The forty-first annual report of the Railroad Commission of Georgia, 1913

THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
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Georgia Railroad Commission
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FORTYFIRST REPORT
OF THE
RAILROAD COMMISSION
OF
GEORGIA
PRUNED a f J FOpf aDAVIEOC
CHAS MURPHEY CANDLER Chairman GEORGE HILLYER ViceChairman JOSEPH F GRAY PAUL B TRAMMELL JAMES A PERRY

Commissioners
J PRINCE WEBSTER Rate Expert CAMPBELL WALLACE Secretary JAMES K HINES Special Attorney
REPORT
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL AND REVIEW
Atlanta Ga April 1 1914
To His Excellency John M Slaton Governor
Sir In obedience to law the Railroad Commission of Georgia herewith submits its 41st Report the same being for the year ended December 31st 1913
As is well known the jurisdiction of the Commission and consequently its duties were largely extended and increased under the Act of the General Assembly approved August 22nd 1907 The number of subjects handled in 1913formally and informally approximated 4500 as compared with about 1280 in 1906
The character of subjects and their method of handling is radically different today from those of 1906 involving more complicated problems and more detailed investigation
As indicative of the extent variety and importance of the work now performed by the Commission in connection with the services rates and practices of all public utility corporations doing business in Georgia reference is made to the two compilations immediately following
Number and Classification of Corporations Reporting to the Commission for
1913 and 1912
Street Railroads Gas Electric Light and panies 1913 Power Com 1912
Steam Railroads 65
Terminal Companies 5 5
Express Companies 1 1
Telegraph Companies 2 2
Telephone Companies 92 81
Cotton Compress Companies 11 11
Total 229 213
Showing a net increase in corporations reporting to the Commission in 1913 over the number reporting in 1912 of sixteen
During the year 1913 the Commission disposed of 618 complaints or subjects requiring formal action or order the number and classification of subjects thus disposed of in comparison with 1912 being as follows
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Number and Class of Cases Formally Handled by the Commission During
1913 and 1912
Passenger fares and service
Freight rates
Freight service
Claims for overcharge loss damage and demurrage
Side tracks and spurs
Depots and stations
Street car service and fares
Gas and electric rates and service
Express rates and service
Telegraph and telephone service
Stock and Bond Issues
Miscellaneous
Total
1913 1912
66 74
132 119
105 78
101 104
26 16
59 68
13 1
12 6
37 28
41 38
9 29
17 22
618 583
Showing an increase of complaints handled during 1913 of 35 over 1912
In addition to the above the Commission during 1913 by correspondence visitation and informal conferences without the necessity of formal hearings order or action disposed of more than 3500 complaints inquiries and subjects the handling of practically all of which required time and investigation and very frequently extended correspondence
FINANCIAL OPERATIONS OF PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS
Notwithstanding the country wide if not world wide depressing influences on business during the past two years the Commission is gratified to note from the annual reports of the public service corporations in Georgia reporting to it that considering the conditions mentioned on the whole the financial results of their operations have been encouraging
This is notably true as to local utilities such as street railroads gas electric light and power and telephone companies whose reports cover the calendar year while steam railroad reports are for the fiscal year ending June 30 1913 We are satisfied from examination of the monthly reports of steam railroads covering July to December 1913 that had these mcinths been included as in those of local utilities the financial results of their operations would have compared favorably with the preceding calendar year
Georgias cotton crop constitutes a considerable percentage of railroad traffic and the short crop of 1912 is reflected in rail freight traffic for the fiscal year covered by this report
This is also true as to compress companies and entirely accounts for the losses in their gross and net earnings for the fiscal year ending August 31st 1913
As indicative of the steady growth in the business of the pubjic service corporations doing business in Georgia the following comparative table of gross income operating expenses and net earnings for the past three years is interesting
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Summary of Financial Operations of Corporations Subject to the Jurisdiction
of the Railroad Commission of Georgia for Fiscal Years 1911 1912 1913
Railroad Companies 1911 1912 V 1913
Gross Earnings 4726245927 5081355022 5155958306
Operating Expenses 3298067428 3665196256 3885423023
Net Earnings 53 Cos 1435395419 1419521254 1275226070
Deficits 12 Cos 7216920 3362488 4690787
Terminal Companies
Gross Earnings 6660579 8293275 14218288
Operating Expenses 22729687 24152222 22889296
Net Earnings 3 Cos 495825 552933 1309847
Deficits 2 Cos 16564933 Telegraph and Express Companies 16411880 9980855
Gross Earnings 169240875 191670508 201601873
Operating Expenses 162962608 187927586 203379935
Net Earnings 1 Co 8326982 5017897 3726167
Deficits 2 Cos Compress Companies 2048715 1274975 2204495 V
Gross Earnings 78363721 122258164 75619410
Operating Expenses 52072418 80404720 55807756
Net Earnings 10 Cos Deficits 1 Col 26291303 41853444 19943784 132130
Street Railroad Power Gas and
Electric Light Companies
Gross Earnings 886823322 999849038 1074777078
Operating Expenses 445501797 503224297 569999533
Net Earnings 48 Cos 441328131 496831321 507450003
Deficits 5 Cos 6606 206580 2672458
Telephone Companies
Gross Earnings 283806557 316421274 343030366
Operating Expenses 151555021 179746694 201503800
Net Earnings 89 Cos 132285171 136981622 141699005
Deficits 3 Cos 33635 307042 172439
Totals for all Companies
Gross Earnings 229 Cos 6151140981 6719847281 6865205321
Operating Expenses 229
Cos 4132888959 4640651775 4939003343
Net Earnings 204 Cos 2044122831 2100758471 1949354876
Deficits 25 Cos 25870809 21562965 19853164
The number of companies indicated in the foregoing statement as reporting relates only to the year 1913
It should be borne in mind that from net earnings as stated all taxes and interest charges must be paid before there can be any distribution of earnings as dividends to stockholders
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STOCK AND BOND APPROVALS
The Commission approved during the year 1913 for different corporations
capitalization issues as follows
Capital stock total 117732500
Mortgage Bonds total 807550000
Equipment Trust and Time Notes 960903707
Total approvals 1886186207
as compared with total approvals in 1912 of 9006600000
Included in the approvals for 1912 was that of the general refunding scheme of the Central of Georgia Railway Co aggregating 52014000 of stock and bonds
There has been no such large refunding scheme approved during the past year
The flotation of new securities during 1913 has been comparatively limited throughout the country because of financial conditions and the situation as to stock and bond issues by Georgia utilities is by no means peculiar to this State on the contrary there are now decided evidences of a more hopeful outlook as to the financing of meritorious public utility enterprises
STEAM RAILROAD MILEAGE
Notwithstanding the somewhat discouraging financial conditions generally prevalent throughout the country we are pleased to report the largest increase in new mileage placed in operation in this State since 1909 to wit 14296 miles of main line single and 1781 miles of second track
The new mileage was built as follows
Ocilla Southern Extension2275 miles
Waycross Southern Extension 1019 miles
Brinson Railway Extension 1260 miles
Hawkinsville Western Extension1000 miles
Gainesville Northwestern New Line 3500 miles
Elberton Eastern New Line 2200 miles
Waycross Western New Line 2517 miles
Flemington Hinesville Western New Line 525 miles
The Commission has excluded from its mileage for the State carried in 1912 three short lines two of which it decided after investigation were not common carriers and the third having abandoned operations aggregating 1145 miles
With the foregoing additions and deductions and other minor changes arising from new surveys or locations our reports show as follows
Number of miles single track main line in actual operation
June 30 1913 729578
Number of miles second track main line 9804
Number miles siding passing and yard track 196743
Total miles of rail all descriptions in actual use June
30 1913 936125
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Total miles of rail all descriptions in actual use June
30 1912 corrected 911499
Increase in all rail mileage 24626
Increase in single track main line 14296
Increase in second track main line 1781
NEW DEPOTS
There were constructed in Georgia during the fiscal year 1913 fiftyfive new freight and passenger depots as compared with thirtyseven during the preceding year
Many of these have been voluntarily constructed by the Railroads without the intervention or orders of the Commission
Several of the important trunk lines of the State are showing a highly commendable spirit of progress and improvement in providing adequate and comfortable facilities of this character commensurate with their financial abilities and needs in other States which they traverse
STEAM AND ELECTRIC RAILROAD ACCIDENTS
The report of accidents required by the Commission from steam and street railroads includes all persons killed or injured separating those killed or injured into three classes to witz Passengers Employees and other persons The last named class includes mail express and news agency employees as also trespassers and other persons lawfully upon rights of way as at public road crossings
The report for 1913 shows a gratifying decrease in the total number of persons injured by steam railroads as compared with 1912
Steam Railroad Accidents
1913 1912
Passengers killed 13 ig
Passengers injured 439 542
Employees killed 62 74
Employees injured 1898 2284
Other persons killed 91 101
Other persons injured 210 249
Total killed and injured 2713 3236
A decrease in killed and injured by steam railroads of 523 under 1912
Street Railroad Accidents
1913 1912
Passengers killed 0 0
Passengers injured 1012 897
Employees killed 1 q
Employees injured 121 82
Other persons killed 12 18
Other persons injured 289 333
Total killed and injured
1435
1330
An increase in killed and injured by street railroads in 1913 over 1912 of 105
The total number of persons killed and injured by street railroads and steam railroads in Georgia during 1913 was 4148 as compared with 4566 in 1912 a decrease of 418 or a fraction over nine per cent
We believe that all carriers are deserving of the highest commendation for the increasing concern they are exhibiting for the safety of their passengers and employees the good results of their increasing care in this respect being demonstrated in the above mentioned figures
TAXES PAID IN GEORGIA BY PUBLIC UTILITIES
An examination of the financial reports of the public utility corporations to the Commission shows that during 1913 they paid taxes to all taxing jurisdictions of the State such as State County Municipal and School districts aggregating 277848624
The amounts paid by the different classes of utilities are shown in the following table
Street railroads Gas Electric Light and Power
Companies 72085046
Steam railroads 178706123
Railroad Terminal companies 3989451
Express companies 2085571
Telegraph companies 2174611
Telephone companies 16050252
Cotton Compress companies 2757570
Total 277848624
Being an increase of 20840723 over the total amounts paid in 1912
LITIGATION
There is now pending in State and Federal Courts the following litigated cases to which the Commission is a party to wit
In the Federal Court for the Northern District of Georgia suits brought by the Southern Railway the Atlantic Coast Line the Central of Georgia the Seaboard Air Line and the Georgia Southern Florida Railway Company seeking permanent injunctions against certain circulars issued by the Commission in 1906 reducing the percentages above the Commissions Standard Freight Tariff previously allowed to these carriers
Under executive order issued by the Governor in 1911 these cases were placed under the direction of the Special Attorney of the Commission since which time he has been diligent in his efforts to secure trial of the issues involved The case of the Central of Georgia has now been heard and the others are set for trial on an early day next month
In the Federal Court for the Northern District of Georgia a bill for injunction brought by the Seaboard Air Line seeking to restrain the enforcement of an order of the Commission requiring that railroad and the Lawrenceville Branch Railroad to make and operate physical connection between these roads at Lawrenceville
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The Court handed down its decision in March declining to issue a restraining order The Seaboard Air Line will appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States we are informed
In the Superior Court of Effingham County a suit against the Seaboard Air Line filed by direction of former Governor Brown for a violation of Freight Rule 33 of the Commission This case has been pending for more than a year but it is expected will be disposed of at an early date and in favor of the Commissions contentions
In the Supreme Court of the United States the appeal of the Wadley Southern Railroad from the affirmance by our State Supreme Court of a penalty judgment for refusal to observe an order of the Commission relative to the discontinuance of discriminatory practices in the matter of prepayment of freight charges
CLAIMS
A great deal of the time of the Commission is required in the handling of claims against rail carriers which have been declined or upon which action by carriers has been delayed
Much of the friction between the public and carriers arises out of the unsatisfactory manner in which claim departments handle shippers claims
We are satisfied that there is just ground for criticism of the red tape methods too largely in vogue in claim departments We have several times in our investigations of claims had good reason to conclude that adjustments by these departments had been purposely delayed more often that they were indifferently handled and at other times disposed of in the most arbitrary manner without even securing all of the material facts
Claims for overcharges are capable of expeditious handling their justice is easily ascertained and there is no reason why they should not be disposed of with greater promptness than customarily obtains
As there can be only one correct rate and as it is unlawful to charge in excess of this rate the Commission can compel prompt action on claims of this character
Claims for loss and damage are more difficult of handling and generally involve questions of disputed fact making their adjustment more difficult than overcharge laims The Commission is perhaps without power to order the payment of such claims
Demurrage charges and claims direct and reciprocal are constantly being questioned and complaints arising therefrom being filed with the Commission
From a sense of justice both to carriers and to shippers generally the Commission has adhered to a strict observance of its direct demurrage rules and has consistently upheld the reasonableness and justice of these charges
The Commission regrets that so many of the carriers of the State resist and delay the adjustment of reciprocal demurrage claims to the utmost of their powers particularly where they arise in switching service This is not honest and Carriers should not allow these claims to be handled as they have been up to this time frequently in disregard of principles of square dealing
In connection with the general subject of claims this Commission feels it proper to say that while it recognizes the usefulness of the Demurrage and
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the Weighing and Inspection Bureaus maintained by carriers in this territory it is none the less true that the technical and arbitrary methods practiced by these two Bureaus arouses among shippers and consignees more of antagonism and prejudice against the carriers than any other agencies they employ
The Commission from its own experience particularly with the Weighing Inspection Bureau condemns its arbitrary methods and dicta and its inclination to disregard any suggestions rules or regulations except such as originate with it or those whom itserves The Commission earnestly favors honesty among shippers but at the same time condemns the methods of any organization which apparently proceeds on the theory that it alone is the exclusive and final arbiter in questions over which honest differences of opinion may arise
RECOMMENDATIONS
Under the law it is made the duty of the Commission to recommend from time to time such legislation as they the Commissioners may deem advisable
In obedience to this mandate the Commission has literally from time to time submitted several recommendations a to legislation in its opinion urgently needed which it now repeats
Several of these recommendations have been embodied in bills now pending some with favorable Committee rports and others having passed one of the Houses
We desire to again invite attention to those deemed of special importance to wit
I Certified Copies of Rate Schedules Etc
An amendment to paragraph 2 Section 5 of the Act approved August 22nd 1907 to authorize the Chairman of the Commission in the absence of the Secretary to certify any schedule of rates or any order rule or regulation prescribed by the Commission so as to make the same admissible as evidence in the Courts the same as if certified by the Secretary
II Through Bills of Lading
The enactment of legislation conferring upon the Commission power and authority to require the issuance by carriers of through bills of lading and of coupon passenger tickets and the checking of baggage through to destination Hardly a week passes in the administration of this office that our attention is not called to the importance of such legislation and we again earnestly recommend its enactment
III Overcharge Demurrage Charges and Losses
Under the wording of the Act of 1907 in reference to the settlement of overcharges and losses it is difficult for the Commission to formulate such a rule as will stand the test in the courts We therefore urge the amendment of this Act so as to read as follows
It shall have authority to order all railroad companies and other corporations subject to its jurisdiction to pay all just claims for overcharges demurrage charges and for losses and to fix penalties by rule or order or both for failure to pay the same when so required
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IV Union Passenger Depots
There are numerous railroad terminal or junction cities and towns in Georgia where in the construction of needed passenger facilities union depots are entirely practicable and would be greatly to the convenience and in the interest of the public
Without express statutory authority the Commission has not been of the opinion that it has authority to compel the erection and operation of Union Passenger depots It therefore recommends that it be given express authority and power to order the erection and operation of Union Passenger depots in cities and towns where the same is practicable can be done with reasonable expense and is in the interest of the public
V Grade Crossings
The Commission has heretofore called attention to accidents frequently occurring in Georgia at grade crossings of public highways by steam and electric railroads There are hundreds of dangerous grade crossings in this State As highway and railroad construction increase as population and the consequent use of highways increase and as there are yearly increasing numbers of trains operated on railroads the danger from grade crossings is rapidly increasing
The lessening of such dangers is therefore a present problem and one more easily solved and with less expense now than in the future
The Commission recommends that the entire subject of the removal improvement or safeguarding of grade crossings of public highways be placed under its jurisdiction and that it be empowered to order their removal by under or over passage their improvement or safeguarding as in its discretion seems to be proper apportioning the cost in each instance as to it seems equitable The Commission also recommends that no new grade crossings of established highways by railroads or of constructed railroads by new highways be allowed in this State except after application to and upon approval by the Commission
VI Track and Equipment Inspection
The Commission again urges the great importance of regular inspection by competent officers under its direction of the track and equipment of steam and street railroads The inspections annually are limited by the funds placed at our command Road bed track bridges trestles depots track and warehouse scales locomotives motors and freight and passenger cars ought to be regularly inspected and the attention of operating officials called to discovered defects
In this connection it may be said that had there been any careful track inspection by governmental authority prior to its happening a recent disastrous derailment of a passenger train on the Central of Georgia Railway in Alabama due to the bad condition of the track would in all probability have been avoided
We are satisfied that thousands of dollars could be saved tax payers in this State who are also gas and electricity users if the Commission had in its employ competent meter inspectors whose business it should be under direction of the Commission to visit the cities and towns of this State inspecting and testing gas and electric meters equipment etc for municipalities and individual consumers
VII Expert Appraisals
The Commission earnestly recommends that sufficient funds be given it to enable it to employ when necessary expert engineers for the appraisal of physical values of properties involved in capitalization or rate making questions and for the audit of the books and accounts of interested corporations that reliable and impartial information as to their earnings may be secured Without knowledge of the fair value of the property devoted to the public use at the time of the inquiry and of what it is earning at that time under existing rates it is impossible for a Commission to do better than merely guess at what is a reasonable and just rate
It is well settled that every public service corporation is entitled to such rates as will give it a fair return upon the fair value of its property at the time it is being used for the public provided such rates shall not exceed the value to the public of the service rendered It is absolutely essential therefore in fixing rates for such corporations which will be fair to them and the public that the Commission should be accurately informed of the present value of their properties and of th returns they are receiving at the time from existing rates
Valuation appraisals and the study and analysis of accounts involve the finest expert skill
The Commission ought to have at its command sufficient funds to employ its own experts for such work in order to secure full disinterested and impartial information on these vitally important points
A private citizen complaining of unreasonably high rates iri his town for gas or electric lights can not afford such an expense of course The Commission has not sufficient funds and the result is that no real and thorough investigation can be made and justice may fail entirely to one party or great injustice be done the other
Corporations are constantly applying for the approval of stock and bond issues based upon estimates of values made entirely by their own engineers The Commission ought not to be forced to accept them as true or reject them as exaggerated without having impartial appraisals by competent engineers in its employ by which to justify its approval or disapproval
VIII Additional Office Work
The Commission hesitates to prefer any recommendation involving additional expense to the State in its work and only does so under a realization of the real need This office requires numerous reports from corporations subject to its jurisdiction carrying important information as to their rates expenses income operations service etc These should be carefully analyzed as received and results tabulated for the use of the Commission in its frequent investigations or complaints as also for the information of the public
Again the Commission has very frequent investigations in which much oral evidence is taken In a subsequent consideration of the cas the Commissioners are compelled to rely entirely upon their memories as to the facts submitted in evidence This is very unsatisfactory In all important cases the evidence should be stenographically reported written out and permanently
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preserved with the record of the case This is especially important should litigation over the Commissions decision or order in the matter arise
With sufficient funds say 180000 per annum the Commission could secure a statistical clerk who would be a stenographer and report all important cases heard This combination of duties would keep one competent clerk busy the entire time greatly facilitate the work of the Commission and enable it to supply the public with much desirable information as to the financial operations and services of the corporations doing business in the State The present clerical force of the Commission has all the work it can possibly do
IX Revision of Classification and Tariffs
The Commission earnestly calls attention to what it conceives to be its present most urgent and important duty to wit Complete and radical revision of its Freight Classification and of its Standard Tariff
Such a work would prove monumental and result in incalculable benefit to shippers in this State It is well known that freight rates are arrived at by the application of prescribed tariffs or scales according to descriptive classifications of the commodities being transported
It is manifestly impracticable in any table of rates to prescribe the specific charge on each commodity moving between each and every railroad point in the State Commodities moving or likely to move are therefore grouped 01 classified according to similarity in character handling movement value and other like considerations
Tariffs or rates are then prescribed for each class according to distances value weight bulk packing risks cost of carrying and other similar considerations
The different freight classes and the rate tariffs applicable thereto should bear logical and harmonious relations to each other
The original and the only general freight classification ever attempted or promulgated by the Railroad Commission of Georgia was published as effective May 1st 1880
There has been no effort to revise it as a whole since its issuance although numerous additions and amendments thereto have been since made
The variety of articles and commodities now being transported is greatly increased since 1880 Commodities unknown to trade in 1880 move freely today Many articles moving in 1880 no longer move as then Methods of packing handling and transporting have radically changed as to many
It is really difficult to find words sufficiently forceful to convey adequate conception of the imperfections in our freight classification and Standard Tariff as they exist today
They are antiquated largely obsolete incomplete and so contradictory as to be difficult of construction and application and unintelligible as well as costly to shippers
A complete thorough and scientific revision will be a long and somewhat expensive task so much so that the Commission has never been able to enter upon it With its present clerical force and meagre funds But it ought to be done and at once That it be done is absolutely essential to the interests of the shipping public
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With adequate clerical force we believe it can be accomplished within twelve months and at a cost of not exceeding 1000000 including printing
We therefore earnestly ask your Excellency to include in your message to the General Assembly at its approaching session a recommendation as to the urgent need of a special appropriation and the stressing of the really great financial benefit and shipping conveniences which will surely follow from such scientific and intelligent revision as we desire to undertake
X Publication of Classification and Tariffs
In this connection we also invite your special attention to those provisions in Section 6 of the Act of the General Assembly approved October 14 1879 establishing the Railroad Commission Civil Code Section 2632K which require the publication in nine newspapers of the State of any revision of or amendment to our classification and tariff prior to their effectiveness
The expense of such publication of such revision as is necessary would be absolutely prohibitory and is wholly unnecessary
The experience of the Commission in 1880 in its publication of the brief and incomplete classification and tariffs then promulgated and the large expense in connection therewith is recalled
We therefore earnestly recommend the repeal of the provisions in the Act of 1879 requiring newspaper publications and in lieu substitute provision that prior to the effective date of any classification tariff or schedule of rates or of any revision or amendment thereof publication shall be made in such form as the Commission may deem proper and a copy of the same served by mail on each carrier or public utility in the State affected thereby
XI Revised Express Classification and Tariff
We respectfully and earnestly urge action upon this recommendation at the General Assemblys earliest convenience for the further reason that the Commission has under final consideration at this writing a complete and thorough revision of our State Express Classification Tariffs and Rules upon which it has been at work for two years
This consideration will in all probability be completed and final adoption of this revision made before the General Assembly convenes It can not be made effective however until after its publication in nine newspapers as now required Such publication would require several thousand dollars and is wholly unnecessary as all desirable publicity can be otherwise secured
We are therefore compelled to continue under our present obsolete express classification and tariffs until some change in the requirements as to publication is made or larger printing funds are appropriated
XII Competing Local Public Utilities
The attention of the Commission has in a recent case before it been called to the evils arising out of unrestrained and unreasoning competition between two local public utility companies occupying the same field and to the burdens in the end placed upon the public by reason of unnecessary and unwise investments and expenditures of capital resulting from such conditions as invariably follow Our public policy has been to encourage competition as a regulator of prices and a provider of good service while at the same time we have pursued the opposite policy of governmental regulation
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We do not believe competition can ever be a consistent and economical regulator of rates and other conditions in a local public utility field
In such a field it means a duplication of investments organization and operating expenses which is unnecessary to the service and burdensome upon the public It is rarely maintained permanently
The Commission is strongly convinced that it would be wise if the General Assembly should enact legislation prohibiting the grant by municipal authorities of franchises to local public utilities where there is an established utility rendering safe adequate and proper service at reasonable rates already occupying the field prior to application to and issuance by this Commission of a certificate of public convenience and necessity
In our opinion the Government which properly assumes to prescribe reasonable rates and compel adequate service by public utilities should also protect such utilities and the public from unwise and useless competition and the wasteful investment of capital in the unnecessary duplication of plants
Respectfully submitted
Charles Murphey Candler Chairman George Hillyer ViceChairman
Joseph F Gray
Paul B Trammell
James A Perry
Commissioners
Campbell Wallace Secretary
J Prince Webster Rate Expert
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Power to regulate rates and fares
Corporaations subject to the provisions of this Constitution
Corporations not authorized to buy shares tending to defeat competition
No secret
rebate
allowed
Not intended to impair contracts
Appropriate legislation required
CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE IVSection II
Paragraph 1 The power and authority of regulating railroad freight and passenger tariffs preventing unjust discriminations and requiring reasonable and just rates of freight and passenger tariffs are hereby conferred upon the General Assembly whose duty it shall be to pass laws from time to time to regulate freight and passenger tariffs to prohibit unjust discriminations on the various railroads of this State and prohibit said roads from charging other than just and reasonable rates and enforce the same by adequate penalties
Par III The General Assembly shall not remit the forfeiture of the charter of any corporation now existing nor alter or amend the same nor pass any other general or special law for the benefit of said corporation except upon the condition that such corporation shall thereafter hold its charter subject to the provisions of this Constitution and every amendment of any charter of any corporation in this State or any special law for its benefit accepted thereby shall operate as a novation of said charter and shall bring the same under the provisions of this Constitution Provided That this section shall not extend to any amendment for the purpose of allowing any existing roads to take stock in or aid in the building of any branch road
Par IV The General Assembly of this State shall have no power to authorize any corporation to buy shares or stock in any other corporation in this State or elsewhere or to make any contract or agreement whatever with any such corporation which may have the effect or be intended to have the effect to defeat or lessen competition in their respective businesses or to encourage monopoly and all such contracts and agreements shall be illegal and void
Par V No railroad company shall give or pay any rebate or bonus in the nature thereof directly or indirectly or do any act to mislead or deceive the public as to the real rates charged or received for freights or passage and any such payments shall be illegal and void and these prohibitions shall be enforced by suitable penalties
Par VI No provisions of this article shall be deemed held hr taken to impair the obligation of any contract heretofore made by the State of Georgia
Par VII The General Assembly shall enforce the provisions of this article by appropriate legislation
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The following references to the laws of the State on the subject of transporta
tion of passengers and freight by Common Carriers are here inserted as relating to matters of general interest
A
Railroad companies are common carriers and liable as such Code of Georgia section 2297
B
A common carrier is bound to receive all goods and passengers offered that he is able and accustomed to carry upon compliance with such reasonable regulations as he may adopt for his own safety and the benefit of the public Code Section 2278
C
Carriers of passengers may refuse to admit or may eject from their conveyances all persons refusing to comply with reasonable regulations or guilty of improper conduct or of bad dissolute doubtful or suspicious characters So they may refuse to convey persons seeking to interfere with their own business or interest Code Section 2296
D
A carrier of passengers is bound also to extraordinary diligence on behalf of himself and his agents to protect the lives and persons of his passengers But he is not liable for injuries to the person after having used such diligence Code Section 2266
E
The carrier of passengers is responsible only for baggage placed in his custody yet a passenger can not relieve himself from liability for freight by assuming to take care of his own baggage Code Section 2280
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It is the duty of the railroad company to cause their conductors agents or employees to be provided with checks so as to check all trunks or separate baggage of passengers from station to station on their roads when required And it is the duty of the conductor of every passenger train to cause upon application to him all trunks and baggage to be checked from any station to any point of destination on their road or any road running under the control of the company of which he is conductor The carrier of passengers has a lien on the baggage not only for its freight but for the passengers fare Code Sections 2281 and 2289
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A carrier of passengers may limit the value of the baggage to be taken ior the fare paid In case of loss however and though no extra freight has been demanded or paid the carrier is responsible for the value of the baggage lost
Liability of Railroad Companies as carriers
Time of responsibility
What passengers may be refused
Carrier of passengers
For baggage
On baggage
Limit as to value of baggage
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Carriers to furnish water and light on passenger coaches
Equal accommodations to all
Police of railroads
Posting time of delayed trains
Carriers bound to extraordinary diligence
provided the same be only such articles as a traveler for business or pleasure would carry for his or her own use Code Section 2288
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Railroad companies shall keep in each passenger car or in any car in which passengers are transported an adequate supply of good pure drinking water at all hours during theday and night and lights during the night for the use of passengers Any conductor or agent of a railroad who after being requested by a passenger to furnish a sufficient supply of water to the passengers in each car in the day or night and light at night shall pass any depot or station without so doing may be indicted in any county through which said railroad runs of which he is agent or conductor and shall be punished as for a misdemeanor Code Sections 522 and 523
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Common carriers of passengers for hire shall furnish like and equal accommodations to all persons without distinction of race color or previous condition Code Section 525
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The conductors of a train carrying passengers are invested with all the powers duties and responsibilities of police officers while on duty on their trains Provided nothing herein contained shall affect the liability of any railroad company for the acts of its employees When a passenger is guilty of disorderly conduct or uses any obscene profane or vulgar language or plays any game of cards or other game of chance for money or other thing of value the conductor of the train may stop it at the place where such offense is committed and eject the passenger from the train Code Section 902
K
Whenever any passenger train on any railroad in this State shall be more than onehalf of one hour behind its schedule time when it passes a depot at which there is a telegraph operator during the hours that such operator is required to be on duty it shall be the duty of such railroad company to keep posted at every succeeding telegraph station along its line the time such train is behind its schedule Provided That such bulletin shall not be required to be posted at any station until onehalf hour before the regular schedule time at which such train is to arrive at the station at which such bulletin is required to be kept Code Section 2235
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One who pursues the business constantly or continuously for any period of time or any distance of transportation is a common carrier and as such is bound to use extraordinary diligence In cases of loss the presumption of law is against him and no excuse avails him unless it was occasioned by the act of God or the public enemies of the State Code Section 2264
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A common carrier can not limit his legal liability by any notice given either by publication or by entry on receipts given or tickets sold He may make an express contract and will then be governed thereby Code Section 2276
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The common carrier is bound not only for the safe transportation and delivery of goods but also that the same be done without unreasonable delay Section 2282
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The responsibility of the carrier commences with the delivery of the goods either to himself or his agent or at the place where he is accustomed or agrees to receive them It ceases with their delivery at destination according to the direction of the person sending or according to the custom of the trade Code Section 2279
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The carrier has a lien on the goods for freight and may retain possession until it is paid unless this right is waived by special contract or actual delivery This lien exists only when the carrier has complied with his contract as to transportation He can recover pro rata for the actual distance transported when the consignee voluntarily receives the goods at an intermediate point Code Section 2287
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The carrier may require the nature and value of the goods delivered to him to be made known and any fraudulent acts sayings or concealment by his customers will release him from liability Code Section 2290
R
All freight bills or freight lists charged against or to be collected out of any person for whom a railroad shall carry freight in this State shall contain the items of freight charged in said bills or freight lists by some certain and specific description before they shall be collectible Code Section 2293
