in the presence of passengers in this State is prohibited, except on dining or buffet cars. The State law on this subject requires that the Act in reference to same be posted in all passenger coaches used for passenger service within the State. INSUFFICIENT MILEAGE TO COVER JOURNEY. Rule No. 21. (c) If a mileage ticket or tickets containing insufficient mileage to carry passengers to destination are tendered, ticket agent should detach all mileage in cover or covers and collect from passenger the additional amount in cash at legal rate per mile, to cover the difference between the mileage detached and the · mileage to destination, and issue one continuous passage ticket to destination. DETACHING FRACTIONAL MILEAGE. Rule No. 21. (d) Detach one coupon from all mileage tickets for each mile, or fraction of a mile five-tenths or over. No detachment to be made for fractions of a mile less than five-tenths of a mile. FILING REPORTS AND FURNISHING INFORMATION. Rule No. 21. (e) Each company shall file in the office of the Commission, on or before the last day of each month, a report, duly sworn to, showing fully and in detail the earnings and expenses of such company during the month preceding. And each of said companies shall, on or before the first day of March of each year, file in the office of the Commission an annual report, duly sworn to, showing fully and in detail the operations of such company during the preceding fiscal year, to-wit: from January the first to December the thirty-first, both inclusive. All of said reports shall be rendered on, and in accordance with, the printed forms that the Commission will prescribe and furnish for that purpose. In addition to the foregoing, each of said companies shall furnish such other reports and information as the Commission may require from time to time. Furthermore, it shall be the duty of each of said companies to produce, for the inspection of the Commission, any and all books, papers, contracts, agreements and other original records, of any character whatsoever, that may bę in possession of said company, or within its power, custody or control, or copies thereof, as may be demanded and designated by the Commission. STOPPING PASSENGER TRAINS AT STATIONS. Rule No. 21. (f) All passenger trains operated in this State shall, at all stations where such trains stop, either upon flag or regular schedule, be brought to a standstill with such relation to the waiting-rooms of the station building, or other passenger facilities at said station, as will render egress from and ingress to said trains most practicable and convenient for the passengers, .without reference to the convenient handling of baggage or other freight. Rules Applicable to Freight Service No. 22. RATES APPLICABLE TO ROADS UNDER ONE MANAGEMENT OR CONTROL. All connecting railroads, doing business in this State, and under the management or control, by lease, ownership, association or otherwise, of one and the same person, firm, corporation or association, shall, for purposes of transportation, in applying freight and passenger tariffs, be considered as constituting but one and the same road, and the rate shall be computed as upon parts of one and the same road, unless otherwise specified by the Railroad Commission. No. 23. LOCAL SHIPMENTS. All shipments moving locally by rail, between points in South Carolina, are subject to the rates, rules and regulations as adopted by the Railroad Commission of South Carolina, unless there is issued at the time of shipment at the place the shipment originates, or at the nearest agency station thereto, through interstate bill of lading to the final point of destination of the shipment, or such a bill of lading as may be exchanged for a ship's bill of lading at a place of export. No. 24. JOINT RATES. Joint freight rates are those ordered put in, or authorized, by the Railroad Commission of South Carolina, which shall only apply on shipments moving between two points in the State of South Carolina, over two or more steam railroad routes, not under the same management or control. Joint rates between points in South Carolina will be made by adding mileage rates of each line, less twenty per cent., but in no case to be less than continuous mileage rate for the total short line distance. No. 25. RATES FROM COMPETING POINTS. Where there are two or more railroad lines between any two points in South Carolina, having through connections, the lowest freight rate established between such points shall be charged by the other lines accepting the freight for transportation between said points. Rates for intermediate stations shall not be affected by this rule. NO. 26. WEIGHT OF SHIPMENTS. Actual gross weights must be charged for in all cases; when the actual weights cannot be ascertained at point of shipment, or at destination or in transit, the following estimated weights shall govern for the articles named below; and when an article is classified to be accepted at an estimated weight, such estimated weight will govern. Yellow Pine, under 6 inches in thickness.. 5,000 pounds 4,000 pounds Note-Rough lumber less than one inch in thickness to be assessed on a proportionate basis of above. Staves, Headings or Hoop-poles, green, car loaded to depth of forty-three inches, per car.... 30,000 pounds Staves, Headings or Hoop-poles, seasoned, car loaded to depth of fifty inches, per car. Stone, not dressed, per cubic foot. Telegraph Poles, Fence Posts, or Rails, per cord.. Wood, seasoned, per cord.. 30,000 pounds 160 pounds 2,600 pounds 2,000 pounds 3,500 pounds 432 pounds 3,500 pounds 3,000 pounds NO. 27. MINIMUM RATES AND CHARGES. Minimum Rates. No rates shall be applied on any traffic moving under class lower than the amounts in cents per 100 pounds for the respective classes as shown below for the Southern Classification. Any article, on which exceptions to the Southern Classification provides a different rating, will be subject to the minimum as provided below for the class provided therefor in the classification proper. The lettered classes, other than A, B, C and D, provided in South Carolina Exception Sheet to Southern Classification, are commodity classes and the minimum class rates as provided below will not apply on commodities rated under said classes when in carloads. The minimum charge on less than carload shipments shall be as provided in the classification or tariff governing, but in no case shall the charge on a single shipment be less than 50 cents. The minimum charge for carload shipments shall be $15.00 per car. For Will not apply on the following: Brick, cement, chert, coal, coke. est products, viz: Bark, billets or blocks (round or split), bolts or butts, logs, mine props, waste, consisting of slabs, sawdust shavings, boughs, edings, listings, hog product, shingle tow, broken lumber of miscellaneous widths and lengths, but none as long as ten feet, wood, cord (including charcoal, excelsior, extract, fuel and pulp wood); gravel, manure, ore, iron, sand, slag, stone (broken, crushed, ground or pulverized), sugar cane, water, plain, not flavored or phosphated, other than carbonated. When a shipment moves under a rate made by a combination of separately established rates to and from junction points the minimum charges as prescribed above will apply to the continuous through movement and not to each of the separately established rates. No. 28. DISTANCES FOR CHANGING RATES. Ten miles has been fixed as the usual limit for a change of freight rates in South Carolina, but the railroads may, if they so desire for intermediate distances, adopt rates also intermediate between those given in the tables. When the distance between stations ends in a fraction of a mile, such fraction, if .5 or over, will be counted as a mile. If less than .5, such fraction will not be considered. Stations not over two miles beyond the upper limits of ten-mile group may be included in such group. The Commission reserves the right, however, to correct the charge in extreme cases which work hardships, although the same may not violate the letter of its rules. No. 29. FRACTIONAL RATES. Where rates are stated in amounts per 100 pounds or any other unit, except as provided in the succeeding paragraph, fractions |