SPECIAL WOOD TARIFF.

The following special wood tariff is used by all the railroads in the State for all local traffic:

RATES ON COTTON PIECE GOODS, WITHIN STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, TAKING EFFECT FEB

RUARY, 1, 1903.

The rates named on cotton piece goods will apply as follows: On any of the following named articles (taken only at actual weights) MADE WHOLLY OF COTTON, when specific name of article and name of shipper are plainly stenciled on outside of packages (shipper's name may be marked on tag attached to package) and stated in shipping receipt or bill of lading (marking or describing packages as containing "Cotton Piece Goods" will not be sufficient), in bales, owner's risk of chafing, or in boxes, viz.:

Backbands, made of cotton webbing.
Calicoes.

Cambrics, glazed.

Canton flannels, plain or dyed.

Canvas.

Cottonades.

Checks, domestics.

Crash, linen or cotton.

Denims.

Drills.

Duck.

Ginghams, domestic.

Jeans.

Jeans, Corset.

Kerseys.

Osnaburgs.

Plaids.

Rope.

Sack material.

Sheeting, bleached or brown.

Shirting.

Stripes, domestic.

Teazle cloth.

Tickings.

Twine.

Warp.

Waste, cotton.

Webbing, backband.

Wicking.

Yarn.

The following rates will apply per hundred pounds, viz.:

LOCAL RATES OVER TWO OR MORE LINES IN THE

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

"Joint rates from local stations on one road or system to local stations on another road or system shall be twenty per cent. less than the sum of the locals of each road or system." Provided the total rate so constructed shall not be lower than the continuous mileage rate for the entire distance via the junction through which the lowest combination, less twenty per cent., can be figured.

DEMURRAGE RULES.

RULE 1.

FREIGHT SUBJECT TO CAR SERVICE CHARGES. All freight in cars, whether full carload or not, shipped to one consignee and taking track delivery is subject to car service regulations.

RULE 2.

Railroad companies shall give prompt notice by mail or otherwise to consignee of the arrival of goods, together with the contents, weight and amount of freight charges due thereon, as shown by the

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waybill; and when goods or freight of any kind in carload quantities arrive, said notice must contain in addition thereto, letters, or initials of the car, number of the car. Demurrage charges may be assessed if goods are not removed in conformity with the following rules and regulations. No demurrage charges, however, shall, in any case, be allowed unless legal notice of the arrival of the goods has been given to the owner or consignee thereof by the railroad company.

RULE 3.

Legal notice referred to in these rules may be either actual or constructive. Where the consignee is personally served with notice of the arrival of freight, free time begins at 12 o'clock a. m. on the day after such notice has been given. Constructive notice referred to consists of posting notice by mail to the consignee. Where this mode of giving notice is adopted, there shall be twenty-four (24) hours free additional time to be added to the forty-eight (48) hours, making seventy-two (72) hours to be computed from the day after notice was mailed; provided, however, that if, in any case, where notice of arrival is given by mail, the consignee will make oath that neither he, his agents nor employees have received such notice, that no demurrage charges shall be made until after legal notice, as above specified, is given.

RULE 4.

I. A charge of one dollar ($1.00) per car per day shall be made for detention of cars and use of tracks when cars are not loaded or unloaded within forty-eight (48) hours in the case of personal notice, and seventy-two (72) hours in the case of mailed or constructive notice, except when loaded with grain, flour, meal, bran, mill feed, cotton seed, cotton-seed meal, cotton-seed hulls, fertilizers, fertilizer material, hay, coal, pyrites, bulk apples, bulk potatoes, bulk cabbages, dressed lumber (in box cars), brick and crushed stone, twenty-four (24) additional hours will be allowed for unloading. It being understood that said car or cars are to be placed and remain accessible to the shipper or consignee for the purpose of loading or unloading during the period in which held free of demurrage; that when the period of such demurrage charges commences, they are to be placed accessible to the consignee for unloading purposes on demand of the consignee; provided, however, that if the railroad company shall remove such car or cars after being so placed, or in any way obstruct the unloading of the same, the consignee

shall not be chargeable with the delay caused thereby; provided, further, that when any consignee shall receive four or more cars during any one day, taking track delivery, the said cars in excess of three shall not be liable to demurrage by any railroad company until after the expiration of twenty-four (24) hours additional time.

Any fraction of a day shall be considered a day.

When consignors ship goods consigned to themselves, it shall be the duty of the railroad company to give legal notice to such consignees, or persons to whom shipping directions order delivery. This notice may be addressed by mail to the consignee at point of delivery, and demurrage will begin as in other cases of notice by mail; and the mailing of such notice shall be sufficient legal notice in such cases, whether the consignee actually receive the same or not.

Where the consignee shall refuse to accept freight tendered in pursuance of the bill of lading, the carrier charged with the duty of delivery shall give to the consignor legal notice of such refusal; and if he shall not, within three days thereafter, give direction for the reshipment or unloading of such goods, he shall thenceforth become liable to such carrier for demurrage upon the car or cars in which they are held to the same extent and at the same rate as such charges are now, under like circumstances by the rules of this Commission, imposed upon consignees who neglect or refuse, after notice of arrival, to remove freight of like character from the cars. of a carrier.

A consignee who has once refused to accept a consignment of goods shall not thereafter be entitled to the benefit of this rule.

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 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 of ordinary diligence.