Freight for FAST TRAINS must be delivered at OUR DEPOT, ST. JOHN'S PARK, Platform 2, Varick St.

Merchants Despatch Transportation Company
FAST FREIGHT LINE.

From NEW YORK, BOSTON, ALBANY, AND ALL NEW ENGLAND POINTS,
TO THE WEST, NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST,
IN CARS OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY THE COMPANY.

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W. GEAGEN, Agent.
335 Broadway, NEW YORK.

C. DeKAY TOWNSEND, Agent,
No. 1 Court St., cor. Washington, BOSTON.

J. W. SKINNER, Agent,
Cor. Jackson & Spencer Sts., ALBANY, N. Y.

OTIS KIMBALL, Jr., New England Agent, BOSTON.

W. F. STAUNTON, Secretary, NEW YORK.

O. B. SKINNER, Gen'l Manager, CLEVELAND, Ohio.

DELIVER IN NEW YORK AT OUR DEPOT,
St. John's Park, Platform 2, Varick St.
SLOW FRT { Pier 5—East River.
REC'DT { 33d St. and 11th Avenue.

Contents and Value of Packages Unknown.

MARKS.

Sam Smith
Black Butte Statine
Wyaning Tev.

ORIGINAL

New York, March 24, 1876
Received of Medley Bro. & Co.

in apparent good order (except as noted,) the following
packages, marked as in the margin, viz:

## MERCHANTS DESPATCH.

The name of the consignee and
destination of all freight must be
plainly and distinctly marked; and
in no case will damage be allowed
for wrong delivery, or loss caused
by defective marking, marking
with initials, or where the marks
or directions on packages are made
on paper or cards.

To be forwarded in like good order, [dangers of navigation, collisions and fire, and loss occasioned by mob, riot, insurrection of rebellion, and all dangers incident to Railroad Transportation excepted,] to Chicago Depot only, he or they paying freight and charges for the same, as below:

If 1st Class... cts. per 100 lbs.
If 2d Class... cts. per 100 lbs.
If 3d Class... cts. per 100 lbs.
If 4th Class... cts. per 100 lbs.
If Special... cts. per 100 lbs.

1½ times 1st class... cts. per 100 lbs.
If 2... cts. per 100 lbs.
If 3... cts. per 100 lbs.
If 4... cts. per 100 lbs.

## WEIGHT SUBJECT TO CORRECTION.

Subject to the terms and Classification as below, and to DIFFERENCE IN CLASSIFICATIONS adopted by Western Roads, and to the Government Tax.

## CONDITIONS.

All articles entered on this Bill of Lading shall be subject to and governed by the latest Tariff Classification as published by this line and in force at the date hereof, and to the rates properly belonging to such Classification; and the rates, as written in above, shall only apply to such goods as are included in the class opposite or against which the rate is so written.

Articles enumerated in such Classification, as subject to more than first class rates, shall be subject to once-and-a-half, twice, three times or four times, as the case may be, the first class rates written herein.
The Company will not hold itself liable for the safe carriage or custody of any articles of freight, unless receipted for by an authorized Agent; and no Agent of the line is authorized to receive, or agree to transport any freight which is not thus receipted for.

The Company will not hold itself liable at all for injury to any article of freight, during the course of transportation, occasioned by the weather, accidental delays or natural tendency to decay, nor for any loss arising from leakage, improper packing, insufficient coöperage or strapping.

Freight will be charged upon the actual weight of property at point of shipment, and no deduction will be allowed for leakage or shrinkage in transit. In the event of the loss of any property for which this Company may be responsible under this Bill of Lading, the value or cost of the same at the point and time of shipment is to govern the settlement for the same. And in case of loss or damage of any of the goods named in this Bill of Lading, for which this Company may be liable, it is agreed and understood that they may have the benefit of any insurance effected by or on account of the owner of said goods.

The Company's guarantee of special despatch will not cover unavailing detention caused by extraordinary casualty and storms.

Carriages and Sleighs, Eggs, Furniture, Looking Glasses, Glass and Crockery Ware, Machinery, Mineral Acids, Piano-fortes, Stoves and Castings, Sweet Potatoes, Wrought Marble, all Liquids put up in glass or earthenware, and Fruit, will only be taken at the owner's risk of fracture or injury during the course of transportation, loading and unloading, unless specially agreed to the contrary. Gunpowder, Friction Matches and like combustibles will not be received on any terms; and all persons procuring the reception of such freight by fraud or concealment, will be held responsible for any damage which may arise from it while in the custody of the Company.

Property under this Bill of Lading will be subject, at the owner's cost, to necessary coöperage or baleing. No claim will be allowed for deficiency or damage on packages if receipted for in "good order" at the point to which they are contracted by this bill. No single package or shipment will be taken for less than 100 lbs.

All articles of freight, on arrival at place of destination, are at the risk and expense of the owner.

For Classification, see other side.

FOR THE COMPANY.

Property delivered at Pier 5 East River, or 33d Street, consigned to this Co., is SLOW FREIGHT.

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It is mutually agreed as a part of the terms and conditions of the with in contract, that the Boat carrying the within mentioned goods shall have the liberty to tow and assist vessels in distress or otherwise, and to sail with or without pilot, and that all liability on the part of this Line shall cease upon the delivery of the goods at the wharf at the end of its route and that all liability on the part of the latter Company shall cease upon the delivery of the goods at the end of its route.

That no package whatever, if lost, injured or stolen, shall be deemed of any greater value than One Hundred Dollars, unless specifically receipted for at a greater valuation, and the additional freight upon it paid.

That this Line shall in no case be liable for any delay in the transportation of said goods, unless the same shall be caused by gross negligence.

That the conditions and the exceptions and the exemptions from liability made by this instrument shall operate as well in favor of the said Line as of the other Companies becoming carriers of the said goods to their ultimate destination while in course of transportation by them respectively, and that the said goods after being received by either of the Companies within mentioned shall be subject to the rules and regulations adopted by them respectively in regard to freight.

That Looking-glass Plates, Glass, Earthen and Glassware, Furniture, Stoves, Hay, Hemp, Cotton, Castings, Marble, Agricultural Implements, Carriages, Musical Implements, Machinery, Live Animals, Liquids in Glass. Eggs and all fragile articles, will be taken at the owners risk of breakage, damage or injury. No allowance will be made for deficiency of Lemons, Oranges or other fruit, unless the packages are in perfect shipping order; if casks, barrels or kegs, to be head-lined, if boxes or or baskets, to be securely covered with canvas: nor for loss of Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, or Straw Goods, unless the cases are properly strapped when Shipped; nor for damage or loss of perishable articles by heat, cold, accidents or delays; nor for leakage of Liquors or Liquids of any kind, or of Sugars, or Molasses or Lard, or Oil, nor for rust on iron or other metals. Specie, drafts, bankbills, and all other things of great intrinsic or representative value, will only be taken on a representation of their value, and by special agreement in writing, describing the same

That the Line will not hold itself liable for the safe carriage or custody of any articles of freight, unless receipted for by an authorized agent and no agent of the Line is authorized to receive or agree to transport any freight which is not thus receipted for.

That Gunpowder, Friction matches, and other combustibles, will not be received on any terms; and all persons procuring the reception of such freight by fraud or concealment, will be held responsible for any damage which may arise from it while in the custody of the Company.

That goods received at the wharf after the Boat of the day is loaded or after her complement of freight has been received, or after her departure, shall be at the entire risk of the owner, until actually loaded on board of the succeeding Boat.