the number of the effective time card or supplement governing each division of their lines in Oklahoma.

Dated at Oklahoma City, Okla., this 7th day of February 1913.

ORDER NO. 689.-Cause No. 1561.

REQUIRING FILING OF CONTRACTS, ETC.

To All Railroads and Railways Operating Steam, Electric, or Gasoline Trains or Cars in the State of Oklahoma; to All Express, Telephone and Telegraph, and Sleeping Car Companies; to All Gas and Electric Light, Heat and Power Companies, and to All Other Public Service Corporations and to Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to publication of Proposed Order No. 106, as required by law and hearing had therein in the office of the Corporation Commission on the 9th day of April, 1912, you are hereby notified that on and after the 21st day of April, 1913, a date after publication once a week for four consecutive weeks, in the Daily Oklahoman, a newspaper of general circulation, published in the City of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, as required by law that the following order, rule, regulation and requirement will be in full force and effect:

Each and every Railroad or Railway operating Steam, Electric or Gasoline Trains or Cars in the State of Oklahoma; all Express, Telephone and Telegraph Companies; Oil Pipe Line Companies; Sleeping Car Companies; all Gas or Electric Light, Heat or Power Companies, and all other Public Service Corporations coming under the supervision of the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma are hereby required to file with the Commission true and complete duplicate copies of all contracts, leases, agreements or arrangements with other persons or companies now in effect and such as may hereafter be entered into, as soon as practicable after execution, affecting the carriage or transportation of persons or property, or relating to the transmission of messages or communications between points within the State of Oklahoma, or to the handling, use or rental of lines, equipment or facilities; provided, that this shall not include ordinary contracts or bills of lading or passenger tickets, the rate or charge for which is specified in tariffs filed with the Commission, provided, however, that a sample of each kind of railroad, railway or express company way bill, ticket or bill of lading will be kept on file, same to represent a particular class or form of ticket or way bill, and further provided, that sample form of each kind of telephone contract or gas or electric meter contract is filed with the Commission to represent that particular class of contract. Provided further, that the Commission will be furnished upon its request any original copy or copies of any contract, lease, agreement or arrangement that it may require.

When any contract shall be terminated from any cause whatsoever, or shall in any manner be changed, the parties thereto, over whom the Corporation Commission has jurisdiction, shall notify the Commission by letter of all such changes or terminations.

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and affixed the seal of said Commission this 27th day of March, 1913.

Dated at Oklahoma City, Okla.. this 27th day of March, 1913.

To All Railroads:

ORDER NO. 699.-Cause No. 1654.

(See also Order No. 341.)

CHECKING BAGGAGE RULES.

In pursuance of issuance and service of Proposed Order No. 117 relative to the necessity of the promulgation of an order relative to the time in which baggage shall be received and checked and movement of said baggage, and pursuant to hearing held in Oklahoma City in the office of the Commission on September 10, 1912, you and each of you are hereby notified that the following order shall be in full force and effect on and after the first day of May, 1913. RULE No. 1: Where baggage is delivered to a railroad company at its regular baggage room or passenger depot platform within a reasonable time prior to the departure of the train for which it is intended and a request is made upon the carrier's representative at said depot within a reasonable time before the departure of said train, and said request is accompanid by proper railroad transportation between the points where said baggage is desired to move, said baggage must be immediately checked and a receipt of said checking, in the form of a duplicate check or otherwise, shall be given to said passenger.

RULE No. 2. It shall be the duty of the carrier to see that all baggage is moved on the first available train after same is checked.

All orders or parts of orders heretofore issued by this Commission which are in conflict with the rules, regulations and requirements named herein, are hereby cancelled and superseded.

Dated this 17th day of April 1913, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

ORDER NO. 755.-Cause No. 1384.

REQUIRING GAS, ELECTRIC AND WATER COMPANIES TO SECURE APPROVAL OF CORPORATION COMMISSION BE

FORE ADVANCING RATES.

