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§§ 5044-5079-al. CONSTRUCTION OF RAILWAYS. Tit. XVI, Ch. 3.
SEC. 5044. Office.
1 The board shall keep an office in the capitol at the seat of govern-
2 ment.
[C, '97, § 2121; S. S., '15, § 2121; 37 G. A., ch. 315, § 2;
39 G. A., ch. 209, § 20.]
SEC. 5044-al. Appropriation.
1 There is hereby appropriated out of the funds in the state treas-
2 ury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty thousand dollars
3 annually, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the same to be ex-
4 pended by the state railroad commission in the preparation and sub-
5 mission of cases involving interstate rates or services affecting Iowa,
6 and in the investigation and determination of all cases within its
7 jurisdiction, and to defray the general expenses of the administration
8 of the duties of the state railroad commission.
[39 G. A., ch. 309, § 1.]
CHAPTER 2.
COMMERCE COUNSEL.
SECTION 5047. Office—expenses.
1 Said commerce counsel shall have his office in the quarters as-
2 signed to the board of railroad commissioners and he shall have free
3 access to all the files, documents, reports and papers in said offices.
4 The commerce counsel and other necessary agents and experts shall
5 have reimbursed to them all the actual and necessary traveling, and
6 all other expenses and disbursements incurred or made by him in the
7 discharge of his official duties, such expenditures to be approved by
8 the board of railroad commissioners, and paid out of such funds as
9 shall be appropriated for said purpose by the general assembly.
. [S., '13, § 2121-j ; 39 G. A., ch. 209, § 21.]
SEC. 5048. Appropriation.
[Repealed by 39 G. A., ch. 209, § 1.]
CHAPTER 3.
CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OP RAILWAYS.
SECTION 5079. Interlocking switches.
[Repealed by 39 G. A., ch. 247, § 1, and the four following sections
enacted in lieu thereof.]
SEC. 6079-al. Interlocking switches—approval of plans.
1 When in any case two or more railroads cross each other at a
2 common grade, or a railroad crosses a stream by swing or draw bridge,
3 they may be equipped thereat with an interlocking switch system, or