The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-09
SAUCE FOR GOOSE
SAUCE FOR GANDER
Demurrage and Storage Rules
Formulated.
LIMIT FOR PLACING CARS
Shpm MS Within Fifty Miles Must be Delivered
Within Three Days kfer Receipt Of
Shipment ffeciiye July
1s', 1903.

The Corporation Commission yesterday
issued the following rules and regulations:
STORAGE AND DEMURRAGE
RULES AND TIME LIMIT FOR
PLACING OF CARS AND DELIY.
cry OE FREIGHTS.
Storage and demulrage charges may
be assessed by railroad companies on all
freights received for delivery in carload
lots or in less than carload lots if not re
moved in conformity with the following
rules and regulations:
Rule /. No storage or demurrage
charges, however, shall in any case be al
lowed unless legal notice Of the arrival of
goods las been given to the owner or con
cignee thereto by the railroad company
and it shall be the duty of such railroad
company to give prompt notice TO con-
signee 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
initials of the car, number of the car net
weight and the amount of freight charges
due on the same. Notice shall be given
by delivering same in writing, in person or
by leaving the same at consignee's place of
business, or by depositing the notice in the
postoffice.
Rule 2. For storage of package freights
and all freights less than carload. unoaded
in depot or warehouse, which is not re-
moved by the owner thereof from the Gus.
tody of the railroad company within for
ty-eight hours, not including Sundays and
legal holidays, a charge of storage for each
day or fraction of day that such consign-
ment may remain in the custody Of the car
rier, of one per cent per hundred pounds
per day with minimum charge Of five cents
for any one package or lot for any one con
sgnee may be made: but not more than
one dollar per day for any one consignment
rot in excess of a carload.
Rule 8. All carload freight taking
track delivery and such as is to be unload
ed by consignee which is not unloaded
from cars containing same within forty
eight hours (not including Sundays and le-
gal holidays). after the car or cars are
placed accessible for unloading, may be
subject thereafter to a charge Of demur-
rage of one dollar per car for each day or
fraction of a day that said car or cars re
main loaded in the possession of the rail-
road: Provided, however, that seventy
two hours shall be allowed for the unload
ing of fertilizer brick and the following
commodities, when in bulk only: Cotton
seed, cotton seed hulls, coal. coke, fertiliz-
ing material, lime, tan bark, and dressed
lumber in box cars.
Provided further, whenever by reason
of delays in transit cars are punched and
the receiving of more cars than one at the |
same time. no demurrage shall be made for
excess over one car: Provided, at least one
car shall be unloaded daily.
Rule f. When consignors ship goods |
consigned to themselves or order. it shall |
be the duty Of the railroad company to give
legal notice to such consignee or persons
to whom shipping directions order delivery |
This notice may be addressed by mail to |
the consignee at point of delivery, and de
murrage viii begin as in other cases of no
tice by mail; and the mailing of such no
tice shall be sufficient notice in such cases
whether the consignee actually received the |
same or not.
Rule s. The time allowed for removing
freight before storage or demurrage
charges apply will be computed from Z |
o'clock a. m. of the day following dates of
notice Sundays and legal holidays ex-
cepted)
Rule 6. A consignee living more than
five miles from the depot and whose freight |
is destined to his residence or place Of bus |
mess so located shall not be subject to stor-
age or demurrage charges allowed in the |
above rules until a sufficient time has
elapsed after notice for said consignee to |
remove said goods by the exercise or ordi- |
nary diligence.
Rule VII. Where, upon request of an
shipper, the railroad company
places car or cars at reasonably aeces-
slble point on its steam tracks or on a pri- |
vate track designated by the shipper, free
loading time shall expire forty eight hours
mot including Sundays of legal holidays) |
from the time such car or cars are so
placed; and thereafter a demurrage charge
Of not more than one dollar per car per
day or fraction of a day may be assessed |
and collected on all such cars as have not |
been rendered to the railroad company with
shipping instructions.
Rule VIII When any railroad COM
pany fails to deliver freights at the depot
or to place loaded cars at an accessible
place for unloading within forty-eight
hours, (not including Sundays and legal
hohdays), computed from O'Clock a. m
the day after the arrival of same, the ship
per or consignee shall be paid one dollar
per day for each day or fraction of a day
said delivery is so delayed.
Rule ~. Where a shipper makes APP
phcation in writing for car or cars to be
loaded with any kind of freight and the