To All Persons, Firms or Corporations engaged in the business of transporting, distributing or selling natural gas, or manufacturing, distributing or selling artificial gas; or generating, distributing or selling electric current; or supplying, distributing or selling water to consumers within the State of Oklahoma, and to all whom it may concern:

It is, therefore ordered that each and every person, firm, association or corporation engaged in the business of transporting, distributing or selling natural gas; or manufacturing distributing, or selling artificial gas; or generatting, transmitting, distributing or selling electric current for heat, light or power; or pumping, supplying, distributing or selling water for commercial domestic, municipal power or irrigation purposes to consumers within the State of Oklahoma, shall file with the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma on or before the first day of December, 1913, a certified copy of their respective rate sheets, schedules and tariffs, of each form of application for srvice and each form of contract in effect on the first day of August, 1913, pertaining to the transportation, transmission, distribution, pumping, furnishing, supplying or sale of gas, electricity or water.

It is further ordered that no such persons, firms, associations or corpora tions shall, for any utility which they may represent, advance any rate or change the form or forms of applications or contracts in effect on this date without first having submitted such proposed rate or form to the Corporation Commission at least thirty (30) days prior to the proposed effective date thereof; and the same shall not become effective unless and until approved by the Corporation Commission.

This order shall be in full force and effect on and after the 15th day of November, 1913, a date subsequent to four successive weekly publications in the said Daily Oklahoman.

Dated at Oklahoma City, this 16th day of October, 1913.

ORDER NO. 763.

(Supplementing Order No. 168.)

Further Supplemented by Orders Nos. 780 and 1069.

In re amending Order No. 168: Proposed Order No. 46.

Rule 17, Subject 6 of Order No. 168, provides in part as follows:

"It shall be the duty of the carriers to begin the forward movement of freight toward its destination within twenty-four (24) hours after the bill of lading is signed," etc.

It is ordered that the above rule shall be amended to read as follows:

"It shall be the duty of carriers to begin the forward movement of all freight towards its destination within twenty-four (24) hours after the bill of lading is signed, except kerosene and gasoline, in less than carload lots. The carriers may arrange to move kerosene and gasoline on two days of each week only, in equipment assigned to that service, provided that the shipments when started shall proceed to destination. (Carriers shall accept kerosene and gasoline in less than carload lots and issue bill of lading therefor when offered, but its forward movement may, in the discretion of the carrier, de ou the regular days for the movement of these commodities.) And after the movement thus commences, such freight shall be carried toward its destination at a rate of not less than fifty (50) miles per day covering the whole period any carrier controls the same at junction and divisional points, twelve (12) hours additional time shall be granted; except, that in movement of perishable freight and live stock in less than ten car lots, minimum rate shall be one hundred (100) miles per day and six (6) hours additional time at junction and divisional points.

"Provided that agents shall advise shippers of live stock in carloads the time of arrival of the train on which same are to be moved and loading of such livestock shall be completed one (1) hour before the arrival of such train, and on shipments of ten or more cars of live stock the minimum rate of movement per day shall be two hundred (200) miles, with no additional time at junction or divisional points."

Oklahoma City, October 22, 1913.

ORDER NO. 774.

And instructions relating to the classification of property, balance sheet, income and corporate surplus and deficit accounts of Gas and Electric Utilities.

CAUSE No. 1815.

To all persons, firms and corporations operating utilities for the manufacture, sale and distribution of gas (either natural or artificial) or electric current to consumers within the State of Oklahoma for heat, light or power, and to all whom it may concern:

Pursuant to publication of Proposed Order No. 131 relating to classification of property balance sheet, income and corporate surplus and deficit accounts of gas and electric utilities, in the Daily Oklahoman, a newspaper of general circulation, published in the city of Oklahoma, State of Oklahoma, said contemplated order having appeared therein once a week for four consecutive weeks, as required by law, pursuant to specific service thereof and a hearing held in the City of Oklahoma City, on, the 9th day of September, 1913, notice is hereby given that the following order shall be in full force and effect on and after July 1, 1914.

