Annual Report of the Board of Gas and Electric Light Commissioners of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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Stranica clxix - That the proper, if not the only, mode of judicial relief against the tariff of rates established by the legislature or by its commission, is by a bill in chancery asserting its unreasonable character and its conflict with the Constitution of the United States...
Stranica clxxxv - ... and to the customer a certificate of the result and expense thereof. If upon such examination it appears that the meter does not register correctly, the board may order the company to correct or remove such meter and to substitute a correct meter therefor. All fees for examinations and tests shall in the first instance be paid by the person or company making application therefor; but if the examination or test is made at the request of a customer and the meter is found to be incorrect because...
Stranica 34 - ... twenty years from the date thereof, and bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 5 per cent, per annum...
Stranica clxviii - Whenever, in pursuance of an honest and actual antagonistic assertion of rights by one individual against another, there is presented a question involving the validity of any act of any legislature, State or Federal, and the decision necessarily rests on the competency of the legislature to so enact, the court must, in the exercise of its solemn duties, determine whether the act be constitutional or not ; but such an exercise of power is the ultimate and supreme function of courts. It is legitimate...
Stranica clxxxvi - The board may establish such rules and regulations, fix such standards, prescribe such fees, and employ such means and methods in, and in connection with, such examinations and tests of electric meters as in the judgment of the board shall be most practicable, expedient and economical.
Stranica clxxvii - Commonwealth, as they existed, from 1891 to 1893, it was provided that a street railway company might apply to the board of aldermen of a city, or the selectmen of a town...
Stranica 56 - Board that said amount of stock is reasonably necessary for the purpose for which such issue is authorized, it is — Ordered, that the Board hereby approves of the issue by the...
Stranica clxviii - Must it be declared, as matter of law, that a reduction of rates necessarily diminishes income ? May it not be possible — indeed, does not all experience suggest the probability — that a reduction of rates will increase the amount of business, and therefore the earnings...
Stranica clxviii - The theory upon which, apparently, this suit was brought is that parties have an appeal from the legislature to the courts; and that the latter arej given an immediate and general supervision of the constitutionality of the acts of the former. Such is not true. Whenever, in pursuance of an honest and actual antagonistic assertion of rights by one individual against another, there is presented...
Stranica 61 - ... the proceeds thereof to be applied to the following purposes and to no other, to wit: the proceeds of...

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