Provided that with regard to the Sirhowy Railway, the Company shall with respect to merchandise in Class A. conveyed for a less distance than four miles, have power to charge as for four miles at the least, irrespective of the place of origin or destination of the traffic.

SCALE III.-Applicable to the Cannock Chase Railway.

For the whole or any portion of the Cannock Chase Railway, the Company may charge a maximum rate of 9d. per ton, except with regard to merchandise passing along and from the railway secondly described in and authorized by the Cannock Chase Railway Act. 1860, on to the Littleworth Tramway, and not having passed along any part of the railway firstly described in the said Act, for which merchandise they may charge a maximum rate of 4.50d. per ton. (B) RATES AND TERMINALS IN RESPECT OF MERCHANDISE COMPRISED IN CLASSES B, C, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

SCALE I.-Applicable to such portions of the railway as are not hereinafter specially mentioned.

(C) RATES AND TERMINALS IN RESPECT OF MERCHANDISE COMPRISED IN CLASS B.

SCALE II.-Applicable to the railways herein specially mentioned.

Provided always that with regard to merchandise in Class B. conveyed upon the Whitehaven Junction or Cockermouth and Workington Railways or any portion thereof for which the Company do not provide waggons, the maximum rate for conveyance before mentioned shall be reduced by the sum of 1d. per ton per mile.

The terminal charges other than those payable under paragraph 4 on animals sent by the same person at a rate calculated per head, and carried in the same truck, shall in no case exceed the terminal charges per truck.

Where the company is required to cleanse and does cleanse trucks under the provision of any
Order in Council, or duly authorised regulation of any Department of State, they may make a
charge not exceeding one shilling per truck in addition to the charges herein authorised.
See, as to the fourth description, Northumberland County Council v. N. E. Ry. Co.

PART IV.-EXCEPTIONAL CLASS.

Description.

For articles of unusual length, bulk, or weight, or of exceptional bulk in proportion to weight..

For articles requiring an exceptional truck, or more than one truck, or a special train

For locomotive engines and tenders, and railway vehicles running
on their own wheels.

For any wild beast, or any large animal not otherwise provided for.
For dangerous goods....

For specie, bullion, or precious stones

For any accommodation or services provided or rendered by the Company within the scope of their undertaking by the desire of a trader, and in respect of which no provisions are made by this schedule

Charge.

Such reasonable sum as the company may think fit in each case.

The above provisions shall not apply to pieces of timber weighing less than four tons each, but for all such timber when requiring two or more waggons for conveyance a minimum charge may be made as for one ton for each waggon used, whether carrying part of the load or used as a safety waggon only.

PART V. PERISHABLE MERCHANDISE BY PASSENGER TRAIN.

The following provisions and regulations shall be applicable to the conveyance of perishable merchandise by passenger train:

1. The Company shall afford reasonable facilities for the expeditious conveyance of the articles enumerated in the three divisions set out hereunder (which articles are hereinafter called "perishables"), either by passenger train or by other similar service.

2. Such facilities shall be subject to the reasonable regulations of the Company for the convenient and punctual working of their pas senger train service, and shall not include any obligation to convey perishables by any particular train.

3. The Company shall not be under obligation to convey by passenger train, or other similar service, and merchandise other than per

ishables.

4. Any question as to the facilities afforded by the Company under these provisions and regulations shall be determined by the Board of Trade.

5. Where a consignment of milk is less than 12 gallons, the Company shall be entitled to charge as for 12 gallons, and where a consignment of perishable merchandise comprised in Divisions II. or III. is less than one hundredweight, the Company shall be entitled to charge as for one hundredweight, with a minimum charge of 1s.

Division I.-Milk.

Division II.-Butter (fresh), cheese (soft), cream, eggs. Fish: char, grayling, lobsters, mullet (red), oysters, prawns, salmon, soles, trout, turbot, whitebait. Fruit, hothouse fruit. Game (dead), meat (fresh), poultry (dead), rabbits (dead), vegetables (hothouse).

Division III.-Fish (except as provided in Division II), fruit (except as provided in Division II), ice.

PART VL-SMALL PARCELS BY MERCHANDISE TRAIN.

1. For small parcels by merchandise train, not exceeding in weight three hundredweight, the Company may charge, in addition to the maximum rates for conveyance, and the maximum station and service terminals, authorised by this schedule, which rates and charges are in this part together referred to by the expression "the maximum tonnage charge," the following:

2. Where, for a parcel exceeding in weight three hundredweight, the maximum tonnage charge comes to less than the Company are authorised, according to the above table, to charge for a parcel of three hundredweight in weight, the Company may charge for such parcel as if its weight was three hundredweight.

3. A small parcel under this part of the schedule may consist of one consignment of two or more packages of merchandise comprised in the same class of the classification of not less than 14 lbs. each in weight.

4. For a small parcel of less than 28 pounds in weight the Company may charge as for a parcel of 28 pounds in weight.

5. For a fraction of 14 pounds in weight the Company may charge as for 14 pounds in weight.

6. Any small parcel (other than a parcel of mixed groceries) containing articles belonging to different classes of the classification, shall be chargeable with the maximum tonnage charge applicable to the highest of such classes.

7. If the consignor of a small parcel declines, on demand by the Company, to declare to the Company the nature of the contents of the small parcel before or at the time when the same is delivered to the Company for conveyance, the Company may charge for the parcel as if it was wholly composed of articles comprised in Class 5 of the classification.

8. Nothing in this part of this schedule shall apply to returned empties.

CLASSIFICATION OF MERCHANDISE TRAFFIC.

[Where in this list the letters "e.o.h.p." are placed after the designation of any Article they mean "except otherwise herein provided."]

When merchandise spécified in Class A. Is consigned in quantities of less than four tons and not less than two tons, the Company may charge for such consign ment the conveyance rates applicable to Class B., and if less than two tons the conveyance rates applicable to Class C.; provided that the Company shall not charge more than as for a consignment of four tons or two tons respectively.