S
Whenever any person shall deliver property of any description to a railroad steamboat or express company for transportation said company shall upon demand furnish the party so delivering a valid receipt which shall specify the
Effect of notice to limit
Bound to deliver without unreasonable delay
Time of responsibility
Carrier has lien on goods
Fraud on carrier
Freight lists how made out
Freight receipts to be Issued
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Duplicate
freight
receipts
Liability of railroads where there are several
Roads reouired to deliver to and receive cars from connecting roads
Weighing by sworn weigher
When lumber etc laps from one car to another
shipping marks and numbers thereon and the weight of the property thus delivered whenever the value can be estimated by weight and in all cases where the value can not be thus estimated the receipt shall give a general description of the property and shall also specify as near as practicable the quality or value thereof and also the place of destination and any agent or official of such company violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor Code Section 602
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All railroad companies in this State shall on demand issue duplicate freight receipts to shippers in which shall be stated the class or classes of freight shipped the freight charges over the road giving the receipt and so far as practicable shall state the freight charges over other roads that carry such freight When the consignee presents the railroad receipt to the agent of the road that delivers such freight such agent shall deliver the article shipped on payment of the rate charged for the class of freights mentioned in the receipts Code Section 2200
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Where there are several connecting railroads under different companies and th goods are intended to be transported over more than one railroad each company shall oe responsible only to its own terminus and until delivery to the connecting road the last company which has received the goods as in good color shall be responsible to the consignee for any damage open or concealed done to the goods and such companies shall settle among themselves the question of ultimate liability Code Section 2298
Y
Railroads are required to switch off and deliver to any connecting road of the same gauge all cars consigned to points on or beyond such connecting road Code Section 2212 They are also required at the terminus or any intermediate point to receive from the connecting road of the same gauge when offered all cars consigned to any point on the road to which the same is offered and transport said cars to their destination with reasonable diligence Code Section 2302
W
Whenever any railroad company in this State shall weigh any cars loaded with freight to be shipped and charged for by the carload such weighing shall be done by a sworn weigher as provided for the weighing of cotton rice and other produce Code Section 2309 When such cars are weighed singly they shall be uncoupled at both ends and weighed one at a time Code Section 2310
When any railroad company shall transport timber lumber or other like articles of freight which from length laps over from one car to another such company may cause as many as two or three of such cars so loaded to be weighed
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together after uncoupling them at both ends from other cars and in all such instances the aggregate weight of the freight upon said two or three cars shall be averaged so that each of the cars shall be charged with an equal amount of the total weight and the shipper be made to pay freight as if each of the cars so weighed together did actually contain an equal portion of the whole load Provided That in such cases the shipper shall not pay less than the amount of freight due on full carloads Code Section 2311
X
No railroad corporation organized or doing business in this State shall make any unjust discrimination in its rates or charges of toll for the transportation of passengers or freight of any description or for the use and transportation of any railroad car on its said road or upon any of the branches thereof or upon any railroads connected therewith which it has license to operate control or use Nor shall any railroad company discriminate in its rates or tariffs of freight in favor of any line or route connected with it as against any other line or route nor when a part of its own line is sought to be run in connection with any other route shall such company discriminate against such connecting line or in favor of the balance of its own line but shall have the same rates for all and shall afford the usual and like customary facilities for interchange of freight to patrons of each and all lines alike See Code Sections 2188 and 2214
The Proviso to the first section of the Interstate Commerce Law reads as follows
Provided however That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to the transportation of passengers or property or to the receiving delivering storage or handling of property wholly within one State and not shipped to or from a foreign country from or to any State or Territory as aforesaid
Unjust discrimination prohibited
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Commissioners appointment term and salary
The following is the law under which the Railroad Commission was created being Act No 269 Part 1 Title 12 of the Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia 18781879
AN ACT
To provide for the regulation of railroad freight and passenger tariffs and the location and building of passenger and freight depots in this State to prevent unjust discrimination in the rates charged for transportation of passengers and freights and to prohibit railroad companies corporations and lessees in this State from charging other than just and reasonable rates and to punish the same and to prescribe a mode of procedure and rules of evidence in relar tion thereto and to appoint Commissioners and to prescribe their powers and duties in relation to the same
WhEbeas It is made the duty of the General Assembly in article 4 paragraph 2 and section 1 of the Constitution to pass laws from time to time to regulate freight and passenger tariffs to prohibit unjust discrimination on the various railroads of this State and to prohibit railroads from charging other than just and reasonable rates and enforce the same by adequate penalties therefore
Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia That there shall be three Commissioners appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate to carry out the provisions of this Act of whom one shall be of experience in the law and one of experience in the railway business After the expiration of the terms of the office of the Commissioners first appointed the term of office of successors shall be six years but at the first appointment one Commissioner shall be appointed for two years one for four years and one for six years The salary of each Commissioner shall be twentyfive hundred dollars to be paid from the Treasury of the State Any Commissioner may be suspended from office by order of the Governor who shall report the fact of such suspension and the reasons therefor to the next General Assembly and if a majority of each branch of the General Assembly declare that said Commissioner shall be removed from office his term of office shall expire The Governor shall have the same power to fill vacancies in the office of Commissioner as to fill other vacancies and if for any reason said Commissioners are not appointed during the present session of the General Assembly the Governor shall appoint them thereafter and report to the next Senate but the time until then shall not be counted as part of the term of office of said Commissioners respectively as herein provided Said Commissioners shall take an oath of office to be framed by the Governor and shall not jointly or severally or in any way be the holders of any railroad stock or bonds or be the agent or employee of any railroad company or have any interest in any way in any railroad and shall so continue during the term of office and in case any Commis
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sioner becomes disqualified in any way he shall at once remove the disqualifications or resign and on failure so to do he must be suspended from office by the Governor and dealt with as hereinafter provided In any case of suspension the Governor may fill the vacancy until the suspended Commissioner is restored or removed
Sec II That said Commissioners shall be furnished with an office necessary furniture and stationery and may employ a Secretary or Clerk at a salary of eighteen hundred dollars at the expense of the State The office of said Commissioners shall be kept in Atlanta and all sums of money authorized to be paid by this Act out of the State Treasury shall be paid only on the order of the Governor Provided That the total sum to be expended by said Commissioners for office rent furniture and stationery shall in no case exceed the sum of eight hundred 800 dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary per annum
Sec III That from and after the passage of this Act if any railroad corporation organized or doing business in this State under any Act of incorporation or general law of this State now in force or which may hereafter be enacted or any railroad corporation organized or which may hereafter be organized under the laws of any other State and doing business in this State shall charge collect demand or receive more than a fair and reasonable rate of toll or compensation for the transportation of passengers or freight of any description or for the use and transportation of any railroad car upon its track or any of its branches thereof or upon any railroad within this State which it has the right license or permission to use operate or control the same shall be deemed guilty of extortion and upon conviction thereof shall be dealt with as hereinafter provided
Sec IY That if any railroad corporation as aforesaid shall make any unjust discrimination in its rates or charges of toll or compensation for the transportation of passengers or freights of any description or for the use and transportation of any railroad car upon said road or upon any of the branches thereof or upon any railroads connected therewith which it has the right license or permission to operate control or use within this State the same shall be deemed guilty of having violated the provisions of this Act and upon conviction thereof shall be dealt with as hereinafter provided
Sec V That the Commissioners appointed as hereinbefore provided shall as provided in the next section of this Act make reasonable and just rates of freight and passenger tariffs to be observed by all railroad companies doing business in this State on the railroads thereof shall make reasonable and just rules and regulations to be observed by all railroad companies doing business in this State as to charges at any and all points for the necessary handling and delivering of freights shall make such just and reasonable rules and regulations as may be necessary for preventing unjust discriminations in the transportations of freight and passengers on the railroads in this State shall have the power to make just and reasonable joint rates for all connecting railroads doing business in this State as to all traffic or business passing from one of said roads to another and to require the location of such depots and the establishment of such freight and passenger buildings as the condition of the road
Location of office employment of Secretary expenses etc
Extortion by railroads forbidden
Unjust discrimination forbidden
Duty of commissioners
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the safety of freight and the public comfort may require Provided however That before applying joint rates to roads that are not under the management and control of one and the same company the Commissioners shall give thirty days notice to said roads of the joint rate contemplated and of its division between said roads and give hearing to roads desiring to object to the same shall make reasonable and just rates of charges for use of railroad cars carrying any and all kinds of freight and passengers on said railroad no matter by whom owned or carried and shall make just and reasonable rules and regulations to be observed by said railroad companies on said railroads to prevent the giving or paying of any rebate or bonus directly or indirectly and from misleading or deceiving the public in any manner as to the real rates charged for freight and passeugers Provided That nothing in this Act contained shall be taken as in any manner abridging or controlling the rates for freight charges by any railroad company in this State for carrying freight which comes from or goes beyond the boundaries of the State and on which freight less than local rates on any railroad carrying the same are charged by such railroad but said railroad companies shall possess the same power and right to charge such rates for carrying such freights as they possessed before the passage of this Act and said Commissioners shall have full power by rules and regulations to designate and fix the difference in rates of freight and passenger transportation to be allowed for longer and shorter distances on the same or different railroads and to ascertain what shall be the limits of longer and shorter distances
Commissioners shall make schedule of rates publish same etc
Sec VI That the said Railroad Commissioners are hereby authorized and required to make for each of the railroad corporations doing business in this State as soon as practicable a schedule of just and reasonable rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freights and cars on each of said railroads and said schedule shall in suits brought against any such railroad corporations wherein is involved the charges of any such railroad corporation for the transportation of any passenger or freight or cars or unjust discrimination in relation thereto be deemed and taken in all courts of this State as sufficient evidence that the rates therein fixed are just and reasonable rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freights and cars upon the railroads and said Commissioners shall from time t9 time and as often as circumstances may require change and revise said schedules When any schedule shall have been made or revised as aforesaid it shall be the duty of said Commissioners to cause publication thereof to be made for one time in some public newspaper published in the cities of Atlanta Augusta Albany Savannah Macon Rome Athens Americus and Columbus in this State at a rate not to exceed fifty cents per square of usual advertising space when less than a column is occupied or more than twelve dollars per column when as much space as a column or more is occupied by inserting said schedule or change of any schedule so that said newspaper shall not charge for such advertising any rate in excess of that allowed for county legal advertising and after the same shall be so published it shall be the duty of all such railroad companies to post at all their respective stations in a conspicuous place a copy of said schedule for the protection of the people Provided That when any rate or change is made by the Commissioners that affects only one road or roads in a particular locality
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the insertion need only be made in the paper published in one of the cities named nearest where the change is made Act 27th September 1883 Provided That the schedules thus prepared shall not be taken as evidence as herein provided until schedules shall have been prepared and published as aforesaid for all the railroad companies now organized under the laws of this State or that may be organized at the time of said publication All such schedules purporting to be printed and published as aforesaid shall be received and held in all such suits as prima facie the schedules of said Commissioners without further proof than the production of the schedules desired to be used as evidence with a certificate of the Railroad Commission that the same is a true oopy of the schedule prepared by them for the railroad company or corporation therein named and that the same has been duly published as required by law
Sec VII That it shall be the duty of said Commissioners to investigate the books and papers of all the railroad companies doing business in this State to ascertain if the rules and regulations aforesaid have been complied with and to make personal visitation of railroad offices stations and other places of business for the purpose of examination and to make rules and regulations concerning such examination which rules and regulations shall be observed and obeyed as other rules and regulations aforesaid said Commissioners shall also have full power and authority to examine all agents and employees of said railroad companies and other persons under oath or otherwise in order to procure the necessary information to make just and reasonable rates of freight and passenger tariffs and to ascertain if such rules and regulations are observed or violated and to make necessary and proper rules and regulations concerning such examinations and which rules and regulations herein provided for shall be obeyed and enforced as all other rules and regulations provided for in this Act
Sec VIII That all contracts and agreements between railroad companies doing business in this State as to rates of freight and passenger tariffs shall be submitted to said Commissioners for inspection and correction that it may be seen whether or not they are a violation of law or of the provisions of the Constitution or of this Act or of the rules and regulations of said Commissioners and all arrangements and agreements whatever as to the division of earnings of any kind by competing railroad companies doing business in this State shall be submitted to said Commissioners for inspection and approval in so far as they affect rules and regulations made by said Commissioners to secure to all persons doing business with said companies just and reasonable rates of freight and passenger tariffs and said Commissioners may make such rules and regulations as to such contracts and agreements as may then be deemed necessary and proper and any such agreement not approved by such Commissioners or by virtue of which rates shall be charged exceeding the rates fixed for freight and passengers shall be deemed held and taken to be violations of article 4 section 1 paragraph 4 of the Constitution and shall be illegal and void
Sec X That if any railroad company doing business in this State shall in violation of any rule or regulation provided by the Commissioners aforesaid inflict any wrong or injury on any person such person shall have a right of
Jurisdiction and power of Commissioners
Power of Commissioners over contracts between railroads
Injuries resulting from violation of rules
Rules of evidence
Meaning of terms
Duplicate
freight
receipts
Reports of Commissioners
Power of Commissioners over witnesses
action and recovery for such wrong or injury in the county where the same was done in any court having jurisdicton thereof and the damages to be recovered shall be the same as in actions between individuals except that in cases of wilful violation of law such railroad companies shall be liable to exemplary damages Provided That all suits under this Act shall be brought within twelve months after the commission of the alleged wrong or injury
Sec XI That in all cases under the provision of this Act the rules of evidence shall be the same as in civil actions except as hereinbefore otherwise provided All fines recovered under the provisions of this Act shall be paid into the State Treasury to be used for such purposes as the General Assembly may provide The remedies hereby given the persons injured shall be regarded as cumulative to the remedies now given by law against railroad corporations and this Act shall not be construed as repealing any statute giving such remedies
Sec XII That the terms railroad corporation or railroad company contained in this Act shall be deemed and taken to mean all corporations companies or individuals now owning or operating or which may hereafter own or operate any railroad in whole or in part in this State and the provisions of this Act shall apply to all persons firms and companies and to all associations of persons whether incorporated or otherwise that shall do business as common carriers upon any of the lines of railroad in this State street railways excepted the same as to railroad corporations hereinbefore mentioned
Sec XIII That all railroad companies in this State shall on demand issue duplicate freight receipts to shippers in which shall be stated the class or classes of freight shipped the freight charges over the road giving the receipt and so far as practicable shall state the freight charges over other roads that carry such freight When the consignee presents the railroad receipt to the agent of the railroad that delivers such freight such agent shall deliver the article shipped upon payment of the rate charged for the class of freights mentioned in the receipt If any railroad company shall violate this provision of the statute such railroad company shall incur a penalty to be fixed and collected as provided in section nine of this Act
Sec XIV That it shall be the duty of the Commissioners herein provided for to make to the Governor annual reports of the transactions of their office and to recommend from time to time such legislation as they may deem advisable under the provisions of this Act
Sec XV That Railroad Commissioners in making any examination for the purpose of obtaining information pursuant to this Act shall have power to issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses by such rules as they may prescribe And said witnesses shall receive for such attendance two dollars per day and five cents per mile traveled by the nearest practicable route in going to and returning from the place of meeting of said Commissioners to be ordered paid by the Governor upon presentation of subpoenas sworn to by the witnesses as to number of days served and miles traveled before the clerk of said Commissioners who is hereby authorized to administer oaths In case any person shall wilfully fail or refuse to obey such subpoena it shall be the duty of the judge of the superior court of any county upon application of said Commissioners to issue an attachment for such witness and compel him to attend
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before the Commissioners and give his testimony upon such matters as shall be lawfully required by such Commissioners and said court shall have power to punish for contempt as in other cases of refusal to obey the process and order of such court
Sec XVI That every officer agent or employee of any railroad company who shall wilfully neglect or refuse to make and furnish any report required by the Commissioners as necessary to the purpose of this Act or who shall wilfully and unlawfully hinder delay or obstruct said Commissioners in the discharge of the duties hereby imposed upon them shall forfeit and pay a sum of not less than one hundred nor more than five thousand dollars for each offense to be recovered in an action of debt in the name of the State
Sec XVII That all laws militating against this Act are hereby repealed
Approved October 14 1879
AN ACT
To enlarge the powers of the Railroad Commission of Georgia to prescribe for them additional duties and for other purposes
Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia That from and after the passage of this Act it shall be the duty of the Railroad Commission of the State of Georgia to investigate thoroughly all through freight rates from points out of Georgia to points in Georgia both those now fixed and those that may hereafter be fixed
Sec 2 Be it further enacted That whenever the Railroad Commission of Georgia finds that a through rate charged into or out of Georgia is in their opinion excessive or unreasonable or discriminating in its nature it shall be the duty of the Railroad Commission to call the attention of the railroad officials in Georgia to the fact and to urge upon them the propriety of changing such rate or rates
Sec 3 Be it further enacted That whenever such rates are not changed according to the suggestion of the Railroad Commission it shall be the duty of the Commission to present the facts whenever it can legally be done to the Interstate Commerce Commission and appeal to it for relief
Sec 4 Be it further enacted That in all work devolving upon the Railroad Commission prescribed by this Act they shall receive upon application the services of the AttorneyGeneral of this State and he shall also represent them whenever called upon to do so before the Interstate Commerce Commission
Sec 5 Be it further enacted That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed
Approved December 18 1890
Railroad officers to report to Commissioners
Duty to Investigate through rates
Shall call attention of railroad officials to discriminations
Shall appeal to Interstate Commission
AttorneyGeneral to represent Commission
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Caption of Act of Oct 1879 amended
By inserting and the location and building of passenger and freight depots
Penalty for violation of rules Amending section TIT of original act
AMENDING TITLE OF ACT
AN ACT
To amend an Act entitled an Act to provide for the regulation of railroads freight and passenger tariffs in this State to prevent unjust discrimination and extortion in the rates charged for transportation of passengers and freights and to prohibit Railroad Companies corporations and lessees in this State from charging other than just and reasonable rates and to punish the same and to prescribe a mode of procedure and rules of evidence in relation thereto and to appoint Commissioners and to prescribe their powers and duties in relation to the same approved October H 1879
Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of this State and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same That the caption of the abovereel ted Act be and the same isN hereby amended as follows towit
After the word tariffs in the second line add the following words And the location and building of passenger and freight depots so that the whole caption of said Act will read as follows
An Act to provide for the regulation of railroad freight and passenger tariffs and the location and building of passenger and freight depots in this State to prevent unjust discrimination in the rates charged for transportation of passengers and freights and to prohibit railroad companies corporations and lessees in this State from charging other than just and reasonable rates and to punish the same and to prescribe a mode of procedure and rules of evidence in relation thereto and to appoint Commissioners and to prescribe their powers and duties in relation to the same
Sec 2 Be it further enacted That all laws in conflict with the foregoing be and the same are hereby repealed
Approved August 31 1891
POWER TO BRING SUIT
AN ACT
To amend Section 719 i of the Code of Georgia of 1882 and for other purposes
Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia and it is hereby enacted by the same That section 719 i of the Code of Georgia of 1882 be and the same is amended by adding thereto the following
The Commissioners shall have the power in their discretion to institute suit without notice for any violation of any of said rules or regulations whenever in their opinion the circumstances authorize it of which they shall be the sole judges and after the institution of said suit there shall he no settlement of the same without the consent of the said Commissioners so that said section when amended shall read as follows If any railroad company doing business In this State by its agents or employees shall be guilty of a violation of the rules and regulations provided and prescribed by said Commissioners and if after due notice of such violation given to the principal officer thereof ample
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and full recompense for the wrong or injury done thereby to any person or corporation as may be directed by said Commissioners shall not be made within thirty days from the time of such notice such company shall incur a penalty for each offence of not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars to be fixed by the presiding judge An action for the recovery of such penalty shall be in any county in the State where such violation has occurred or wrong has been perpetrated and shall be in the name of the State of Georgia The Commissioners shall institute such action through the AttorneyGeneral or SolicitorGeneral or such other attorney at law of this State as the said Commissioners may appoint whose fees shall be the same as now provided by law
The Commissioners shall have the power in their discretion to institute suit without notice for any violation of said rules and regulations whenever in their opinion the circumstances authorize it of which they shall be the sole judges and after the institution of said suit there shall be no settlement of the same without the consent of the Commissioners
Sec 2 Be it enacted That all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed
Approved October 16 1891
INSPECTION OF RAILROAD TRACKS
AN ACT
To give the Railroad Commission of Georgia authority upon complaint made to inspect the railroads or any railroad or any part of any railroad in this State and if found in an unsafe or dangerous condition to require the same put and kept in such condition as will render travel over the same safe and expeditious to provide a penalty for failing to obey the orders of the said Commission and for other purposes
Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia That from and after the passage of this Act the Railroad Commission of this State is hereby empowered and required upon complaint made to inspect for themselves or through an agent the railroads or any railroad or any part of any railroad in this State and if the same is found in an unsafe or dangerous condition to require the same put and kept in such condition as will render travel over the same safe and expeditious Provided That reasonable time be given the railroad authorities in which to accomplish the work or repairs that may be required or ordered Provided That this Act shall not limit or affect the liability of railroads in cases of damage to person or property
Sec 2 Be it further enacted That any railroad failing or refusing to obey the orders of said Commission within the time allowed for said work shall be liable to a penalty of not more than five thousand dollars to be recovered by a suit brought in the name of the State in which suit the AttorneyGeneral or SolicitorGeneral shall represent the State and his fees shall be the same as now provided by law Suits shall be brought in the county where the wrong or violation occurs
Power to institute suit without notice
Inspection by Commission required
If condition unsafe to be put and kept in safe condition Reasonable time to be given Not to affect liability for damages Penalty for not obeying orders
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Commission to x charges for storage
And when such charges shall begin Power to vary rates
Provisions of other acts as to Railroad Commission applied
Sec 3 Be it further enacted That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed
Approved October 17 1891
STORAGE CHARGES
AN ACT
To require the Railroad Commission to fix rates of storage to be charged by
Railroad Companies in this State to prescribe regulations for charging the
same and to prescribe how suit shall be brought for overcharges and to fix
the measure of recovery and for other purposes
Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia That from and after the passage of this Act power is hereby conferred on the Railroad Commission of Georgia and they are required to fix and prescribe a schedule of maximum rates and charges for storage of freight made and charged by Railroad Companies doing business in this State and to fix at what time after the reception of freight at place of destination such charges for storage shall begin with power to vary the same according to the value and character of the freight stored the nature of the place of destination and residence of consignee and such other facts as in their judgment should be considered in fixing the same
Sec 2 Be it further enacted That all the provisions of the Act creating said Railroad Commission and Acts amendatory thereof prescribing the procedure of said Commission in fixing freight and passenger tariffs and hearing complaints of carriers and shippers and of altering and amending said tariffs shall apply to the subject of fixing and amending rates and charges for storage as aforesaid
Sec 3 Be it further enacted That no Railroad Company shall make or retain directly or indirectly any charge for storage of freight greater than that fixed by the Commission for each particular storage nor shall they discriminate directly or indirectly by means of rebate or any other device in such charges between persons
Sec 4 Be it further enacted That if any Railroad Company shall violate the provisions of this Act either by exceeding the rates of storage prescribed or by discriminating as aforesaid the person or persons so paying such overcharge or subjected to such discrimination shall have the right to sue for the same in any court of this State having jurisdiction of the claim and shall have all the remedies and be entitled to recover the same penalties and measure of damages as is prescribed in the case of overcharge of freight rates upon making like demand as is prescribed in such case and after like failure to pay the same
Sec 5 Be it enacted That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed
Approved October 17th 1891
TO REGULATE EXPRESS AND TELEGRAPH COMPANIES
AN ACT
To extend the powers of the Railroad Commissioners so as to give them power and authority to regulate charges by Express Companies for transportation to regulate charges of Telegraph Companies for the transmission of messages by telegraph or charges by persons engaged in the several businesses named herein to apply the powers given to said Commissioners by law over Railroad Companies to all companies or persons owning controlling or operating a line or lines of Express and Telegraph and make the penalties prescribed against railroads for violating Commissioners rules apply to the companies and persons herein named whose line or lines is or are wholly or in part in this State and for other purposes
Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia That from and after the passage of this Act all companies or persons owning controlling or operating or that may hereafter own control or operate a line or lines of Express or Telegraph whose line or lines is or are in whole or in part in this State shall be under the control of the Railroad Commissioners of this State who shall have full power to regulate the prices to be charged by any company or person or persons owning controlling or operating any line or lines of Express and Telegraph for any service performed by such company person or persons and all the powers given to said Commissioners over railroads in this State and all the penalties prescribed against Railroad Companies or persons operating railroads by existing laws embraced in sections of the Code of 1882 from Section 719 a to Section 719 p both inclusive are hereby declared to be of force against corporations companies or a person or persons owning controlling or operating a line or lines of Express and Telegraph doing business in this State whose line or lines is or are whoflly or in part in this State so far as said provisions of the Code can be made applicable to any corporation company person or persons owning controlling or operating a line or lines of Express and Telegraph The said Commissioners shall also have power and authority to require said companies to locate agencies at Railroad Stations
Sec 2 Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That the powers of the Commissioners to regulate charges by corporations companies and persons herein referred to shall apply only to charges by express for transportation from one point to another in this State and messages sent by telegraph from one point to another in this State
Sec 3 Be it further enacted That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed
Approved October 21 1891
Express and Telegraph Companies to be under the control of the Commission
For regulation of prices Powers over railroads and penalties against them of force as against express and telegraph companies
So far as applicable
Location of agencies
Regulation of charges only as to transportation and messages in this State
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CARS FOR WHITE AND COLORED PASSENGERS AN ACT
Equal accommodations in separate cars
Employees to assign passengers their cars or compartments
Penalty for violating provisions of this act
Cars properly divided
White and colored passengers not to occupy same compartments
To require all railroads doing business in this State to furnish equal accommodations and separate cars or compartments for white and colored passengers to require said companies to furnish comfortable seats and to sufficiently light and ventilate said cars to provide for keeping white and colored passengers in their respective cars or compartments to give conductors and other employees of railroads and conductors of dummy electric and street cars certain powers and authority over passengers to comply with the regulations made by said companies under the provisions of this Act to provide a penalty for the violation of the same and for other purposes
Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia That from and after the passage of this Act all railroads doing business in this State shall be required to furnish equal accommodations in separate cars or compartments of cars for white and colored passengers Provided that this Act shall not apply to sleeping cars
Sec 2 Be it further enacted That all conductors or other employees in charge of such cars shall be required to assign all passengers to their respective cars or compartments of cars provided by the said companies under the provisions of this Act and all conductors of dummy electric and street cars shall be required and are hereby empowered to assign all passengers to seats on the cars under their charge so as to separate the white and colored races as much as practicable and all conductors and other employees of railroads and all conductors of dummy electric and street cars shall have and are hereby invested with police powers to carry out the provisions of this Act
Sec 3 Be it further enacted That any passenger remaining in any car or compartment or seat other than that to which he may have been assigned shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of 1882 Jurisdiction of such offenses shall be in the county in which the same occurs The conductor and any and all employees on such cars are hereby clothed with power to eject from the train or car any passenger who refuses to remain in such car or compartment or seat as may be assigned to him
Sec 4 Be it further enacted That when a railroad car is divided into compartments the space set apart or provided for white and colored passengers respectively may be proportioned according to the proportion of usual and ordinary travel by each on the road or line on which said cars are used
Sec 5 Be it further enacted That it shall be unlawful for the officers or employees having charge of such railroad cars to allow or permit white and colored passengers to occupy the same car or compartment and for a violation of this section any such officer or employee shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished as is prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of 1882
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Sec 6 Be it further enacted That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to nurses or servants in attendance on their employers
Sec 7 Be it further enacted That all companies operating and using compartment cars or separate cars shall furnish to the passengers comfortable seats and have such cars well and sufficiently lighted and ventilated and a failure to so do shall be a misdemeanor punishable under section 4310 of the Code of 1882
Sec 8 Be it further enacted That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed
Approved October 21 1901
PROMPT RECEIVING AND DELIVERY OF FREIGHT
AN ACT
To further extend the powers of the Railroad Commission of this State and to confer upon the Commission the power to regulate the time and manner within which the several railroads in this State shall receive receipt for forward and deliver to its destination all freights of every character which may he tendered or received by them for transportation to provide a penalty for noncompliance with any and all reasonable rules regulations and orders prescribed by the said Commission in the execution of these powers and for other purposes
Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same That from and aftet the passage of this Act The Railroad Commission of this State shall be and is hereby vested with full power and authority to make prescribe and enforce all such reasonable rules regulations and orders as may be necessary in order to compel and require the several railroad companies in this State to promptly receive receipt for forward and deliver to destination all freights of every character which may be tendered or received by them for transportation and as well such reasonable rules regulations and orders as may be necessary to compel and require prompt delivery of all freights on arrival at destination to the consignee
Sec 2 Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That whenever a shipper or consignor shall require of a railroad company the placing of a car or cars to be used in carload shipments then in order for the consignor or shipper to avail himself of the forfeitures or penalties prescribed by the rules and regulations of said Railroad Commission it must first appear that such shipper or consignor made written application for said car or cars to said railroad provided further that such Railroad Commission shall by reasonable rules and regulations provide the time within which said car or cars shall be furnished after being ordered as aforesaid and the penalty per day per car to be paid by said railroad company in the event such car or cars are not furnished as ordered and provided further that in order for any shipper or consignor to avail himself of the penalties provided by the rules and regulations of said Railroad Commission such shipper or consignor shall likewise be subject under proper
