The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-08-08
Storage Rules Gov e.
erning the Railroads

SarOllna railroad COMMISSION, ana are
as follows:
Patrons of the Pickens railroad take
due notice as they will be enforced in
future.
/. All freight received for delivery
is subject to storage regulations.
2. All package freight not removed
by owners from the custody of the rail
way company within seventy-two (72)
hours after legal notice of the arrival
thereof has been given to consignee,
computed from IL o'clock M. of the day
following the date of such notice of ar
rival, shall thereafter be subject to a
charge for storage, as set forth in
Rule 4 of these Regulations.
3. Prompt notice shall be given to
consignee of the arrival of freights, and
the said notice must show date of it's
issue, and the time allowed for removal
without charge for storage.
4. The maximum charges for the
storage of freight by the railroads,
when stored in the warehouses of the
said railroads in this State, shall be as
follows:
For days and under, 1c. per hundred
pounds per day.
For 10 days and over days, &c. per
hundred pounds.
For 20 days and over 10 days, Sc. per
hundred pounds.
For 80 days and over 20 days. 1Oc. per
hundred pounds.
For 40 days and over 80 days, l3c. per
hundred pounds.
For so days and over DO days, 15c. per
hundred pounds.
Each additional week and fraction
thereof thereafter, 1c. per hundred
pounds. The minimum charge for any
one shipment shall be five cents. Not
more than one dollar per day shall be
charged for any one consignment not in
excess of carload
5. A consignee living four miles or
over from the depot, and whose freight
is destined to his residence or place of
business so located, shall not be subject
to storage charges allowed in the above
rules until sufficient time has easped
after notice for said consignee to re-
move said goods by the exercise of or
,dinary diligence.
6. Shipments detained because billed
to order and awaiting bills of ading or
instructions as to disposition. shipments
held for want of billing instructions,
shipments held for inspection, change
Of billing, or for any other purpose, by
owner or his agent, are subject to stor-
age charges, and if such freights are
forwarded to any other point, accrued
storage will be added to the billing as
back charges
7. The rates herein prescribed are
maximum rates, but these regulations
will not be held to be violated if lower
rates are made by the roads, provided
that all shippers at the same point are
assessed similar rates without discrlmi-
nation.
g. Legal HOLIDAYS and Sundays shall
not be taken into account in reckoning
the seventy-two hours herein allowed
for removal of freight without charges.
8. Due diligence on the part of the
shipper or consignee to remove freight
promptly shall be deemed by the rail
roads sufficient ground upon which to
remit storage charges accruing by rea-
son Of bad weather or impossible roads.
10. Freight and storage charges
must be billed in separate items,
though they may be billed in the same
sheet.
STORAGE RATES, RULES AND REGULA-
TIoNs ON EXPLOSIVES AND OTHER
DANGEROUS ARTICLES.
No railroad company operating in the
State of South Carolina shall accept
for transportation, or transport, be-
tween points in this State, shipments
of explosives, infammable articles and
acids, except in accordance with the
terms prescribed by the rules and regu-
lations of the Interstate Commerce
Commission governing the transporta-
tion of such articles.
The free time allowed consignees
within which to remove the most dan
gerous explosives (Section Az from the
custody of the railroad company shall
be "a hours; the free time allowed con-
signees in which to remove the less
dangerous and relatively safe explosive
and other dangerous articles (Section
b. shall be 48 hours; when such ship
ments are not removed from the Gus.
tody of tho railroad company within.
the free time here allowed. the follow.
ing storage charge will apply: