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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 443b. Indian goods and supplies
Payment for transportation of Indian goods and supplies shall
include all Indian transportation lawfully due such land-grant
railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be
adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in
cases decided under such land-grant Acts), but in no case shall
more than 50 per centum of full amount of service be paid to said
land-grant roads: Provided, That such compensation shall be
computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for
like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be
accepted as in full for all demands for such service: Provided
further, That on and after April 30, 1908 in expending money
appropriated for this purpose a railroad company which has not
received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a
grant of public lands to aid in the construction of its railroad on
condition that such railroad should be a post route and military
road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military,
naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such
regulations as Congress may impose, restricting the charge for such
government transportation, having claims against the United States
for transportation of Indian goods and supplies over such aided
railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated for such
purpose only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of
such Indian goods and supplies as the Secretary of the Interior
shall deem just and reasonable under the provisions set forth
herein, such rate not to exceed 50 per centum of the compensation
for such Government transportation as shall at that time be charged
to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and
similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be
accepted as in full for all demands for such service.
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