Speaker. read the pass amendment submitted in this conference report. No common carrier. subject to the provisions of this act. shall. after January 1. 1907. directly or Indirectly. issue or give any Interstate free ticket. free pass. or free transportation for passengers. except to its employees and their families. its agents. officers. surgeons. physicians. attorneys at law. ministers of religion. traveling secretaries of Railroad Young Mens Christian Associations. inmates of hospitals and charitable and eleemosynar Institutions. and persons exclusively engaged In charitable and eleemosynary work. to indigent. destitute. and homeless persons. and to such persons when transported by charitable societies and hospitals. and the necessary agents employed In such transportation. to inmates of the National Homes and State Homes for disabled volunteer soldiers. and of soldiers and sailors homes and their boards of managers. including those about to enter and those returning home after discharge. to necessary caretakers of live stock. poultry. and fruit. to employees on sleeping cars. express cars. andto linemen of telegraph and telephone companies. Railway Mall Service employees. postoffice inspectors. customs Inspectors. and immigration inspectors. newsboys on trains. baggage agents. witnesses attending any legal investigation in which the carrier is interested. persons injured in wrecks. and the physicians and nurses attending such persons: Provided. That this provision shall not be construed to prohibit the interchange of passes for the officers. agents. and employees of common carriers and of their immediate families. nor to prohibit any common carrier from carrying passengers free with the object of providing relief in cases of general epidemic. pestilence. or other calamitous visitation. Any common carrier violating this provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and for each offense. on conviction. shall pay to the United States a penalty of not less than $100 nor more than $2.000. and any person. other than the persons excepted in this provision. who uses any such interstate free ticket. free pass. or free transportation shall be subject to a like penalty.
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