The remainder of the consignment, if loaded in one box car. shall be charged for at actual weight and at the carload rate; but if the remainder require a flat or gondola car, it shall be charged for at actual weight, and at the carload rate, subject to a minimum weight of 5,000 lbs.

In all cases the way-bill for the car containing the part lot must give reference to the billing covering the full car, or cars.

The above rules will not apply on articles on which the standard minimum carload weight is less than 20,000 lbs.; but such articles, when shipped in excess of one full carload, or carloads, shall be charged for, so far as the excess is concerned, as though the excess were a separate shipment.

25. (a) The charge for less than a carload shall not exceed the estab. Charge for less than a car load lished minimum charge for a carload of the same freight; nor shall the not to exceed charge for a car fully loaded exceed the charge for the same property if taken the charge for as a less than carload shipment.

a car load.

rate Mixed car loads and articles for which no car

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(b) When no carload rate is specified for an article, the L. C. L. shall be charged for any quantity of the article; and no two or articles, each of which has a carload rate, shall be shipped in mixed car load ratings are loads at the carload rate, unless so provided for in the classification.

shown.

26. (a) If articles, on account of length, require two or more cars to Articles requirtransport them, the aggregate actual weight shall be charged for, subject to ing two or more the aggregate specified minimum carload weights for all the cars used, unless otherwise specified in the classification.

cars.

(b) Unless otherwise specified, articles too long or too bulky to be loaded Articles too long in box cars, but not requiring two or more open cars, shall be charged at or bulky to be loaded in box actual weight; provided that in no case shall the charge on a single consignment be less than for 4,000 lbs. at the first-class rate.

cars.

27. Owners will be required to load and unload bulk freight in carloads, Owners to load and all other carloads of freight on which a specific carload rating is and unload bulk accorded, except that the carriers reserve the right to unload at their con- freight, C. L. venience.

28. (a) Unless otherwise specified in the Classification, icing charges on Icing charges on carload shipments must be paid by the shipper or consignee. Where ship- car load shipments of fresh meat and other property in refrigerator cars are made, requir-ments. ing re-icing in transit, the bills of lading therefor must provide that the cost of re-icing shall follow the property and be collectible at destination. They must also specify the points at which re-icing is to be done, which infor- Re-icing perishmation must also be given on the original and memorandum way-bill and car able freight. card. Bills made for icing must accompany the shipments and show the number of pounds placed in the car at each point. Delivering roads will re-ice carload shipments of fresh meat in transit, except where there is a special agreement to the contrary,

Unless otherwise specified in the Classification, no charge will be made for the transportation of ice or packing placed in the bunkers of refrigerator cars to preserve carload shipments in transit; but when said ice or packing is not placed in the bunkers, it shall be charged for at the rate applying on the article loaded in the car.

(b) An allowance of not more than 1,000 lbs. may be made for linings, Allowance in flooring or dunnage, placed in box (not refrigerator) cars by shippers, for the weight for linprotection of property in transit requiring their use; provided, that in no ings, flooring or dunnage. case shall less than the specified minimum carload weight be charged for on the property contained in each car, nor more than the actual weight of such linings, flooring or dunnage be allowed.

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Loading cars in 29. Cars must not be loaded in excess of their safe carrying capacity, as excess of safe prescribed by the rules of the various carriers.

carrying capac

ity.

Car service, trackage

CAR SERIVCE, TRACKAGE, AND STORAGE CHARGES.

30. All property shipped in carloads shall be subject to the car service and and trackage charges of the forwarding and delivering lines. All property storage charges. shipped in L. C. L. quantities shall be subject to the storage charges of the delivering carrier.

Shipments of oil and

RULES RELATING TO WATER TRANSPORTATION.

31. Shipments by sea lines of Camphene, Chimogene, Burning Fluid, Keroexplosives sene, Naptha, Acids, Spirits of Turpentine, Petroleum, Gun Powder and all via water lines. other explosives and Lime, will only be taken at owner's risk by sail (or at steamer's option), and thence by rail through.

Shipments 32. Special arrangements, not in violation of established rates, must be of hay, straw, and empty bar- made for the transportation of hay, straw, or empty barrels via water lines, rels via water as those articles are received only at ship's option. lines.

Extracts from 33. Sec. 4278. It shall not be lawful to transport, carry or convey, ship, the Revised deliver on board, or cause to be delivered on board, the substance or article Statutes of the known or designated as nitroglycerine, or glynoin oil, nitroleum, or blasting United States, governing oil, or nitrated oil, or powder mixed with any such oil, or fibre saturated steamboat ser- with any such article or substance, upon or in any vessel or vehicle used or vice. employed in transporting passengers by land or water, between a place in any foreign country and a place within the limits of any State, Territory or District of the United States, or between a place in one State, Territory or District of the United States, and a place in any other State, Territory or District thereof.

