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# RULES AND REGULATIONS.

All articles of Freight must be plainly and distinctly marked, or the Company will not be responsible for their miscarriage or loss, and when designed to be forwarded after transportation on the Railroad, a written order must be given with the particular line of conveyance marked on the goods, if any such be preferred or desired.

Specie, drafts, bank bills, and other articles of great intrinsic or representative value, will only be taken upon a representation of their value, and by a special agreement assented to by the Superintendent.

The Company will not hold themselves liable at all for any injury to any articles of freight during the course of transportation, arising from the weather or accidental delays. Nor will they guarantee any special dispatch in the transportation of such articles, unless made the subject of express stipulation. Nor will they hold themselves liable, as COMMON CARRIERS, for such articles, after their arrival at their place of destination, and unlading at the Company's warehouse or depots.

Marble Slabs, Machinery, Furniture, Stoves and Castings, Mineral Acids, all Liquids put in glass or earthenware, unpacked Fruit, and Live Animals, will only be taken at the owners' risk of fracture or injury, during the course of transportation, loading and unloading, unless specially agreed to the contrary. Gunpowder and 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.

Cases or packages of Boots and Shoes, and of other articles liable to peculation or fraudulent abstraction, must be strapped with iron or wood, or otherwise securely protected, or the Company will not be responsible for dimunition of the original contents.

All articles of Freight arriving at their place of destination, must be taken away within twenty-four hours after being unladened from the cars, the Company reserving the right of charging storage on the same or placing the same in store at the risk and expense of the owner, if they see fit, after a lapse of that time.