THE IMPERIAL RAIL ACT

[Old Man Boiendl 1454]

The Imperial 

Railway Act

Anno Domini 1732

 

Felsen at Dusk 

 Edmond J.B. Manston, 1532

 

 

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By the Grace and good wisdom of GOD it has come to the attention of the Lord Protector Adrian of House Sarkozic  and His Excellency the Archchancellor Peter Cardinal Helena that the crucial infrastructure of the Holy Oren Empire has fallen into disarray and neglect. 

 

It is our divine mandate to better the realm and continue the free flow of persons and possessions to and fro the great Cities of the Empire. With the grace and goodwill of the Crown and Imperial Administration and the accession by imperial delegation to allocate the powers to do so, the properties and possessions of Durant Co. Rail are transferred to the protections and responsibility of the Crown and Administration. Thus we act wholly within the offices of our imperial remit to hereafter establish the Imperial Rail pursuant to the following terms.

 

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Subject to this act, the Empire grants itself the following powers;

 

To carry goods and passengers by the railway system extent within the empire.

 

To provide within the empire further rail services and establish the financial and physical foundations for such.

 

In places within the empire where it is so required, to provide for the passengers and other persons adequate stations for railway services.

 

To provide for the empire such amenities and facilities for passengers making use of the services to purchase tickets and other services that it would appear to them requisite to provide.

 

To construct, manufacture, purchase, maintain and repair anything required for the purpose of the establishment of the imperial rail-lines.

 

To take the land under lease or tenancy that was otherwise being used for railway purposes.

 

Subject to the provisions of this act, every agreement to which the previous railway operating body were a party, whether in writing or not, shall, unless its terms or subject matter should make it impossible that it should have effect in the manner provided by this section are modified as follows;

 

The Empire had been a party to the agreement;

and,

Any references, explicitly worded or otherwise, to the previous company shall be modified to include the Holy Orenian Empire.

 

Provided any modification of agreements to which the previous parties were privy cannot have effect as modified in the preceding manner, no other entity beyond the Holy Orenian Empire shall have their rights and liabilities cease to have effect, as is the divine authority of the imperial crown.

 

Any following funds and securities collected by the rail-companies shall be bestowed upon the Imperial treasury, the holder of any minae may ask for remittance for any costs incurred in returning the funds to the crown.

 

Any question or dispute which occurs as a result of this act are to be arbitrated by the authority of the imperial crown ex officio, although in the event of civil law suit resulting from the act of eminent domain the aggrieved party is permitted to appoint one arbiter to represent the case before the imperial court for three attempts before the aggrieved party is deprived of this right through exhaustion of it.

 

 

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HIS IMPERIAL EXCELLENCY, Adrian Leopold of the House of Sarkozy, Lord Protector of the Holy Orenian Empire, Governor-General of Helena, Duke of Adria, the Crownlands, Lorraine, and Roden, Baron of Renzfeld, Protector of the Heartlanders, Highlanders, and Farfolk, etcetera.

 

HIS IMPERIAL EXCELLENCY, the Archchancellor of the Holy Oren Empire, Peter Cardinal Helena 

 

Vice Chairman of the Durant Group, Mister Jasper de Sarkozy 

 

Mister Veikko Harjalainen, esq.