EACH. according to the Standard Tariff, carrier's risk 30 cents per 100 lbs., or $6, and at owner's risk, 27 cents per 100 lbs., or $5.40 EACH. Calves and Sheep in lots of 5 or Live Stock. mal... ..2,000 lbs. Two Horses, Mules or Horned Maximum valuations. Special valuations. Mixed shipments. Shippers to feed and water, stock.. Cars to be nied with The rates on Live Stock as given in this Tariff are based on the following maximum valuations: Race Horses, Stallions, Jacks, Bulls, and other high priced animals, when shippers are not willing to have the same transported at above valuations, will be taken only at the following rates on valuation given: Value from $150 00 to $ 400 00 add to regular rate 30 per cent. 600 00 add to regular rate 50 per cent. S00 00 add to regular rate 60 per cent. 1,000 00 add to regular rate 100 per cent. Over $1,000 subject to special rate by contract. Live Stock will be taken at the released or owners' risk rate only when contract is executed by shipper and Station Agent. Mixed shipment of Cattle, Hogs, Lambs, etc., will be taken in car loads at car load rates for cattle, but carrier will be released from damage to animals caused by their own acts, or to each other, and from escape, if not haltered, suffocation, exhaustion from heat or cold. Sucking Calves accompanying Cows will be charged for at rate for single Calves. Sucking Colts accompanying Mares will be charged for at double the rate for single Calves. The word "calves" used in these Rules and Regulations applies only to calves under nine months old; and the words "Yearling Cattle" to cattle over nine months and under eighteen months old. Pigs, Hogs, Calves, etc., boxed, crated, or in portable pens, taken at actual weight, carrier's risk, 1st class: owner's risk, 2d class. In no case shall the charge for less than a car load of Live Stock exceed the charge for a car load. Shippers will be expected to feed, water and care for Stock at their own expense. When food is furnished by Carrier, a charge will be made for the same and collected from Consignee. One, two or three cars of Live Stock will entitle the owner or his agent to be caraccompa- ried free to point of destination of consignment, on the train with the Stock, to care for Four to seven cars inclusive, belonging to one owner, two men in charge; and eight cars or more belonging to one owner, three men in charge, which number is the maximum number of attendants that will be carried free for one shipment. Return transportation not given to owners, agents or attendants. DEMURRACE RULES. Pursuant to an Act of the Legislature, approved October 17, 1891, the Commission have adopted the following rules and regulations upon the subject of storage and demurrage: RULE 1. Railroad companies shall give prompt notice by mail or otherwise to the consignees Railroad companies of the arrival of goods, and that storage or demurrage charges will be assessed if not re- to give moved in conformity with the following regulations, and upon failure of said railroad prompt noto give said notice, no storage or demurrage charges shall be allowed. RULE 2. tice of arrival of goods. after limit All package freight unloaded in depot or warehouse which is not removed by the Charge on package owners thereof from the custody of the railroad company within forty-eight (48) hours feight (not including Sundays or legal holidays), computed from ten o'clock A. M. of the day of time following the day of arrival, may be subjected thereafter to a charge of storage for cach allowed. day or fraction of a day that it may remain in the custody of the railroad company, as follows: In less than carload quantities, not more than one cent per one hundred pounds per day. In carload quantities, not more than ten (10) cents per ton of two thousand (2,000) pounds per day. RULE 3. loaded cars ration of Loaded cars which, by Rule No. 13 of the Commission, or by consent and agreement Charge on between the railroad and consignee that are to be unloaded by consignee, such as Bulk after expiMeat, Bulk Grain, Hay, Cotton Seed, Lumber, Lime, Coal, Coke, Sand, Brick, Stone limit. and Wood, which are not unloaded from the cars containing them within forty-eight hours not including Sundays or legal holidays-computed from 10 o'clock A. M. of the day following the day of arrival, may be subjected thereafter to a charge of demurrage of one dollar per car for each day or fraction of a day that said car or cars remain unloaded in the possession of the Railroad Company; it being understood that said car or cars are to BE PLACED and remain accessible to the consignee for the purpose of unloading during the period in which held free of demurrage, and that when the period of such demurrage charge commences they are to remain accessible to the consignee for unloading purposes, provided that when any consignee shall receive more than four cars loaded with lumber, laths, shingles, wood, coal, coke, lime, ore, sand or bricks, the said cars in excess of four (4) shall not be liable to demurrage by any railroad company until after the expiration of seventy-eight (78) hours. RULE 4. more than Consignees more than five miles from the depot, shall not be subjected to storage or Consignees demurrage charges allowed in the above rules, until a sufficient time has elapsed, after five miles notice, for said consignee to have removed said goods, by the exercise of ordinary diligence. distant. RULE 5. Railroad companies are authorized to store such property in public warehouses at the expense of owner, if same is not removed before demurrage charges attach. Roads a1lowed to store pro erty. RULE 6. Shipper to When any railroad company fails to deliver freights at the depot or to place loaded be paid when road cars at an accessible place for unloading within forty-eight hours (not including Sunday's fails to de- or legal holidays) computed from ten o'clock the day after the arrival of the same, in limit of the shipper or consignee shall be paid one dollar per day for each dav said delivery is so delayed. liver with time. |