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Description:Excerpt from Telephone Rates and Values 1. Early Supervision Over Dispensation of Public Necessities. - The subject of commission control of the corporations whose function is to supply the public with light, power, water, intercommunicating and transportation facilities is one that is deservedly gaining widespread notoriety. At the time of the inauguration of the commission form of utility regulation, a comparatively few years ago, there was a reasonable doubt in the public mind as to whether the large expenditures essential to the establishment and maintenance of public service commissions could, in the long run, be justified. That this doubt has been largely, if not entirely, dispelled will not be questioned by one who has had the good fortune to live in a community where public utilities are subservient to competent commission control. The regulation of business enterprises by local or general government is not by any means a new departure, although the present form of commission control originated with the establishment of the Massachusetts Board of Railway Commissioners in the early 60's. As early as the thirteenth century the English government exercised a more or less rigorous supervision over the dispensation of public necessities. Naturally the commodities with which our present commissions are chiefly concerned - i.e., gas, electric light, telephone and railway service - were non-existent at that time, and the government confined its activities principally to the regulation of private enterprises supplying the public with foodstuffs, tobacco, ale and kindred commodities. Curiously enough, these articles are exempt from commission control at present. This is due largely to the fact that the competitive system, perpetuated in this country by the enactment of the anti-trust laws, insures moderate prices and reasonable service. 2. Forerunner of Modem Commission Control. - One branch of the early English regulation, however, may be regarded as a forerunner of our modem commission control. An act of Parliament, establishing a uniform tariff for boatmen on the River Thames, stipulated that schedules of rates should be posted in public places, and that eight of the boatmen should be elected to serve as inspectors, reporting violations of the law to the mayor of London and board of aldermen, acting as a commission to settle complaints. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Telephone Rates and Values (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Telephone Rates and Values (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from Telephone Rates and Values 1. Early Supervision Over Dispensation of Public Necessities. - The subject of commission control of the corporations whose function is to supply the public with light, power, water, intercommunicating and transportation facilities is one that is deservedly gaining widespread notoriety. At the time of the inauguration of the commission form of utility regulation, a comparatively few years ago, there was a reasonable doubt in the public mind as to whether the large expenditures essential to the establishment and maintenance of public service commissions could, in the long run, be justified. That this doubt has been largely, if not entirely, dispelled will not be questioned by one who has had the good fortune to live in a community where public utilities are subservient to competent commission control. The regulation of business enterprises by local or general government is not by any means a new departure, although the present form of commission control originated with the establishment of the Massachusetts Board of Railway Commissioners in the early 60's. As early as the thirteenth century the English government exercised a more or less rigorous supervision over the dispensation of public necessities. Naturally the commodities with which our present commissions are chiefly concerned - i.e., gas, electric light, telephone and railway service - were non-existent at that time, and the government confined its activities principally to the regulation of private enterprises supplying the public with foodstuffs, tobacco, ale and kindred commodities. Curiously enough, these articles are exempt from commission control at present. This is due largely to the fact that the competitive system, perpetuated in this country by the enactment of the anti-trust laws, insures moderate prices and reasonable service. 2. Forerunner of Modem Commission Control. - One branch of the early English regulation, however, may be regarded as a forerunner of our modem commission control. An act of Parliament, establishing a uniform tariff for boatmen on the River Thames, stipulated that schedules of rates should be posted in public places, and that eight of the boatmen should be elected to serve as inspectors, reporting violations of the law to the mayor of London and board of aldermen, acting as a commission to settle complaints. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Telephone Rates and Values (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Telephone Rates and Values (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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