Cars to be
comfortable
etc
Railroad Commission may regulate transportation of freights
Shippers requirements of
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Bills of lading be tween points witbln State
Claims against railroad companies penalty for failure to pay
rules to be fixed by said Commission to the orders rules and regulations of said Railroad Commission
Sec 5 Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed
Approved August 23 1905
LIABILITY OF RAILROADS FOR DAMAGE TO PROPERTY IN TRANSPORTATION
Ax Act
To provide that any common carrier receiving property for transportation between points wholly within this State shall be liable for any loss or damage to such property whether caused by it or by any connecting carrier over whose lines such property may pass also to provide a penalty for the failure of any common carrier to adjust and pay within a time specified any just claim for loss or damage to property received for transportation and for other purposes
Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia That from and after the passage of this Act any common carrier railroad or transportation company receiving property for transportation between points wholly within this State shall issue a receipt or bill of lading therefor and shall be liable to the holder thereof for any loss damage or injury to such property caused by it or by any common carrier railroad or transportation company to which such property may be delivered or over whose line or lines such property may pass and no contract receipt rule or regulation shall exempt such common carrier railroad or transportation company from the liability herein imposed provided that nothing in this section shall deprive any holder of such receipt or bill of lading of any remedy or right of action which he has under existing law
Sec 2 Be it further enacted That every claim for loss or damage to property or overcharge for freight for which any common carrier may be liable shall be adjusted and paid by such common carrier within sixty days in cases of shipments wholly within this State and within ninety days in cases of shipments between points without and points within this State after such claim duly verified by the oath of the claimant or his agent shall have been filed with the agent of the Initial carrier or with the agent of the carrier upon whose line the loss or damage or overcharge actually occurred In the event such claim is not adjusted and paid within the time limited the carrier shall be liable for interest thereon at the legal rate from the date of the filing of the claim until the payment thereof and shall also be liable for a penalty of 5000 for every such failure to adjust and pay said claim to be recovered by the party damaged in any court of competent jurisdiction provided that unless such claimant shall in such action recover the full amount claimed no penalty shall
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be recovered but the recovery shall be limited to the actual loss or damage or overcharge with interest thereon from the date of filing said claim
Sec 3 Be it further enacted That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed
Approved August 18 1906
STATION ACCOMMODATIONS FOR PUBLIC AT NIGHT
An Act
To require all railroads operating passengertrains and taking on and putting off passengers or that operate such trains at or through countyseats and towns and cities having a population of more than 1000 in this State to keep open at night at their depot stations at such places before the arrival and departure of said trains a lighted and comfortable room for the accommodation of their passengers and for other purposes
Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid That from and after the fifteenth day of September 1906 all railroad companies operating passengertrains and taking on and putting off passengers or that operate passengertrains at or through countyseats and towns and cities having a population of more than 1000 in this State shall be and they are hereby required to keep open at least one hour before arrival of and half an hour after the departure according to the schedule time for the arrival of and the departure of said trains a lighted and comfortable room between the hours of 6 oclock p m and 6 oclock a m for the comfort and convenience of their passengers
Sec 2 Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That a failure to comply with the terms of this Act by any railroad company shall be a misdemeanor and said company or corporation shall upon conviction for the offense be punished as prescribed in Section 1039 of the Criminal Code of 1895
Sec 3 Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed
Approved August 18 1906
ELECTION OF RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS
An Act
To provide for the election of railroad commissioners of this State by the electors of the whole State and for other purposes
Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same That the railroad commissioners of this State shall hereinafter be elected by the electors of the whole State who are entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly
Sec 2 Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That successors to the incumbents be elected at the first general election preceding the expiration of their terms of office respectively that is to say at the general election to be held on the first Wednesday in October 1906 one commissioner shall be
Railroad Passengers station accommodations for at night
Penalty for failure to provide
Railroad Commissioners election of
Term of office and elections
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Regulations
Vacancies
elected to succeed the incumbent whose term will expire on the fifteenth day of October 1907 and one commissioner shall be chosen at the general election to be held on the first Wednesday in October 1908 to succeed the then incumbent whose term of office will expire on the fifteenth day of October 1909 and one commissioner shall be chosen at the general election to be held on the first Wednesday in October 1910 to succeed the then incumbent whose term of office will expire on October 15 1911 and so on
Sec 3 Said election to he held under the same rules and regulations as now apply to the election of governor of this State
Sec 4 Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That in case of vacancy causing an unexpired term the same shall be filled by executive appointment and the person appointed shall hold office until the next regular general election and until his successor for the balance of the unexpired term shall have been elected and qualified
Sec 5 Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act he and the same are hereby repealed
Approved August 21 1906
INCREASING MEMBERSHIP AND POWERS OF COMMISSION
AN ACT
To increase the membership of the Railroad Commission of Georgia and to prescribe the qualifications for membership to authorize the designation of a chairman thereof by the Governor and to prescribe his duties and compensation to revise enlarge and more clearly define the powers duties and rights of said Commission to authorize it to employ rate and other experts and to fix their pay to increase the printing fund and the salary of the Secretary of the Commission to employ a stenographer and fix his pay to extend its powers and jurisdiction over docks and wharves terminal companies cotton compress companies corporations or persons owning leasing or operating railway terminals or terminal stations over telephone or telegraphic companies or corporations or persons owning leasing or operating any public telephone service in this State and over street railroads and street railroad corporations companies or persons owning leasing or operating street railroads in this State over gas and electric light and power companies corporations or persons owning leasing or operating public gas plants electric light and power plants furnishing power to the public to fix the domicile of the Railroad Commission and prescribe what courts of this State have jurisdiction over proceedings instituted against it to prescribe and fix penalties and punishments for failure or refusal to observe any order rule or regulation of the Railroad Commission and to prescribe the form of procedure for enforcing same to repeal sections 2195 and 2196 of the Code of Georgia 1895 touching penalties and proceedures to enforce the same for a violation of the orders rules and regulations of the Commission to repeal sections 3 and 4 of the Act approved August 23 1905 prescribing certain penalties and forms of procedure for enforcing same and for other purposes
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Section X From and after the passage and approval of this Act the Bailroad Commission of Georgia shall consist of five members to be elected by the quali miners fled voters of Georgia as prescribed in the Act approved August 21 1906
The terms of office of the two additional Commissioners provided for in this Terms of Act shall expire one on December 1 1911 and the other December 1 1913 and thereafter the terms shall be for six years each The Governor by and with the consent of the Senate shall appoint the two additional Commissioners immediately after the passage and approval of this Act but the appointees hereunder shall be commissioned only until December 1 1908 said positions to be filled for the unexpired terms by two Commissioners to be elected at the regular general election on the first Wednesday in October 1908
In order that there may be uniformity of expiration of the terms of all the Railroad Commissioners the term of the present Commissioner expiring on October 15 1909 shall be extended to December 1 1909 the term of the present Commissioner expiring on October 15 1911 shall be extended to December 1
1911 and the term of the Commissioner expiring October 15 1913 shall be extended to December 1 1913 their respective successors to be elected for full terms of six years each
Sec 2 Any person thirty years of age who is qualified to vote as an elector Qualifications in this State and who is not directly or indirectly interested in any mercantile Stone3 business or any corporation that is controlled by or that participates in the benefit of any pool combination trust contract or arrangement that has the effect or tends to increase the cost to the public of carriage heat light power or of any commodity or merchandise sold to the public shall be eligible to membership
on said Commission without reference to his experience in law or railway business
Sec 3 K ShaI1 be the duty 0f the Commission to elect from its membership the chairman of the Railroad Commission of Georgia who shall hold the position of chairman for a term of two years and who shall give his entire time to the duties of his office and who shall receive therefor during his term as chairman a salary of four thousand dollars 4000 per annum to be paid from the State Treasury
Chairman of Board
SeC 4 The said Railroad Commission is hereby authorized and empowered Rate Expert to employ one or more rate experts at a total cost not to exceed four thousand dollars 4000 per annum for the entire service to be rendered under the direction of the Commission
Sec 5 The power to determine what are just and reasonable rates and charges is vested exclusively in said Commission
reports of the Railroad Commission published by its authority Prif hall be admissible as evidence in any court in Georgia without further proof ports admisand the schedules of rates made by the Commission and any order passed or Ividencl rule or regulation prescribed by the Commission shall be admissible in evidenc in any court in Georgia upon the certificate of the Secretary of the Commission
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Authority
over Street
Railroads
Docks
Terminals
and other
corporations
Power of Commission
The powers and duties heretofore conferred by law upon the Railroad Commission are hereby extended and enlarged so that its authority and control shall extend to street railroads and street railroad corporations companies or persons owning leasing or operating street railroads in this State provided however that nothing herein shall be construed to impair any valid subsisting contract now in existence between any municipality and any such company and provided that this Act shall not operate as a repeal of any existing municipal ordinance nor shall it impair nor invalidate any future contract or ordinance of any municipality as to the public uses of such company that shall receive the assent of the Railroad Commission over docks and wharves and corporations companies or persons owning leasing or operating the same over terminals or terminal stations and corporations companies or persons owning leasing or operating such cotton compress corporations or associations and persons or companies owning leasing or operating the same and over telegraph or telephone corporations companies or persons owning leasing or operating a public telephone service or telephone lines in this State over gas and electric light and power companies corporations or persons owning leasing or operating public gas plants or electric light and power plants furnishing service to the public
Sec 6 The Railroad Commission of Georgia shall have and exercise all the power and authority heretofore conferred upon it by law and shall have the general supervision of all common carriers railroads express corporations or companies street railroads railroad corporations or companies dock or wharfage corporations or companies terminal or terminal station corporations or companies telephone and telegraph corporations or companies within this State gas or electric light and power companies within this State and while it may hear complaints yet the Commission is authorized to perform the duties imposed upon it of its own initiative and to require all common carriers and other public service companies under their supervision to establish and maintain such public service and facilities as may be reasonable and just either by general rules or by special orders in particular cases and to require such publication by common carriers in newspapers of towns through which their lines extend of their schedules as may be reasonable and which the public convenience demands Said Commission is hereby given authority to examine into the affairs of said companies and corporations and to keep informed as to their general condition their capitalization their franchises and the manner in which their lines owned leased or controlled are managed conducted and operated not only with respect to the adequacy security and accommodation afforded by their service to the public and their employees but also with reference to their compliance with all provisions of law orders of the Commission and charter requirements Said Commission shall have the power and authority whenever it deems advisable to prescribe establish and order a uniform system of accounts to be used by railroads and other corporations over which it has jurisdiction hereunder the same to be as far as practicable in conformity with the system of accounts prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission to examine all books contracts records and documents of any person or corpora tion subject to their supervision and compel the production thereof Said Com
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mission shall have the power through any one or more of its members at Its direction to make personal visitation to the offices and places of business of said companies for the purpose of examination and such Commissioner or Commissioners shall have full power and authority to examine the agents and employees of said companies under oath or otherwise in order to procur information deemed by the Commissioners necessary to their work or of value to the public Provided that nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to repeal or abrogate any existing law or rule of the Railroad Commission as to notice or hearings to persons railroads or other corporations interested in the rates orders rules or regulations issued by said Commission before the same are issued nor to repeal the law of this State as to notice by publication of a change in rates as provided in the Act approved October 14 1879 or any Act amendatory thereof
Sec 7 The Railroad Commission shall have authority to ascertain the cost of construction and the present value of properties in Georgia owned by said corporations or companies and to that end may employ necessary experts Said Commission shall have authority to prescribe rules with reference to spurtracks and sidetracks with reference to their use and construction removal or change with full power to compel service to be furnished to manufacturing plants warehouses and similar places of business along the lines of railroads where practicable and in the judgment of the Commission the business is sufficient to justify and on such terms and conditions as the Commission may prescribe It shall have power and authority to order and compel the operation of sufficient and proper passenger service when in its judgment inefficient or insufficient service is being rendered the public or any community It shall have power and authority when in its judgment practicable and to the interest of the public to order and compel the making and operation of physical connection between lines of railroads crossing or intersecting each other It shall have authority to fix penalties for neglect on the part of railroad companies to adjust overcharges and losses or failure to decline to do so if deemed unjust in a reasonable time It shall have power and authority to prescribe rules and penalties covering and requiring the prompt receipt carriage and delivery of freight and the prompt furnishing of cars to shippers desiring to ship freight and shall also be authorized to prescribe rules apd penalties for the transfer of cars through yards by connecting roads Said Commission shall have power and authority to order the erection of depots and stations where it deems the same necessary and to order the appointment and service thereat of depot or station agents The Commissioners shall also have the power and authority to regulate schedules and compel connection at junction points of competing lines
Sec 8 Each of the companies or corporations over which the authority of the Railroad Commission is extended by law shall be required to furnish said Commission a list of any stocks and bonds the issuance of which is contemplated and it shall be unlawful for any of said companies or corporations to issue stocks bonds notes or other evidences of debt payable more than twelve months after the date thereof except upon the approval of said Railroad Commission and then only when necessary and for such amounts as may be reasonably required for the
Side tracks
Passenger
service
Physical
connection
Overcharges and losses
Transferring
cars
Depots and Agents
Schedules
Issuance of Stocks and Bonds
y
Indebtedness payable within twelve months exempted
Commissioners required to treat official information confidential
Liability of corporations
Repeal of Sections of Code
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acquisition of property the construction and equipment of power plants carsheds and the completion extension or improvement of its facilities or properties or for the improvement or maintenance of its service or for the discharge or lawful refunding of its obligations or for lawful corporate purposes falling within the spirit of this provision the decision of the Commission to he final as to the validity of the issue
Before issuing such stock bonds notes or other evidences of debt as above mentioned such corporations or companies shall secure an order from the Commission authorizing such issue the amount thereof and the purpose and use for which the issue is authorized
For the purpose of enabling the Commission to determine whether such order should be issued it shall make such inquiry or investigation hold such hearings and examine such witnesses books papers documents or contracts as it may deem advisable or necessary Such corporations or companies may Issue notes or other evidences of indebtedness for proper corporate purposes and not in violation of any provision of this Act or any other law payable at periods of not more than twelve months from date without such consent but no such notes or other evidences of indebtedness shall in whole or in part directly or indirectly he refunded by any issue of stocks or bonds or by any ovidence of indebtedness running for more than twelve months without the consent of the Commission
Any Railroad Commissioner of this State or any employee of said Railroad Commission who shall disclose or impart to any one except when legally called upon by a court of competent jurisdiction any fact knowledge of which was obtained in his official capacity from or through any proceedings filed with the said Railroad Commission under this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a prosecution therefor provided that this shall not apply to such facts or information obtained through public hearings or such as are not confidential in their nature
Sec 9 In case a common carrier or other corporation or company mentioned in this Act shall do cause to be done or permit to be done any act matter or thing prohibited forbidden or declared to be unlawful or shall omit to do any act matter or thing required to be done either by any law of the State of Georgia by this Act or by an order of the Commission such common carrier or other corporation or company shall be liable to the persons or corporations affected thereby for all loss damage or injury caused thereby or resulting therefrom and in case of recovery if the jury shall find that such act or omission was wilful it may fix a reasonable counsels or attorneys fee which fee shall be taxed and collected as part of the cost in the case An action to recover for such loss damage or injury may be brought in any court of competent jurisdiction by any such person or corporation
Sec 10 The procedure for the enforcement of penalties for a violation of the orders rules or regulations of the Railroad Commission provided in sections 2195 and 2196 of the Code of Georgia of 1895 are hereby repealed provided that nothing in this Act shall be construed as to affect suits now

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pending for penalties or to affect penalties upon which right of action shall have accrued prior to the passage and approval of this Act
Sec 11 Sections 3 and 4 of the Act approved August 23 1905 conferring
Repeal of
upon the Commission the power to regulate the time and manner within Sections 3
which the several railroads of the State shall receive receipt for forward and approved
deliver to its destination freight the said sections applying to penalties gust23
1905
placed upon said railroad companies providing penalties for the violation
of rules orders and regulations established by the Railroad Commission
with reference to same and providing a procedure to enforce said penalties
be and the same are hereby repealed and the penalties prescribed by this
Act and the procedure to enforce the same are made applicable to any and
all violations of the rules orders and regulations established by the Commission
Sec 12 Every common carrier railroad street railroad railroad corporation street railroad corporation express telephone telegraph dock wharfage and terminal company or corporation within the State and other corporations companies or persons coming under the provisions of this Act and all officers agents and employees of the same shall obey observe and comply with every order made by the Commission under this Act or under authority of Acts heretofore passed Any common carrier railroad street railroad railroad corporation street railroad corporation express telephone telegraph dock wharfage or terminal company or corporation cotton compress companies within this State and other corporations companies or persons coming under the provisions of this Act which shall violate any provision of this Act or of the Acts heretofore passed or which fails omits or neglects to obey observe and comply with any order direction or requirements of the Commission heretofore or hereafter passed shall forfeit to the State of Georgia a sum of not more than 5000 for each and every offense the amount to be fixed by the presiding judge Every violation of the provisions of this Act or of any preceding Act or of any such order direction or requirement of the Railroad Commission shall be a separate and distinct offense and in case of a continued violation every day a violation thereof takes place shall be deemed a separate and distinct offense An action for the recovery of such penalty may be brought in the county of the principal office of such corporation or company in this State or in the county of the State where such violation has occurred and wrong shall be perpetrated or in any county in this State through which said corporation or company operates or where the violation consists of an excessive charge for the carriage of freight or passengers or service rendered in any county in which said charges are made or through which it was intended that such passenger or freight should have been carried or through which such corporation operates and shall he brought in the name of the State of Georgia by direction of the Governor
Any procedure to enforce such penalty shall be triable at the first term of the court at which it is brought and shall be given precedence over other business by the presiding judge and the court shall not be adjourned until such proceeding is legally continued or disposed of The decision in such case may be taken to the Supreme Court as now provided in cases of the grant or refusal of injunctions by judges of the superior courts
Penalty for violations of Rules and Orders of Commission
How action to rcover penalties may be brought
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Punishment for aiding or abetting violations
Officers approving or directing violations
Domicile of Commission
Contingent and Printing Funds
Attorney to Commission
Repealing
Section
Sec 13 Every officer agent or employee of any such common carrier corporation or company who shall violate or procures aids or abets any violation by any such common carrier or corporation or company of any provision of this Act or which shall fail to obey observe or comply with any order of the Commission or any provision of ahy order of the Commission or who procures aids or abets any such common carrier or corporation or company in its failure to obey observe and comply with any such order direction or provision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished as prescribed in section 1039 of the Penal Code of 1895 and shall be subject to prosecution in any county in Georgia in which said common carrier or corporation or company or officer agent or employee violates the provisions of this Act or any provisions of any order of the Commission or in any county through which said corporation operates
Any officer agent or employee shall also be subject to indictment under the provisions of this section in any county in which a subordinate agent or employee of the company violates the provisions of this Act by the approval or direction or in consequence of the approval or direction of such officer agent or employee and the agent or employee who locally in any county violates the rules or directions of said Commission in pursuance of the direction or authority of his superior officer or agent of said company may be called as a witness and be compelled to testify showing the authority by which he acted and such testimony shall not be used against such subordinate employee or agent nor shall he thereafter be subject to indictment for said offense
Sec 14 The domicile of the Railroad Commission of Georgia is hereby fixed at the capitol of the State in Atlanta Fulton county and no court of this State other than those of Fulton county shall have or take jurisdiction in any suit or proceeding brought or instituted against said Commission or any of its orders or rules
Sec 15 The contingent expense fund of the Railroad Commission shall not exceed 3000 per annum out of which it shall pay for office supplies furniture postage stationery traveling and other actual expenses of any Commissioner incurred by order of the Commission in the discharge of his duties etc the said sum or so much thereof as may be necessary to be paid out of the State Treasury on the order of the Governor The salary of the secretary of the Railroad Commission is hereby fixed at 2000 per annum The printing fuiid of the Commission is hereby fixed at the sum of 2000 per annum The Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to employ a stenographer at a salary not to exceed 1200 per annum
Sec 16 The office of attorney to the Railroad Commission is hereby created and the Governor is hereby authorized to appoint said attorney whose term of office shall be for four years and until his successor is qualified and who shall receive a salary of 2500 a year which said attorney may be removed by the Governor at any time
Sec 17 That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act or any provision thereof be and the same are hereby repealed
Approved August 22 1907
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CARS FOR PEACHES CANTALOUPES ETC
An Act
To require railrpad companies to furnish proper and necessary cars for the transportation of peaches cantaloupes the railroad companies liable when they fail to do so to prescribe the terms under which they shall be furnished to make the railroad companies liable when they fail to do so to prescribe rule and measure of damages for failure to furnish cars and to prescribe penalties for shippers who order cars and fail to use them and for other purposes
Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same
That it shall be the duty of the railroad companies of this State to furnish to any grower or growers of peaches apples cantaloupes watermelons or other perishable products suitable icing and refrigerator cars or other suitable cars for the transportation of such products whenever application is made therefor in writing by the shipper twentyfour hours in advance of the time such car or cars are wanted for loading Such application to be filed with the nearest agent of the railroad company to the point from which shipment is to be made and it shall state the time and place from which shipment is desired
Sec 2 Be it further enacted That whenever any railroad company shall fail to furnish such icing and refrigerator cars as required in section 1 of this Act and the shipper places his product in carload lots or in cases of less than carload lots expresses to the agent of the railroad company his willingness to pay charges for carload lots then such railroad company shall be liable for the market value of such product with interest thereon The market value to be determined by the market value of the product less the cost of carriage and the usual expense of selling in the market to which the shipper intended shipping same on the day such product would have arrived
had the same been carried in the usualof transportation on
schedule time for such freight In order to avail himself of this rule of damage the shipper shall in writing notify the agent of the railroad company of the market to which he intended to ship his product Payment shall be made by the railroad company for such product within thirty days after written claim has been filed with the company therefor In the event that such railroad company shall fail to make payment as herein provided or tender the correct amount therefor it shall be liable for an additional fixed sum of fifty dollars for each car as liquidated damages for failure to perform its duty in the premises such liquidated damages to be recovered in any cause brought for the recovery of damages on the main claim in the event recovery is had thereon
Sec 3 Be it further enacted that in the event the shipper fails or refuses to accept such car or cars when furnished under condition and as herein required he shall be liable to the railroad company for the sum of ten dollars per car and the cost of the first or initial icing in the event that the
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Railroad Commission powers of
Experts
employed
Spur tracks
Regulation of passenger service
Connections may be required
Overcbaiges etc adjusted
Freight carriage of etc regulated
Depots
same is iced and should he fail or refuse to pay same within thirty days after written demand therefor shall be liable for twenty dollars instead of ten as herein fixed together with the cost of icing and judgment may be rendered for said sums by any court having jurisdiction of the cause
Approved August 22 1907
POWERS OF COMMISSION AMENDMENT TO ACT OF 1907
An Act
To amend An Act to increase the membership of the Railroad Commission of Georgia and to prescribe the qualifications for membership etc approved August 13 1907
Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same That an Act approved August 23 1907 entitled An Act to Increase the Membership of the Railroad Commission of the State of Georgia and to Prescribe the Qualifications for Membership etc be and the same is hereby amended by adding after the word other in the nineteenth line of Section 7 of said Act the following Or entering the same incorporated town or city within this State so that said section as amended shall read as follows Be it further enacted That the railroad commission shall have authority to ascertain the cost of construction and the present value of properties in Georgia owned by said corporations or companies and to that end may employ necessary experts Said commission shall have authority to prescribe rules with reference to spur tracks and side tracks with reference to their use and construction removal or change with full power to compel service to be furnished to manufacturing plants warehouses and similar plants of business along the line of railroads where practicable and in the judgment of the commission the business is sufficient to justify and on such terms and conditions as the commission may prescribe
It shall have power and authority to order and compel the operation of sufficient and proper passenger service when in its judgment inefficient or insufficient service is being rendered the public or any community It shall have power and authority when in its judgment practicable and to the interest of the public to order and compel the making and operation of physical connection between lines of railroads crossing or intersecting each other or entering the same incorporated town or city within this State It shall have authority to fix penalties for neglect on the part of railroad companies to adjust overcharges and losses or failures to decline to do so if deemed unjust in a reasonable time It shall have power and authority to prescribe rules and penalties covering and requiring the prompt receipt carriage and delivery of freight the pronipt furnishing of cars to shippers desiring to ship freight and shall also be authorized to prescribe rules and penalties for the transfer of cars through yards by connecting roads Said commission shall have power and authority to order the erection of depots and stations where it deems the same necessary and to order the appointment and service thereat of depot or station agents The com
Schednles
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mission shall have the power and authority to regulate schedules and compel connections at junction points of competing lines
Sec 2 Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act or any provision thereof be and the same are hereby repealed
Approved August 17 1908
FREE PASSES ON STREET CARS FOR POLICEMEN AND OTHER
EMPLOYEES
An Act to permit the street railroads to grant free passes to members of the police sanitary water and fire departments and the marshals and their deputies and county police officers inthe cities of the State of Georgia
Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same That it shall not be unlawful for any street railway company of this State to issue free transportation to the members of the police force and fire sanitary and water departments and the marshals and their deputies and county police officers of cities of this State over their lines operated in the cities of the State when said cities have regularly organized police forces and fire sanitary and water departments provided nevertheless that nothing in this Act contained shall authorize such company to grant individual members of such police and fire departments any transportation or other special privileges not participated in by all of the members thereof on like terms and under like conditions and provided further that all such grants or concessions shall be made to the governing authority of such city for and in behalf of the members of such police force and fire sanitary and water department and formally accepted by such authority
Sec 2 Be it further enacted by the authority of the General Assembly That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed
Approved August 11 1909
COMMON CARRIERS PASSES TO FORMER EMPLOYEES AND OTHERS
An Act to allow common carriers to grant passes to former employees under certain conditions and for other purposes
Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same That from and after the passage of this Act common carriers in this State may grant passes upon their transportation lines to any former employee of the company and his immediate family who from length of service or having been injured in the service of the same has been retired from the service but is kept upon the payroll of the company under a system of pensioning or similar system such passages to be good only for intrastate passage
Sec 2 Be it further enacted That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed
Approved August 14 1909
Railroads must sell tickets of connecting roads
At rate fixed by Railroad Commission etc
Unlawful to refuse to check baggage over connecting lines
Unlawful to refuse to put tickets on sale with agents of connecting lines
Or to refuse to receive tickets or check baggage
Proviso
Penalty for violating this Act
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TO PREVENT UNJUST DISCRIMINATIONS BETWEEN RAILROADS
An Act
To further carry into effect paragraph 1 of Section 2 Of Article 4 of the Constitution of the State and to prevent unjust discrimination on the part of any railroad operated within or partly within this State against any other railroad company within this State
Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia That from and after the passage of this Act it shall be unlawful for any railroad company having an office or agency within the State of Georgia to refuse to put on sale or to refuse to sell any ticket of any other railroad company with which the same may be directly or indirectly connected at the price or rate fixed by the Railroad Commission of this State for passage over lines of such connecting roads less such amount as may be directed to be deducted from such rate by any one or more of said connecting lines and it shall be unlawful after the sale of such ticket to refuse to issue check or checks for baggage over such connecting lines and upon such tickets to the extent that the baggage may be allowed to be checked under the ordinary rules and regulations of said companies
Sec 2 Be it further enacted that it shall be unlawful for any railroad company operating or doing business wholly or partly within this State to refuse to put on sale with the agents of any other railroad company wherewith it may be directly or indirectly connected tickets for any point upon its lines of road or to refuse to receive such tickets for passage over its lines or to refuse to receive and transport baggage which may be checked upon said tickets so sold provided that any railroad company so placing its tickets upon sale with any other railroad company may demand a reasonable deposit of money or other reasonable security to recover the price of such tickets so placed on sale and may demand from time to time such renewals of such deposits or other security as will protect it from any loss by reason of the amounts received from the sale of such tickets
Sec 3 Be it further enacted That for every violation of any of the provisions of this Act the railroad company who shall by itself or its agents be guilty of such violation shall be subject to a penalty of one thousand dollars which may be recovered in any Superior City or County Court of the county in this State in which such violation may occur where suit may be brought by the railroad company whose road may be discriminated against or by the person offering to buy a ticket over such road and such penalty may be recovered by each of said parties and the recovery by one shall not be a bar to a recovery of the other
Sec 4 Be it further enacted That all laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed
Approved October 15 1891
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REQUIRING COMMON CARRIERS TO TRACE FREIGHT ETC
An Act
To require common carriers over which freight has been shipped and has been lost damaged or destroyed to furnish to the shipper consignee or their assigns within thirty days after application the necessary information to establish upon which line or connecting lino of common carriers said loss damage or destruction occurred and in default to render the carrier to which application was made liable for said loss damage or destruction and for other purposes
Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia That from and after the passage of this Act when any freight that has been shipped to be conveyed by two or more common carriers to its destination where under the contract of shipment or by law the responsibility of each or either shall cease upon delivery to the next in good order has been lost damaged or destroyed it shall be the duty of the initial or any connecting carrier upon application by the shipper consignee or their assigns within thirty days after application to trace said freight and inform said applicant in writing when where how and by which carrier said freight was lost damaged or destroyed and the names of the parties and their official position if any by whom the truth of facts set out in said information can be established
