The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-23

minimum charge of five (5) cents for
any one package, after the expiration
vided. that not more than one dollar
per day be charged for any one con-
signment not in excess of carload.
OBJ This rule is applicable also to
steamboat and steamship lines. but
only in cases of shipments consigned
to and arriving at the following cities,
towns and places in Virginia VIZ:
RichmOnd,
Alexandria,
Fredericksburg,
Petersburg,
Norfolk,
I Portsnouth,
Newport News,
Hampton,
Smithfieid,
City Point,
West Point,
Suffolk;
Provided that no wharfage. storage or
demurrage charges are to be made on
| shipments arriving by water at otner
| points than those mentioned.
RULE w.
| (a) Railroad companies shall deliver
| freight at their depots or warehouses;,
or. IN case of shipments for track de-
livery on their own lines or private
siding used in connection Herewith.
slble place for unloading WITHIN
twenty four hours after arrival, COM
putting from seven o'clock a. M. the
day following arrival OF same. unless
with held for any reason for which the
consignee may be responsible EN-
cept that carload shipments Tor track
delivery at local stations having not
more than one team track, shall be
placed at an accessible point for un-
loading by the conductor or the tram
on which the car arrives. The con-
signee, or his assignee in writing nav
ing u substantial interest, shall be paid
No day for each Cay. or
fraction OF day, such delivery Is SO
delayed.
OBJ Carload freight, or freight TAX
ing track delivery, II delivered within
Yard limits of a carrier other than that
over whose road such freight arrives,
shall be switched to the road of such
other carrier within twenty-tour hours
from the time SO ordered after arriVa!
at destination (settlement OF charges
and, wheE necessary, surrender OF Dill
of lading having been accomplishedl'
and such other carrier shall place such
freight for unloading within twenty.
four hours after receiving it. II
switching by more than two carriers
is involved twenty-four hours snail De
allowed for each carrier participating.
When such car is refused by any
carrier by which 1t is to be switched
because out of order by reason OF de-
fective alr-brakes or absence. or ar
brakes. then the carrier having pos
session thereof shall forthwith make
the necessary repairs or transfer the
lading to proper car; and the time
thus properly consumed, not eSceedlns
forty-eight (4s) hours may be added
to the time allowed for the movement.
For failure to comply with the terms
of this section the offending carrier
or carriers shall pay either to the con-
signee, or his assignee IN writing nav
ing substantial interest. the, sum OF
S1.00 per car per day, or traction or
day, for such delay.
lc) Should a consignee request that
car containing a shipment be Weighed1
there t e. are such scales, the railroad
company performing this service shall
be allowed additional free time there
for of thirty-siX hours. II that com
pany has already placed the car Tor
unloading, or twenty-four hours II 1t
has not already so placed the car.
RULE vi.
(a) A shipper. on whose order a. car
or cars have been placed for loading,
shall be allowed rty-eight hours Tor
the loading OF such car or cars, COM
putting time from seven o'clock A. NJ
the day after such car or cars have
been placed subject to the order of
shipper, and thereafter demurrage
charge of not more than Sl.0O per car
per day, or fraction OF day, may be
assessed and collected on all such cars
as have not been rendered to the rail-
road company with shipping instruc-
tions witnin said forty-egnt hours
provided, however, that should the
shipper fail to begin loading within
torty-eight hours after the expiration
Of free time, the railroad company SHAH
consider the car or cars released, ana
may assess and collect s2.O0 on each
car, covering the demurrage then due.
Railroad companies shall not be
compelled to furnish cars for future
shipments to parties in default as to
the payment of the demurrage charges
herein last provided for. until such de-
murrage charges have been paid.
II, after placing the car or cars re-
qrired by THIS rule. the railroad COM
pany shall. during or after free time,
temporarily remove all or any OF them,
or in any way prevent. obstruct or de-
lay the loading of same, the shipper
snail not be cnargeable with the delay
caused thereby.
When, by reason of delay or irregu-
larity on the part OF the railroad COM
pany in filling orders, cars are bunched
in excess Of the ability Of the shipper
to load, as indicated IN his appllca-
lions the shipper shall be allowed sep
arate and distinct periods OF free time
within which to load the car or cars
specified in each separate application;
(b) When freight has been loaded
into a car on any track within the
switching limits OF two or more car
riers at and around junction point,
point. within such switching limits on
or reached by way of the road OF any
other carrier than that which places
the car for loading, twenty-fou hours
must be allowed each carrier over
whose road such freight is transported,
computing from the tina at which In
structions for such movement are given
to the first carrier. II destination IS
beyond such switching limits, Rule IL
win govern the movement over the
road by which the car passes out OF
the switching limits, beginning with
the time at which 1t receives the car
from It's connecting road.
If the car contains freight FOR va
rious destinations beyond the switch-
ing limits of any one OF the carriers.
and Is re-handled at a depot or such
carrier before forwarding beyond such
limits, Rule II. Is to be effective az
to such carrier from the time that the
goods\ are unloaded from the car IN
which, received.
For failure to comply with the terms
o! this section the offending carrier or
carriers shall pay either TO the supper
or his assignee in WHITING haNlas q
substantial interest, $40 sum of Sl.oo
per car per day. or fraction OF a day,
Tor such delay
T.ULE VIII.
Legal notice, az referred to in these
rules may he either actual or cons
structivo. Where the, consignee or his
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