Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-09-24
RauIrond Rates for the Fairs.

The following circular, prescribing
rates for the transportation OF passeu-
gers and articles OF exhibition to and
from the Agricultural Fairs next
month has been promulgated by the
authorities of the Atlantic, Mississip,
pi and Ohio Railroad Company:
ATLANTIC, Miss. & OHIO r. r. Co, !
LYNCHBURG, Sept. II, 1872. !
Circular No. %.
The following rules and regulations
will be observed by the proper agents
of this Company in respect to the trans
portation of persons visiting any Of tho
Agricultural Fairs to be held in this
State, during the calendar year, and in
respect to the transportation ofsll arti-
cles intended for exhibition at such
Fairs that is to say:
/. Members and visitors to each
Fair will be granted tickets at full
rates, stamped good to return" such
return tickets, however, must be ac-
complained by the usual certificates OF
attendance from the Secretary of such
Fair, as the case may be.
II. All articles for exhibition at any
of such Fairs will be charged with the
regular tariff rates by the agent at
whose station the same shall be ship
ped, such agent furnishing the shipper
with an itemized bill of the articles
forwarded. and amount or charge lev
led upon each article composing the
shipment, the aggregate amount OF
which must be in all cases prepaid,
and such itemized bill accordingly re
ceipted.
III. All articles which shall have
been transported under the terms OF
section II, of this circular, will be ell
titled to free transportation upon pre-
sentation 20 the agent of the station
from whence the same shall have been
forwarded, on the return homewards
thereof. of the aforementioned bill of
items and receipt granted by the agent
making such shipments, for either of
such Fairs, the same certified on the
back by the proper officer of the Fair
for which such articles were intended
for exhibition, that they have been du-
ly exhibited at such Fair; provided,
in all cases, that the ownership of such
articles shall remain the same, aud
that the return destination of the same
shall be for the station from whence
they were first forwarded; and in all
cases of articles so forwarded, so certi-
fled by the proper officer of the Fair at
which they were intended to he eXhib-
tied, and so forwarded to the station
from whence they were In the first
instance shipped. the agent of such
shipping station shall, upon the deliv-
cry of the bill and receipt granted by
him, duly certified as here provided,
refund the charges made upon all such
articles so refunded, provided tnat the
demand for the return of such freight
articles shall be made at the time such
articles arc received at his station for
delivery.
". That the acceptance of such
facilities upon the part of any shipper
shall stand as upon account of articles
forwarded as with his consent, bar
and acquittance against any claim for
loss of injury which may occur to the
same.
V. Attendants upon stock will be
allowed to accompany the same, free OF
charge going and returning.
vi. The privileges herein granted
will be operative for period beginn-
ing three days before the commence
ment of any such Fairs, and termina-
ting five days after the close of the
same-except in such cases where one
Fair follows another, then the expira-
ton of the period which such facilities
are extended, will be made with refer
ence to the close of the last Fair.
BY direction of the president,
n. NJ. OSBORNE.