Sec 2 Be it further enacted That if the carrier to which application is made shall fail to trace said freight and give said information in writing within the time prescribed then said carrier shall he liable for the value of the freight lost damaged or destroyed in the same manner and to the same extent as if said loss damage or destruction occurred on its line
Sec 3 Be it further enacted That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed
Approved October 16 1891
Carriers upon application must trace freight
Penalty for failure
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Definition of the word Company
All unjustdiscrimination forbidden
All rates bona fide No rebates
Rates of Commission are maximum rates
Rates may be reduced below maximum provided no discrimination is made
Tariffs to be kept posted
Changes in tariffs to be posted
GENERAL RULES
RULE 1
The word Company as used and intended by any and all of the rules and regulations of the Commission shall be deemed and taken to mean and include all corporations companies firms and persons that may now be engaged or that may hereafter become engaged in performing for hire any service to the public that is now or that shall hereafter be subject by law to the jurisdiction or control of the Commission
RULE 2
The several companies in the conduct of their intrastate business shall afford to all persons equal facilities in the conduct of such bsiness without unjust discrimination in favor of or against any and wherever special facilities are afforded to one patron whether upon a special rate authorized by this Commission or otherwise such company shall be bound to afford to any other patron or patrons under substantially similar circumstances like facilities upon like rates
The rate charged for any service by any company shall be bona fide and public and the giving of any rebate bonus or drawback is hereby expressly forbidden
RULE 3
All of the rates prescribed by the Commission are maximum rates which shall not be exceeded by any company
Any company may charge less than the prescribed maximum rate provided that if a less rate be charged to one person such company shall for a like service charge the same lessened rate to all persons except as may be hereafter provided and if any company shall reduce any of its rates to or from one agency or station it shall except in cases where otherwise specially provided by the Commission make a reduction of the same percentage to and from all other stations on its line to the end that no unjust discrimination be made in favor of nor against any person persons or locality
RULE 4
iSach company shall keep conspicuously posted at all of its stations offices and agencies in Georgia a copy of the schedule or schedules of rates prescribed by the Commission for the government of such company
When any change is made in such schedule either by such company voluntarily or pursuant to an order of the Commission such company shall imme
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diately furnish a copy of said change to the office of the Commission and shall also post copies thereof in the same manner as above specified as notice to the public that said change has been made
No advance in any rate whether it be a maximum rate or otherwise shall be made without the consent of this Commission first being obtained nor shall such advance become effective until ten days thereafter and no reduction in any rate shall become effective until three days after notice has been given as above required
RULE 5
All special rates made by any company for any service to be rendered shall first be submitted to and approved by the Commission before being put in effect
RULE 6
If between any two points in Georgia there are two or more routes whether composed of the lines of one or more companies the rate for any service via any of such routes between such points may be reduced to correspond with the lowest rate for similar service in effect between the said points without making reductions at intermediate points
Provided that where such a reduction is tnade in the rate for the carriage of freight between any two points by any railroad or connecting line of railroad a relative reduction shall be made to all intermediate points where conditions and circumstances are substantially similar
Any rate to or from any Georgia point may be so reduced as to place such Georgia point on an equality with any competitive point in another State without making any reduction in rates to or from other stations not similarly situated with respect to such competitive rates
RULE 7
All rates effective in this State except in cases otherwise specified shall apply in either direction over the same line between the same points
RULE 8
It shall be the duty of any company to accept for transportation any goods the carriage of which by such company is reasonably safe and practicable and to transport the same by the train for which they are offered
RULE 9
In no case shall any companycollect for any service more than the exact amount due according to the current rate
If any company shall fail to make the necessary change of money to enable it to collect such exact amount then the next lower amount ending in 5 or 0 shall be charged
Advances and reductions Notice of
Special rates must be approved by Commission
Long lines allowed to meet short lines rates
Georgia points may be put on equality with points in other States
Rates for short distance not to exceed long distance
Rates apply in both directions
Duty to accept and transport goods
Exact charge may be collected
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Claims for overcharge and loss
Monthly
Reports
Annual
Reports
Blanks furnished by Commission
Other information to be furnished when required
Books etc to be produced
How to bring Complaints Rules of procedure
Giving notice to Interested parties
RULE 10
All just claims for overcharge and loss shall be paid within thirty days after claim supported by proper papers is made therefor Claims for loss shall be paid by the company at fault but claims for overcharge shall be paid by the company which collected same and through the office or agency by which the same was collected regardless of any division or apportionment of such total charge with any other line
RULE 11
Each railroad company shall file in the office of the Commission on or before the last day of each month a report duly sworn to showing the earnings and expenses of such company during the month preceding
Each railroad terminal express and telegraph company shall file in the office of the Commission on or before the fifteenth day of September of each year a report duly sworn to for the fiscal year ending June 30th immediately preceding
Each compress company shall file in the office of the Commission on or before the fifteenth day of October of each year a report for the fiscal year ending August 31st immediately preceding
Each street railroad power gas telephone and electric light company shall file in the office of the Commission on or before the fifteenth day of February of each year a report for the fiscal year ending December 31st immediately preceding
An 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 such 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 be in possession of said company or within its power custody or control or copies thereof as may be demanded and designated by the Commission
RULE 12
All complaints made to the Railroad Commission of alleged grievances must plainly and distinctly state the grounds of complaint the items being numbered and objections all being set forth in writing
Both in cases of complaints and when the Commission initiates action notice shall be given to the persons or corporations interested in or affected thereby tendays before the hearing except in cases for the fixing of joint rates when thirty days notice shall be given and shall give to such persons or companies an opportunity to be heard
In like manner all defenses must be distinctly made in writing and the items correspondingly numbered as above stated
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These specifications whether of complaint or of defense may be accompanied if the parties so desire by any explanation or argument or by any suggestion touching the proper remedy or policy The parties may also be heard in person or by attorney or by written argument upon such written statements being first filed
Upon the hearing of all cases that may come on to be heard before the Commission the respective parties may present their testimony either written or oral or by affidavits All affidavits intended to be offered by either party shall be served upon the opposite party his counsel or agent having control of the case at least three days and all counter affidavits at least twelve hours before the date set for their hearing
This rule of procedure and of evidence except as to notice of hearing above provided may in any and all instances be varied or relaxed when in the exercise of a sound discretion this Commission shall be of the opinion that a departure from the letter thereof may be necessary to the attainment of substantial justice due care being taken in every instance to guard against any injurious surprises
RULE 13
The Commission reserves the right to suspend or modify at its discretion the enforcement of any of its rules rates orders or other regulations where in its opinion the conditions are such in any particular instance that a strict enforcement of such rules or other regulations would result in hardship or Injustice
Arguments may be made either in person or writing
Commission reserves the right to modify rules of procedure
Right reserved to suspend or modify any regulation
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Rates prescribed are maximum rates Low rates for children
Minimum fare of ten cents allowed
Tickets should be purchased
Extra charge unless tickets are purchased
Baggage
allowed
Excess baggage rates
PASSENGER RULES
RULE 1
Each railroad company in Georgia may charge for the transportation of passengers between points in this State the maximum rates prescribed for such railroad by this Commission and in every instance the rates for children over five years and under twelve years of age shall be not over onehalf of the maximum rate prescribed for adults
Provided That any railroad company may collect no more than ten cents as a minimum charge for a full or half rate between regular stations when the actual fare would be less than that amount
RULE 2
At all places where by the exercise of reasonable diligence the requisite tickets may be purchased it shall be the duty of all persons to provide themselves therewith before boarding trains as passengers
If at such a place a person shall board a train and has for want of reasonable diligence on his part failed to supply himself with the requisite ticket the railroad company may collect for each mile that may be traveled by such person without the requisite ticket in addition to the maximum prescribed rate as follows
For a passenger over five and under twelve years of age onehalf of one cent For a passenger twelve years of age and over one cent
Exceptions Southern Railway Seaboard Air Line Railway Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company Georgia Southern and Florida Railway Company Charleston and Western Carolina Railway Companyallowed to charge 15 cents in addition to the maximum prescribed rate regardless of the distance traveled
RULE 3
The payment of fare between any given points in Georgia shall entitle the passenger to the transportation of at least one hundred and fifty pounds of baggage in the same direction between those points without extra charge
For the transportation of baggage that may be in excess of one hundred and fifty pounds between points in this State the following excess baggage rates may be collected viz
EXCESS BAGGAGE TARIFF
For all Baggage Over 150 Pounds
For 20 miles and under 10 cents
For 30smiles and over 20 15
P 40 I 30 20
v60 40 25
70 60 30
80 701 35
90 80 40
per 100 pounds
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Tor 110 miles and oyer 110 V 50 cents per 100 pounds
120 110 55
130 120 55 if
140 130 60 U
160 150 70 c
170 160 75
180 170 80
190 180 85
200 190 90
210 200 95
220 j 210 100
230 220 105
240 a 230 110
260 240 115 T
290 260 120
320 290 125
1 350 320 130
400 350 135
450 H 400 140
Minimum excess baggage charge 10 cents
NoteThe above Tariff is subject to the provisions of Freight Rule No One of the Commission
RULE 3A
No common carrier shall be required to accept for transportation as baggage within this State under the provisions of Rule 3 any piece of baggage the greatest dimensions of which exceeds seventytwo 72 inches Provided that this rule shall not apply to immigrant baggage checked at port of landing whips in flexible cases and public entertainment paraphernalia
No common carrier shall be required to accept for transportation as baggage within this State under the provisions of Rule 3 any trunk or other rigid container having more than two bulging sides or with two bulging sides not opposite to each other
No common carrier shall be required to accept for transportation as baggage within this State under the provisions of Rule 3 whips in flexible cases which exceed ninety 90 inches in length or twelve 12 inches in diameter at the base or one hundred 100 pounds in weight
Subject to the provisions of Rule 3 any common carrier within this State may charge for any piece of baggage except immigrant baggage checked at port of landing whips in flexible cases and public entertainment paraphernalia any dimension of which exceeds fortyfive 45 inches an additional sum for each additional inch equal to the charge for five 5 pounds of excess weight gable or dome shaped ends or similar protuberances to be included in the measurements
RULE 4 Must re
All railroad depot or terminal companies in this State shall receive at all ageanl
stations where they have agents all baggage proper for transportation pre sue claim
checks
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Storage
charges
Baggage must be checked 15 minutes before train leaves
Excursion rates exempted
Must sell tickets at depots
Comfortable cars and waitingrooms
Waitingrooms to be opened before arrival of trains
At nonjunction stations
sented by prospective passengers or their agents and issue on demand a claim check for the same and upon presentation by the holder of such claim check with transportation said company shall issue train checks
RULE 5
Where baggage received by companies as provided for by Rule 4 is not checked within twentyfour hours after being so received or where baggage is allowed to remain unclaimed at destination more than twentyfour hours after arrival of train transporting same such companies are authorized to charge twentyfive cents for storage of the same for each separate twentyfour hours or fraction thereof after the expiration of said twentyfour hoursSunday and legal holidays excepted
RULE 6
Railroad companies shall not be required to send any baggage on any train unless the baggage shall have been checked fifteen minutes before the departure of that train
RULE 7
Nothing in the rules of this Commission shall be construed as placing any restriction upon the privilege of railroad companies to make special rates for excursions or for any other special occasion
RULE 8
All of the various kinds of tickets that may be on sale at any and all other offices of a given railroad company in any given town or city shall likewise be kept on sale at the depot ticketoffice of such railroad company in such town or city at the same prices
RULE 9
All passenger waiting rooms and passengercars in use by railroads in this State shall be kept supplied with drinkingwater and shall be so lighted heated ventilated and equipped as to render the occupants of the same reasonably comfortable the circumstances of each case being considered
All passenger waitingrooms at junction points and passengercars in use by railroads in this State shall be kept supplied with suitable sanitary or sterilized drinkingcups which shall be placed or kept so as to be at all times easily accessible to passengers and may be supplied from a dispensing or vending machine and for each a charge of not exceeding one cent may be made by the railroad company Whose duty it is made to supply the same
RULE 10
At junction points railroad companies shall be required to open their depot waitingrooms for the accommodation of the traveling public at least thirty minutes before the schedule time for the arrival of all passengertrains
At local or nonjunction points all such waitingrooms shall likewise be opened provided that the same shall not be required to be opened nor kept open after ten oclock p m except for delayed trains due before that hour In which case such rooms shall be kept open until the actual arrival of such delayed trains
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RULE 11
Whenever any passengertrain on any railroad in this State shall be more than onehalf of one hour behind its schedule time it shall be the duty of said railroad to bulletin and to keep posted at each of its telegraph stations along its line between such delayed train and its destination notice of the time such train is behind its schedule time and the time of its arrival at such stations as nearly as can be approximated
RULE 12
Whenever there is by reason of accident or otherwise a break or obstruction on the line of any railroad company in this State that will probably delay any passengertrain on said railroad it shall be the duty of said railroad company to cause notice thereof to be bulletined at all stations at and between such passengertrain and the place so obstructed and said railroad company shall cause notice of such obstruction and the delay that will probably be caused thereby to be given to the passenger aboard such train before the same shall leave such stations
RULE 13
All passengertrains 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 waitingrooms 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
RULE 14
No person shall be permitted to board a train or enter a car in which passengers ride in this State with a loaded gun and all breechloading guns shall be unbreeched on boarding such train or entering such car
Conductors of railway trains are authorized to see to the enforcement of this rule and failure on the part of any passenger to comply with the terms hereof shall be cause for ejecting such passenger from the train
RULE 15
At all stations in this State where baggage trucks are provided all trunks and other personal baggage shall be unloaded from baggage cars onto said baggage trucks and baggage handled with all reasonable care the dropping of same from car doors platforms or trucks or other rough handling of baggage being expressly forbidden
Provided That the handling of baggage by hand from cars to depot platforms or other customary places of depositing baggage in such careful manner as will not damage same will be a compliance with this rule
Delayed trains must be bulletined
Notice to be given of obstructions
Convenient stopping of passenger trains
Guns on
passenger
trains
Careful handling of baggage
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FREIGHT RULES RULE 1
Continuous mileage rates when applicable Where in this State two or more connecting lines of railroad are operated by or under one mangement or company or where the majority of the stock of any railroad company is owned or controlled either directly or indirectly by a connecting railroad company the lines of such company shall within the meaning and intent of the rules of the Commission be considered as constituting but one and the same railroad and rates for the carriage of freight over such railroads or any portion thereof shall he computed upon a continuous mileage basis the same as upon the line of a single railroad company whether such railroads have separate boards of directors or not RULE 2
Freight to be promptly received Railroads shall promptly receive goods offered for shipment and shall when so required by the consignor issue duplicate receipts or bills of lading therefor Such hills of lading shall show separately and in detail the weight and freight
Bills of lading what they must show class of each kind of goods embraced in the shipment and the total rate per hundred pounds per ton or per carload as the case may be to be charged for transporting each class to the destination named in such bill of lading
Prompt delivery of freight to consignees When such bill of lading is presented at destination to the agent of the railroad that is to deliver such freight to the consignee it shall be the duty of the railroad to deliver said goods either to the consignee or his order upon
Expense bills what they must show payment of the freight and other charges lawfully due thereon The expense bill then issued to such consignee by such railroad shall show separately the weight the rate and the total charge upon the goods embraced in each separate class of freight composing the shipment RULE 3
Prompt interchange of freight All connecting railroads in Georgia shall promptly receive from and deliver to each other all freight intended to pass over their respective lines or parts thereof in order to reach its destination and no railroad shall prevent delay or obstruct either by act of omission or commission the prompt interchange of such freight to the end that the transportation and delivery thereof to the consignee may be accomplished with the greatest practicable dispatch RULE 4
Actual weights to govern Unless otherwise specially provided by the rules or classification of the Commission every railroad shall assess its charges for transporting a shipment of any class upon the actual weight thereof and at the lowest rate of freight
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actually In force upon said railroad on goods of the same class whether such rate be prescribed by the Commission or otherwise
Twentyfive cents may be collected however as a minimum charge for transporting any shipment however small subject to Freight Rule Number twentyseven
RULE 5
Any railroad or any line of connecting railroads may reduce any rate for the transportation of freight between any points on their lines that may be less than twenty or more than two hundred and fifty miles apart without making corresponding reductions for distances over twenty and less than two hundred and fifty miles
Provided That where such a reduction is made in a rate for the carriage of freight between any two points more than two hundred and fifty miles apart by any railroad or connecting lines of railroads a similar reduction shall be made for the carriage of similar freights between all other points on said railroads that may be more than two hundred and fifty miles apart to the end that no unjust discrimination may be made against any point or points on said railroads under substantially similar circumstances and conditions
RULE 6
Unless otherwise provided by the Commission all freight charges shall be assessed upon the actual weight of the goods transported when such actual weight can be ascertained
In the case of carload shipments such actual weights shall be ascertained by a sworn weigher who shall balance the scales immediately before weighing each car and shall see to it that the car to be weighed is free from all bearing of any other car or cars except where the articles of freight being shipped are loaded on two or more cars lapped
Such sworn weigher shall keep a complete record of such weights and shall attach to the bill of lading issued for such shipment by the railroad company a certificate according to the following form
WEIGHERS CERTIFICATE
Ij sworn weigher for the
at do certify on oath that I this
day ofweighed car numberof the
Railroad loaded withand that the gross weight of said car was
pounds that the marked weight of said car waspounds that said car
while being weighed was disconnected except where articles lapped and that It was free from all bearing of other car or cars that the scales so used were
Minimum
freight
charge
Rates for over 250 miles and under 20 miles
No unjust discrimination to be made
Actual weights to apply
Actual weights how ascertained
Sworn weigher duties of
Certificate f weight
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Uve stock weights
balanced immediately before weighing said car and that to the best of my knowledge the abovementioned weights are correct
Signed
Weigher forRailroad
At
Estimated Weights
RULE 7
Where in the Commissions Freight Classification estimated weights are provided for any given article such estimated weights shall apply in all cases
The following scale of estimated weights shall apply to carload shipments of live stock only in cases where actual weight can not be ascertained but said scale of estimated weights shall apply to and govern such shipments of less than carload lots regardless of what the actual weight may he
LIVE STOCK
One horse mule or horned animal except as specified below 2000 lbs
Two horses mules or horned animals except as specified below in same car and from same shipper to same consignee 3500 lbs
Each additional horse mule or horned animal except as specified below in same car and from same shipper to same consignee 1000 lbs
Stallions Jacks and Bulls each 3000 lbs
Mare and Foal together for both 2500lbs
Colts under one year old each 1000 lbs
Colts Donkeys or Ponies crated each actual weight but not
less than 1000 lbs
Cow and Calf together for both 2500lbs
Yearling cattle except bulls each 1000 lbs
Yearling bulls each i 2000 lbs
Calves under one year old not crated each 1000 lbs
Calves under one year old crated each actual weight but
not less than 175lbs
Calves over one year old crated each actual weight but
not less than 500 lbs
Sheep boxed or crated each actual weight but not less than 150 lbs Lambs boxed or crated each actual weight hut not less than 100 lbs Hogs boxed or crated each actual weight hut not less than 150 lbs Pigs boxed or crated each actual weight but not less than 100 lhs GoatsSame as Sheep
KidsSame as Lambs
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The maximum rates prescribed by the Commission for the transportation of live stock are based upon the following maximum valuation
Horses and Mules not over 12000 each
Horned Cattle not over 5000 each
Stallions Jacks and Bulls not over 15000 each
Fat Hogs and Fat Calves not over 1500 each
Lambs Stock Hogs Stock Calves not over 500 each
Where consignors offer their animals for shipment at valuations in excess of the valuation above given carriers may charge the following percentages of increase above the prescribed maximum rate of freight
Over 15000 and not over 40000 add 30 per cent
Over 40000 and not over 60000 add 50 per cent
Over 60000 and not over 80000 add 60 per cent
Over 80000 and not over 100000 add 100 per cent
Over 1000 subject to special rate by contract between the shipper and the carrier
A railroad shall not be required to accept live stock for transportation at the released or owners risk rate unless a contract to that effect be executed by and between such railroad and the shipper
Railroads shall not be required to accept for transportation a mixed shipment of different kinds of live stock other than at the risk of the shipper
If horses be not included in such a mixed shipment the rate for cattle shall apply
If horses be included in such a mixelQ shipment the rate for horses shall apply
Shippers may be required to feed water and care for live stock at their own expense
When the same is done by the carriers the actual expense of so doing may be collected upon the shipment
It shall be the duty of railroad companies without extra charge to transport one way only on the same train with any shipment of live stock an attendant or attendants as the shipper may designate not to exceed the following
For one to three cars inclusive one attendant
For four to seven cars inclusive two attendants
For eight cars or over three attendants
In cases where actual weights can not be ascertained as elsewhere prescribed by the Commission the following named articles shall be accepted for transportation according to the scale of estimated weights below given
LUMBER LIME ETC
White Pine and Poplar thoroughly seasoned per 1000 ft 3000lbs
White Pine and Poplar green per 1000 ft 4000 lbs
Yellow Pine Black Walnut Ash seasoned per 1000 ft 4000 lbs
Yellow Pine Black Walnut Ash green per 1000 ft 4500 lbs
Yellow Pine Boards 2 in and less seasoned and undressed
per 1000 ft 3500 lbs
Extra charge for high valuations
Live stock regulations
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Estimated weights Lumber canned goods etc
Fractions how disposed of
Yellow Pine Boards 2 in and less dressed and seasoned per
1000 ft a000 lbs
Oak Hickory Elm seasoned per 1000 ft 4000 lbs
Oak Hickory Elm green per 1000 ft 6000 lbs
Flooring and Ceiling matched and dressed 1 in per 1000 ft 2500 lbs
Beveled Weather Boards dressed per 1000 ft 1500 lbs
Hooppoles Staves and Heading dry car loaded to depth of
50 in24000 lbs
Hooppoles Staves and Heading green car loaded to depth of
43 in 24000 lbs
Shingles dry per 1000 450 lbs
Shingles green per 1000 500 lbs
Laths dry per 1000 475 lbs
Laths green per 1000 700 lbs
Tan Bark dry per cord 2000 lbs
Tan Bark green per cord 2600 lbs
Fence Posts and Rails and Telegraph Poles per cord 3500 lbs
Clay per cubic yard 3000 lbs
Cross Ties Green each 200 lbs
Cross Ties Dry each 150 lbs
Sand per cubic yard 3000lbs
Gravel per cubic yard 3200lbs
Stone undressed per cubic foot 160 lbs
Lime per bushel 80lbs
Coal per bushel 80 lbs
Coke per bushel 40 lbs
Portland Cement per barrel 400 lbs
Other Cements per barrel 300 lbs
CANNED GOODS
2Vi lbs 2 dozen cans per case 60 lbs
Fractions that occur in the net rate after adding or deducting any percentage
RULE 8
applicable to the Standard Tariff shall be disposed of as follows
If such rate applies to Class G or to any other class where fractions are shown by the Standard Tariff fractions of threefourths of a cent or over shall be
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computed as one cent and fractions less than threefourths but not less than onefourth of a cent shall be computed as half a cent Fractions of less than onefourth of a cent shall be dropped Example
Ex 1Standard Rate 65 25 per cent added 16
Ex
Total 81 from which deduct fraction leaving desired
rate of 8 cents
2Standard Rate 95 2hper cent added 19
Total 114 Substituting 5 for the fraction the desired
rate is 115 cents
Ex 3Standard Rate 8 20 per cent added 16
Ex
Total 96 Substituting 5 for the fraction the desired
rate is 95 cents
4Standard Rate 55
25 per cent added 13
Total 68 Adding a unit instead of a fraction the
desired rate is 7 cents
If such rate applies to Class No One or to any other class where the Standard Tariff does not show fractions of a cent fractions of a half cent or over shall be computed as one cent and fractions less than half a cent shall be dropped Example
Ex 1Standard Rate 17
20 per cent added 34
Total 204 Deducting the fraction the desired rate is
20 cents
Ex 2Standard Rate 18
20 per cent added 36
Total 216 Estimating the fraction as a unit the de
sired rate is 22 cents
RULE 9
Where in the Commissions Freight Classification in classifying any given article or class of freight specific provision is made for a certain percentage erincrelse above the Standard Tariff that percentage alone shall be applied to the Stand bow applied ard Tariff in computing rates regardless of any percentage allowed an individual railroad above the Standard Tariff in the general classification of railroads to the end that no railroad company may apply more than one percentage of increase to the Standard Tariff rates in any instance
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Percentage 6f decrease
How to apply percentages of increase
Articles not included in Classification
Equal facilities to all railroads
Discretionary reduction on these articles
Loading and unloading to be done by shipper
But on the contrary where the freight classification in classifying any given article or class of freight specifies a percentage of decrease below the Standard Tariff that decreased percentage alone shall be applied to the Standard Tariff and freight charges assessed on basis of the rate so reduced without regard to any percentage of increase that may be allowed an individual railroad on other articles in the same class as shown in the general classification of railroads
No railroad may charge more than the Standard Tariff rate on any article that in the freight classification is assigned to a certain class without percentage regardless of any percentage of increase that may be allowed upon other articles in said class
RULE 10
Rates for the transportation of any article that is not included in the Freight Classification of this Commission shall be assessed upon basis of rating carried in Southern Classification provided said last named Classification carries a specific ratng for such article and if not rates shall be assessed as if upon the article most analogous to it that is included in the Commissions Freight Classification
RULE 11
The several railroad companies of this State in the conduct of their intrastate business shall at all terminal and connecting points to any other railroad company whose tracks are of the same gauge afford under substantially similar circumstances equal facilities for the interchange of freight and upon like terms and conditions whether in carload lots or less without discrimination in favor of or against any and wherever special facilities are afforded to one such railroad company in the interchange and delivery of freight either to consignees or to connecting lines whether upon a special rate authorized by this Commission or otherwise such company shall be bound to afford to all other connecting lines under like and substantially similar circumstances like facilities upon like terms and rates
RULE 12
Railroad Companies may at their discretion reduce rates on Ores Sand Clay Stone Brick Bone Lumber Shingles Laths iStaves Empty Barrels Wood Syrup Sugarcane Straw Shucks Hay Fodder Corn in ear Tambark Turpentine Rosin Tar and Household Goods below the maximum rates prescribed by the Commission provided that in so doing no unjust discrimination be made against any place or person
RULE 13
It shall be the duty of consignors and consignees to load and unload shipments of naval stores in carload lots and any goods in classes L M N O and P and whenever railroad companies are required to do such loading or unloading the actual cost thereof may be collected upon such shipment
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RULE 14
In no case shall the amount collected for transporting a less than carload shipment exceed what the amount would be for transporting a minimum carload of goods of the same class over the same railroad between the same points
In no case shall the charge per hundred pounds for transporting a carload shipment exceed the actually current rate per hundred pounds on goods of the same class over the same railroad between the same points when shipped in lots less than a carload
RULE 15
Freight that is forwarded from any points other than a regular agency station except as otherwise provided in Rules 23 and 23A may be billed and freight charges may be assessed thereon as if shipped from the first agency station in the opposite direction or next further removed from the point of destination and likewise freight forwarded to such a point may be billed and freight charges may be assessed thereon as if shipped to the first agency station beyond the point of actual destination
Provided however that in no case shall any rate be thus made higher than it would be were the mileage rate applied to the distance such shipment is actually transported
RULE 16
For each necessary handling of any extra heavy article either in loading the same on or in unloading the same from cars railroads may collect as a maximum compensation for such service as follows
Under 2000 pounds no extra charge for handling
For 2000 pounds and under 3000 pounds 3 00
For 3000 4000 pounds 5 00
For 4000 5000 pounds 700
For 5000 6000 pounds 800
For 6000 7000 pounds IQ 00
For 7000 and over in proportion Provided That this rule shall not apply to the loading or unloading of portable engines and other machinery on wheels shipped on flat cars
When any article is too long too bulky or too heavy to be carried by ordinary cars its transportation shall be a matter of special contract between the carrier and the shipper
RULE 17
Railroads may charge for transporting freight on regular passengertrains one and onehalf times the regular freight rate for the carriage of the same shipment by freight train between the same points
L C L rate not to exceed C L
G L rate per 100 lbs must not exceed L C L
Flag stations shipments from and to
Excessively higher rate prohibited
Extra heavy articles charges for handling
Special contract if car insufficient
Passenger trains rates of freight on
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RULE 18
Distances regulations concerning Where short of 100 miles the actual distance that a shipment may be carried is not shown by Standard Freight Tariff charges may be collected as for the distance that is shown by said Standard Tariff most nearly approximating the actual distance For example If actual distance be 48 miles the 50mile rate will apply for 47 miles the 45mile rate will apply
Over 100 miles For distances over 100 miles where the actual distance is not shown by the Standard Tariff the next greater distance shown shall govern For example If the actual distance be 101 miles the rate for 110 miles may apply Provided however that in all cases where fractional miles are shown the unit mile is to be arrived at in the following manner For distance of onehalf mile and over the next unit mile above for distances less than onehalf mile the unit mile below RULE 19
Ton Definition of A ton as intended by all of the regulations of the Commission is 2000 pounds unless otherwise specified
Minimum carload Unless otherwise specified in the Freight Classification of the Commission a minimum carload is ten tons Where the weight of a shipment of any class of freight exceeds the specified carload weight for such freight charges for the transportation thereof shall
Carloads in excess of minimum weight Carload shipment definition of be based upon the carload rate per hundred pounds applied to the actual weight of the shipment without reference to the number of cars required in transportation A carload shipment shall be a consignment of at least the specified minimum carload weight of one class of freight at one time by one consignor from one point of consignment to one consignee at one point of delivery RULE 20
Lapped lumber etc Where owing to the length size or other peculiarity of articles composing a shipment such as lapped lumber more than one car is required for the transportation thereof freight charges may be assessed as if upon the prescribed minimum carload weight of such freight multiplied by the number of cars so employed regardless of how much less the actual weight of such shipment may be RULE 21
Telegraph material distribution of on right of way Where pursuant to any rules or orders of the Commission or otherwise it shall become the duty of a railroad company or where such company shall voluntarily undertake to transport poles wire anji other materials for the construction maintenance operation or repair of telegraph or telephone lines and to distribute such materials along or upon its right of way between stations in this State as desired by the consignor the following regulations shall govern
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All such freights shall be hilled at current tariff rates from the point of shipment to the first regular station next beyond the last intermediate place where any of such material is to be unloaded The consignor shall furnish all labor necessary to effect such distribution For the extra service and hazard of stopping cars and engines between stations as above indicated the railroad company may charge and collect ten dollars per car in addition to the current tariff rates it being understood that no regulation of this Commission shall require such distribution service to be performed except for telephone or telegraph companies duly chartered according to law
RULE 22
A railroad company whose line of road does not exceed ten miles in length may assess and collect freight charges on any shipment transported by it between any points on its line as if said shipment were carried ten miles
RULE 23
A charge of no more than two dollars per car without regard to its weight or contents will be allowed for switching or transferring a loaded car from any point on any railroad to any connecting railroad or to any warehouse side track or other customary point of delivery that may be designated by the consignor within a distance of three miles from the point of starting When in the transfer or switching of a car between such points it is necessary to pass over the track or tracks of any intermediate railroad or railroads said maximum charge of two dollars shall be equitably divided between the railroads at interest
When a charge is made for the transfer or switching of a loaded car between such points no additional charge shall be made for the accompanying movement of the empty car in the opposite direction
A Switching or Transfer service as referred to in this rule means the switching of a loaded car preceding or following a transportation service for which legal freight charges are to be or have already been earned
RULE 23A
The following charges per car without regard to its weight or contents will be allowed for the transportation of loaded cars in INTRATERMINAL service within the customary industrial switching limits towit
1 For a car loaded on the terminal of one carrier to be unloaded on the terminal of the same carrier 300
2 For a car loaded on the terminal of one carrier to be unloaded on the terminal of another carrier where only two carriers are interested 400 to be
divided as follows
Initial carrier T200
Delivering carrier 200
Ten mile minimum for short lines
Transfer or
Switching
charge
Joint
charges to be equitably divided
Empties returned free
Definition of term
switching
Charges for local Intra terminal service
Division of
joint
charges
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Use of property by another railroad not authorized
Depots hours for keeping open
