Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-11-07
Circular No. 2O2.

Amendment of Demuraee Rule No, 8.
Rule No. of the Demurrage Rules of
this Commission is hereby amended
by adding, after the last word thereof
the following:
Where, upon the request of an in
tending shipper, railroad company
places a car or cars at a reasonably &C
cessibIe point on its team tracks, or on
a private track designated by the ship
per free loading time shall expire forty
eight hours mot including Sundays
nor legal holiday, from the time such
car or cars are SO placed; and thereaf-
ter demurrage charge of no more
than one dollar per car per day, or
fraction of day, may be assessed and
collected until such car or cars have
been rendered to the railroad company
with shipping instructions. If loading
is interrupted by weather conditions
such as are stated in Demurrsge Rule
0, time during which such interruption
continues shall not be computed
against the shipper. -
Amendent of Freight Rule No. IS.
Rule No. 25 of the Rules Governing
the Transportation of freight, hereby
amended by adding after the last word
the following proviso:
Provided, That this rule shall not
interfere with any prevailing legal rate
for the transportation of freight be-
tween different stations, but shall APP
ply only to switching movements or
service incident to the forwarding or
dellvere of shipments, and to local
transportation movements or service
between points, both of which are sit
uated at or Immediately adjacent and
tributary to single station, and with
in the customary yard or switching
limits thereof"
Adoption of Freight Rule No. 80.
The following is hereby adopted as
Rule No. 80 of the Rules Covering the
transportation of Freight.
Rule SO.
Freight forwarded from any point
other than regular agency station
Except as otherwise proved in Rule
No, 25,) may be billed and freight
charges may be assessed thereon as if
shipped from the first agency station
in the opposite direction, or next fur
Their removed from the point of destina-
ton; and likewise freight forwarded to
such point may be billed. and freight
charges may be assessed thereon as if
shipped to the first agency station be-
yond the point of actual designation.
Provided, however, That In no case
shall any rate be thus made higher
than it would be for distance greater
by five miles than the distance such
shipment is actually transported.
Amendment OF ASHSI al NuiS iNO' u
Rule No. /. of the General Rules of
the Commission is hereby amended go
as to read as follows:
"Each and every depot, station,
office and agency, now maintained,
conducted or used in Georgia by any
railroad, express or telegraph COM
pany dong business IN this State, for
the transaction of business with the
public, is hereby formally established
and located at the point and on the
premises where the same is now being
SO maintained and conducted.
"No such depot, station, Office or
agency as aforesaid, now established,
or hereafter to be established, pursuant
to orders made by the Railroad Com
mission, or voluntarily by such COM
pany, or otherwise, shall be closed,
removed, suspended, discontinued or
abolished, without authority granted
by this Commission upon written APP
plication.
Classification.
The following additions and amend
ments to the Commissioners Classifi-
cation are hereby adopted viz;