RULE 8. Railroad companies are authorized to hold such property in public warehouses at the expense of owner, if same is not removed before demurrage charges attach. RULE 9. When any railroad company fails to deliver freights at the depot or to place loaded cars at an accessible place for unloading within forty-eight (48) hours (not including Sunday or legal holidays), computed from 12 o'clock a. m. the day after the arrival of the same, the shipper or consignee shall be paid one dollar per day for each day said delivery is so delayed. RULE 10. I. Cars containing freight are to be delivered upon carload delivery tracks or private sidings designated by consignee upon arrival. 2. Cars containing property, the billing of which does not specify any particular delivery, and for which no standing or special order has been filed with agent, within twenty-four (24) hours, will be considered as requiring general track delivery, and shall be so placed after twenty-four hours. 3. Cars for unloading shall be considered placed when such cars are held in receiving yards awaiting orders from shippers or consignees, or when held for payment of freight charges, provided the railroad company could otherwise have placed such cars on delivery tracks, except that on cars consigned to private sidings already fully occupied and delivery thereof impracticable, detention is to be computed from time of notification. 4. Whenever the weather during the period of free time is so severe, inclement or rainy that it is impracticable to secure means of removal, or where, from the nature of the goods, removal would cause injury or damage, such time shall be added to the free period, and no demurrage charges shall be allowed for such additional time. This rule applies to the state of the weather during business hours. RULE II. Railroads shall not discriminate between persons or places in storage or demurrage charges. If a railroad company collects storage or demurrage of one person, under the demurrage rules, it must collect of all who are liable. No rebate, drawback, or other similar device will be allowed. If demurrage is collected by a railroad company at one point on its line, it must collect at all places on its line of those liable under the rules of this Commission. Provided, That the Commission shall hear and grant applications to suspend the operation of this rule whenever justice shall demand this course. RULE 12. Cars detained or held for want of proper shipping instructions or by reason of improper or excessive loading (where loading is done by shipper) shall be subject to a demurrage charge of one dollar per car for each day or fraction of a day said car or cars are so detained or held. Likewise, when cars are properly loaded and shipping instructions given, the railroad agent must immediately issue bills of lading therefor; and if said car or cars are detained or held, and not carried forward (not including Sundays and legal holidays), within forty-eight (48) hours, except perishable articles, which shall be moved within twenty-four (24) hours thereafter, said railroad company shall be liable to said shipper for the payment of one dollar per car for each day or fraction of a day that said car or cars are thus detained or held. RULE 13. No other charge shall be made for demurrage on car service cars so defined by Rule 1 except as provided in the foregoing rules. And these rules shall become effective February 1, 1901. PACKAGE STORAGE RULES. Rules and regulations of the South Carolina Railroad Commission for storage on package freight. Effective August 1, 1901: Whereas, an Act was passed by the General Assembly of South Carolina at the regular session of 1901, and thereafter approved by the Governor on the 15th day of February, A. D. 1901, authorizing and requiring the Board of Railroad Commissioners "to fix and prescribe a schedule of maximum rates and charges for storage made and charged by the railroads doing business in this State, and to fix what time after the reception of freight at place of destination such charges of storage shall begin," and for other purposes; Now, be it resolved, That we, the Board of Railroad Commissioners, do, by virtue of the authority conferred by said Act, fix the following rules and maximum rates for storage charges to apply to all freight stored by the railroads doing business in this State: 1. All freight received for delivery is subject to storage regulations. 2. All package freight not removed by owners from the custody of the railway company within seventy-two (72) hours after legal notice of the arrival thereof has been given to consignee, computed from 12 o'clock of the day following the date of such notice of arrival, 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 its 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 five days and under, Ic. per hundred pounds per day. Each additional week and fraction thereof thereafter, Ic. 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 a 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 a sufficient time has elapsed after notice for said consignee to remove said goods by the exercise of ordinary diligence. 6. Shipments detained because billed to order and awaiting bills of lading or instructions as to disposition, shipments held for want of billing instructions, shipments held for inspection, change of bill ing or for any other purpose, by owner or his agent, are subject to storage 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 prescribes 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 discrimination. 8. Legal holidays and Sundays shall not be taken into account in reckoning the seventy-two hours herein allowed for removal of freight without charges. 9. Due diligence on the part of the shipper or consignee to remove freight promptly shall be deemed by the railroads a sufficient ground upon which to remit storage charges accruing by reason of bad weather or impassible roads. 10. Freight and storage charges must be billed in separate items, though they may be billed in the same sheet. RECIPROCAL DEMURRAGE. RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE RAIL ROADS IN THE PLACING OF EMPTY CARS. 1. All Railroad Companies in the State of South Carolina are subject to the rules hereunder promulgated. 2. For other than perishable freights the Railroad Company applied to by any shipper for a car or cars shall furnish same properly placed FOR BEING LOADED TO POINTS IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA within four days from twelve ⚫ o'clock m. next day after such application. 3. For perishable freights such as vegetables, melons, fruits,berries, beans or peas, or like freights, cars shall be placed within three days following application; unless the application state a particular later period: Provided, These rules do not apply to private cars. 4. The time allowed the roads for the placing of cars in these rules is designated as "free time." 5. For each day or a fraction of a day's delay after the expiration of free time the road offending shall forfeit and pay to the shipper the sum of one dollar per car per day. Any shipper, consignee, or owner to avail himself of the benefits of any forfeiture provided for in these rules must make his application in writing, and to facilitate the making of such application the several railroads of the State shall provide suitable blanks for that purpose to be kept at all agencies. 6. The Railroad Companies may, when the freights so to be transported are not in sight, or when there is reason to believe the application is not made in good faith, require applicant to deposit two dollars for each car. This money may be retained as a forfeit to the Railroad Company, in case the car is not loaded, to pay trackage; if the car is loaded then the said two dollars shall be refunded to the shipper with the bill of lading. 7. The period of time during which the movement of trains is suspended on account of accident, or any cause not within the power of the roads to prevent, shall be added to the free time allowed herein and accounted as additional "free time." MILLING-IN-TRANSIT RULES. The matter of a milling-in-transit rate on wheat going to mills was taken up on application from many new roller wheat mills, and ́ the following rules were issued: RULES. I. Wheat or corn may be shipped from railway stations in South Carolina 2. To milling points located on the railroads in South Carolina. and milled and the product reshipped to stations in South Carolina under the following rules, viz. : 3. Shipments of wheat or corn to be milled in transit must be billed to the milling point at full tariff rates. 4. Original bills of lading and expense bills for wheat or corn (the product of which is to be reshipped) must be surrendered to the railroad's agent at milling point. 5. These bills of lading and expense bills must be cancelled so as to prevent their use a second time. 6. The quantity of the milled product to be shipped out under this arrangement will be 200 pounds of flour for every 270 pounds of wheat, 70 pounds of offal for every 270 pounds of wheat, 56 pounds of meal, grist or hominy for every 56 pounds of shelled corn received. 7. The agent at milling point must keep a ledger account with the mill, which should show the receipts of wheat or corn, and the shipments of each kind of milled product made thereunder, so as not |