Earlier or later delivery or receiving not prohibited
Shipping instructions must accompany goods
Preparation of goods for shipment
3 For a car loaded on the terminal of one carrier to be unloaded on the terminal of another carrier where three carriers are interested 500 to be divided
as follows
Initial carrier 200
Intermediate carrier r100
Delivering carrier 200
When a charge is made for the transportation of a loaded car between such points no additional charge shall be made for the accompanying movement of the empty car in the opposite direction
RULE 24
No regulation of the Commission shall be construed as requiring or authorizing the use of any property of one railroad company by another railroad coim pany for any purpose whatever without the consent of the owner of such property
RULE 25
At all of their agencies in Georgia cities and towns having less than 10000 inhabitants each according to the most recently published National census railroads shall receive all freight properly offered for transportation and shall make the usual deliveries of freight to consignees at all times on each day Sundays excepted between the hours of seven oclock a m and twelve oclock noon and between one oclock p m and six oclock p m from April the first to September the thirtieth inclusive and between the hours of seven oclock a m and twelve oclock noon and between one oclock p m and five oclock p m from October first to March thirtyfirst inclusive
In cities having 10000 inhabitants or over according to the most recently published National census said hours shall be from seven oclock a m to six oclock p m during the entire year with th exception of an intermission of one hour from twelve oclock noon to one oclock p m
Nothing in this rule contained shall be construed as preventing such delivery and receiving of freights by railroads earlier or later than the above mentioned hours if they so desire
RULE 26
All goods offered to a public carrier for transportation shall be accompanied by the necessary instructions for the immediate shipment thereof
No railroad company shall be required to accept for carriage any goods unless the same shall be of such character and in such condition and so prepared for shipment as to render the transportation thereof reasonably safe and practicable nor unless such goods or the packages containing the same shall legibly bear the name and address of the intended consignee
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If the contents of a package can not be readily inspected it shall be the duty of the consignor upon demand to furnish to the carrier a complete sworn list of such contents in default of which the carrier may refuse to accept such goods for transportation
RULE 27
No railroad shall charge more than its maximum legal rate less ten per centum for its service in carrying a joint shipment that is to say a shipment that in reaching its destination is carried by two or more different independent and separately operated railroads to which continuous mileage rates do not apply under the provisions of Freight Rule No One Fractions resulting from deductions as herein required shall be disposed of in accordance with Freight Rule No Eight
Provided That this rule shall not be construed as prohibiting the division of any joint rate by the railroads at interest among themselves in such proportions as may be agreed upon by them
RULE 28
When transported by a narrow gauge railroad fifteen thousand pounds shall be the minimum carload weight of any class of freight upon which the Commission has made a rate per carload instead of per ton or per hundred pounds regardless of what the prescribed carload weight of similar freight may be when carried by standard gauge railroads and the freight rate upon such a reduced carload weight shall be less in the same proportion
Where continuous mileage rates apply under the provisions of Freight Rule No 1 of the Commission to two lines of railroad one of the same being of narrow gauge and the other of standard gauge an extra charge of three dollars per carload regardless of the weight or contents thereof may be made for transferring a shipment of brick or lumber from one of said lines to the other in transit
RULE 29
Shipments of freight except articles classified firstclass or higher which are not delivered at destination may be returned between points within this State at onehalf the rate applying in the reverse direction provided that the full amount of freight charges in both directions shall have been paid or guaranteed by owners and provided further that such return is made within ninety days of arrival at destination Billing for the return shipment must show proper reference to the original billing
The foregoing shall not apply on Machinery Agricultural Implements or other articles returned for repairs Provided however that the above rule shall not operate to reduce the minimum charge on single shipments as per Rule No 4
Inspection facilities for
Joint rates
Narrow gange rail roads carloadweights
Transfer to and from narrow gauge railroads
Reduced rates on returned shipments
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Agricultural Implements and Machinery C L or L C L returned to manufacturers must be prepaid or waybill must be accompanied by an order from manufacturers for such return
Mixed
shipments
ReweighIng C L shipments
RULE 30
Unless otherwise specifically provided in the Classification any package containing articles of more than one class will be charged at the rate for the highest class articles contained therein
Wihen a number of different articles all of which are in the same class are shipped at one time by one consignor to one consignee and one destination in carloads such car or cars shall toe taken at the carload rate per 100 pounds and at the highest minimum carload weight established for either of the articles contained in car actual weight to be charged for if in excess of such carload minimum Provided however that when articles shipped as above are in class N O or P the lowest carload weight shall be used
If the articles are in different classes the highest carload rate and minimum weight provided for either of the articles in car shall be charged on all articles that make up the carload actual weight to be charged for if in excess of the specified minimum weight Except that where the actual weight of any one or more of the articles when taken separately or together equals the highest minimum carload weight provided for any one of said articles shipper shall have the option of paying the less than carload rate on such of the articles as he may desire and the highest carload rate as above on the other articles in car
Provided That in no case shall the total charge for any mixed carload of freight exceed the charge that would be arrived at by applying the less carload rate for each article at the actua1 weight thereof
RULE 31
Upon the request of a consignee or consignees of carload shipments for reweighing a car or cars providing such request is made within the free time prescribed by the Storage Rules of this Commission it shall be the duty of the delivering line within fortyeight hours after the receipt of such request provided such line has track scales at that point to have the same reweighed in the presence of consignee or his agent if it be so desired by a sworn weigher who shall furnish to the consignee a certificate showing the gross tare and net weights thereof If the net weight thus ascertained shall differ from the billed weight by more than one per cent of the latter subject to a minimum of five hundred pounds the billing shall be corrected to the reweight
Provided however that no railroad company shall be required to reweigh cars as herein provided for unless the consignee shall at the time of requesting reweight deposit with the agent of the delivering line the sum of two dollars which amount when the billed weight is corrected as hereinbefore provided for shall be refunded to consignee within twentyfour hours after corrected weights are ascertained
Free time for unloading cars which are reweighed as herein specified provided
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the billed weights thereof are corrected as set out in paragraph one shall begin at 700 oclock a m on the day following that upon which reweighing was done
For a violation by any railroad company in this State of the provisions of this rule or any of them such railroad company shall pay to the consignee so offended within thirty days after demand therefor is made by ithe consignee the sum of one dollar per day for each offense for each day that such violation continues
RULE 32
Railroad companies will not be required to accept for transportation cars loaded by shippers in excess of their marked capacity plus ten per cent and whenever a shipper at a flag station or other station where there are no track scales overloads a car as above charges for transportation may be assessed on basis of ten per cent above the current tariff rate
RULE 33
Whenever a shipper tenders to any railroad express or other transportation company a shipment for transportation between points within this State and gives such company routing instructions it shall be the duty of said company to receive such shipment and forward according to instructions given And if it be necessary in complying with such routing instructions for the shipment to pass over the lines of two or more companies it shall be the duty of the initial company to so deliver to its connection and each succeeding company shall do likewise as will cause compliance with routing instructions and the lowest rate applicable via such specified route shall be applied
Where shipments are tendered without routing instructions the company receiving same in the first instance shall forward said shipments with due regard to the interests of the shippers and by that reasonable and practicable route over which the lowest charge for transportation applies and any damage resulting to a shipper from a disregard of this obligation by any company shall be repaired by the company responsible for the misrouting making reparation to shipper to the extent of the difference between the necessary expense incurred in making delivery of shipment over the route by which same improperly moved and the necessary expense which would have been incurred had shipment been properly routed provided that any reparation made upon this account shall in no wise affect the right of shipper to any claim for actual damages sustained in excess of the difference in expense incurred in making delivery as herein provided
RULE 34
Railroad companies are required to make an allowance equal to the actual weight thereof subject to a maximum allowance of 1000 pounds for linings floorings strippings staking or dunnage placed in or on cars by shippers used for the protection of property in transit requiring their use provided that in no case shall less than the specified minimum carload weight be charged for on the property contained in or on the car subject to the provisions of Freight Rule No 19 provided further that shippers shall indicate on their shipping instructions the actual weight of the dunnage used and any weight in excess of one thousand pounds shall be charged for at the rate applicable to the shipment to protect which the linings floorings strippings staking or dunnage is used
Overloading cars by shippers
Routing
shipments
Penalty for failure to observe routing instructions
Allowance for dunnage
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Notice of arrival of goods to be given
Notice how served and information given
Free time
STORAGE RULES
RULE 1
The following rules shall govern the collection of all storage and demurrage charges in this State and for failure of either shipper or consignee or railroad company to comply with the terms of said rules the party at fault shall incur the penalties prescribed by the rule or rules violated Provided however that if compliance with the terms of any of said rules by a railroad company be made impracticable by some cause over which said company has no control the time during which compliance therewith is thus suspended shall be counted as free time As to any dispute growing out of this provision however the Commission shall be the sole judge
RULE 1A
Upon the arrival at destination of any and all freights the delivering line shall within twentyfour hours thereafter give to consignees thereof legal notice of such arrival and the giving of such legal notice as hereinafter defined shall be a condition precedent to the collection by railroad companies of any storage charges upon any shipment notice of arrival of which has not been thus served upon the consignee and no storage charges shall be assessed nor collected other than as authorized by these rules
For failure to give such legal notice of arrival the railroad company at fault shall within thirty days after demand in writing is made therefor pay to the consignee so offended the sum of one dollar per car per day on carload shipments and one cent per hundred pounds per day on less than carload shipments for each day during which the terms of this rule are not complied with
RULE 2
Legal notice as herein understood and intended may be either served by mail or personally and the leaving of notice at the consignees residence or usual place of doing business shall also be considered personal notice In case of carload shipments such notice must show the contents point of origin the initials and number or numbers of the car or cars containing the same and if the shipment has been transferred en route the initials and number or numbers of the car or cars in which originally shipped and from which transferred In case of less than carload shipments such notice must show the point of origin the character of the freight in question the weight and the amount of charges due thereon
If such notice be served personally upon the consignee the period of free time within which to receive such freight and to remove the same from the custody of the delivering railroad company shall begin at seven oclock a m on the day after such notice is served and shall continue during fortyeight hours exclusive of Sundays legal holidays and such hours on other days during the free period between seven oclock a m and seven oclock p m as the inclemency of the weather may render the removal of the freight in question from the custody of the carrier reasonably impracticable of which in case of dispute the Commission shall judge
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Provided however that on cars of coal containing 60000 pounds or more and loaded in cars the sides of which are three and onehalf feet or more highand which do not contain more than two dumps sixty hours free time shall be allowed as above
Where notice is served by mail the time allowed as free time shall be computed from seven oclock a m of the second day after such notice has been given
Provided That where such notice is alleged to have been served by mail and the consignee makes oath that neither he nor any of his agents nor employees has received the same then no storage charge shall be made until legal notice has been given as above specified
Where one consignee receives over the lines of one railroad company in one day four or more cars that take track delivery each of said cars in excess of three shall have seventyeight hours of free time
Where consignors ship goods to themselves or their order the above prescribed written notice duly mailed to the consignee at the point of delivery shall be taken and held to be suflicient legal notice whether such consignee actually receives the same or not
Where notice is given in substantial compliance with the foregoing requirements the consignee shall not thereafter have the right to call in question the accuracy nor sufficiency of such notice unless within twentyfour hours after receiving the same he shall serve upon the delivering carrier a full written statement of his objections to the insufficiency of such notice
RULE 3
Subject to these rules and regulations the maximum storage charges that may be lawfully assessed or collected by railroad companies in this State where freight is not removed from their custody within the free time by these rules prescribed shall be
On loaded cars one dollar per car per day or fraction of a day
On freight in carload lots unloaded and stored in depots or warehouses ten cents per ton of two thousand pounds per day or fraction of a day
On freight in less than carload lots stored in freight depots or warehouses one cent per hundred pounds per day or fraction of a day
Provided That in no case shall the amount so collected on a less than carload shipment be greater than the maximum charge on a carload of freight similarly stored for the same length of time
RULE 4
When a car destined for delivery at a particular point shall be brought within the customary switching limits of the delivering road at the point of destination designated in the bill of lading under which such shipment is carried and is placed at a point not more than three miles distant from the freight depot of such carrier the goods therein contained shall within the meaning of these rules be deemed to have arrived at destination in so far as to impose upon the consignee the duty of giving direction for the disposition and placing of the car upon receipt by him of legal notice of the arrival thereof
Notice by mail
Over four cars in me day
Order
notify
shipments
Substantial compliance
Amounts that may be charged
Arrival
definition
of
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Cara must be accessible for unloading
Rejected
shipments
Distant
con
signees
Detention of cars by shippers
RULE 5
A car taking track delivery must be and remain accessible to the consignee for the purpose of unloading the same during the prescribed free time
If during free time a car be removed or its unloading be otherwise obstructed or prevented by the delivering railroad company the consignee shall not be charged with the consequent delay
If the delivering railroad company removes a car after storage begins thereon such car shall upon demand of the consignee be promptly made accessible for the unloading thereof
RULE 6
Where a consignee shall give to the delivering carrier notice of his refusal to accept a shipment of freight properly tendered in pursuance of the bill of lading the delivering carrier shall give to the consignor legal notice of such refusal and if the consignor fails within three days thereafter to give direction for the disposition of such goods he shall thenceforth become liable to such carrier for the usual storage charges 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
And where a consignee of freight either in carloads or less than carloads shall fail or neglect to remove such freight within six days after the expiration of free time then the carrier shall through the agent at point of shipment so notify the shipper unless the consignee has signified his acceptance of the property Said notice may either be served personally or given by mail
No such notice to the consignor however shall be required of a carrier company where goods are shipped in less than carload lots unless such goods or the packages containing the same shall legibly bear the name and address of the consignor thereof
A consignee who has once refused to accept a consignment of goods shall not thereafter be entitled to receive the same except upon the payment of all charges for storage which would otherwise have accrued
RULE 7
A consignee whose place of business is located five miles or over from the depot to which his freight is billed shall not be subject to any storage charge thereon until a sufficient time shall elapse after legal notice of the arrival of such freight for such consignee to have removed the same from the custody of the delivering carrier by the exercise of reasonable diligence of which in case of dispute the Commission shall judge
RULE 8
Where loaded cars are detained at the point of consignment for want of proper shipping Instructions or by reasons of improper or excessive loading
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thereof by the shipper the railroad company may collect from such shipper one dollar per car for each day or fraction of a day that such car or cars may be so delayed
RULE 9
Railroad companies are required to furnish cars promptly upon request therefor When a shipper files with a railroad company written application for a car or cars stating therein the character of freight to be shipped and its destination such railroad company shall furnish same within four days Sundays and legal holidays excepted from seven oclock a m of the day following the receipt of such application
For a violation of this rule the railroad company at fault shall within thirty days after demand in writing is made therefor pay to the shipper so offended the sum of one dollar per car per day or fraction of a day after expiration of free time during which such violation continues
RULE 10
Whenever freight of any character proper for transportation whether in carload quantities or less is tendered to a railroad company at its customary place for receiving shipments and correct shipping instructions given such railroad company shall immediately receive the same and issue bills of lading therefor And when a shipment is thus received the same must be carried forward at a rate of not less than fifty miles per day of twentyfour hours computed from seven oclock a m of the day following the receipt of shipment
For failure to so receive or transport shipments as hereinbefore provided for the railroad company at fault shall within thirty days after demand in writing is made therefor pay to the shipper so offended or other party whose interest is affected thereby the sum of one dollar per car on carload shipments and one cent per hundred pounds subject to a minimum of five cents on less than carloadshipments for each day or fraction thereof that the terms of this rule are not complied with
The basis for any claim filed for a noncompliance with this rule shall be in cases where the shipper specifies the routing the actual route indicated by the shipper and in cases where no routing is specified by the shipper then the route usually used by the railroad companies at interest
Provided however That at divisional terminals or at other points where rehandling of a shipment or transferring same from one car to another is necessary in reaching its destination twentyfour hours shall be allowed at each point where such rehandling or transfer is necessary
RULE 11
Where in accordance with the rules of thisCommission a railroad company places a car or cars at a reasonably accessible point on its team tracks or on a private track designated by the shipper free time for the loading of such car
Railroads required to furnish cars when ordered
Railroads must receive and promptly transport freight
Loading
cars
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Railroads
must
promptly
deliver
freights at
destina
tion
Railroads required to deliver cars to connections for placing
or cars shall expire fortyeight hours from the time the same are so placed exclusive of Sundays legal holidays and such hours on other days during the free period between seven oclock a m and seven oclock p m when the inclemency of the weather may render the work of loading such cars reasonably impracticable of which in cases of dispute the Commission shall judge and thereafter a charge of no more than one dollar per car per day or fraction of a day may be assessed and collected by the railroad company until such car or cars have been tendered to the railroad company
If the shipper should fail for fortyeight hours after the expiration of free time to begin loading such car or cars the railroad company placing same may consider them released and may remove such car or cars and collect two dollars for each car covering demurrage then due for the two days and upon failure of the shipper to pay this assessment or other penalty for which he has become liable under these rules railroad companies will be excused from placing cars for future shipments until such assessment has been paid
RULE 12
Railroad companies are required to make prompt delivery of all freights upon the arrival thereof at destination For failure to deliver freights at its freight depot or to place loaded cars at an accessible point for unloading the same within fortyeight hours exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays computed from seven oclock A M the day after the arrival of same at destination over its line the railroad company at fault shall within thirty days after demand in writing is made therefor pay to the shipper or consignee of such goods one dollar per car per day on carload shipments and one cent per hundred pounds per day on less than carload shipments for each day or fraction thereof that such delivery is so delayed
RULE 13
If upon arrival at the destination of car the consignee named in the bill of lading should desire the same placed upon some sidetrack which is located on another line of road the railroad which brought the car to the destination named in the billing shall upon receipt of direction so to do as per Storage Rule No 4 and within twentyfour hours after the receipt of such notice deliver such car to the line upon which the designated sidetrack is located And if it be necessary in reaching the designated sidetrack to pass over the tracks of two or more railroads the initial line shall make delivery as above to its connection and each succeeding line shall do likewise that will cause the quickest and most feasible delivery to the designated track and in no case shall more than seventytwo hours be allowed in effecting such delivery
And the provisions of this Rule shall likewise apply to any car which is loaded on a sidetrack of one railroad to be transported to destination by some other line of road
For a violation of any provision of this Rule the railroad company at fault shall pay to the consignee or party whose interest is affected the sum of one dollar per car per day for each day or fraction of a day such violation continues

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RULE 14
Subject to the provisions of Freight Rule No 23 each railroad company in this State is required to accept from any connecting road of same gauge any and all cars proper for transportation that may be tendered it by such connecting line and shall within twentyfour hours exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays after tender is mqde place such car or cars at an accessible point for loading or unloading same on any sidetrack on its line that may be designated by order of the shipper or consignee at interest provided however that no railroad company shall be required to place on its general delivery tracks any car that reached destination or is intended to be forwarded over the line of another railroad
For a violation of any provision of this Rule the railroad company at fault shall pay to the party whose interest is affected the sum of one dollar per car per day for each day or fraction of a day such violation continues
Railroads required to accept cars from connecting lines for placing
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Depots etc to be established
No discontinuance of agencies without consent of Commission
Application for depots what they should show
Separate waitingrooms for white and colored
RULES GOVERNING THE ERECTION AND LOCATION OF RAILROAD EXPRESS AND TELEGRAPH DEPOTS STATIONS AGENCIES AND OFFICES
RULE 1
It shall be the duty of all railroad express and telegraph companies in this State to establish conduct and maintain such stations offices and agencies for the transaction of the usual and customary business with their patrons at all points on their lines in Georgia where the volume of such business offered shall reasonably justify or where the public service and convenience may reasonably require the same
RULE 2
Each and very depot station office and agency now maintained conducted or used in Georgia by any railroad express or telegraph company doing business in this State for the transaction of business with the public is hereby formally established and located at the point and on the premises where the same is now being so maintained and conducted No such depot station office or agency as aforesaid now established or that hereafter may be established pursuant to orders made by the Commission or voluntarily by such company or otherwise shall be closed removed suspended discontinued or abolished without authority granted by the Commission upon written application
RULE 3
All applications that may be made asking that the Commission will require the establishment of any railroad telegraph or express office station or agency or the construction or improvement of any depot building whether for freight or passengers or for both shall clearly and fully set forth in detail all of the reasons and grounds upon which such applications may be based and in so doing shall give as nearly as may be practicable the following information The population of the town city or other locality in question the number of stores schools churches factories etc in and adjacent thereto the actual and immediately prospective volume of business to be accommodated by the said improvement desired and all such further information as would enable the Commission understandingly to judge of the necessity for such improvement and intelligently to act upon such application
RULE 4
Each railroad company shall provide separate waitingrooms for white and
colored passengers in each and every passenger depot and in each and every
combination freight and passenger depot that may hereafter be built rebuilt
or remodeled by such company in this State whether done voluntarily by such
company or in compliance with orders made by the Commission or otherwise

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GENERAL ORDERS AND CIRCULARS
Office of the
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Atlanta August 24 1907
GENERAL ORDER No 1
Each railroad company doing business in this State is hereby required to file in the office of the Railroad Commission of Georgia during the month of October 1907 and as nearly the 15th of said month as is practicable a certified detailed statement of all transportation issued for the use of any passenger between points within the State of Georgia during the month of September 1907 for which transportation a rate or charge less than the regular authorized or published rate was paid
Said statement shall show in detail a list of all free transportation issued during said month to whom issued upon what account issued and between what stations
Also a list of all annual quarterly and other term passes used on its line of road during said month of September by whom used and the number of miles traveled by the holders of said term passes during said month
Provided That the terms of this order shall not apply to the issuance of transportation to bona fide employees of railroad companies except where such employees are also in the public service
It is further ordered that each railroad company as above shall cause to be filed regularly each month thereafter a similar report for the month immediately preceding that during which report is required furnished
By order of the Board
Geo F Montgomeby S G McLendon
Secretary Chairman
Office of the
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Atlanta September 3 1909
File No 7065
Resolved That General Order No 1 relating to reports of passes etc monthly by railroads be amended so as not to require reporting of trip passes issued to dependent members of families of railroad officers and employees where such officers or employees hold no public office All other transportation
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and free or reduced service shall be reported monthly as contemplated in the original order
The Commission will call for such special reports from time to time as it deems proper
By order of the Board
Campbell Wallace H W Hill
Secretary Chairman
Office of the
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Atlanta October 21 1909
File No 7065
Ordebed That the resolution passed by the Commission dated September 3rd 1909 amending General Order No 1 relating to reports of passes etc monthly by railroads be amended by striking the words trip passes in line three and inserting in lieu thereof the word transportation so that said resolution when amended will read as follows
Resolved That General Order No 1 relating to reports of passes etc monthly by railroads be amended so as not to require reporting of transportation issued to dependent members of families of railroad officers and employees where such officers or employees hold no public office etc
By order of the Board
Campbell Wallace H W Hill
Secretary Chairman
Office of the
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Atlanta October 25 1907
GENERAL ORDER No 2
The Railroad Commission of Georgia hereby adopts as its own regulations all passenger train service now being maintained in this State and as well all schedules of passenger trains of all railroad companies operating in Georgia and it is
Ordered That no railroad company operating in this State shall be allowed to discontinue any passenger train schedule or service now being maintained without the consent of the Railroad Commission
It is Further Ordered That no railroad company operating in this State shall be allowed to change any schedule of any of its passenger trains without giving notice by publication of the proposed change at least three days in advance of the effective date of said change in some newspaper having general circulation in the community or communities to be affected thereby
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Ordered Further That all railroad companies in this State in addition to posting at each of their respective depot or station agencies a printed copy of their schedules of all of their passenger trains to and from said station shall also continuously advertise in some newspaper of general circulation in the communities through which its trains operate time table or tables showing the schedules of its trains which serve each particular community provided said advertisements shall be paid for by said companies at a rate not to exceed the rate heretofore voluntarily paid for such advertisements by the railroads not on the transportation basis
By order of the Board
Geo F Montgomery S G McLendon
Secretary Chairman
Office of the
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Atlanta October 29 1907
GNRAL ORDER No 3
After the 31st day of December 1907 no railroad company or other common carrier subject to the jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission of Georgia shall be allowed to issue or honor any free ticket free pass or free intrastate transportation for passengers between any points in this State except upon the terms provided for interstate free transportation by the Act of Congress approved June 29 1906 known as the Hepburn Act
By order of the Board
Geo F Montgomery S G McLendon
Secretary Chairman
Office of the
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Atlanta October 29 1907
GENERAL ORDER No 4
After the 31st day of December 1907 it shall be unlawful for any railroad company express company or any other carrier of freight subject to the jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission of Georgia to transport from one point to another point in this State any article or articles or merchandise or freight of any kind free of charge except such articles or commodities as may be necessary and intended for its own use in the conduct of its business as a common carrier and except ore coal stone timber and the manufactured products thereof manufactured mined or produced by it on or from its own property
Provided however that for purely charitable purposes free transportation
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may be granted but when such is granted it must be promptly reported to this Commission
Provided further that reduced or free transportation of the goods or effects of its bona fide employees may be given by a common carrier
Provided further that the Commission will upon application and proper showing made authorize free or reduced transportation to fairs exhibitions or for other public purposes
By order of the Board
Geo F Montgomery S G McLendon
Secretary Chairman
GENERAL ORDER No 5
Office of the
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Atlanta October 29 1907
Ordered That within ten days from this date all terminal companies corporations or persons owning leasing or operating terminals under the jurisdiction of this Commission shall furnish this Commission with copies of their charters rates and rules and that on the 13th day of November 1907 a public hearing be had at which said companies and their patrons as well as the local authorities may be heard with a view to improving the service and if in any case a monopoly or exclusive right is claimed the grounds of such claim are directed to be presented and will be open to discussion by all concerned
Ordered Further That a copy hereof be mailed to each of said companies without delay
By order of the Board
Geo F Montgomery S G McLendon
Secretary Chairman
Office of the
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Atlanta November 4 1907
GENERAL ORDER No 6
The Railroad Commission of Georgia hereby adopts as its own regulations all rates rules and other regulations of each and every corporation company or person subject to the jurisdiction of this Commission owning leasing or operating any dock or docks wharf or wharves terminal or terminals or terminal station or stations and no such rates rules or other regulations shall be changed without the consent of the Railroad Commission of Georgia
By order of the Board
Geo F Montgomery w S G McLendon
Secretary Chairman
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Office of the
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Atlanta November 6 1907
GENERAL ORDER No 7
Ordebed That within twenty days from date all street railroad corporations companies or persons owning leasing or operating street railroads in this State and all telegraph corporations under the jurisdiction of this Commission shall furnish this Commission with copies of their charters rates and rules and that considering the same together with such other information as may then he at the disposal of the Commission the necessity of orderinga public hearing with a view to improving the service with the terms and conditions of such hearing will be considered and determined and due notice given to the companies concerned and their patrons and local authorities
By order of the Board
Geo F Montgomery S G McLendon
Secretary Chairman
Office of the
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Atlanta November 6 1907
GENERAL ORDER No 8
Ordered That within ten days from this date all dock and wharf corporations companies or persons owning leasing or operating the same under the jurisdiction of this Commission all cotton compress corporations or associations and persons or companies owning leasing or operating the same under the jurisdiction of this Commission and all gas and electric light and power companies corporations or persons owning leasing or operating public gas plants or electric light and power plants furnishing service to the public under the jurisdiction of this Commission shall furnish this Commission with copies of their charters rates and rules and that considering the same together with such other information as may then be at the disposal of the Commission the necessity of ordering a public hearing with a view to improving the service with the terms and conditions of such hearing will be considered and determined and due notice given to the companies concerned and their patrons and the local authorities
By order of the Board
Geo F Montgomery S G McLendon
Secretary Chairman
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Office of the
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Atlanta January 3 1908
GENERAL ORDER NO 9
It is hereby ordered by tbe Railroad Commission of Georgia that on or before the 15th day of February 1908 each and every railroad company telegraph and telephone company street railroad company public service corporation and every other company and corporation within the jurisdiction of this Commission shall file in the office of the Commission a complete list of its stockholders as of the date of January 1 1908 showing accurately and fully the name and address of each stockholder and the amount of stock held by each of them respectively in each of said companies and corporations
By order of the Board
Geo F Montgomery S G McLendon
Secretary Chairman
Office of the
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Atlanta January 8 1908
GENERAL ORDER No 10
Whereas it appears to this Commission that General Order No 3 forbidding free passes and free service as therein expressed has been from its date October 29 1907 generally construed and accepted as including telegraph and telephone companies but doubts having been expressed touching the same and Whereas all such doubts should be removed and the policy and operation of said order extended therefore it is now Ordered and declared that said General Order No 3 was intended to include and the same is now expressly so amended as to include and apply to telegraph and telephone companies and further that no electric light or gas company or power company no terminal company baggage or cab company no cotton compress company or other public service corporation company or person subject to the jurisdiction of this Commission shall be allowed to furnish their respective services or service free in this State
Provided that the Commission will upon application and proper showing made authorize free or reduced service for charitable and public purposes according to the facts and lawfulness of the same in each particular instance By order of the Board
Geo F Montgomery S G McLendon
Secretary Chairman
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Office of the
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Atlanta July 9 1908
GENERAL ORDER No 11
Whereas it appears that by concerted action of all the railroad companies concerned a formal notice has been promulgated for a general increase of freight rates effective August 1st next on Classes B C D and F amounting to 3 cents per 100 lbs on meats and 2 cents per 100 lbs on grain and 2 cents per 100 lbs on flour from Ohio and Mississippi River Crossings into Southeastern territory including the State of Georgia This increase is on the necessaries of life The burden and enhanced price will fall upon the consumer and