1. All gas and electric utility companies now operating or doing business in the State of Oklahoma, shall file with the Corporation Commission, separately for each of such utilities, on or before the 31st day of July, 1914, copies of corrected original and up to date drawings in blue or white print, or photograph of such original drawing certified by the chief engineer or managing officer, showing the location of all right of way, real estate, gas distributing lines. electric transmission lines and all other facilities or structures as of June 30, 1914, devoted to the purpose of or used in connection with the manu facture or distribution of gas (either natural or artificial), or electric current to the public or to municipalities or others for distribution to the public.

2. Such utility companies shall report to the Corporation Commission, under oath, separately for each utility, in the manner prescribed, the original cost of construction of the actual facilities or property in use as of June 30, 1914, and the amounts expended from time to time for permanent additions and betterments to their properties. The location of such permanent additions and betterments shall be plainly indicated upon blue or white prints or photographs of such original drawings filed at the time such report or reports are filed with said Commission.

3. All property, real or personal, and all plant facilities abandoned shall be reported in detail, on quarterly reports.

4. When any portion of the original cost cannot be identified with any primary account named in the classification of expenditures for property accounts prescribed by said Commission, estimates in detail for such portion shall be made, and such estimated costs shall be the estimated original costs at the time the utility or portion thereof was placed in operation.

5. On or before the last day of the month following each calendar quarter, detailed reports of the cost and location of all completed new construction or additions and betterments for the preceeding calendar quarter shall be made, 1914, for the calendar quarter ending September 30, 1914. Same shall be certified by the chief engineer or managing officer of the company making such report, covering additions and betterments from the first to the last day of such calendar quarter, both inclusive. Blue or white print copies of original drawings or photographs showing thereon, the cost of any and all completed

new construction and additions and betterments shall be filed with said Commission as a part of such quarterly report.

6. Any gas or electric utility company contracting for the construction of new plants, or for additions or betterments. shall require reports of such construction in such detail as may be necessary to enable such gas or electric utility company to report to said Commission the original cost and inventory in the manner and form prescribed by the said Commission.

7. No director, officer, agent, member or employee of the operator of any gas or electric utility under jurisdiction of the Commission shall destroy, deface or falsify any contract, record, books, maps or plats, or any paper or document relating to the cost or operation of such utility or utilities.

8. The Commission will exempt any company from complying with any of the requirements named herein upon satisfactory showing.

GAS UTILITIES.

CLASSIFICATION OF PROPERTY ACCOUNTS AND INSTRUCTIONS. (Property accounts are those which represent only actual moneys expended.)

The following classification of expenditures for property accounts shall be, and the same is hereby prescribed, promulgated and adopted for the use of all utilities for the manufacture, sale and distribution of gas (either naturai or artificial) to consumers in the State of Oklahoma for heat, light or power, subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission in the keeping and recording of property accounts; that each and every such company and each and every receiver or operating trustee of any such company be required to keep alt accounts in conformity therewith, in so far as the same are pertinent with the facts and circumstances with any such company.

The rules and regulations herein contained are, and by virtue of this order do become, the lawful rules according to which the said property accounts are defined. Each and every person directly in charge of the accounts of any such company, or of any receiver or operating trustee of any such company, is hereby required to follow and apply the said rules in keeping and recording of property accounts of any such company concerning its operation in Oklahoma, and it shall be unlawful for any such company or for any receiver or operating trustee of any such company, or for any person directly in charge of the accounts of any such company, to keep any account or record, or memoranda of any accounting or property, except in the manner and form set forth and hereby prescribed, and except as hereinafter authorized.

Wherever second-hand material is used, the symbol "S H" shall immediately follow each item or entry. For each item in accounts covering buildings, structures and all other facilities, the date such material was placed in use or in a position ready to serve shall be noted.

INSTRUCTIONS PERTAINING TO PROPERTY ACCOUNTS. (Applies also to classification of electric utility accounts following.) ADDITIONS are structures, facilities, equipment, and other properties added to those in service at the beginning of operations, and not taking the place of property of like purpose previously held by the company.