Chapter 109. to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by limiting the hours of service of employees thereon,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven
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CHAP. 109.— AN ACT To amend section three of an Act entitled “An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by limiting the hours of service of employees thereon,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven. May 4, 1916.[[S. 3769](/us/bill/64/s/3769).][[Public, No. 68](/us/pl/64/68).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That section three of an Act Railroad employees.
Hours of service restricted. Vol. 34, p. 1416, amended.entitled “An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by limiting the hours of service of employees thereon,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: "“Sec. 3. That any such common carrier, or any officer or agent Penalty for violations.thereof, requiring or permitting any employee to go, be, or remain on duty in violation of the second section hereof shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $100 nor more than $500 for each and every violation, to be recovered in a suit or suits to be brought by the United States district attorney in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction in the locality where such violations shall have been committed; and it shall be the duty of such district attorney to bring such suit upon satisfactory information being lodged with him; but no such suit shall be brought after the expiration of one year from the date of such violation; and it shall also be the duty of the Interstate Commerce Commission to lodge with the proper district attorney information of any such violations as may come to its knowledge.
In all prosecutions under this Act the common carrier Prosecutions.shall be deemed to have knowledge of all acts of all its officers and agents: *Provided,* That the provisions of this Act shall not apply *Provisos.* Unavoidable accidents, etc., excepted.in any case of casualty or unavoidable accident or the act of God; nor where the delay was the result of a cause not known to the carrier or its officer or agent in charge of such employee at the time said employee left a terminal, and which could not have been foreseen: *Provided further,* That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to Wrecking, etc., crews.the crews of wrecking or relief trains.”" Sec. 2.
That nothing in this Act shall affect, or be held to affect, any suit that may be instituted for recovery of penalty for violation 62of the Act hereby amended occurring prior to the approval of this Act, or any suit for such penalty or growing out of alleged violation of the Act hereby amended which may be pending in any court at the time of the approval of this Act. Approved, May 4, 1916.