The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-02
RQIITOOd Commission Of Georgia.
L. N. TRAMGdELL, Chairman
ALLEN FORT Commissioners
THOS. C. CRENSHAW, JR,
J. d. MASSEY. Secretary.
ATLANTA, GA, Feb. 20, 1896
CIRCULAR NO. 256.
The Rules of the Railroad Commission OF
Georgia Governing Storage and Demurrage
Charges Have Been Amended and Are Here
by Amended to Read as Follows:
DEAIURRAGE RULES.


RULE l.
Railroad companies shall give prompt
notice by mail or otherwise to conSignee
of the arrival of goods together with the
weight, and amount of freight charges
due thereon; and when goods or freight
of any kind in carload quantities arrive,
said notice must contain letters or mi
tials of the car, number of the car net
weight and the amount of freight charges
due on the same. Storage and demurrage
charges may be assessed If goods are
not removed in conformity with the fol-
lowing rules and regulations. No stor-
age or demurrage charges, however, shall
tice of the arrival of goods has been
given to the owner or cOnsignee thereof
by the railroad company.
RULE 2
Legal notice referred to in these rules
may be either actual or constructive
Where the consignee is personally served
with notice of the arrival of freight, free
time begins at 10 O'Clock a. M, on the
day after such notice has been given
Constructive notice referred to consists
of posting notice by mail to the consignee.
adopted there shall be twenty-four (2D
hours additional free time to be added to
the forty-eights (49 hours prescribed in
rules and 4, TO be computed from day
after notice was mailed; provided, how
ever, that if in any case, where notice
of arrival is given by mail, the consignee
agents nor employees have received such
notice. then no demurrage charges shall
be made until after legal notice, as above
specified, is given.
RULE g.
All package freight unloaded in depot
or warehouse which is not removed nv
the owners thereof from the custody Of
(49 hours mot including Sundays or le-
gal hoHdays), computed from 10 o'clock
a. m, of the day following the day of le-
gal notice of arrival, may be subject
thereafter to a charge of storage for each
day or fraction of a day that ii may re-
main in the custody of the railroad COM
In less than carload quantities. not
more than cent per one hundred pounds
per day.
In carload quantities, not more than ten
Q0 cents per ton of two thousand (2OOO
pounds per day.
Loaded cars, which by rule 10 of the
commission, or by consent and agreement
between the railroad and consignee that
are to be unloaded by consignee such
as bulk meat bulk grain, hay, cotton
seed, lumber lime, coal, coke, sand, brick
stone and wood, and all cars taking track
delivery, which are not unloaded from
the cars containing same within forty
eight (4S) hours mot including Sundays
or legal holidays, computed from 10
o'clOck q. m. of the day following the
day legal notice of arrival is given, and
the car or cars are placed accessible for
unloading, may be subject thereafter to
a charge of demurrage of one dollar per
car for each day or fraction of a day
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 I'M
loading during the period in which held
free of demurrage; that when the period
of such demurrage charges commences,
they are to be placed accessible to the
consignee for unloading purposes on de-
mand Of the consigned; provided. how
ever. that if the railroad company shall
remove such car or cars after being so
placed. OF in any way obstruct the I'M