Whereas it is provided in the law as set forth in the Act of December 18 1890 as follows
It shall be the duty of the Railroal Commission of the State of
Georgia to investigate thoroughly all through freight rates from points out of Georgia to points in Georgia both those now fixed and those that may hereafter be fixed
And that whenever the Railroad Commission of Georgia finds that a through rate charged into or out of Georgia is in their opinion excessive or unreasonable or discriminating in its nature it shall be the duty of the Railroad Commission to call the attention of the railroad officials in Georgia to the fact and to urge upon them the propriety of changing such rate or rates
That whenever such rates are not changed according to the suggestion of the Railroad Commission it shall be the duty of the Commission to present the facts whenever it can legally be done to the Interstate Commerce Commission and appeal to it for relief
Now Therefore it is ordered That before this Commission at 10 a m on the 16th instant all railroad officials carriers and companies concerned show cause why said rates should not be adjudged excessive and unreasonable and at the same time not only the said railway companies by their appropriate representatives but also all shippers and persons concerned may be heard as touching their respective rights and interest in the subject And thereupon the Commission will determine as to whether the case is a proper one for appeal to the Interstate Commerce Commission or what other or further action should be taken by this Commission in the premises
It is Further Ordered That a copy of this action be furnished to all parties concerned and published through the proper channels
By order of the Board
Geo F Montgomery S G McLendon
Secretary Chairman
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Office of the
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Atlanta August 12 1909
GENERAL ORDER No 12
IN RE Marking L C L Shipments
Complaint having been made to this Commission that some of the railway companies in Georgia are refusing to accept less than carload shipments of brick sewer pipe and other such shipments unless the same are boxed or crated or unless each article composing the shipment is marked with name of consignee and destination it is
Ordered That so far as relates to shipments between points in Georgia said action of the railway companies is unreasonable and hot authorized by any rule of this Commission
Ordered Further That all railway companies in Georgia shall accept for transportation between points in this State all shipments of brick sewer pipe and other articles not specifically required to be packed by the classification of the Commissionthe transportation of which can reasonably be performed without same being boxed or cratedwhich may be offered for shipment without requiring the boxing or crating of same or that each article composing shipment be marked provided that some of the articles shall be properly marked or such other shipping instructions be given the carrier as will afford necessary information for the transportation and delivery thereof
By order of the Commission
Campbell Wallace Geo Hillyer
Secretary ViceChairman
Office of the
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Atlanta August 12 1909
GENERAL ORDER No 13
IN RE Capitalization Reports and Rules of All Companies Subject to the Jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission
Whereas on August 26 1907 the Commission adopted a resolution calling upon all corporations subject to its jurisdiction for reports as to stocks and bonds of said corporations outstanding and Whereas on November 6 1907 the Commission adopted General Order No 8 requiring all companies subject to its jurisdiction to file in this office copies of their rules and
Whereas it is desirable that a compilation of said capitalization reports and rules be made
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Ordered That the Rate Expert of the Commission be and he is hereby directed to systematize and make proper record of said reports and rules
Ordered Further That the Rate Expert of the Commission be and he is hereby authorized to require such information from all companies subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission as may be necessary in the compilation herein referred to
By order of the Commission
Campbell Wallace Geo Hillyer
Secretary ViceChairman
Office of the
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Atlanta December 23 1909
File No 9162
Circular No 314 is hereby amended by substituting therefor General Order No 14 which becomes effective this day as follows
GENERAL ORDER No 14
All rates now in effect or which may hereafter become effective which are not higher than the maximum rates prescribed by this Commission whether such rates are the result of voluntary action upon the part of any company corporation or person subject to the jurisdiction of this Commission or otherwise are hereby established as the rates of the Railroad Commission of Georgia and no such rates shall be discontinued nor raised without the consent of the Railroad Commission first being obtained but all such rates shall continue in force without hindrance the same as other rates prescribed by the Commission And any and all facilities privileges or service now in effect or practiced or hereafter made effective extended or practiced which give grant extend or allow patrons shippers or other persons transacting business with said companies corporations or other persons as much or more of the privileges facilities or service to which they are entitled by law or by any rule regulation or order of this Commission whether such privileges facilities or service are given granted extended or allowed as the result of voluntary action upon the part of such companies corporations or persons or otherwise are hereby established as the requirements of the Railroad Commission of Georgia and no such privileges facilities or service shall be discontinued without the consent of the Railroad Commission first being obtained but all such privileges facilities or service shall be given granted extended or allowed without hindrance the same as other requirements of this Commission provided that nothing herein contained shall operate as repealing in any way the provisions of Passenger Rule No 7
By order of the Board
Campbell Wallace H W Hill
Secretary Chairman
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Office of the
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Atlanta December 23 1909
File No 9163
GENERAL ORDER No 15
Whebeas the companies corporations and persons doing business in this State subject to the jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission are authorized under the rules of the Commission to reduce their rate or charges below the maximum rates or charges prescribed by the Commission and to make effective special rates upon approval of the Commission and
Whebeas said companies corporations and persons are from time to time changing their schedules of rates and charges as provided for by said rules and
Whebeas the flies of this office do not contain complete information as to all rates and charges published by said companies corporations and persons
Obdebed That each company corporation or person doing business in this State subject to the jurisdiction of this Commission shall on or before February 1 1910 file in this office a complete copy of each and every current tariff of rates or charges or other issue publishing any and all rates or rules and regulations relating thereto issued by or for them applying in Georgia
By order of the Board
Campbell Wallace H W Hill
Secretary Chairman
Office of the
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Atlanta February 1 1910
File No 9220
GENERAL ORDER No 16
Obdebed That on and after this date each railroad and street railroad in this State be required to notify this Commission immediately upon the happening thereof by wire or such other method as will furnish the speedies information of each derailment or collision on its line in which is injured whether passenger employee or other person stating the t m place and character of such accident and shall within 48 hours therer make a full report thereof in writing to the Commission containing a detailed account of the same the number and if possible the names of the person or persons injured or killed the cause of the accident if ascertained and sue other information as may be called for by the Commission
Obdebed Fubthee That on or before the tenth day of each month each of said railroad and street railroad companies shall file a written report of a
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accidents in which any person is injured occurring on their lines respectively during the preceding month on forms to be prescribed by the Commission
By order of the Board
Campbell Wallace H W Hill
Secretary Chairman
Office of the
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Atlanta January 26 1910
File No 9221
GENERAL ORDER No 17
Obdebed That beginning February 3rd next each Railroad in this State be required to report in writing to the Commission not later than Thursday of each week the arrival and departures whenever not on regular schedule time of all passenger trains at their respective termini or division termini or junction points where connections with other roads or branches are scheduled or made and if late how many minutes or hours and the cause thereof for and during the week ending Saturday Night 1200 oclock preceding
By order of the Board
Campbell Wallace H W Hill
Secretary Chairman
Office of the
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Atlanta March 24 1910
File No 9220
GENERAL ORDER No 18
General Order No 16 is hereby repealed and the following substituted in lieu thereof
Obdebed That beginning April 1 1910 each railroad and street railroad company in this State be required to notify this Commission as early as practicable after the happening thereof of each derailment or collision of any character occurring on its lines or in its yards within this State in which any person whether passenger employee or other person is injured or killed stating the time place and character of such accident and shall within fortyeight hours thereafter file a written report thereof on forms to be prescribed by this Commission
Obdebed Fubthee That on or before the 15th day of each month eaoh of said railroad and street railroad companies shall make a written report under oath through its proper officer of all accidents in which any person is injured occurring on its line or in its yards in the operation of engines cars or trains during the preceding month on forms to be prescribed by this Commission
By order of the Board
Campbell Wallace H W Hill
Secretary Chairman
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Office of the
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Atlanta August 11 1910
File 9221
GENERAL ORDER No 19
General Order No 17 dated January 26th 1910 is hereby amended so that the reports required to be made to the Commission under the terms of the said General Order shall beginning with the first report week in September 1910 be required only of the following named railway companies and for the stations shown opposite each company named as follows
Name of Road
Station to be Reported
A W P R R Co
A B A R R Co
A C L R R Co
Augusta Southern R R Co Brinson Ry
C of Ga Ry Co
C W C Ry Co
F O B R R Co Gainesville Midland Ry Georgia R R
Ga Fla Ry
G C P R R Co
G F A Ry Co
Georgia Northern Ry Co G S F Ry Co
G Sw G Ry
Gulf Line Ry
L N R R Co
M B Ry Co
M D S R R Co Seaboard Air Line Ry Co Southern Ry Co
Tallulah Falls Ry Co
V M W R R Co Wadley Southern Ry Co Western Atlantic R R
W T R R Co
Atlanta West Point
Atlanta Brunswick Fitzgerald Thomasville Albany Brunswick Savannah Valdosta Augusta Tennille
Savannah
Albany Athens Atlanta Macon Savannah Augusta
Fitzgerald
Athens
Athens Augusta Atlanta Macon
Augusta Valdosta
Collins Darien
Bainbridge Cuthbert
Albany Boston
Macon ValdostaAlbany
Bridgeboro Hawkinsville
Atlanta
Macon
Macon
Albany Atlanta Columbus Savannah Athens Atlanta Brunswick Columbus Macon Savannah
Cornelia
Valdosta
Collins Rockledge Wadley
Atlanta
Tennille
By order of the Commission Campbell Wallace
Secretary
H W Hill
Chairman
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Office of the
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORQIA
Atlanta October 7 1910
File 7333
GENERAL ORDER No 20
Whereas tbe Railroad Commission of Georgia by General Order No 3 adopted as applicable to free transportation between pointsin Georgia the terms governing interstate free transportation prescribed by the Act of Congress approved June 29th 1906 known as the Hepburn Act and
Whebeas on June 18th 1910 the Congress amended the above stated regulations governing interstate free transportation and
Whereas it is desirous so far as it is practicable so to do to maintain uniformity in regulations governing free transportation both State and interstate it is now
Ordered That the terms upon which free transportation can be used in Georgia be and the same are hereby extended in the same manner and to the same extent as provided for in the Act to Regulate Commerce as amended June 18th 1910
By order of the Board
Campbell Wallace H W Hill
Secretary Chairman
OFFICE OF THE RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Atlanta January 16 1913
File No 10830
GENERAL ORDER NO 21 IS HEREBY AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS GENERAL ORDER NO 21
No railroad company subject to the jurisdiction of this Commission shall accept for transportation or transport between points in this State shipments of explosives inflammable articles and acids except in accordince with the terms prescribed by the rules and regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commission governing the transportation of such articles
The free time allowed consignees within which to remove such shipments from the custody of a railroad company shall be 24 hours instead of 48 hours as provided for other classes of freight and when such shipments are not removed from the custody of a railroad company within the free time herein allowed the following storage charges will apply
Section AOn shipments of the more dangerous explosives i e Black Powder High Explosives Smokeless Powder for Small Arms Wet Fulminate of Mercury Blasting Caps Electric Blasting Caps Ammunition for Cannon with Explosive Projectiles Explosive Projectiles and Detonating Fuzes unloaded in or on railroad premises twentyfive 25 cents per 100 pounds Tyitli a minimum charge of twentyfive 25 cents
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On carload shipments placed on delivery tracks 5 per day in addition to the regular demurrage charges
Section BOn shipments of the less dangerous and relatively safe explosives i e Ammunition for Cannon with empty Projectiles Ammunition for Cannon with Sand Loaded Projectiles Ammunition for Cannon without Projectiles Smokeless Powder for Cannon Common Fireworks Special Fireworks SmallArms Ammunition Cannon Primers SmallArms Primers Percussion Fuzes and Time or Combination Fuzes or less than carload shipments of Dangerous Articles other than Explosives requiring Red Yellow Green or White I C C labels unloaded in or on railroad premises ten 10 cents per 100 pounds with a minimum charge of ten 10 cents
On carload shipments placed on delivery tracks 2 per day in addition to the regular demurrage charges
By order of the Commission
Campbell Wallace C M Candleb
On and after October 11912 each railroad company operating in Georgia shall keep conspicuously posted at each of its stations offices and agencies in Georgia the following notice
ATTENTION IS HEREBY DIRECTED TO THE FOLLOWING PASSENGER RULES OF THE RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
In order to avoid repetition it is only necessary to state that the Passenger rules provided in this General Order are the regular passenger rules of the Commission and will he found beginning on page 52 of this report
Rates on Stoves Stove Plates Stove Furniture and Hollowware Including the Necessary Pipe
Effective with this Circular rates on Stoves Stove Plates Stove Furniture and Hollowware including the Necessary Pipe between the points named below shall be made upon the following basis
Secretary
Chairman
Office of the
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Atlanta July 12 1912 File 10663
GENERAL ORDER No 22
NOTICE
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
J P Bbown Chairman
H Wabneb Hill
Jos M Bbown
Geo F Montgomeby Secretary
Atlanta Ga July 19 1905
CIRCULAR 309
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On less than carload shipments for distances less than 100 miles use 6th class plus one cent for distances in excess of 100 miles use 6th class less one cent
On carload shipments for distances less than 100 miles use seventyfive per cent of 6thi class plus one cent for distances in excess of 100 miles use seventyfive per cent of 6th class less one cent
BETWEEN
Atlanta Athens Augusta Brunswick Columbus Dalton Macon Rockmart
Rome Savannah
AND
Adel Empire Pidcock
Adrian Everett Pitts
Albany Fitzgerald Quitman
Americus Fort Gaines Rockmart
Arlington Fort Valley Rome
Athens Griffin Sandersville
Atlanta Harris Savannah
Augusta Hawkinsville Sparks
Bainbridge Haylow Statesboro
Bremen Helena Stillmore
Brunswick Jesup Swainsboro
Carters ville LaGrange Tennille
Cedartown Macon Thomaston
Collins Madison Thomas ville
Columbus Marietta Tifton
Cordele Meldrim Valdosta
Covington Milledgeville Vidalia
Culloden Millen Vienna
Cuyler Montezuma Washington
Dalton Moultrie Waycross
Dawson Newnan Wloodbury
Dublin Elberton Offerman Worth
To and from all local stations not named above the rates shall be made upon the lowest combination by the use of the rates herein published
This Circular shall become effective August 19 1905 and repeals everything in conflict
By order of the Board
Geo F Montgomery J P Brown
Secretary Chairman
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
H Warner Hill Chairman
Jos M Brown L Commissioners
O B Stevens J
Geo F Montgomery Secretary
Atlanta Ga January 20 1906 CIRCULAR No 315
Whereas on the eleventh day of May 1905 the Railroad Commission approved a schedule of rates submitted by the several lines of railway interested
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therein which rates were to apply between the various cities in Georgia usually referred to as common points with the provision that these rates would be applicable to the Southern Classification it is now
Ordered That in so far as the Southern Classification is applicable to these rates said Southern Classification is hereby formally adopted as the classification of the Railroad Commission in so far as the same is to be applied to the rates above referred to and no change in said classification which will affect the rates of freight as per the schedule of rates herein first referred to shall be allowed without the consent of this Commission first being obtained The Southern Classification herein referred to is Southern Classification No 34 without amendments said Classification No 34 being issued to take effect January 10 1906
This order shall become effective at once
By order of the Board
Geo F Montgomery H W Hill
Secretary Chairman
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CIRCULARS
The following circulars contain the amendments of the rates rules and other regulations published in the 40th Report of the Commission which amendments are carried forward in their proper places in this Report
RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Chas Murphey Candler Chairman Geo Hillyer ViceChairman
Joseph F Gray
Paul B Trammell
J A Perry
Campbell Wallace Secretary J P Webster Rate Expert
Commissioners
CIRCULAR NO 373
Atlanta Ga June 16 1913
Passenger Tariff of the Bowdon Railway Company
The Bowdon Railway Company is hereby transferred from Passenger Tariff Class D to Passenger Tariff Class E of the Commissioners Passenger Tariff Classification and is allowed to charge for the transportation of passengers no more than the rate prescribed by said Class E
Freight and Passenger Tariffs of the Elberton Eastern Railway Company
The Elberton Eastern Railway Company is hereby placed in Class D of the Commissioners Freight Tariff Classification of Railroads and Class E of the Commissioners Passenger Tariff Classification and said railway is allowed to charge for the transportation of freights and passengers no more than the rates prescribed by said classes respectively
Passenger Tariff of the Savannah Southern Railway Company
The Savannah Southern Railway Company is hereby transferred from Passenger Tariff Class D to Passenger Tariff Class E of the Commissioners Passenger Tariff Classification and is allowed to charge for the transportation of passengers no more than the rates prescribed by said Class E
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Passenger Tariff of the Waycross Western Railroad Company
The Waycross Western Railroad Company is hereby transferred from Passenger Tariff Class E of the Commissioners Passenger Tariff Classification to Special Group and said railroad is allowed to charge for the transportation of passengers no more than 5 cents per mile with a minimum charge of 25 cents
Classification
The following changes in and additions to the Commissioners Glassification of Freights are hereby adopted
CR OR CR OR
Change item reading to a minimum distance
Cars and Locomotives of 75 miles for each
viz line handling and gov
Cars standard gauge erned by mileage shown
on their own whteels in this report
viz Change items reading
Basis for calculation Iron Flues 4
of freight Mileage Tubing boiler L C L 6
rates between points Same C L of 6
governed by this Clas To read
sification will be com Iron and Steel Articles
puted upon the basis viz
of the shortest allrail Boiler flues or tubing
standard gauge mileage L C L 6
via available routes of Same C L of 6
transportation subject Change items now reading
to a minimum distance Soapstone crude C L
of 75 miles and gov min wt 25000 lbs
erned by mileage shown see Rule 12 P
in this report Soapstone packed 2 4
To read Talc 6
Cars and Locomotives Facings iron or coal in
bbls or sacks L C L 6
Cars standard gauge Facings iron or coal in
on their own wheels bbls or sacks C L A
viz To read
Basis for calculation Facings foundry apply
of freight Mileage Soapstone rates
rates between points Soapstone crude C L
governed by this Clas min Wt 25000 lbs P
sification will be com Soapstone in kegs bar
puted upon the basis rels casks or sacks
of the shortest allrail L C L 6
standard gauge mileage Same C L A
via available routes of Talc apply Soapstone
transportation subject rates
Express Rates over Gainesville Northwestern Railroad Company
The following Special Merchandise Tariff covering merchandise rates only is allowed Express Companies operating over the Gainesville Northwestern Railroad Company
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Miles Per 100
5 30c
10 35c
15 40c
20 45c
25 50c
30 55c
35 55c
40 60c
The following changes in and additions to the Commissioners Classification of Express are hereby adopted
Milk minimum charge 15c
See Milk Tariff
This Circular shall be in effect on and after July 1 1913 and repeals everything in conflict
By order of the Commission
Campbell Wallace C M Candleb
Secretary Chairman
CIRCULAR NO 374
Atlanta Ga August 1 1913
Freight Tariff of the Register Glennville Railway
The Register Glennville Railway is hereby transferred from Freight Tariff Class C to Freight Tariff Class D of the Commissioners Freight Tariff Classification and said railway is allowed to charge for the transportation of freight no more than the rates prescribed by said Class D
Freight Tariff of the Atlanta Stone Mountain Lithonia Railway Company Eliminate
Freight Tariff of the Georgia Granite Railroad Company Eliminate
FREIGHT RULES
Freight Rule No 34 is hereby amended to read as follows
Rule 34
Railroad companies are required to make an allowance equal to the actual weight thereof subject to a maximum allowance of 1000 pounds for linings
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floorings strippings staking or dunnage placed in or on cars by shippers used for the protection of property in transit requiring their use Provided that in no case shall less than the specified minimum carload weight be charged for on the property contained in or on the car subject to the provisions of Freight Rule No 19 Provided further that shippers shall indicate on their shipping instructions the actual weight of the dunnage used and any weight in excess of one thousand pounds shall be charged for at the rate applicable to the shipment to protect which th linings floorings strippings staking or dunnage is used
PASSENGER RULES
Rule 3
A minimum charge of 10 cents is hereby provided to apply in connection with Passenger Rule 3 prescribing excess baggage rates
The following is hereby adopted as Passenger Rule 3A
Rule 3A
No common carrier shall be required to accept for transportation as baggage within this State under the provisions of Rule 3 any piece of baggage the greatest dimensions of which exceeds seventytwo 72 inches Provided that this rule shall not apply to immigrant baggage checked at port of landing whips in flexible cases and public entertainment paraphernalia
No common carrier shall be required to accept for transportation as baggage within this State under the provisions of Rule 3 any trunk or other rigid container having more than two bulging sides or with two bulging sides not opposite to each bther
No common carrier shall be required to accept for transportation as baggage within this State under the provisions of Rule 3 whips in flexible cases which exceed ninety 90 inches in length or twelve 12 inches in diameter at the base or one hundred 100 pounds in weight
Subject to the provisions of Rule 3 any common carrier within this State may charge for any piece of baggage except immigrant baggage checked at port of landing whips in flexible cases and public entertainment paraphernalia any dimension of which exceeds fortyfive 45 inches an additional sum for each additional inch equal to the charge for five 5 pounds of excess weight gable or dome shaped ends or similar protuberances to be included in the measurements
Passenger Rule No 9 is hereby amended to read as follows
Rule 9
All passenger waiting rooms and passenger cars in use by railroads in this State shall be kept supplied with drinking water and suitable sanitary or sterilized drinking cups and shall be so lighted heated ventilated and equipped
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as to render the occupancy of the same reasonably comfortable the circumstances for each case being considered
The drinking cups provided for in this order shall be placed or kept so as to be at all times easily accessible to passengers and may be supplied from a dispensing or vending machine and for each a charge of not exceeding one cent may be made by the railroad company whose duty it is made to supply the same
Classification
The following changes in and additions to the Commissioners Classification of Freights are hereby adopted
CR OR
6

This Circular shall be in effect on and after Sept 1 1913 and repeals
everything in conflict
By order of the Commission
Campbell Wallace C M Candler
Secretary Chairman
CIRCULAR NO 375
Atlanta Ga August 26 1913
Passenger Rule No 9 published in Circular No 374 effective September 1 1913 is hereby repealed and the following rule effective October 1 1913 substituted in lieu thereof
Rule 9
All passenger waitingrooms and passengercars in use by railroads in this State shall be kept supplied with drinkingwater and shall be so lighted heated ventilated and equipped as to render the occupants of the same reasonably comfortable the circumstances of each case being considered
All passenger waitingrooms at junction points and passengercars in use by railroads in this State shall be kept supplied with suitable sanitary or sterilized drinkingcups which shall be placed or kept so as to be at all times easily accessible to passengers and may be supplied from a dispensing or vending machine and for each a charge of not exceeding one cent may be made by the railroad company whose duty it is made to supply the same
By order of the Commission
Campbell Wallace C M Candles jj
Secretary Chairman
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CIRCULAR NO 376
Atlanta Ga October 15 1913
Circular No 376 is hereby amended to read as follows
Table of Commodity Rates on Ground Powdered or Pulverized Limestone Whitestone or Marble C L Min Wt 60000 lbs Subject to Freight Rule No 27
Effective November 15 1913 the following rates on ground or pulverized Limestone or Marble are established as the maximum rates of the Railroad Commission of Georgia
Distance Rates Distance Rates
In cts per ton In cts per ton
Miles of 2000 lbs Miles of 2000 lbs
5 25 180 110
10 30 190 110
15 35 200 115
20 40 210 115
25 45 220 120
30 50 230 120
35 55 240 125
40 60 250 125
45 60 260 130
50 65 270 135
60 70 280 140
70 75 290 145
80 80 300 150
90 85 310 155
100 85 320 160
HO 90 330 165
120 95 340 170
130 100 350 175
140 100 360 180
150 100 370 185
160 105 380 190
170 105 390 195
400 200
This Circular shall be in effect on and after November 15 1913 and repeals everything in conflict
By order of the Commission
Campbell Wallace C M Candler
Secretary Chairman

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CIRCULAR NO 377
Atlanta Ga October 15 1913
Freight Rules
The first paragraph of the Commissions Storage Rule No 2 is hereby amended to read as follows
Legal notice as herein understood and intended may be either served by mail or personally and the leaving of notice at the consignees residence or usual place of doing business shall also be considered personal notice In case of carload shipments such notice must show the contents point of origin the initials and number or numbers of the car or cars containing the same and if the shipment has been transferred en route the initials and number or numbers of the car or cars in which originally shipped and from which transferred In case of less than carload shipments such notice must show the point of origin the character of the freight in question the weight and the amount of charges due thereon
Classification
The following changes in and additions to the Commissioners Classifica
tion of Freights are hereby adopted
CR ORJ CR OR
Change item now reading been used for fertilizers or
Limestone ground other articles containing
same as Lime acids must not be used
To read Peas N 0 S in bags
Limestone ground barrels or boxes 5
same as Lime For Change item now reading
special rates on C L Soap common in boxes 6 R
shipmentsSee circu To read
lar 376 Soap in boxes or bar
Change items now reading rels 6 R
Peas in boxes 2 Change item now reading
Peas in bags or barrels Stoves Stove Plates
same as Grain Furniture and Hollow
To read ware including the
Peas Cow in bags bar necessary pipe L C
rels or boxes See L 1
Note D Same C L 3
Note Bags must be To read
made of burlap not less Stoves Stove Plates
than 10 ounces per yard Furniture and Hollow
or cloth and be sufficiently ware including the
strong and so closely woven necessary pipe L C
and stitched as to carry L 1 3
contents safely and prevent Same C L 3 5
sifting Bags which have
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Express Rates over Elberton Eastern Railway
The following Special Merchandise Tariff covering merchandise rates only is allowed Express Companies operating over the Elberton Eastern Railway
The following changes in and additions to the Commissioners Classification of Express are hereby adopted
Change item now reading
Dogs in boxes at actual weight or securely chained at 100 lbs
This Circular shall be in effect on and after November 15 1913 and repeals everything in conflict
By order of th Commission
This case being at issue upon complaint and answers on file and having been duly heard and submitted by the parties and full investigation of the matters and things involved having been had and the Commission being of the opinion from the whole record that the present rate adjustment between certain common points in Georgia and Pelham Georgia is unjustly and unlawfully discriminatory against Pelham and unduly preferential to Thomasville and Albany it is
Ordebed That the Central of Georgia Railway Company the Atlanta Birmingham Atlantic Railroad Company the Southern Railway Company the Seaboard Air Line Railway and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company be and they are hereby notified and required on or before January 1st 1914 to cease and desist from charging and collecting class and commodity rates
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Campbell Wallace
Secretary
C M Candler
Chairman
CIRCULAR NO 378
Atlanta Ga October 15 1913
Freight Rates to and From Pelham Ga
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on shipments moving between Pelham Georgia and Atlanta Athens Augusta Columbus Rome Dalton Macon and Milledgeville in excess of the class and commodity rates simultaneously in effect on like traffic between said points and Thomasville between Brunswick and Savannah and Pelham no higher than the following differentials over the class rates simultaneously in effect between said Ports and Albany Ga shall be charged
1 2 3 4 5 6 A B C D E F
3 3 3 2 2 l r r l 1 2 2
Commodity rates between Savannah and Brunswick and Pelham to be published on basis of class rate differentials over Albany Ga
This order shall be made effective on the date above shown January 1 1914 and repeals everything in conflict
By order of the Commission
Campbell Wallace C M Candleb
Secretary Chairman
CIRCULAR No 379
Atlanta Ga October 15 1913
Freight Rates to and From Camilla Ga
This case being at issue upon complaint and answers on file and having been duly heard and submitted by the parties and full investigation of the matters and things involvedTiaving been had and the Commission being of the opinion from the whole record that the present rate adjustment between certain common points in Georgia and Camilla Georgia is unjustly and unlawfully discriminatory against Camilla and unduly preferential to Thomasville and Albany it is
Obdebed That the Central of Georgia Railway Company the Atlanta Birmingham Atlantic Railroad Company the Southern Railway Company the Seaboard Air Line Railway and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company be and they are hereby notified and required on or before January 1st 1914 to cease and desist from charging and collecting class and commodity rates on shipments moving between Camilla Georgia and Atlanta Athens Augusta Columbus Rome Dalton Macon and Milledgeville in excess of the class and commodity rates simultaneously in effect on like traffic between said points and Thomasville between Brunswick and Savannah and Camilla no higher than the following differentials over the class rates simultaneously in effect between said Ports and Albany Ga shall be charged
12 3 4 5 6 A B C D E F
3 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 2
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Commodity rates between Savannah and Brunswick and Camilla to be published on basis of class rate differentials over Albany Ga
This order shall be made effective on the date above shown January 1 1914 and repeals everything in conflict
By order of the Commission
Campbell Wallace C M Candler
Secretary Chairman
CIRCULAR No 380
Atlanta Ga October 15 1913
Freight Rates to and From Cuthbert Ga
This case being at issue upon complaint and answers on file and having been duly heard and submitted by the parties and full investigation of the matters and things involved having been had and the Commission being of the opinion from the whole record that the present rate adjustment between certain common points in Georgia and Cuthbert Georgia is unjustly and unlawfully discriminatory against Cuthbert and unduly preferential to Dawson Ga it is
Ordered That the Central of Georgia Railway the Atlanta Birmingham Atlantic Railroad Company the Georgia Railroad the Southern Railway Company the Seaboard Air Line Railway and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company be and they are hereby notified and required on or before January 1st 1914 to cease and desist from charging and collecting class and commodity rates on shipments moving between Cuthbert and Atlanta Athens Augusta Rome Dalton Brunswick and Savannah Ga in excess of the following differentials over the class rates simultaneously in effect between said common points and Dawson Ga
1 2 3 4 5 6 A B C D E F
5 5 4 iT 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 3
Commodity rates between said common points and Cuthbert to be on basis of class rate differential above prescribed over Dawson Georgia
This order shall be made effective on the date above shown January 1 1914 and repeals everything in conflict
By order of the Commission
Campbell Wallace C M Candler
Secretary Chairman
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CIRCULAR No 381
Atlanta Ga January 12 1914
FREIGHT RULES
Freight Rule No 23 is hereby amended to read as follows
A charge of no more than two dollars 200 per car without regard to its weight or contents will be allowed for switching or transferring a loaded car from any point on any railroad to any connecting railroad or to any warehouse side track or other customary point of delivery that may be designated by the consignor except to or from team tracks within a distance of three miles from the point of starting When in the transfer or switching of a car between such points it is necessary to pass over the track or tracks of any intermediate railroad or railroads said maximum charge of two dollars shall be equitably divided between the railroads at interest
In addition to the switching charge above provided an additional charge of two dollars per car will be allowed on each loaded car for public team track origin or delivery when destined for or received from a connecting carrier
When a charge is made for the transfer or switching of a loaded car between such points no additional charge shall be made for the accompanying movement of the empty car in the opposite direction
A Switching or Transfer service as referred to in this rule means the switching of a loaded car preceding or following a transportation service for which legal freight charges are to be or have already been earned
Freight Rule No 23A Is hereby amended to read as follows
The following charges per car without regard to its weight or contents will be allowed for the transportation of loaded cars in intraterminal service except to and from team tracks of connecting carriers within the customary industrial switching limits to wit
1 For a car loaded on the terminal including team tracks to be unloaded on the terminal of the same carrier three dollars 300
2 For a car loaded on the terminal of one carrier to be unloaded on the terminal of another carrier where only two carriers are interested four dollars 400 to be divided as follows
Initial Carrier 200
Delivering Carrier 200
3 For a car loaded on the terminal of one carrier to be unloaded on the terminal of another carrier where three carriers are interested five dollars 500 to be divided as follows
Initial Carrier 200
Intermediate Carrier 100 1
Delivering Carrier 200
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When loaded cars are for delivery or originate on team tracks of connecting carriers an additional charge of 200 per car will be allowed the carrier performing the service to or from its team track
When a charge is made for the transportation of a loaded car between such points no additional charge shall be made for the accompanying movement of the empty car in the opposite direction
STORAGE RULES
Storage Rule No 14 is hereby amended to read as follows
Subject to the provisions of Freight Rules Nos 23 and 23A each railroad company in this State is required to accept from any connecting road of same gauge any and all cars proper for transportation that may he tendered it by such connecting line and shall within twentyfour hours exclusive of Sundays and Legal Holidays after tender is made place such car or cars at an accessible point for loading or unloading same on any side track or team track on its line that may be designated by order of the shipper or consignee at interest
For a violation of any provision of this Rule the railroad company at fault shall within thirty days after demand in writing is made therefor pay to the party whose interest is affected the sum of one dollar per car per day for each day or fraction of a day such violation continues
This circular shall be in effect on and after March 1 1914 and repeals everything in conflict
By order of the Commission
Campbell Wallace C M Candles
Secretary Chairman
CIRCULAR No 382
Atlanta Ga January 12 1914
Freight Rates to and From Douglas Ga
This case being at issue upon complaint and answers on file and having been duly heard and submitted by the parties and full investigation of the matters and things involved having been had and the Commission being of the opinion from the whole record that the present rate adjustment between certain common points in Georgia and Douglas Ga is unjustly and unlawfully discriminatory against Douglas and unduly preferential to Waycross it is Ordered That the Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad Company Georgia Florida Railway Georgia Southern Florida Railway Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company Southern Railway Company Seaboard Air Line
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Railway and Central of Georgia Railway Company be and they are hereby notified and required on or before March 1 1914 to cease and desist from charging and collecting class and commodity rates on shipments moving between Douglas Ga and Atlanta Macon Rome Dalton Athens and Columbus Ga in excess of the class and commodity rates simultaneously in effect on like traffic between said Atlanta Macon Rome Dalton Athens and Columbus Ga and Waycross Ga
This circular shall be in effect on and after March 1 1914 and repeals everything in conflict
By order of the Commission
Campbell allace C M Candler
Secretary Chairman
CIRCULAR No 383
Atlanta Ga January 12 1914
General Rules
General Rule No 6 of the Railroad Commission of Georgia is hereby amended to read as follows
If between any two points in Georgia there are two or more routes whether composed of the lines of one or more companies the rate for any service via any of such routes between such points may be reduced to correspond with the lowest rate for similar service in effect between the said points without making reductions at intermediate points
