions of the safety appliance acts? These acts declare that: "It shall be unlawful for any common carrier engaged in interstate commerce by railroad" (section 1) "to haul, or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car (except four-wheeled cars...

...Сотр. St. 1901, p. 3174]). By section 1 It provides that it shall he unlawful after a specified date "for any common carrier engaged in interstate commerce by railroad to use on Its Hue any locomotive engine In moving interstate traffic" not equipped in a specified manner. Section...

...action under the original Safety Appliance Act of March 2, 1893, 27 Stat. 531, c. 196, which made it unlawful for any common carrier engaged in interstate commerce by railroad "to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate traffic not equipped...

...occasion to consider the other question presented — the meaning of that statute. Section 2 makes it unlawful for any common carrier engaged in interstate commerce by railroad "to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate trafile not equipped...

...States reads as follows: "From and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, it shall be unlawful for any common carrier engaged in...moving interstate traffic not equipped with a power driving wheel brake and appliances for operating the train brake system, or to run any train in such...

...unlawful for any railroad company to use within the State on its lino or lines any locomotive engine not equipped with a power driving-wheel brake and appliances for operating the train-brake system. SuC. 2. That from and after the passage of this act, in addition to all freight cars now so equipped...

...that purpose. (Mar. 2, 1893, ch. 196, Sec. 1, 27 Stat. 531.) Section £. Automatic couplers.— It shall be unlawful for any common carrier engaged In Interstate commerce by railroad to haul or permit to be hauled or used on Its line any car used In moving Interstate traffic not equipped...

...ends and sides of each car ; and that locomotive engines used In moving Interstate traffic shall be equipped with a power drivingwheel brake and appliances for operating the train-brake system. The act directs the commission to lodge with the proper district attorneys information of such violations...

...AUTOMATIC COUPLER AND POWER BRAKE ACT. f SECTION 1. That from and after the first day of January, 1898, it shall be unlawful for any common carrier, engaged...driving-wheel brake and appliances for operating the train-brakes system, or to run any train in such traffic after said date that has not a sufficient...