Sec. 4279. It shall not be lawful to ship, send or forward any quantity of the substances or articles named in the preceding section, or to transport, convey or carry the same by vessel or vehicle of any description upon land or water, between a place in a foreign country and a place within the United States, or between a place in one State, Territory or District of the United States, and a place in any other State, Territory or District thereof, unless the same shall be securely enclosed, deposited or packed in a metallic vessel surrounded by plaster of Paris, or other material that will be nonexplosive when saturated with such oil or substances, and separate from all other substances, and the outside of the package containing the same to be marked, printed or labeled in a conspicuous manner with the words "Nitroglycerine; dangerous."

Sec. 4472. No loose hay, loose cotton, or loose hemp, camphene, nitro-glycerine, naptha, benzine, benzole, coal oil, crude or refined petroleum, or other like explosive burning fluids, or like dangerous articles, shall be carried as freight or used as stores on any steamer carrying passengers; nor shall baled cotton or hemp be carried on such steamers unless the bales are compactly pressed, and thoroughly covered with bagging or similar fabric, and secured with good rope or iron bands; nor shall gunpowder be carried on any such vessel, except under special license; nor shall oil of vitriol, nitric or other chemical acids be carried on such steamers, except on the decks or from guards thereof, or in such other safe part of vessel as shall be prescribed by the Revised the inspectors. Refined petroleum, which will not ignite at a temperature Statutes of the less than one hundred and ten degrees of Fahrenheit thermometer, may be United States, governing carried on board such steamers upon routes where there is no other practicasteamboat ser- ble mode of transporting it, and under such regulations as shall be previce. scribed by the Board of Supervising Inspectors, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury; and oil or spirits of turpentine may be carried on such steamers when put in good metallic vessels, or casks or barrels well

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and securely bound with iron, and stowed in a secure part of the vessel; and friction matches may be carried on such steamers when securely packed in strong, tight chests or boxes, the covers of which shall be well secured by locks, screws, or other reliable fastenings, and stowed in a safe part of the vessel, at a secure distance from any fire or heat. All such other provisions shall be made on every steamer carrying passengers or freight, to guard against and extinguish fire, as shall be prescribed by the Board of Supervising Inspectors, and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Sec. 4473. Every bale of cotton or hemp that shall be shipped or carried on any passenger steamer, without conforming to the provisions of the preceding section, shall be subject to a penalty of five dollars, and shall be liable to seizure and sale to secure the payment of such penalty.

Sec. 4475. All gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, camphene, naptha, benzine, benzole, coal oil, crude or refined petroleum, oil of vitriol, nitric or other chemical acids, oil or spirits of turpentine, friction matches and all other articles. of like character, when packed or put up for shipment, shall be securely packed and put separately from each other, and from all other articles; and the package, box, cask or other vessel containing the same shall be distinctly marked on the outside with the name or description of the articles contained therein.

Sec. 4476. Every person who packs or puts up, or causes to be packed or put up for shipment, any gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, camphene, naptha, benzine, benzole, coal oil, crude or refined petroleum, oil of vitriol, nitric or other chemical acids, oil or spirits of turpentine, friction matches, or other articles of like character, otherwise than as directed by the preceding section, or who knowingly ships or attempts to ship the same, or deliver the same to any such vessel as stores, unless duly packed and marked, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding eighteen months, or both, one-half of the fine to go to the informer, and the articles to be liable to seizure and forfeiture.

Sec. 5353. Every person who knowingly transports, or delivers, or causes to be delivered, nitro-glycerine, nitroleum or blasting oil, or nitrated oil, or powder mixed with any such oil, or fibre saturated with any such substance or article, on board any vessel or vehicle whatever, employed in conveying passengers by land or water between any place in a foreign country and any place within the United States, or between a place in one State, Territory or District of the United States, and a place in any other State, Territory or District thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars, nor more than ten thousand dollars; one-half to the use of the informer.

Sec. 5354. When the death of any person is caused by the explosion of any quantity of such articles, or either of them, while the same is being placed upon any vessel or vehicle, to be transported in violation of the preceding section, or while the same is being so transported or while the same is being removed from such vessel or vehicle, every person who knowingly placed, or aided or permitted the placing of, such articles upon such vessel or vehicle, to be transported, is guilty of manslaughter, and shall suffer imprisonment for a period of not less than two years.

Sec. 5355. Every person who knowingly ships, sends or forwards any quantity of the articles mentioned in section fifty-three hundred and fifty-three, or who transports the same by any mode of conveyance upon land or water, between any of the places specified in that section, unless such articles be securely enclosed, deposited or packed in a metallic vessel surrounded by plaster of Paris, or other non-explosive material when saturated with such oil, and separated from all other substances, and the outside of the package to be marked, printed or labeled in a conspicuous manner with the words "Nitro-glycerine; dangerous"; shall be punished by a fine of not less than one thousand nor more than five thousand dollars; one-half to the use of the informer.