Provided that where such a reduction is made in the rate for the carriage of freight between any two points by any railroad or connecting line of railroad a relative reduction shall be made to all intermediate points where conditions and circumstances are substantially similar
Any rate to or from any Georgia point may be so reduced as to place such Georgia point on an equality with any competitive point in another State without making any reduction in rates to or from other stations not similarly situated with respect to such competitive rates
Storage Rules
Storage Rule No 1A of the Railroad Commission of Georgia is hereby amended to read as follows
Upon the arrival at destination of any and all freights the delivering line shall within twentyfour hours thereafter give to consignees thereof legal notice of such arrival and the giving of such legal notice as hereinafter defined shall be a condition precedent to the collection by railroad companies of any storage charges upon any shipment notice of arrival of which has not been thus served
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upon the consignee and no storage charges shall be assessed nor collected other than as authorized by these rules
For failure to give such legal notice of arrival the railroad company at fault shall within thirty days after demand in writing is made therefor pay to the consignee so offended the sum of one dollar per car per day on carload shipments and one cent per hundred pounds per day on less than carload shipments for each day during which the terms of this rule are not complied with
Storage Rule No 12 of the Railroad Commission of Georgia is hereby amended to read as follows
Railroad companies are required to make prompt delivery of all freights upon the arrival thereof at destination For failure to deliver freights at its freight depot or to place loaded cars at an accessible point for unloading the same within fortyeight hours exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays computed from seven oclock A M the day after the arrival of same at destination over its line the railroad company at fault shall within thirty days after demand in writing is made therefor pay to the shipper or consignee of such goods one dollar per car per day on carload shipments and one cent per hundred pounds per day on less than carload shipments for each day or fraction thereof that such delivery is so delayed
Storage Rule No 13 of the Railroad Commission of Georgia is hereby amended to read as follows
If upon arrival at the destination of car the consignee named in the bill of lading should desire the same placed upon some side track which is located on another line of road the railroad which brought the car to the destination named in the billing shall upon receipt of direction so to do as per Storage Rule No 4 and within twentyfour hours after the receipt of such notice deliver such car to the line upon which the designated side track or team track is located And if it be necessary in reaching the designated side track or team track to pass over the tracks of two or more railroads the initial line shall make delivery as above to its connection and each succeeding line shall do likewise that will cause the quickest and most feasible delivery to the designated track and in no case shall more than seventytwo hours be allowed in effecting such delivery
And the provisions of this Rule shall likewise apply to any car which is loaded on a side track or team track of one railroad to be transported to destination by some other line of road
For a violation of any provision of this Rule the railroad company at fault shall within thirty days after demand in writing is made therefor pay to the consignee or party whose interest is affected the sum of one dollar per car per day for each day or fraction of a day such violation continues
Freight Rates
Effective December 1 1913 as per formal order of the Commission dated November 12 1913 the following table of mileage rates on cotton sea island
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in the seed were made effective between all Georgia stations on the following lines of railway Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company Seaboard Air Line Railway Georgia Southern Florida Railway Company Atlanta Birmingham Atlantic Railroad and Southern Railway Company
Cotton Sea Island Cotton Sea Island
Distance in the seed packed in the seed packed
Miles in bags L C L in bags or in bulk C L min wt 20000 lbs
5 OO 80
10 8 80
15 8 94
20 8 99
25 8 105
30 8 110
35 9 118
40 9 121
45 10 127
50 10 132
55 11 138
60 11 143
65 11 149
70 11 154
75 11 160
80 11 165
85 11 171
90 11 176
95 11 182
100 11 187
110 12 197
120 12 207
130 12 217
140 12 227
150 12 237
160 13 247
170 13 247
180 13 247
190 13 247
200 13 247
L C L rates apply per hundred pounds
C L rates apply per ton of 2000 pounds
Above rates not subject to Freight Rule No 27
Classification
The following changes in and additions to the Commissioners Classification of Freights are hereby adopted
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CR ORI
Add under Furniture L
C L
Display or Wall Cases or Cabinets unglazed in bdxes or crates 1
Change items now reading
Logs for saw mills C L
min wt 24000 lbs P Logs for chair timber not over 4 y2 ft long
C L min wt 24000 lbs P less 20 per cent
Logs green pine not over 4 ft in length carloads cars to be loaded to full visible capacity and billed by the cord class P rates based on 8 cords excess in same proportion per cord
To read
Logs not hewn nor sawn nor piling nor poles and short length blocks round or split when for manufacture and product reshipped per car of 40000 pounds P This change to become effective July 1 1914
Add note immediately following Scrap Iron description as follows
Articles taking scrap iron rates must be scrapped in such a way that the articles moving can not again be used for the purposes for which they were orig
CR I oR
irially intended for use when new
Change item now reading
Shingles metallic boxed
L C L 4
Same C L 6
To read
Shingles Metal other than iron steel or tin
in boxes L C L 4
Same C L 6
Iron steel or tin in boxes or crates L C
L 5
Same in packages named straight or mixed C L min wt 20000 lbs 6
Change item reading
Show or Display Cases and Cabinets viz
Glazed or unglazed crated or boxed not taken unless crated or boxed S U L C L D1 Same K D L C L U To read
Show Cases Display or Wall Cases and Cabinets Show Cases glazed or unglazed Display or Wall Cases and Cabinets glazed in boxes or crates S U
L C L D1
Same K D L C L lj Change item now reading
Soap in boxes or barrels 6 R To read
Soap common 6 R
Express Classification
The following changes in and additions to of Express are hereby adopted
Change item now reading
the Commissioners Classification
Dogs in boxes at actual weight or securely chained at 100 lbs each t
To read M1tA
Dogs in crates boxes or kennels actual weight ltA
Dogs on chains estimated weight 100 lbs each D a
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This circular shall be in effect on and after February 1 1914 except wherein specifically provided otherwise and repeals everything in conflict
By order of the Commission
Campbell Wallace C M Candler
Secretary Chairman
CIRCULAR No 384
Atlanta Ga February 25 1914
To All Common Carriers in Georgia
Circular No 381 issued January 12th 1914 effective March 1st 1914 is hereby suspended until further order of the Commission amended Storage Rule No 13 as issued in Circular No 383 is likewise suspended until further order of the Commission
The Commission has assigned for further hearing at its meeting to be held on April 28th 1914 at 10 oclock A M the entire question of team track delivery and on that date will afford all interested parties further opportunity of being heard with respect to the charge for such service as well as the requirement that such service be performed by the carriers
By order of the Commission
Campbell Wallace C M Candler
Secretary Chairman
CIRCULAR No 385
Atlanta Ga March 11 1914
Freight Rates to and From Ocilla Ga
This case being at issue upon complaint and answers on file and having been duly heard and submitted by the parties and full investigation of the matters and things involved having been had and the Commission being of the opinion from the whole record that the present commodity rate adjustment between certain common points in Georgia and Ocilla Ga is unjustly and unlawfully discriminatory against Ocilla and unduly preferential to Fitzgerald it is
Ordered That the Atlanta Birmingham Atlantic Railroad Company Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company Georgia Railroad Georgia Florida Railway Seaboard Air Line Railway Southern Railway Company and Central of Georgia Railway Company be and they are hereby notified and directed on or before May 1st 1914 to cease and desist from charging and collecting
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commodity rates on shipments moving between Ocilla Ga and Atlanta Athens Augusta Macon Rome Dalton Columbus Savannah and Brunswick Ga in excess of the class differentials over commodity rates in effect between Atlanta Athens Augusta Macon Rome Dalton Columbus Savannah and Brunswick Ga and Fitzgerald Ga
It is further Obdebed That the said carriers establish between Ocilla and the points above enumerated the same descriptive list of commodity rates as applicable to and from Fitzgerald Ga
This circular shall be in effect on and after May 1st 1914 and repeals everything in conflict
By order of the Commission
Campbell Wallace G M Candles
Secretary Chairman
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PASSENGER TARIFF CLASSIFICATION OF RAILROADS
Each Company doing business as a common carrier of passengers in this State is allowed to charge as maximum passenger fare the rates prescribed by the Passenger Tariff Class below in which such Company is placed
Class A
Atlanta West Point R R Co
Class C
Alabama Great Southern R R Co
Atlantic Coast Line R R Co
Central of Georgia Ry Co
Charleston Western Carolina Ry Co
Class D 3 Cents per mile
2 Cents per mile
Western Atlantic R R
2Yz Cents per mile
Georgia Railroad
Georgia Southern Florida Ry Seaboard Air Line Railway Southern Railway Co
Co
Atlanta Birmingham Atlantic R R Co
Augusta Southern R R Co
Brinson Railway
Chattanooga Southern R R Co Fitzgerald Ocilla Broxton R R Co Flint River Northeastern R R Co Gainesville Northwestern R R Co Gainesville Midland Ry Co
Georgia and Florida Railway
Georgia Florida Alabama Ry Co Georgia Northern Ry Co
Georgia Southwestern Gulf Ry Hawkinsville Florida Southern Ry Class E 4
Blakely Southern Railroad
Bowdon Railway Company
Elberton Eastern Railway Company Florida Central R R Co
Greene County Railroad Co
Hartwell Railway Co
Milltown Air Line Railway
Co
Louisville Nashville R R
Macon Birmingham Ry Co
Macon Dublin Savannah R R Co Register Glennville Ry Co
Rome Northern Railroad Co Savannah Statesboro Ry Co Savannah Augusta Northern Railway Co
South Georgia Ry Co
Union Point White Plains R R Co Valdosta Moultrie Western Railroad Co
Wadley Southern Ry Co
Wrightsville Tennille R R Co Cents per mile
Ocilla Southern Railroad Co
Pelham Havana Railroad
Savannah Southern Railway Co Shearwood Railway Co
Sparks Western Railroad Co Statenville Railway Co
Sylvania Girard R R Co
Special Group
Atlantic Waycross Northern R R Co 5 cents per mile maximum charge of 50 cents
Flemington Hinesville Western R R Co 5 cents per mile minimum charge 25 cents
Flovilla Indian Springs Ry allowed a minimum charge of 25 cents
Georgia Coast Piedmont R R Co 4 cents per mile except between Glennville and Ludowici
Irwinton Railway Co 5 cents per mile minimum charge of 25 cents
Lexington Terminal R R allowed a minimum charge of 25 cents
Louisville Wadley R R Co 4 cents per mile with minimum 50 cents between Louisville and Wadley and 25 cents between Moxley and Louisville and between Moxley and Wadley
Sandersville R R allowed a minimum charge of 25 cents
Smithsonia Dunlap R R allowed a minimum charge of 25 cents
Talbotton R R Co allowed a minimum charge of 25 cents
Tallulah Falls Ry Co 3 cents per mile
Waycross Southern R R Co 5 cents per mile minimum charge 25 cents
Waycross Western R R Co 5 cents per mile minimum charge 25 cents
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FREIGHT TARIFF CLASSIFICATION OF RAILROADS
For Freight Tariffs See Corresponding Numbers on Opposite Page
Class A
Alabama Great Southern Railroad Co Atlanta and West Point Railroad Co Atlanta Northern Railway Co Georgia Railroad
Lexington Terminal Railroad Co
Monroe Railroad Co
Union Point White Plains Railroad Co
Western and Atlantic Railroad Co
Class B
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co
Class C
Atlanta Birmingham Atlantic R R Co
Central of Georgia Railway Co Georgia Southern and Florida Ry Co Hartwell Ry Co
Lawrenceville Branch Railroad Louisville Nashville Railroad Seaboard Air Line Railway
Southern Railway Co
Wrightsville Tennille Railroad Co
Class D
Atlantic Waycross Northern Railroad Co
Augusta Southern Railroad Co Blakely Southern Railroad
Bowdon Railway Company
Brinson Railway
Charleston and Western Carolina Ry Co
Chattanooga Southern Railroad Co Elberton Eastern Railway Companj
Fitzgerald Ocilla and Broxton Railroad Co
Flemington Hinesville Western R
R Co
Flint River Northeastern Railroad Florida Central Railroad Company Flovilla and Indian Springs Ry Co Gainesville Northwestern R R Co Gainesville Midland Railway Co Georgia Florida Railway
Georgia Coast Piedmont R R Co Georgia Florida and Alabama Ry Co Georgia Northern Railway Co Georgia Southwestern Gulf Ry Greene County Railroad Co Hawkinsville Florida Southern Ry Irwinton Railway Co
Louisville and Wadley Railroad Co Macon and Birmingham Ry Co
Macon Dublin Savannah Railroad Co
Milltown Air Line Railway
Millstead Railroad Co
Ocilla Pinebloom Valdosta Railway Co
Ocilla Southern Railroad Co
Rome Northern Railroad
Pelham Havana Railroad Co Register and Glennville Railroad Sandersville Railroad Co
Savannah and Statesboro Railway Co Savannah Augusta Northern Railway Co
Savannah Southern Railway Co Shearwood Railway Co
Smithsonia and Dunlap Railroad Co South Georgia Railway Co
Sparks Western Railroad Co Statenville Railway Company Sylvania and Girard Railroad Co Talbotton Railroad Co
Tallulah Falls Railway Co
Tifton Terminal Co
Valdosta Moultrie Western Railroad Co
Wadley Southern Railway Co Waycross Southern Railroad Co Waycross Western R R Co
On Stone Granite and Marble viz Blocks and slabs including furniture marble labs for interior finish and grave and monumental work rough dressed or finishefl unierered valuation limited to 20 cents per cubic foot C L Class P plus 25 per cent un ame L C L 23 of 6
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FREIGHT TARIFF CLASSES
Each company doing business as a common carrier of freights in this State
is allowed ta apply the Standard Freight Tariff subject to the conditions of
the Freight Tariff Class below in which such company is placed
CLASS A
The Standard Tariff without percentage
class b
On Classes 1 2 3 4 5 6 A E G H L N O the Standard Tariff with twenty per cent added
On Classes B K M R the Standard Tariff with ten per cent added
On Classes C D F J and P the Standard Tariff without percentage
On Lime and Ice the Standard Tariff with ten per cent added
CLASS C
On classes 1 2 3 4 5 6 A E G H L N O the Standard Tariff with twenty five per cent added
On classes B K M R the Standard Tariff with ten per cent added
On Classes C D F J and P the Standard Tariff without percentage
On Lime and Ice the Standard Tariff with ten per cent added
CLASS D
On Classes 1 2 3 4 5 6 A B E G H K L M N O and R For 40 miles and under the Standard Tariff with fifty per cent added for 70 miles and over 40 miles the Standard Tariff with forty per cent added for 100 miles and over 70 miles the Standard Tariff with thirty per cent added over 100 miles the Standard Tariff with twenty per cent added
On Classes C D F J and P the Standard Tariff without percentage
On Lime and Ice the Standard Tariff with ten per cent added
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STANDARD TARIFF
PER 100 POUNDS Per Bbl Per 100 Lbs Per 100 Lbs
3 4 5 6 A B c D E F G H
Cts Cts Cts Cts Cts Cts Cts Cts Cts Cts Cts Cts
10 8 7 6 6 6 41 31 7 9 24 8
13 10 9 8 8 8 5i 5 9 Hl H 10
15 12 11 9 9 9 6 51 11 124 3 12
16 14 12 10 10 10 7 6 12 14 5 14
18 16 13 11 11 11 n 64 13 15 61 16
19 17 14 11 11 11 n 61 14 15 6 17
21 19 15 12 12 12 8 71 15 164 64 19
22 20 16 12 12 12 8 7 16 164 64 20
24 21 17 13 13 13 81 8 17 171 H 21
25 22 18 13 13 13 84 8 18 171 7 22
26 23 19 14 14 14 9 84 19 18 7 23
27 24 19 14 14 14 9 19 18 74 24
28 25 20 15 15 15 94 9 20 19 74 25
29 26 20 15 15 15 n 9 20 19 74 26
80 27 S1 16 16 16 10 91 21 20 74 27
31 28 21 16 16 16 10 21 20 74 28
32 29 22 17 17 17 11 10 22 211 74 29
33 29 22 17 17 17 11 10 22 214 8 29
34 30 23 18 18 18 111 11 23 28 8 30
35 30 23 18 18 18 m 11 23 23 8i 30
37 31 24 19 19 19 19 11 24 23 84 81
39 32 25 20 20 20 13 12 25 24 84 32
41 88 26 21 2t 21 13 12 26 25 83
43 34 27 22 22 22 13 13 27 26 9 34
45 35 28 23 23 23 14 13 28 28 9 35
46 36 29 24 24 24 14 13 29 29 94 86
47 87 30 25 25 25 15 14 30 31 94 37
48 38 31 26 26 26 15 14 1 31 94 38
49 39 32 27 27 27 16 15 32 33 ni 39
50 40 32 27 27 27 16 151 32 33 9 40
51 41 33 28 28 28 17 18 33 34 9f 41
52 42 33 28 28 28 17 16 33 34 10 42
53 43 84 29 29 29 18 17 84 36 104 43
54 44 34 29 29 29 18 17 34 36 104 44
55 45 35 30 30 30 19 18 35 38 101 45
56 46 85 80 80 30 19 18 85 38 104 46
56 46 36 31 31 31 20 19 36 40 104 46
57 47 36 32 32 32 20 19 36 40 104 47
57 47 37 32 32 32 21 19 37 42 i4 47
58 48 38 33 33 33 21 19 30 42 11 48
58 48 38 33 33 31 21 19 38 42 11 48
59 49 39 34 34 34 21 20 39 42 11 49
59 49 89 34 34 34 22 20 39 44 11 49
59 49 39 34 4 34 22 20 9 44 11 49
60 50 40 35 35 35 23 21 40 46 11 50
60 50 40 35 85 35 23 21 40 46 ui 60
60 50 40 35 35 35 23 21 40 46 114 50
61 51 41 36 36 86 25 23 41 50 114 52
61 51 41 36 36 36 25 23 41 50 114 62
61 51 41 36 36 36 25 23 41 50 111 52
62 52 42 37 37 37 26 24 42 52 114 54
62 52 42 37 37 37 26 24 42 52 114 54
62 62 42 37 37 37 26 24 43 52 114 64
63 53 43 38 v 88 38 27 25 43 54 114 56
63 53 43 38 38 38 27 25 43 54 111 56
63 53 43 88 88 88 27 25 43 54 12 56
STANDARD TARIFF
Per 100 Pounds Per Ton Per Car Load Per 100 Lbs
Dis tance J K L M N 0 P R
Miles Ots Ots Gts Cts Cts Cts Cts Cts
5 8 4 35 55 5 00 5 50 4 00 4
10 10 5 60 80 6 50 8 CO 5 00 5
15 12 H 65 85 7 50 9 00 6 00 H
20 13 6 60 90 8 00 10 00 7 00 6
25 14 6 65 95 9 00 11 00 8 00 6
30 15 7 70 1 00 10 00 11 00 8 00 7
35 16 n 75 1 C5 12 00 12 00 9 00 n
40 17 8 80 1 10 13 00 12 00 9 00 8
45 18 8 85 1 15 14 00 13 00 10 00 8
50 19 8 90 1 20 14 00 13 00 10 00 9
55 20 8 95 1 25 14 00 14 00 10 00 9
60 21 9 95 1 30 14 50 14 CO 11 00 10
65 22 9 1 00 1 35 15 50 15 00 11 00 10
70 22 9 1 00 1 40 16 00 15 00 11 00 11
75 23 n 1 05 l 45 16 50 16 00 12 00 11
80 23 1 10 1 50 17 00 16 00 12 00 12
85 24 n 1 15 1 65 17 50 17 00 13 00 12
90 24 n 1 15 1 60 18 00 17 00 13 00 13
95 25 10 1 20 1 65 19 00 17 00 14 00 14
too 25 10 1 20 1 70 20 00 17 00 14 00 14
110 26 10 1 25 1 80 21 00 18 00 14 00 15
120 27 10i 1 30 1 90 23 00 18 00 15 00 16
130 28 io 1 35 2 00 24 00 19 00 16 00 17
140 29 il 1 40 2 10 25 00 19 00 16 00 18
150 30 11 1 50 2 20 26 00 20 00 17 00 18
160 31 12 1 60 2 25 27 00 20 00 17 00 19
170 32 12 1 70 2 30 28 00 21 00 18 00 19
ISO 33 12 1 80 2 35 29 00 21 CO 19 00 20
190 34 13 1 90 2 40 29 50 22 00 19 00 20
200 35 13 2 00 2 45 30 00 22 00 20 00 20
210 36 13 2 10 2 50 31 00 23 00 20 00 21
220 37 14 2 20 2 55 31 50 23 00 21 00 21
230 38 14 2 30 2 65 32 00 23 00 21 00 21
240 39 14 2 40 2 65 33 00 24 00 22 00 22
250 40 15 2 50 2 75 33 50 24 00 22 00 22
260 41 15 2 60 2 75 34 00 24 00 22 00 22
270 42 15 2 70 2 85 34 50 25 00 23 00 22
280 43 16 2 80 2 85 35 00 25 00 23 00 23
290 44 16 2 90 2 95 36 00 25 00 24 00 23
300 45 16 2 95 3 00 36 50 26 00 24 00 23
310 46 17 3 05 3 10 37 00 26 00 24 00 23
320 47 17 3 05 3 20 88 00 26 00 24 00 24
330 48 17 3 15 3 30 38 50 27 00 25 00 24
340 49 17 8 15 3 40 39 00 27 00 25 00 24
350 50 17 3 28 3 50 40 00 27 00 25 00 24
360 51 17 3 28 3 50 40 00 27 00 25 00 24
370 52 17 8 28 3 60 40 00 27 00 25 00 24
380 53 18 3 41 3 60 41 00 29 00 27 00 26
390 54 18 3 41 3 60 42 00 29 00 27 00 26
400 55 18 3 41 3 60 42 00 29 00 27 00 26
410 56 19 3 54 3 70 44 00 31 00 29 00 28
420 67 19 8 54 3 70 44 00 31 00 29 00 28
430 58 19 8 54 8 70 44 00 31 00 29 00 28
440 59 20 3 67 3 80 46 00 33 00 81 00 30
450 59 20 3 67 3 80 46 00 33 00 31 00 30
460 60 20 3 67 3 80 46 00 33 00 31 00 30
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DIRECTIONS FOR COMPUTING RATES
For tlie benefit of those who may not be familiar with the subject the following directions are given for the computation of rates from the Classification and Tariff of the Commission contained in this volume
This can best be done by an actual exampleTake for instance a shipment of dry goods weighing 500 pounds from Savannah to Tennille Ga Tennille being on the line of the Central of Georgia Railway we turn to the distance tables of that company page 167 where the distance from Savannah to Tennille is shown to be 135 miles Turning to page 112 a classified list of railroads in Georgia is found the Central in Class C and on the opposite page 113 we find that on several classes of freight all roads in Class C are allowed to add 25 per cent to rates shown in the Standard Tariff
Now turn to the Classification which begins on page 118 arranged in alphabetical order and under the head of D it will be seen that Dry Goods are in firstclass Turn to the Standard Tariff page 114 and follow down the first column which shows the miles There being no distance of 135 shown the next highest distance governs and opposite 140 miles in the next column this being the column for firstclass the rate is seen to be 57 cents per 100 pounds The road being allowed to add 25 per cent to this class and 25 per cent of 57 cents being 14 cents we find by adding the 57 and 14 together that the maximum rate is 71 cents per 100 pounds or on the 500pound shipment 355
Directions to Agents Regarding the Construction of
Joint Rates
Freight Rule No 27 provides that the maximum charge on a shipment which moves between two points both located in the State of Georgia but not located on the same road shall be 90 per cent of the sum of the local rates allowed to be charged by the roads handling the freight
To illustrate on a shipment of freight taking first class the rate from Fairburn on the A W P R R to Covington on the Georgia R R will be arrived at as follows viz Take the A W P rate for first class Fairburn to Atlanta which is 20 cents from this deduct 10 per cent or 2 cents leaving 18 cents as proportion of
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A W P for transporting joint shipment Fairburn to Covington to this add the Georgia E E rate from Atlanta to Covington 41 miles 27 cents less 10 per cent account joint shipment or 24 cents which represents Georgia E E proportion for hauling joint through shipment from Fairhurn to Covington making total through joint rate 42 cents
Each railroad companys proportion in handling joint through shipments must be determined before adding together to arrive at the through joint rate and unless otherwise provided by proper division basis among the carriers which do not affect the total through joint rate paid by shipper or consignee the through joint rate will divide between the carriers as made
The attention of agents is called to the fact that many of the roads are allowed to charge greater than the standard rates The classified list will he found on page 112 and on page 113 will be found the percentage of increase allowed to such roads and care should he taken to see that the standard rates are increased to the extent provided before the deduction of 10 per cent in arriving at joint or through rates
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CLASSIFICATION OF THE RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA
Supersedes Classification Contained in 40th Report and all Amendments Thereto
Revised to April 1 1914
EXPLANATION OF
1 represents First Class
2 represents Second Class
8 represents Third Class
4 represents Fourth Class
5 represents Fifth Class
6 represents Sixth Class
1 represents 1 times First Class D 1 represents Double First Class
CHARACTERS
4 T 1 represents Four Times First Class
A B C D E F and H etc represent Classes A B C D E F and H etc respectively
L C L represents Less than Car Load
C L represents Car Load
N O S represents Not Otherwise Specified C R represents Carriers Risk
O R represents Owners Risk
CR 1 OR CR OR
t Same K D 3
Elevators for Cotton
manufactured of wood
4 6 and iron S U D1
Same K D 3
Evaporators Fruit 1
Evaporators Sugar iron
set up 1
2 Same with legs or
rockers detached 2
3 Fans Grain See Mills
11 1 Fanning
3T1 D 1 Feeders and Condensers
Cotton Gin 2 3
1 2 Forks Hay and Manure 3
3 4 Furnaces Evaporator 1
4 Gins Cotton 2 3
3T1 D 1 Guano Horns tin N O S D 1
Guano Horns tin crated 3
11 1 Harrows and Harrow
Frames 3 4
Harrow Teeth packed 6
3 Hay Caps 3
Hoes in bundles 3
11 1 Hoes without handles
in barrels or casks 4
2 Horse Powers K D 2 3
Horse Powers Railroad
3 4 or Endless Chain Ik
3T1 D 1 Hullers Cotton Seed and
Clover viz
2 S XL loose or on
D 1 skids L C L Ik
Agricultural Implements N O S O L 20000 lbs owners to load and unload
Agricultural Implements L C Li as follows Brooders including necessary Lamp boxed or crated L C L
Same C L min wt
15000 lbs
Cleaners Cotton Seed Cradles Grain set up Cradles Grain K D in bundles or boxed Crushers Corn or Cob
Cultivators K D
Cultivators set up Cutters Ensilage Straw
and Hay set up
Cutters Ensilage Straw and Hay K D and
packed
Distributors Guano set
up
Distributors Guano K
D1
Drills Grain set up Drills Grain K packed
D
Dusters Bran K D
packed
Elevators Hay S U
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S U in boxes or crates L C L
K D in boxes bun
dles or crates L C L
In packages named loose or on skids C
L 20000 lbs
Incubators K D and packed or crated L C
L
Same C L min wt
15000 lbs
Kettles pans and pots
cast iron over 27 inches in diameter L C L Same C L min wt
20000 lbs
Knives Hay packed
Machines Hemp
Machines Smut
Machines N O S See
Machines
Machines Mowing and Reaping Binders and Harvesters whether combined or separate
K D L C L
Same partly boxed C
L min wt 20000 lbs Machines Mowing and
Reaping Binders and Harvesters whether combined or separated
set up
Purifiers Middlings Mills Burr stone Portable
Mills Cider
Mills Corn and Hominy Mills Cotton Seed
Mills Cane and Sorghum Mills Fanning set up Mills Fanning K D
Mills with Trains Sugar
Mills N O S
Mowers Lawn hand power not packed
Same K D packed handles in bundles
Pans Sugar Same as Evaporators Sugar Planters Corn and Cotton K D in bundles
or boxes
Planters Corn and Cotton set up
CR
OR
Plow Handles and other Wood in shape for Implements boxed crated
or bundled
Plow Singletrees and
Doubletrees
Plow Irons and Mold Boards over 20 pounds
each
Plow Plates Points Wings Castings and Steel Same as Bar Iron
Plows Gang and Sulky Plows set up N O S Plows N O S K D
Presses Cider
Presses Cotton set up Presses Cotton K D Presses Hay set up Same small and detachable parts removed and
packed
Iron castings for hay presses boxed
Presses N O S
Pruners Tree in bundles Rakes Hand in bundles
CR
4
5
4
3T1
1
4
4
1
4
1
4
of 6 2 1 3
4 6
li 1
3T 1 D 1
3
4
3 4
2
5
3T1 1
li 1
3T 1 D 1
2
1
2
Rakes Horse set up 1
Same K D and well
packed
Rollers Field and Road
Rollers Sugar
Scrapers Road and Pond Scythes in bundles
Scythes in boxes
Snaths Scythe
Separators Same as Threshers
Shellers Corn 1
Shovels and Spades in
bundles 3
Spreaders Manure set
up li
Spreaders Manure K D
boxed 2
Threshers 1
Trains Sugar 3T1
Wheelbarrows Iron 3
Wheelbarrows Railroad li
Wheelbarrows Wood set
up 1
2 3 Wheelbarrows Wood K
D and packed or bun11 1 died
OR
5
D 1 2
5
1
3
2
1
D 1 1
3
M tO fcO CO CO CO
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A
Accoutrements Military
Acids N O S
Acids Carbolic
Acids Dry
Acids Muriatic and Sulphuric in carboys boxed L
C L
Acids Muriatic and Sulphuric in carboys boxed
C L
Acid Sulphuric in iron
casks
Acid Sulphuric in tank
cars
Agate Granite or Enameled Ware iron or steel
L C L
Same C L
Same in mixed C L with tinware same as Tinware
Alcohol Same as Liquor Ale See Beer
Ale Empties See Note under Waters aerated Almanacs and Trade Circulars Same as Printed Matter
Alum in barrels or casks
Alum N O S
Ammonia Sulphate of
same as Fertilizers Ammonia Waters See Waters
Ammonia Water Casks returned empty
Ammunition N O S
Anchors Guy
Same N O S
Andirons packed
Same unpacked
Antimony Crude
Antimony Metal
Anvils
Apples green See Fruit Apples dried See Fruit
dried 1
Apple Butter See Butter Argols in boxes bbls or
casks
Arsenic crude in kegs boxes or barrels
Asbestos in boxes kegs bags or bales L C L Asbestos in barrels or casks L C L
CR OR
1 Asbestos in bbls or casks C L
D 1 Asbestos Cement L C L
4 Asbestos Cement C L
3 Asbestos Ore L C L
D1 2 Asbestos Ore C L Asbestos Packing in rolls or cases L C L
2 4 Asbestos Packing C L Asbestos Roofing in rolls or cases L C L
3 6 Asbestos Roofing C L Ashes and Meal Cotton
6 Seed See Cotton Seed Ashes Wood apply fer
2 tilizer rates Asphaltum packed L C L Asphaltum C L
4 Automobiles See Vehicles
6 Axes Axles and Wheels Car See Iron Bar Band etc Axles carriage and wagon See Iron Bar Band etc Axle Grease See Grease B Babbitt Metal Bacon See Meats Baggage Army
4 Baggage Personal Effects
6 in Trunks Bagging in rolls or bales N 0 S Bagging Oil Pres Bags Burlap Bags Cotton
1 Bag Gunny
4 Bags Paper
5 Bags Traveling
4 Baking Powders See Pow
5 der
3 Bale Rope
4 Balusters See Woodwork
5 Bananas See Oranges
4 etc under Fruit Band and Hat Boxes See Boxes Barilla Bark Ground in bags or bbls N 0 S
3 Bark Tan in sacks Bark Tan C L min wt
2 20000 lbs class P less 20 per cent
6 Barley See Grain Barley Pearl
CR
OR
3
6
4
L
6
A
5
4
1
1
B
6
6
6
6
1
5
3
5
5
3
FFrfF
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Barrel and Box Material C L min wt 24000
lbs
Barrel and Box Material
L C L
Barrels tight half Barrels Kegs and kits empty except Ale and Beer empties and loose barrels L O L Class It plus 20 per cent
Same C L 10000 lbs Barrels half Barrels and Kegs empty Ale and Beer estimated weights barrel 100 lbs half barrel 50 lbs keg 30 lbs Barrels loose such as Lime Sugar Cement or Flour estimated weight
25 lbs
Barrels iron See Iron and Steel Articles
Barrels Paper nested
packed
Barrels Paper not nested
Barytes L C L
Barytes C L 25000 lbs
Base Balls and Bats
Baskets Cotton Pickers
Split Nested
Baskets N O S
Baskets Fruit See Boxes Fruit
Baskets wood splint with tops or handles nested or in bundles of four with ends placed in each other L C L
Baskets nested
Baskets Cotton Patent combination of Cloth and wood K D and packed
together
Baskets or cylindrical basket frames cotton patent combination of cloth and wood S XL nested center space filled with bags
L C L
Same without bags Same with or without
bags C L
Baskets Grate See Iron Bath Boilers See Boilers Bath Tubs See Tubs Batting Cotton in lots of 100 bales of 50 lbs each
CR
P
6
P
E
1
1
6
3
3
6
6
OR CR
Batting N O S See Cotton
Beams See Spools
Beans dried in boxes
Same in barrels or sacks Bearings Brass See Brass Beauxite Ore Same as Clay
Bed Cord See Rope
Bed Springs See Springs Bedsteads See Furniture Bedsteads Brass See Furniture
Beef canned packed See Canned Goods
Beef See Meats
Beer Empties returned
See Note under Waters aerated
Beer and Ale in wood estimated weights bbls
350 lbs i bbl 180 lbs quarter bbl 100 lbs 8th bbl 50 lbs L C L
Beer and Ale in wood estimated weights as
above C L
Beer Ale and Mineral water barrels half barrels or kegs empty See Barrels
Beer Ale and Porter in glass packed L C L securely wired and sealed or locked
Beer Ale and Porter in glass packed C L securely wired and sealed
or locked
Beer Ale and Ginger Ale in glass packed securely wired and sealed or
locked L C L
Beer Ale and Ginger Ale in glass packed securely wired and sealed or
locked C L
Bees in Hives
4 Bee Smokers boxed
Beeswax
Beet pulp dried in kegs barrels or in sacks
Beets in barrels
Bellows
Bells Bell Metal or Brass Bells and Fixtures viz
Sheet or cast Iron loose
OR
M O to to tJtC
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or packed L C L 3
Same C L 6
Belting Leather 2
Belting Rubber 3
Belting Stitched Canvas 4
Berries See Fruit
Bicycles See Vehicles
BilliardTables See Furniture
Binders Reapers etc See Agricultural Implements
Binders Boards in Cases 2 Binders Boards in Bundles 5
Bird gravel or sand Same as Food animal or poultry
Bits and Braces same as Tools N O S
Bitters Same as liquors Blacking Shoe and Stove see Polish
Black Lead see Lead
Blankets 1
Bleaching Salts Same as Lime chloride of
Blinds Doors and Frames
see Sash etc
Blocks Pulley see Pulley blocks under machinery Blocks Shuttle rough 3
Blooms and Billets see Iron
Blow Pipe Material see Iron
Blueing 1
Blue Stone see Vitriol
Blue
Boards binders see Binders Boards
Boats Common wooden
L C L
Boats Common wooden when flat cars are required C L
Boats Racing
Boats row when loaded in box cars L C L 4T1 Boats Row when flat car is required min wt
10000 lbs
Boats row when two flat
cars are required min wt 10000 lbs to each
car
Boats Row C L min wt
20000 lbs
CR
Boats Steam Yachts min
weight 10000 lbs 2
Bobbins Spools Shuttles and Skewers in boxes
L C L 5
Same C L 6
Boilers Bath and Range 1 Boilers see Machinery
Bolts see Iron
Boneblack 3
Bones and Bone Dust see Fertilizers
Bonnets same as Dry Goods
Books 1
Boots and Shoes L C L 1
Same C L 2
Borax packed 4
Bottle Covers see Covers Bottles empty packed 1
Bows and Shafts see Vehicle Material
Box and Barrel Stuff see Barrel and Box Material Boxes Hat and Band
packed D 1
Boxes Fruit and Baskets
C L not less than 20000 lbs to be charged for R Baskets fruit berry and vegetable nested and packed solid either in cases or securely fas
tened L C L 2
Boxes Fruit L C L 1
Boxes Cigar empty
packed D1
Boxes Cracker empty returned 5
Boxes empty including i Egg crates L C L 1
Boxes empty including Egg Crates C L min
wt 15000 lbs A
Boxes empty N O S 1
Boxes Journal see Iron
Boxes paper empty packed C L min wt 10
000 lbs 3
Boxes Match wooden 2
Boxes paper in nests of
two packed 1
Boxes Paper in nests of more than two packed 1
Boxes Paper not nested 3T1
D 1
5
4 T 1
OK
5
D1
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CB I OB
CB I OB
Boxes paper folding K
D and shipped flat in bales bundles or crates same as Bags Paper
Boxes Piano empty re
turned K D 6
Boxes Post Office Letter 2
Boxes Tobacco empty 1
Boxes Vehicle see Vehicle Material
Box Straps iron see Iron Brackets insulator see Telegraph
Brackets wood N O S
finished and boxed 3
Brackets wood in white made of pine or other wood 3
Brackets Iron Shelf packed 3
BrandySee Liquors
Bran L C L D
Bran C L min wt 25
000 lbs P
Brass N O S in boxes
barrels or casks 1
Brass Bearings and Castings packed 2
Brass Flues 2
Brass Scrap loose 2
Brass Scrap packed 5
Brass Valves boxed 3
Brass Vessels in boxes
barrels or casks 2
Bread 3
Breeching Metal same as Saddlery
Brick Common Pressed and Fire See Rule 12
C L min wt 40000 lbs P
Same L C L G
Brick Bath 6
Brick Salt Plain in boxes
L C L C
Same C L O
Brick Salt Medicated in boxes L C L 4
Same C L 6
Brick Machines see Machinery
Brimstone same as Sulphur
Bristles 1
Britannia Ware 1
Brooders see Agricultural Implements
Broom Corn pressed in Bales L C L B
4
6
3
Broom Corn pressed in Bales C L min wt 14
000 pounds
Broom Corn and Broom Handles mixed C L
min wt 14000 lbs
Brooms any quantity
Brushes v
Buckets N O S Same as Wooden Ware
Buckets Goal
Buckets Well
Bucks saw see Sawbucks
Buckles Turn packed L
C L
Same C L
Buckwheat Flour
Buggies see Vehicles Building Material consisting of baseboards ceiling casing and moulding without ornamentation same as lumber
Building Material Wooden consisting of rough or dressed Lumber Laths Shingles Window and Door Frames Sash Doors and Blinds Mouldings Ballusters Baseboards Ciasinigs Newel Posts Stair work and Wainscoting mixed L
C L
Same C L
Bungs
Burial Cases see Coffins Burial Vaults cement L
C L
Same C L min wt 15
000 lbs
Burlaps
Burning Fluid
Burr Blocks finished
Burr Blocks rough
Butter Butterine and Oleomargarine in cans
Butter Butterine and Oleomargarine in kegs firkins buckets pails
boxes and tubs
Butter Apple and other
Fruits in wood
Butter Trays paper nested same as Bags paper
D
1
4
3
5
6
4
6
3
4
6
6
i
4
5
1
5
4
Hld
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O K
C
Cabbages packed 3
Cabbages loose C L 3
Cabinet Ware see Furniture
Cages Bird boxed 3 T 1
Cages Bird K D nested
and packed D1
Cake nitre see Nitre
Cake oil see cotton seed
Cake salt see Salt
Calcicake 5
Calks Toe in kegs 5
Calicoes same as Domestics
Camphene 1
Camphor 1
Candles boxed 4
Candy see Confectionery
Cane seed see Seed
Cane sugar see Sugar Cane
Canned Beef packed 4
Canned Goods N O S 4
Canned Vegetables see Fruit
Cannon 1
Cans empty N O S3 T 1
Cans galvanized iron for manufacture of ice L
C L 1
Same C L min wt
15000 lbs 4
Cans Glass see Glass
Cans Paper crated li
Cans tin empty N O S racked or boxed or in Jackets L C L 1
Cans tin empty to be used for paints and oils C L min wt 20000
lbs
Cans Fruit and Syrup tin in bulk C L min wt
15000 lbs
Cans entirely boxed or crated C L min wt
15000 lbs
Same L C L
Cans Tobacco empty 1
Caps and Hats 1
Caps Percussion 1
Caps Hay see Agricultural Implements
Capstans 3
Carbons Electric Bight packed L C L 2
oR
6
6
Carbons Electric Light
packed C L
Carboys see Glass
Card Clothing see Clothing
Cards Cotton and Woolen
Hand packed
Cards Cotton and Woolen
Cards Flaying
Cards show boxed see Signs
Carpeting well covered Carpets Hemp and Rag Carpet Lining see Lining Carriages see Vehicles Car mileage freight 1 of a cent per mile
Car mileage passenger 3 cents per mile
Carrara Same as white Lead
Oars and Locomotives viz Cars Logging K D or set up C L min wt
24000 lbs
Cars Logging smaller
parts boxed
Cars Logging set up L
C L
2
4
Street or Tramway operated either by steam cable horse or electric power single
Street or Tramway operated either by steam cable horse or electric power C L two or more on a car minimum weight 20000 lbs Cars hand lever or crank for railway use viz
5
5
3
3
S XL L C L
S XL C L minimum
weight 20000 lbs
K D L C L
K D released C L
Cars knocked down i e cars from which trucks or other detachable parts have been removed and loaded on same car with bodies to be loaded and unloaded by owners and at owners risk
CR 3
1
X
1
1
2
D1
5
1
5
2
OR
6
5
4
6
6
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CR j OR
Cars and Locomotives viz
Cars standard gauge on their own wheels viz
Basis for calculation of freight
Mileage rates between points governed by this Classification will be computed upon the basis of the shortest allrail standard gauge mileage via available routes of transportation subject to a minimum distance of 75 miles for each line handling and governed by mileage shown in this report
Parlor Sleeping and Dining cars 12c per mile Coaches Baggage Mail and Express cars 10c per mile
Box Cab Refrigerator
Tank and Track Scale Test Cars 6c per mile Stock cars slatted6c per mile
Same N O S 10c per mile
Coal Gondola and Dump
cars 5c per mile
Flat Cars 4c per mile Flat cars when one or more flat cars are loaded on a flat car the rate will be 3c per mile for those loaded on the flat car and 4c per mile for the car on wheels carrying the others
Locomotives and Tenders including tram engines moved by their own power owner to furnish fuel and crew owner also to furnish pilot for movement over each road earning ten dollars or less on movement pilot to be furnished by each road whose revenue exceeds ten dollars on the movement 20 cents per mile Not subject to Rule 27
CR OR
Subject to a minimum charge of 200 for each road handling maximum charge for entire movement of 6000
Locomotives and tenders including tram eng dead connecting rods and small parts liable to be damaged to be taken off and boxed
25c per mile Not subject to Rule 27
Subject to a minimum charge of 200 for each road handling maximum charge for entire movement of 6000
Locomotives and tenders including tram engs loaded wholly on flat cars owner to load and unload otherwise subject to Rule 14 30c per mile Not subject to Rule 27 Subject to a minimum charge of 600 and maximum charge 6000 for entire movement
Cartridges metallic or paper not high explo
sives boxed L C L 1
Same C L 5
Carts Hand see Vehicles
Cases and Crates Egg see Boxes
Cases CocaCola and Soda Water empty L C L 3
Cases show see Show Cases
Cash Registers see Registers
Casing window see Woodwork
Casks Iron see Drums
under Iron
Cassia 3
Castings iron see Iron
Castings Plaster D 1
Castor Pomace same as Fertilizers
Catsup in wood 4
Catsup in glass boxed 2
Cattle see Live Stock
Caustic Soda see Soda
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CB I OR
CR
OR
Cement in sacks or barrels L C L B
Same C L L
Cement Building Blocks
See Building Stone under Stone
Cement Glue packed 2
fcement Asbestos see Asbestos
Cement roofing see Roofing
Cereals see Food Preparations
Chain Cotton Woolen and Hempen 2
Chains See Special Iron List
Chain Belting see Machinery
Chairs see Furniture
Chalk 5
Chalk Crayons see Crayons
Chalk Prepared 1
Charcoal in bags barrels or casks L C L 5
Same in packages named or in bulk C L min wt 24000 lbs O
Checks See Domestics
Cheese 4
Chert C L min wt 30000 lbs Class P less 20 per cent
Chestnuts see Nuts
Chests Commissary 1
Chests ice see Refrigerators
Chicory 4
Chimogene same as Oil coal
Chinaware 1
Chloride of Lime see Lime
Chocolate 1
Chromos same as Paintings
Chufas C L see Nuts
Chums
Cider in barrels or kegs B
Cider in glass packed 2
Cider Mills and Presses see Agricultural Implements
Cigar Lighters 1
Cigars boxed and strapped corded and sealed 1
3
Cigars not packed as above not taken
Cigar Boxes see Boxes
Citron
Clay in boxes barrels or
casks L C L
Clay C L See Rule 12
min wt 25000 lbs
Clay Burnishing packed Clay Fire L G L
Clay fire C L See Rule 12 min wt 25000 lbs
Clay German
Cleaners cotton seed see Agricultural Implements
Clocks boxed
Clock Weights see Weights
Clothes Lines see Rope
Clothes Pins
Clothing
Clothing Card
Clothing Rubber and Rubber Goods N O S
Clover Seed see Seed
Coal and Coke L C L
in boxes barrels or bags Coal and Coke C L min
wt 30000 lbsJ
Coal RatesAll percentages now allowed Railroad Companies In this State on Coal and Coke in carload quantities are withdrawn and the said companies excepting the Western and Atlantic and Georgia Railroad Companies are allowed to charge for the transportation of Coal and Coke in carload quantities as follows
For fifty miles and under Class L
For one hundred miles and over flftv miles Class L less 5 oer cent
