
      If any railroad or telegraph company referred to in section 9 of
    this title, or company operating such railroad or telegraph line
    shall refuse or fail, in whole or in part, to maintain, and operate
    a telegraph line as provided herein, for the use of the Government
    or the public, for commercial and other purposes, without
    discrimination, or shall refuse or fail to make or continue such
    arrangements for the interchange of business with any connecting
    telegraph company, then any person, company, corporation, or
    connecting telegraph company may apply for relief to the Federal
    Communications Commission, whose duty it shall thereupon be, under
    such rules and regulations as said commission may prescribe, to
    ascertain the facts, and determine and order what arrangement is
    proper to be made in the particular case, and the railroad or
    telegraph company concerned shall abide by and perform such order;
    and it shall be the duty of the Federal Communications Commission,
    when such determination and order are made, to notify the parties
    concerned, and, if necessary, enforce the same by writ of mandamus
    in the courts of the United States, in the name of the United
    States, at the relation of either of said communication
    commissioners. The commissioners may institute any inquiry, upon
    their own motion, in the same manner and to the same effect as
    though complaint had been made.

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