Over one hundred miles Class L less 10 per cent The Western and Atlantic and the Georgia Railroad Companies are allowed to charge for tne transportation of Coal and Coke in carload quantities as follows
For fifty miles and under Class L less 10 per cent
For distances over fifty miles Class L less 15 per cent
Coal Oil see Oil
Coal Tar see Tar
Cocoa
Cocoa Matting see Matting
2
B
P
5
1
2
1
1
1
L
L
1
W cn hj
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CR I OR I
CR I OR
Cocoanuts see Nuts CocaCola Aerated See Waters Aerated CocaCola Syrup in barrels or kegs same as
juices fruit etc
Codfish see Fish
Coffee Extract or Essence
of 2
Coffee Green single sacks 4
Coffee Green double sacks 6
Coffee Ground or Roasted
in single sacks 3
Coffee Ground or Roasted in double sacks boxes or barrels 5
Coffee Substitutes Cereal Same as Food Preparations cereal
Coffee Mills see Mills CJoffins plain or stained not painted nor var
nished wrapped 1
Coffins N O S boxed or
crated 2
Coffins K D 3
Coffins Metallic 2
Coke see Coal
Collars Horse see Saddlery
Collars paper packed same as Dry Goods
Cologne see Perfumery
Columns wooden solid same as Lumber
Columns fluted and ornamental same as Woodwork
Combs Curry see Curry combs
Commissary Chests and Stores 1
Compounds see Soap Powders
Compounds Polishing 3
Conductors or Down Spouts or Leaders galvanized iron or tin see Gutters and Guttering
Conduits viz
Brick L C L 6
Same C L g of 6
Electrical insulating tarred Felt paper Indurated Fibre or Porcelain in bundles crates or boxes L C L 2
Same C L min wt
20000 lbs 4
Flexible Iron for electric wires L C L 4
Same C L 6
Underground for electric wires earthen cement concrete terra cotta or clay L C L 6
Same C L of 6
Wooden creosoted L
C L 4
Same C L 6
Confectionery candy value limited to 6 cents per lb and so specified on Bill of Lading 4 5
Confectionery candy value limited to 20 cts per lb and so specified on Bill of Lading 3 4
Confectionery N O S 1
Cooking Oil see Lard
Coolers and Filters Water
boxed 1
Copal see Gum
Copperas in barrels or
casks 5
Copperas N O S 4
Copper in boxes barrels or
casks 3
Copper Scrap packed 5
Copper Scrap loose 4
Copper Vessels in boxes
barrels or casks 2
Copper Bottoms Copper Plates Sheets Bolts
and Rods 3
Copper Flues 2
Copper Ingots Pigs and
Matts 4
Copper Ore C L min wt
25000 lbs P
Copper Ore L C L 6
Copper Stills worm
crated 1 3
Copying Presses see Presses
Cordage 3
Cork 1
Corn Starch see Starch
Corn see Grain
Corn Seed see Seed
Corn in ear See Grain
Cornices and Ornamental work for buildings made of sheet or stamped metal plain galvanized or painted viz
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Boxed or crated S U
L C L D1
Same nested L C L 1
Loose L C L 3T1
Same boxed crated or loose C L min wt
10000 lbs 2
Cornice Mouldings galvanized iron not cornices nested and crated any quantity 5
Cornices wooden for windows doors or inside finish see Woodwork
Cornices Wooden for outside finish Same as Mouldings for building purposes
Corsets 1
Corundum L C L in sacks barrels or casks value limited to 4 cents
per pound 3
Corundum C L in sacks barrels or casks value limited to 4 cents per lb 6
Cotton Rates for Compression
6 Band Cotton 7 cts per 100 lbs
8 Band Cotton 8 cents
per 100 lbs
Cotton in bales J
Cotton Samples 1
Cotton Burnt shipments of burnt cotton are accepted at original weight and cotton rates applied 500 lbs to be the average weight per bale when original weight can not be obtained
Cotton Dyed in bales 4
Cotton Gin Lint Flues
See Machinery
Cotton unginned packed in bags less than 2000
lbs L C L 2
Cotton unginned packed in bags 2000 lbs and
over L C L 5
Cotton unginned packed in bags C L min wt
20000 lbs 6
Cotton Sea Island in the
seed For special rates see Circular No 383
Cotton Batting see Batting
Cotton Batting N O S 5
Cotton Factory Products
see Domestics
Cotton Oil Mill Rolls see Oil Mill Rolls
Cotton Seed valuable for
planting L C L 6
Same C L G
Cotton Seed common any
quantity G
Note L C L Shipments of Cotton Seed to be sacked Otherwise 20000 pounds to be charged for
Cotton Seed Hulls C L
min wt 25000 lbs P
Same without percentage L C L G
Cotton Seed Meal Ashes and Oil Cake same as Fertilizers
Cotton Seed Mills see Agricultural Implements
Cotton Seed Oil see oil
Cotton Stalks pressed in bales same as Hay Fodder and Straw
Cotton Waste same as Paper Stock
Covers and Safes Cheese Same as Safes and Covers Cheese
Covers Bottle Paper Straw or Wooden pack
ed or pressed in bales 3
Covers Wooden 1
Cracklings 4
Crackers 5
Cradles Grain see Agricultural Implements Cranberries 3
Crates and Cases egg sbe Boxes
Crates for peaches and apples include wooden or splint inside carriers without tops or handles nested
Crates for peaches and ap
ples L C L set up 1
Crates for peaches and apples set up C L min
wt 20000 lbs R
Crates for peaches and apples L C L K D B
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Crates for peachesand appies K D C L min
wt 24000 lbs P
Crayons Chalk 4
Creameries packed or
wrapped 2
Cream Tartar in boxes or
kegs 2
dream Tartar in barrels or
hogsheads 3
Crockery same as Earthenenware
Croquet Sets in boxes 2
Cross Arms Telegraph and Telephone see Telegraph
Crossties hewed or sawed of dimensions from 6x8 inches by 7 ft to 7x9 inches by 9 ft 6 inches
C L min wt 32000 lbs subject to Rule 12 P Crow Bars see Iron
Crucibles
Crushers Corn and Cob see Agricultural Implements
Crystals Washing 5
Cultivators see Agricultural Implements
Curbing Well 2
Currants see Fruit
Currycombs same as Hardware N O S
Cutch 4
Cutlery 1
Cylinders iron See iron and Steel Articles Cylinders sheet metal see Iron
D
Dates see Fruit
Dashes boxed or crated 2
Deer boxed 3T1
Deer Skins pressed In
bales 2
Deer Tongue in barrels bales or boxes value limited to 6 cents per lb L
C L 5
Deer Tongue C L 6
Demijohns see Glass
Denims see Domestics Desiccated Meats and Vegetables 4
Detergent 4
Disinfectants same as Insecticides
Distributors see Agricultural Implements
Dog Irons see Andirons
Dolomite apply Limestone rates
Domestics Denims Sheetings Shirtings Tickings Cotton Jeans Duck Checks Calicoes Prints Ootton Rope Thread Yarns and other factory products without percentage 6
Doors Iron see Iron
Doors and Frames see Sash etc
Drawers and Shirts Unlaundered entirely of Cotton see Garments Cotton
Drills grain see Agriculo tural Implements
Dross Rosin same as Rosin
Drugs and Medicines N
O S 1
Drums See Musical Instruments
Drums iron See Iron and Steel Articles
Dry Goods N O S 1
Dry Goods in boxes or
bales 1
Dry Goods in trunks crated or strapped 1
Dry Goods in trunks corded or wrapped 1
Dry Goods in trunks not corded or wrapped D1
Dust Collectors S U not
crated or boxed 3 T1
Same crated or boxed D1 Saine K D crated or
boxed 1
Dusters Bran see Agricultural Implements
Dye Liquid or Wood Liquor in barrels 3
Dye Stuffs viz
Dry in boxes 1
Dry N O S in kegs bbls or iron drums 2 Liquid N O S in bbls 5 Dye Woods in boxes or
bbls 2
Dye Woods in stick 4
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Earthenware not Chinaware Crockery Jugware or Stoneware viz
In boxes 2
In slatted boxes crates bbls tierces casks or
hhds L C L 4
Loose L C L 2
Packed or loose C L 6
Jugware Common C L O
Eggs packed 1
Electric Light Carbons See Carbons
Electric Appliances viz Batteries N O S L C
L 1
Same C L min wt
20000 lbs 3
Battery Cups and Jars earthenware in packages L C L 2
Same C L 5
Arc Light Globes and Bulbs in crates boxes
bbls or casks L C L D 1 Same C L min wt
16000 lbs 2
Dynamos same as Machinery N O S
Meters boxed 1
Meters N O S D1
Hoods Electric Light iron nested in packages 2
Transformers weighing each 150 lbs or less 1
Same weighing over
150 lbs each 3
Electrical Instruments Fittings and Fixtures
N O S boxed 1
Elevator Cars passenger
or freight S U D 1
Same K D 3
Elevators for Cotton and
Elevators Hay see Agricultural Implements Elevators N O S same as Machinery N O S
Emery value 4 cts per lb 3
Emery N O S 2
Empties dairy returned by the line over which shipment has been made not over 100 pounds 5 cents each for any distance
11 CK 1
Enameled Ware ree Agate Engines see Machinery Equipage see Accoutrements
Essences see Extract Evaporators Fruit see Agricultural Implements Evaporators Sugar see Agricultural Implements Excelsior made from Georgia pine pressed in
2 bales L 6 L 5
Excelsior made from Georgia pine C L min wt
10000 lbs D
Exhibitors boxed or crated 3 T 1 Exhibitors woven or crated D 1 Explosives same as Powder
Extinguishers Fire hand glass or grenade packed li Extinguishers Fire on wheels same as Engines
Fire
Extract Bark for tanning
1 in wood 5
Extract Bark for tanning
3 in glass packed 2
Extract of Indigo see Indigo
Extract of Logwood see Logwood
Extract of Malt in glass packed same as Ale
Extract and Essences N
O S 1
F
Facings foundry Apply Soapstone rates
Factory sweepings dnd cotton waste see Paper Stocks
Fans viz
Electric or Fan Motors
packed L C L 1
Same C L 3
Fly metal folding packed 2
N O S in boxes 1
Fanning Mills see Agricultural Implements
Mills Fanning
Farina 2
Fasteners box see Iron
Faucets boxed 2
Feathers D1
Feeders Cotton Gin see Agricultural Implements
OR
D1
1
1
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Felloes see Vehicle Material
Felt Roofing see Roofing
Felting Boiler 2
Fence Ware and Wood combination 5
Fencing Wire N O S 5
Fencing Woven Wire See Special Iron List
Fenders Iron See Iron
Fertilizers C L miri wt
30000 lbs Class M less 10 per cent without percentage
Fertilizers L C L Class K less 10 per cent without percentage
Shipments of fertilizer not subject to Rule 27
Fibre Palmetto and Pine
pressed in bales 6
Figs in drums 1
Figs in casks or boxes 2
Figures not Iron packed see Images
Files and Rasps packed 2
Filters see Coolers
Finding shoe 1
Firearms 1 1
Firecrackers and Fireworks packed so marked 1
Fire Extinguishers see Extinguishers
Fireplaces portable including the necessary pipe 2
Fish Canned including Shell Fish
In glass or earthenware packed in barrels or
boxes L C L 3
In metal cans in crates 3
In metal cans in barrels or boxes L C L 4
In packages named C
L min wt 30000 lbs 5
Dry salted in bundles 2
Dry salted packed or in barrels with cloth tops 4
Fresh see meats
Pickled in boxes 3
Pickled in barrels kits pails or tubs L C L 5
Same C L B
Smoked in boxes 3
Fishing Rods D1
Fishing Tackle boxed 1
Fittings Iron Pipe see Iron
Fixtures Bank Store etc see Furniture
Fixtures Gas packed 2
Fixtures Grate packed 2
Fixtures Grate loose li
Fixtures Tobacco see Machinery
Flax pressed in bales 3
Flax Seed see Seed
Flour in barrels estimated wt 200 pounds F
Flour in sacks other than paper 10 lbs per sack
and over C
Same less than 10 lbs
per sack 6
Flour in paper not packed not taken
Flour Buckwheat 6
Flour Corn L C L 4
Flour Corn C L min wt 20000 lbs C
Flour Sack Material 6
Flour Selfraising in packages
Flour Rice
Flues Copper see Copper Flues Iron See Iron Flues Bras See Brass
FluorSpar L C L 6
FluorSpar C L M
Fly Fans see Fans
Fodder see Hay
Foil Tin in boxes 2
Food Animal or Poultry viz
Dry Animal and Poultry Powders Condiments or Tonics in sacks boxes pails with wooden or metal covers drums or barrels L C L 4
Same C L 6
Animal and Poultry Feed
N O S bulk in sacks D Food Preparations Cereal viz
Grits Corn in boxes 6 Grits Corn other than in boxes same as Meal Corn
Hominy same as Grits
Same in barrels halfbarrels kegs drums or boxes or in paper packages 6
3
1
oo
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Food Preparation N O S
in sacks 5
Food Prepared N O S 1 Food Preservatives packed 3
Foots pitch or tank bottoms Cottonseed See Soap Stock
Forges Portable 3
Forks Hay and Manure
see Agricultural Implements
Fountains and Fixtures Soda including marble stone and onyx parts
packed B1
Fowls dressed B
Fowls live in coops C I 1
Same L C L y 1
Frames Bed wrapped or
crated 2
Frames Door and Window
see Sash etc
Frames Picture Mirror or Looking Glass loose or
in bundles 3 T 1
Same wrapped lh
Same crated or boxed 1
Frames Mounted with Mirrors or Looking Glasses
when shipped separately from other Furniture 3 T1
Frames quilting see Quilting Attachments
Freezers Ice Cream 2
Fruit and Vegetables in cans without percentage
L C L 5
Same C L without percentage 6
Fruit in Glass packed 1
Fruit Berries dried 4
Fruit Berries green prepaid
Fruit Boxes and Baskets see Boxes
Fruit Dates 2
Fruit Dried Currants 2
Fruit Dried N O S 3
Fruit Dried Apples and
Peaches L 0 L4
Fruit Dried Apples and
Peaches C L 6
Fruit Green N O S prepaid or guaranteed
Fruit Apples Peaches
Pears not dried and other green fruit in barrels or boxes L C L
1
2
3
1
2
D 1
3
1
3
6
C
3
B
Fruit Appies Peaches
Pears not dried and other green fruit in barrels or boxes C L
Fruit Juices See Juices
Fruit Bananas in crates boxes cylindrical carriers or cloth sacksprepaid or guaranteed L
C L 4
Same unpacked owners risk prepaid or guaranteed subject to a minimum charge on 5000 lbs actual weight if in excess of that amount L
C L
Same loose or packed
C L 6
Fruit Oranges Lemons and Pineapples in boxes
L C L 4
Same C L 6
Fullers Earth same as Clay
Furnaces Evaporator see Agricultural Implements
Furs see Hides
Fuse D1
Furniture C L viz
Bed Slats in bundles crates or loose min
wt 24000 lbs 5
Bedsteads metal min
wt 12000 lbs 4
Chairs Wooden with Cane Splint Rattan Reed Bamboo or Wooden Seats not upholstered min wt
8000 lbs 3
Chairs N O S 8000 lbs 2
Chair and other Furniniture Stuff or Stock Wooden N O S KD in the rough or in the white and Chairs K
D in the white
min wt 24000 lbs 4
Chair Seats in bundles or packed min wt
20000 lbs 3
Fixtures of either hard
or soft wood not including showcases for fitting Banks Barber Shops Offices Saloons Stores etc with
O
4
6
4
3
5
4
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or without mirrors
glass to be prop
erly boxed min wt
12000 lbs 2
Mattresses Wovenwire
or Spring Beds min
wt 12000 lbs 4
Mattresses Straw Cotton Shuck Hay and Excelsior min wt 12
000 lbs 4
Poles Curtain rough or in the white min wt
24000 lbs 4
Vault or Office Iron or Steel consisting of Filing Cabinets or Cases Shelving Counters Roller Book Shelves and Tables crated or boxed min wt 24
000 lbs 3
N O S all kinds finished or in the white straight C L min wt
12000 lbs 2
N 6 S all kinds finished or in the white taking 3d class O R or lower when in straight C L mixed C L min wt 12000
lbs 2
Furniture L C L viz
Beds Spring or Woven Wire see Mattresses
Wire
Bedsteads Folding boxed or crated See note 1 Noth Same rate applies to folding beds In combination with wardrobes desks etc Bedsteads Iron or Brass
K D 2
Bed Slats Wooden In bundles or crates 3
Bed Slats Metal in bundles or crates 1
Bookcases Iron 1J
Bookcases wrapped or crated S U including Sectional o r Elastic Bookcases in set up
sections D1
Same K D 1
Bookcases and Desks combination wrapped or crated 1
5
4
3
3
2
3
4
2
1
1
1
1
OR I OR
Buffets see Sideboards Bureaus of Hardwood wrapped or crated 1 2
Same of common wood 2 3
Cabinets Wooden Revolving for displaying hardware wrapped or crated n 1
Cabinets Kitchen see Safes Castors Roller packed i 2
Chairs Bamboo Rattan Reed or Willow wrapped or crated D 1
Chairs Barber Dental
Folding Reclining or Surgical S U wrap D 1
ped or packed
Same K D or folded wrapped or packed 1
Chairs Camp or Folding Seat 11 1
Chairs Auditorium Opera Church etc packed K D n 1
Chairs Porch or Lawn iron or iron and wood combined S U i 2
Same K D 2 3
Chair and Stepladder combination D 1 n
Chairs Rocking Hardwood or Metal Frames with Cane Splint Rattan Reed Willow Bamboo Leather or Wooden Seats not upholstered set up unwrapped or wrapped with paper L C L D1 i
Same without rockers n i
Same without rockers tied in pairs seat to seat i 2
Same without rockers of common wood completely K D wrapped or not wrapped packed in bundles 2 3
Chair Stock same as Chairs K D packed Chairs N O S S U D 1 u
Chairs N O S completely K D n i
Chair Seat Material viz Cane Rattan Reed
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Willow Bamboo or Leather packed or in
bales li
Chair Seat MaterialFiber Leather Board or
Veneer 1
Chair Seats in bundles or packed 1
Chair Splints Wooden packed or in bundles
or bales 1
Chiffoniers same as Bureaus
China Closets wrapped
or crated D1
Church Furniture N O
S wrapped or crated
a U D1
Same K D 1
Cots Woven Wire S
U D1
Same K D or folded 2
Cots N O S of hard wood S U D1
Same of common
wood 1
Cots N O S of hard
wood K D 1
Same of soft wood 2
Couches metal folding
K D or folded li
Cradles or Cribs wrapped or crated S U
Same K D or folded 1
Cushions Furniture in
bales or cases li
Desks and Seats School
S U 1
Desks and Seats School
K D 2
Desks N O S wrapped
or crated 1
Display or Wall Cases or Cabinets unglazed in boxes or crates 1
Dressing Cases or Dressers same as Bureaus
Easels HI
Filing Cabinets Cases or
Boxes crated or boxed li
Fixtures not including show cases for fitting banks barber shops offices saloons stores etc with or without mirrors glass to be properly boxed wrap
li
ped or crated Footstools See Hassocks Frames Lounge or Sofa
S U
Same backs taken off Hall Stands see Hat Racks
Hassocks or Footstools Hat Racks folding packed Hat Racks or Hall Stands N O S wrapped or crated
S U
Same K D or with tops detached and secured inside of package crated or boxed
Lounges with backs wrapped or crated
S U
Same with backs taken
off
Lounges without backs wrapped or crated
S U
Marble for Furniture
see Stone
Mattresses viz
Hair Wool or Feather Spiral Spring not compressed
Spiral Spring in packages containing two or more compressed not to exceed three inches per mattress in thickness
Straw Cotton Shuck
and Excelsior
Wire entirely taken apart and K D
boxed
Woven Wire
Spring N O S
N O S
Poles Curtain wooden and Fixtures boxed or
crated
Same without Fixtures boxed or
crated
Poles Curtain N O S and Fixtures boxed or crated
Racks or Stands Display S U
CR OB
1 2
D 1 li
1 2
l 1
li 1
DI li
li 1
DI li
li 1
li 1
DI li
D 1
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Same K D wrapped
or packed
Refrigerators and Ice Chests wrapped or
packed
Refrigerator Material thoroughly K D Safes or Cabinets Meat or Kitchen tin wood or wood and tin combined S U
Same with legs detached packed Same K D flat Settees same as Chairs Sideboards or Buffets wrapped or crated Sofas and Teteatetes wrapped or crated Springs Bed see Springs
Spring Beds see Mattresses wire
Stands or Racks Music
S U
Same K D flat wrapped or packed Stools Piano wrapped or
packed
Tables Bamboo Rattan Reed or Willow wrapped or packed
Tables Billiard and Billiard Table Beds boxed
or crated
Tables of hardwood N O S wrapped or
crated S U
Same of common
wood
Tables of hardwood K D flat or folded flat Same of common
wood
Table Legs Slides Leaves Tops and Supports wrapped or crated Vault or Office iron or steel consisting of filing cabinets or cases shelving counters roller book shelves and tables crated or boxed Wardrobes wrapped or
crated S U
Same K D flat
Washstands of hardwood wrapped or crated
CR 1 OR II CR 1 OR
H 1 Same of common
wood N 0 S of hardwood 2 3
2 3 S U wrapped or packed D 1 1
2 3 Same of common wood 11 1
N 0 S of hardwood
D 1 U K D wrapped or packed Same of common 1 2
1 2 wood 2 3
2 3 G
Gambier 4
1 o Game see Poultry
Garments Cotton such as
D 1 ll jackets or jumpers pants overalls unlaundried shirts and drawers and knitting factory products shipped in original packages contents to be legibly marked on each package 5

D 1 H
li Gas in iron buoys requir
ing flat or gondola car
11 1 minimum weight 5000
lbs each Gas for dental purposes 1

3 T 1 or for calcium lights in cylinders 1
Gas Liquid Carbonic Acid
in iron drums or tubes
1 U carriers option See Ntote Note Drums or tubes con 5
D 1 taining Carbonic Acid Gas must be plainly marked by

proper label or otherwise NOTICEDANGER This
ll 1
package must not be exposed
2 to the sun or stored in a warm place
Gasoline see Oil
2 3 Gauges Steam see Machinery Gelatine 1
2 3 Generators Gas 3
Ginger Ground in boxes 2
Ginger in bags Gins Cotton see Agri 3
r cultural Implements Ginseng 1
1 2 Girders Iron see Iron Glass Carboys empty D 1 3
11 1 Glass Chimneys 2 4
1 2 Glass Demijohns empty
not packed 4 T 1 3T1
1 2 Glass Demijohns filled not
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packed or boxed not taken
Glass Demijohns filled boxed Glass Demijohns empty
packed D1
Glass Floor Lights rough
and heavy 5
Glass Fruit Jars see Jars
Glass Insulators see Insulators
Glass Lanterns see Lanterns
Glass Oil Cans with metal
jackets packed 1
Glass Plate 71x15 feet or under outside measurement D1
Glass Plate over 71x15 feet outside measurement subject to min
wt of 1500 lbs3 T1
Glass Roofing and Skylight not Window Glass 2
Glass colored stained decorated enameled ground figured or etched
L C L H
Same C L 1
Glass Vault Lights rough and heavy 5
Glassware fine cut or engraved HI
Glassware N O S 2
Glass Window plain colored enameled or
ground L C L
Same C L 5
Glucose in half bbls bbls
or hhds R
Glue 3
Glue Scrap 5
Glycerine in cans boxed or in barrels 1
Glycerine in iron tanks or
casks 2
Glycerine Nitro plainly la
beled L G L 4T1
Glycerine Nitro plainly labeled C L 3 T1
Graders Outfits see Out
fits
Glraiin D
Grain Corn in ear sacked
L C L D
Grain Corn in ear C L
Subject to Rule 13 Class N without percentage
3
u
2
D1
3
1
2
1
3
4
CR
Granite see Stone
Granite Roofing see Roofing
Granite Ware see Agate
Grapes in bundles boxes or crates L C L
Grapes C L
Graphite C L min wt
25000 lbs Class P less 20 per cent
Grass bear 6
Grass Seed see Seed
Grate Bars see Iron
Grate Baskets see iron
Grates see Iron
Grave Stones see Stone
Gravel apply Sand Rates
Grease Axle 6
Grease Car in barrels 6
Grease N O S in buckets tubs kits or kegs L C
L 3
Grease N O S in boxes barrels or casks 6
Grenades packed 11
Grindstones 6
Grindstone Fixturespacked
or in bundles 3
Grits Corn same as Meal
Corn
Groceries N 01 S 2
Guano see Fertilizers
Guano Horns see Agricultural Implements
Gum Camphor see Cam
phor
Gum Copal Kowrie and
Shellac 2
Gums N O S 2
Gun Cotton HI
Gunny Bags See Bags Gunpowder See Powder
Guns Rifles 1
Gutters and Guttering galvanized iron or tin viz
Not nested L C L 1
In nests of two or more crated L C L 2
Same C L 4
Gypsine in cases same as Paint dry in cases Gypsum Land Plaster Fer
tilizer Same as Fertilizers
Gums Chewing 1
H
Hair In sacks 1
Hair Cattle for plastering pressed in bales 6
OR
ow
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Hair Curled pressed in bales and Hair Rope 2
Hair Goods manufactured
packed in boxes D1
Hames in bundles or packed 3
Hammers other than Sledge same as Tools N
O S
Hammocks and Fixtures 11
Hams same as Meat salted Hand Carts see Vehicles Handles N O S boxed or
crated 5
Handles Broom boxed or
crated L C L B
Handles Broom C L min
wt 24000 lbs K
Handles Broom and Broom Corn C L mixed see Broom Corn
Handles Hoe L C L 5
Same C L min wt
24000 lbs K
Handles Plow and other wood in shape for implements see Agricultural Implements
Handles Beams and other woods for manufacturing purposes rough or dressed but unfinished C L min wt 24000 lbs
Rules 12 and 13 to apply without percentage K
Hangers Rails and Tracks
door packed or in bundles 4 5
Hardware packed N O S 2
Hardwood see Wood
Harness see Saddlery
Harness Hardware same as Hardware N O S
Harrows and Harrow Teeth see Agricultural Implements
Hasps see Hooks
Hatchets same as Axes
Hats and Caps see Caps
Hat Boxes see Boxes
Haversacks same as Accoutrements
Hay Fodder and Straw pressed in bales C L
min wt 20000 lbs D
Hay Fodder and Straw perssed in bales L C L R Heading see barrel and Box Material
CR l OR
Hay Caps see Agricultural Implements
Hay Presses see Agricultural Implements
Head Lights boxed D1
Hearses see Vehicles
Heaters Steam see Machinery
Heel Plates packed 4
Hemp in bales 3
Herbs see Roots
Hessians in original bales 6
Hides furs peltries and Skins viz
Furs in bags 3 T1
Furs in boxes bundles or trunks strapped D1
Furs N O S see Skins
N O S
Hides dry loose 1
Hides dry tied in bundles or bales any quantity
Hides green
Hides green salted
Peltries see Skins N O S
Skins Deer pressed in
bales 2
Skins N O S furs and peltries value limited to 25 cents per lb in
bags D1
Same pressed in
bales 1
Same N O S D1
Skins Sheep dry in
bales 1
Same green in bundles 2
Same salted in bundles 1 3
Hinges and Butts packed L C L 4
Same C L 6
Hives Bee empty set up 1
Hives Bee K D crated 15
Hobby Horses see Toys
Hoes see Agricultural Implements
Hods Coal 1
Hogs see Live Stock Hogsheads empty double barrel rate
Hollow Ware loose LCL 1
Hollow Ware loose shipped separately from
a ot
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Stoves C L min wt
15000 lbs
Hollow Ware packed Hominy see Food Preparations
Honey in glass or tin
boxed
Honey in comb boxed Honey in barrels or kegs Honey Extractors crated Honey Section boxes and Frames in crates or boxes
Hoofs and Horns
Hooks Hasps and Staples
N O S packed
Hooks and rods Meat N
O S packed or loose Hooks Backhand packed Hoop Iron see Iron
Hoop Poles
Hoop Skirts
Hoops Barrel Wooden
Same as Barrel Material Hoops Truss Coopers
Hops baled
Hops in boxes
Horse and Mule Shoes See Special Iron List
Horse Powers see Agricultural Implements
Horses see Live Stock Hose Carriages see Vehicles
Hose Leather
Hose Reels Fire see Vehicles
Hose Reels Garden see Reels
Hose Rubber
Hosiery same as Knitting Factory Products
Hospital Stores
Household Goods less than carload shipments of H H G must be prepaid or freight guaranteed
Household Goods and old Furniture packed value over 5 per 100 pounds and full value expressed in bill of lading said valuation only to apply in cases of total loss Household Goods and old Furniture packed value limited to 5 per 100 lbs and so expressed in bill of lading said
CR 0R
M valuation only to apply in case of total loss
L C L
Household Goods and old 3 Furniture well packed 2 value not expressed in bill of lading L C L o Household Goods and old a Furniture well packed C L min wt 20000 lbs value limited to g 5 per 100 pounds said q valuation only to apg ply in case of total sa loss
Household Goods and old Furniture with Live 0 Stock one attendant to have passage free H on same train as car C L value limited to w 5 per 100 pounds said valuation only to apply in case of total loss
Explanations
1 All Bundles of Bedding Trunks of Clothing Household Goods or similar articles not Furniture will not be received for transportation unless packed chests of similar articles must be strapped
or securely nailed This does not apply to C L of Household Goods
2 Bills of Lading and WayBills must desig nate character and number of packages
3 These instructions apply to old and secondhand Furniture Clothing Bedding etc not to new articles
Houses portable L C L
Same C L
D 1
Hubs and Felloes see Vehicle Material
Hullers Clover etc see Agricultural Implements Hullers Pea same as Corn 1 Shellers under Agricultural Implements
Husks and Shucks in bales
See Rule 12
Hydrants Fire Plugs and Water Gates
CR
1
1
D1
4
6
D
5
OR
4
3
6
5
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Ice L C L in casks bar
rels boxes or bags packed in sawdust chaff shavings or straw prepaid B
Ice C L L
Images and Figures Bronze or Metal packed not
Iron Statuary 3T1
Incubators See Agricultural Implements
Indigo 1
Indigo Extract in barrels 3
Infusorial Earth 3
Ink in wood 4
Ink Printing in wood 4
Ink writing Fluid in glass
or stone boxed 3
Insecticides viz
In Glass packed L C L 1
In Tin Cans packed or in bulk in barrels N O
S L C L 4
Same C L 6
Lime and Sulphur Solution in barrels 6
Insulators see Telegraph and Telephone Material
Iron and Steel Articles viz
Barrels or Drums empty 6
Blow Pipe Material viz
Sheet Iron plain or galvanized not nested L C L D1
Same side seams
closed nested see note packed or wired in bundles L
C L 2
Note Shipments will he accepted as nested when two or more sections are placed one within another
Same side seams not closed nested packed or wired in bundles any quantity 6
Same side seams closed or not closed nested or not nested in straight C L or in mixed C L with Dust Collectors min
wt 15000 lbs 4
Boiler flues or tubing
L C L 6
Same C L of6
OR CR
Box Straps or Fasteners packed or in bun
dies 6
Cages including convict cages doors and grating L C L 4
Same C L 6
Castings in boxes 2
Castings not machinD1 ery unpacked each
piece weighing under 200 pounds 3
4 Same each piece weighing over 200 pounds 5
Castings not machinery or sewing machines in kegs or casks 4
Crow Bars 6
Cylinders empty 5
Forgings 6
Grate Baskets Fronts Fenders and Frames
packed
Same unpacked
Grates packed i
Same loose
Journal Boxes of
Mantels packed
Same unpacked
Nail Rods packed
Same unpacked Planished or Russia Plumbing Fixtures viz
Cast Iron Bath Tubs Lavatories or Washstands Water Closet Hoppers Cisterns or Tanks and Sinks without fittings packed
mixed C L
Sinks loose or in crates or barrels L C L
Same C L
Washstands or Lavatories packed L C L
Same C L
Water Closet Hoppers Cisterns or Tanks L
C L
Same C L
Water Closet loose
Same boxed or crated
Railing and Fencing
Retorts
Roofing packed or in bun
dles 6
Sad Irons packed L C L 5 Same C L 6
OR
5
6
5
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Sash Weights wired any
quantity K
Scrap L C L see note of 6 Same C L 2240 lbs to ton see note M
NoteArticles taking scrap iron rates must be scrapped in such a way that the articles moving cannot again be used for the purposes for which they were originally intended for use when new
Scrap Sheet in rolls or bundles wired or crated of 6 Sheet plain galvanized corrugated or stamped in imitation of brick
packed or in bundles 6
Sheet Metal Pipes Tubes or Cylinders parts of machinery or otherwise N O S 1
Shutters and Doors 4
Sponge purifying material 3
Stand Pipe Material K D of 6 Statuary Chairs and Lawn Ornaments boxed or
crated 1
Tanks and Tank Material K D flat or nested of 6
Tires locomotive 6
Tubs Bath and Plumbing Fixtures see Plumbing Fixtures
Urns 3
Vault and Prison Work 4
Wedges and Sledges pack
ed or in bundles 5
Same loose 3
Iron N O S boxed or
crated 1
Iron Work Galvanized 2
Iron and Steel Articles as per Special Iron List L
C L of 6
Same in straight or mixed carloads minimum 30000 pounds M
Special Iron List viz Architectural consisting of columns pedestals capitals saddles door and window jams plates sills studding lintels rolled beams channel bars girders angles tees and zees
M
2
5
2
4
Axles Car Wagon and Carriage
Bar Band Boiler Hoop and Rod
Blooms and Billets steel
Bolts Nuts Rivets and Washers packed or in sacks or bundles
Brake Shoes
Bridge Material
Castings Guano Distributor Cotton Planters and Cultivators
Chains loose or packed
Fencing Woven Wire
Grate Bars
Jail Plate
Muck and Puddle Bar Iron
Nails and Spikes in kegs
Picks and Mattocks packed or in bundles
Pig Iron
Pipe Cast or Wrought not in coils
Pipe Joints or Fittings packed or not packed
Plow Bases Clevises Coulters Couplers Cultivator Teeth Discs Foots Standards Frogs Harrow Teeth Heel Bolts Mould Boards Blades Plant Fenders Plates Points Shares Wings Braces and Bars and Plow Shapes unfinished packed or not packed
Posts fence field or farm with or without equipment or fittings
Railway Track Material viz Angle Bars
Chairs CrossTie Clamps Fish Plates Frog Filling Frogs Spikes Splice Bars Switches Switch Chairs Switch Stands Ties Tie Plates Track Braces Rails and Throws
Shoes Horse and Mule packed
Staples Fence in kegs
OR
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Tires Vehicle
Vehicle Material viz Boxes Skeins and Springs
Wheels Car and Locomotive
Wire Common Barbed or otherwise on reels or in coils
Isinglass same as Mica
Ivory l
Ivory Black 4
J
Jack Screws and Wagon
Jacks 3
Japan Ware 1
Japnica 4
Jars Fruit Glass or Earthenware any quantity 3
Jeans Cotton same as Domestics
Jeans Cotton and Wool
mixed 5
Jellies in glass packed 1
Jellies in cans boxed 4
Jellies in wood N O S 3
Jugs see Earthenware
Juices Fruit and Fountain Syrups and Syrups N O
S not medicated in glass or earthenware packed in barrels or boxes or in tin cans crated
L C L l
In bulk in barrels or in tin cans boxed L C
L 4
In glass or earthenware packed in barrels or boxes or in tin cans boxed or crated or in bulk in barrels C L 5
Junk and Jute 6
Jute Butts j 6
Jute Waste or Tailings see Paper Stock
Jute Yarn see Yarn
K
Kainit same as Fertilizers
Kalsomine same as Paint Kaolin same as Clay
Kegs empty N O S
same as Barrels
Kegs empty N O S in
crates 3
Kegs Ale and Beer see Barrels Ale and Beer
OR
5
3
CR
OR
Kettles over 27 inches in diameter see Agricultural Implements
Same less than 27 inches in diameter same as Stove Furniture
Kerosene see Coal Oil
Kindlings in bundles same as Rosin and Rosin Dross
Knapsacks same as accoutrements
Knives see Cutlery
Knives Hay see Agricultural Implements
Knobs N O S same as Hardware N O S
Kowrie see Gum
Knitting Factory Products see Garments Cotton

Ladders not over 30ft long 1
Ladders over 30 feet long D1
Ladders Step 2
Lampblack in casks barrels or boxes 3
Lamps and Lamp Goods
packed 2
Land Plaster same as fertilizers
Lanterns packed 1
Laprings packed 5
Lard 4
Lard Substitutes or Compounds viz
Solids 4
Oils Cooking or Edible products of cottonseed oil or cocoanut oil viz
In glass or earthenware
packed 1
In tin cans packed or in bulk in iron or steel barrels or drums or in
wood B
Lasts packed 3
Laths C L min wt 24
000 lbs
Laths L O L
Lathing Iron in crates or bundles L C L 4
Same C L 6
Lead bar or sheet in
boxes 5
Lead in casks or pigs 6
Lead Black in kegs or bbls 5
B
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Lead Pipe see Pipe
Lead White same as Paints
Leather loose N O S 1
Leather in rolls or boxes 3
Leather Scraps in bales 4
Leaves powdered in boxes
or barrels 1
Lemon or Lime Juice see Juices Fruit
Lemons Oranges see Fruit Lentils in bags boxes or
barrels 3
Letter Boxes see Boxes
Licorice in sticks roots or
mats 3
Licorice in mass boxed 4
Lightning Rods in boxes 3
Lightning Rods in bundles 2
Lightning Rod Fixtures
packed 2
Lime in sacks casks or
barrels C L L
Same L O L B
Lime Chloride of in barrels or casks 6
Lime Chloride of N O S 4
Lime Liquid prepared for whitewashing canned and packed 5
Limestone for Furnaces C L min wt 25000 lbs Class P Less 40 per cent
Limestone ground same as Lime For special rates on C L shipments see Circular 376
Limestone N O S C L min wt 25000 lbs Class P less 20 per cent
Lining Carpet 2
Linseed 4
Linters see Paper Stock
Lint Flues Cotton Gin see Machinery
Liquors Whiskey or Domestic Wine in glass packed in boxes or baskets each package weigh
ing not less than 20
pounds 2
Liquors in wood N O S 1
Liquors Whisky Domestic Brandies and Domestic Wines in wood owners risk of leakage yalue limited to 75c per gallon
2
CR I OR
and so endorsed on bill of
lading
Liquors Whisky in wood
N O S 2
Liquors N O S in glass packed in boxes barrels
baskets or casks 1
Lithographic Stone 1
Live Stock Horses and
Mules L C L 1
Live Stock Horses and
Mules C L 2
Live Stock Cattle Sheep
Hogs etc L C L without percentage see Rule governing Dive Stock 2
Live Stock Cattle Sheep
Hogs etc C L without
percentage 3
Lockers Trunk metal or metal and wood combined L C L 2
Same C L 4
Lockers Wall metal or metal and wood combined set up L C L 2
Same K D 4
Same K D C L 6
Locks same as Hardware
N O S
Locomobiles same as Carriages
Locomotives and Tenders see Cars
Locomotive Tires see Iron
Logging Cars K D or set up see Cars
Logs hewn or sawn Apply Lumber rates
Logs N O S Apply Lumber rates
Logs not hewn nor sawn nor piling nor poles and short length blocks round or split when for manufacture and product reshipped per car of
40000 pounds P
This change to become effective July 1 1914
Logwood 2
Logwood Extract of C L
dry 4
Looking Glasses same as Mirrors
Looms see Machinery
H
3
2
2
N
4
N
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Lumber Dressed or rough
L C L B
Same C L min wt
24000 lbs See rule 12 P
Lye Concentrated 5
M
Machinery viz
Belting Chain or Sprocket Chain loose or packed same as machinery N O S
Boilers Sectional same as Boilers but not to
be taken as castings 3
Boilers Steam 30 feet and over including necessary stacK L C
L 1
Boilers under 30 feet including n e c e s s ary stack L C L See
Rule 14 3
Boilers N O S Same as Machinery N O S
Brick Machines 4
Cotton Gin Lint Flues
C L 6
Same L C L packed 3
Cotton Presses set up see Agricultural Implements
Cotton and Woolen except Looms set up D1
Cotton and Woolen except Looms crated 1
Cotton and Woolen except Looms K D and
boxed 1
Cotton Mill Rolls Iron
and Steel 2
Same returned to be repaired or recovered rating to apply in
both directions 4
Engines Caloric Fire Portable and stationary L C L 2
Same C L 4
Hoisting K D 4
Looms 3T1
Machinery viz
Conveyors Spiral L C
L 4
Pulley and tackle blocks 5 Pulley Wheels and Blocks 5
OR
li
1
2
3
6
ti
CR I OR
Machinery C L all
kinds N O S 6
Machinery L C L all
kinds N O S 3
Machinists Tools Plam ers Lathes Drill
Presses etc 2
Printing Presses K D
boxed or crated 3
Printing Presses K D
not boxed 1
Printing Presses set up D 1
Saw Mills L C L detachable parts unboxed 2
Same detachable parts boxed 4
Saw Mills C L same as Machinery N O S Shaftings Hangers Pulleys etc 4
Shingle Machines 2
Stamp Mill Machinery boxed L C L 5
Same C L 6
Stamp Mill Machinery
loose L C L 4
Same loose C L 5
Stamp Mill Castings L
C L 6
Stamp Mill Castings C
Lj M
Steam Gauges 1
Steam Heaters see Radiators
Tobacco Screws and
Fixtures 4
Water Wheels Turbine 3
Wood Working Lathes Planing Machinery Boring and Mortising Machines set up 1
Wood Working Lathes Planing Machinery Boring and Mortising Machines etc packed
K D 3
Machines Hemp see Agricultural Implements Machines Meat Cutters 2
Machines Mowing and Reaping Binders and Harvesters see Agricutural Implements
Machines Sewing not boxed or crated 3 T1
Same boxed or crated
3
2
1
8
5
4
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Machines Sewing boxed or crated partly K D with head and box taken off and placed underneath between the legs or with the head folded into the body of the case 3
Machines see Machinery Machines Smut see Agricultural Implements Machines Washing 2
Macaroni 1
Mackerel see Fish Madder 3
Malt D
Malt in boxes 1
Malt Extract same as Ale Manganese crude C L min wt 25000 lbs P
Manganese Ground packed 5
Manilla 3
Mantels Iron see Iron Mantels Slate packed 2
Mantels Wood crated or boxed L C L 2
Same C L min wt
12000 lbs 3
Manure Stable C L min
wt 30000 lbs P
Maps boxed 1
Marble and Granite same
as stone Marl same as Lime
Marble Dust C L in bar
rels L
Same L C L B
Marbles in casks or boxes 4
Marble Tiles 4
Matches in wood or paper packed in cases alone
1 marked matches
Match Splints packed in
cases L C L 4
Same C L 6
Mats and Rugs N O S 1
Mats Grass Hemp Hair
Steel Wire Rubber and
Gtocoa 3
Mats Oil 1
Matting 2
Mattocks and Picks see
Special Iron List Mattresses see Furniture Meal and Ashes Cotton Seed see Cotton Seed
CR
Meal Corn in barrels or scks O
Meal Oat see Food Preparations
Measures
Meat N O S
Meat Bacon and Pork
Meat Fresh Beef Sausage Poultry dressed Fish
fresh B
Beef Smoked in boxes or
barrels 4
Beef and Pork Salted in barrels estimated weight
300 lbs B
Beef and Pork Salted in quarter and half barrels
actual weight B
Pigs Feet and Tripe fresh
or pickled B
Pigs Feet in glass packed 1 Shipments of articles enumerated under head of Meats in quantities less than 10000 pounds must he in hags bales boxes Cr or crates
Meat Cutters see Machinery
Meats Desiccated see Desiccated
Medicated Brick see Brick Medicines and Drugs N
O S
Medicines Patent L C L
Same C L 1
Melodeons see Musical Instruments
Melons freight guarantee
C L min wt 24000
lbs
Melons L C L 4
MerryGoRounds L C L 1
Merry Go Rounds C L
without percentage 6
Meters Gas boxed 1
Meters Gas not boxed not taken
Meters Water boxed 3
Meters Water not boxed not taken
Mica 3T1
Mileage Car see Car Mileage
Milk Condensed boxed i
Milk minimum charge allowed 15 cts I
Millet 1
Millet Seed see Seed
K Km
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Millinery including Hats and the like already made up plumes birds and other material of like character for millinery
purposes 1
Milo Maize in bags or sacks 6
Mills Barilla Bark and Cob 4
Mills Cane see Agricultural Implements
Mills Cider see Agricultural Implements
Mills Coffee and Paint set
up 2
Mills Corn see Agricultural Implements
Mills Cotton Seed see Agricultural Implements
Mills Flour roller 2
Mills N O S 2
Mill Stones finished 4
Mill Stones rough 5
Mill Stuff Rule 12 B C L C
Mill Stuff C L min wt
25000 lbs P
Note The term Millstuff as here used is intended to cover only that part of the wheat product which is neither flour nor bran bujL embraces sweepings waste flour etc gathered about the mill house not fit to use as any grade of flour and which bears a price somewhat higher than bran as a stock food
Mince Meat 4
Mineral Waters see Water Mining Cars and Wagons
same as Cars Logging Mirrors 3 feet or under outside measurement
packed 1 3T1
Mirrors over 3 feet not exceeding 7Jxl2 outside measurement packed 3T1 Mirrors over 7ixl2 outside measurement pack
ed 4 T1
Molasses same as Syrup Monuments etc see Stone
Mops N O S 1
Mops packed or bundled 4
Moss in sacks 1
Moss pressed in bales 4
Motes Cotton see Paper Stock
Moulders Dust or Sand 5
Mouldings boxed 2
Mouldings in bundles 1
Mouldings common for
building purposes
Mouldings N O S
Mouldings Iron see Cornices
Mouse Traps see Traps Mowers see Agricultural Implements
Mucilage packed
Musical Instruments viz
Drums
Melodeons Organs cabinet or Pianos boxed
L C L
Same L C L not boxed not taken
Same boxed wrapped or crated C L minimum weight 8000 lbs Organs Pipe K D
boxed
Organ Pipes boxed
N O S
Mustard Ground in boxes Mustard prepared in glass packed
Mustard prepared in kegs
or barrels
Mustard Seed
CR
2
3 T 1 1
1
1
1
1
2
2
3
6
2
1
D 1
3
N
Nails Brass and Copper well packed in boxes or
kegs
Nails and Spikes Iron see Iron
Naval Stores see Rosin Turpentine etc
Netting wire N O S in boxes casks crates or
rolls L C L
Same C L
Netting wire meshes one inch or greater in rolls same as Fencing woven
wire
Nitre Cake same as Fertilizers
Notions
Nutmegs
Nuts Chestnuts prepaid Nuts Pecans in barrels
L C L
Nuts Pecans in barrels
C L
Nuts Cocoa packed or sacked L C L
Nuts Cocoa C L
3
2
5
1
2
3
3
5
6
CB J OB
Nuts Edible in bags N
o s l
Same in barrels or
casks N O S 2
Nuts Peanuts and Chufas
L C L 5
Same C L 6
Nuts Hickory and Black
Walnuts L C L 4
Same C L min wt
24000 lbs 6
O
Oakum 4
Oats See Grain
Oatmeal See Food preparations
Ocbre in sacks barrels or
casks L C L 5
Same C L 6
Ocbre to be used in manufacture of Fertilizers same as Fertilizers
Oil Cake same as Fertiliizers
Oil Cloth 16 feet long or
oyer boxed 1
Oil Cloth less than 16 feet
long boxed 2
Oil Cloth baled U
Oil Cloth not boxed or baled not in shipping order
Oil Castor in glass
placked 1
Oil Castor in bbls 3
Oil in cans encased in
wood 1
Oil Petroleum and Petroleum Products viz
Benzine Gasoline and Naphtha viz
In iron drums or iron barrels actual weight or in metal cans securely packed in cases
L C L 4
Same in straight or mixed C L min wt
24000 lbs or in tank cars C L minimum capacity of tank but not less than 24000 lbs 6
Coal Oil Crude Oil Distillates Fuel Oil Gas Oil Grease not Axle Kerosene Oil Lubricating Oil not axle Grease Min
cR 1 OB
ers Oil Paraffine Oil Paraffine Wax Petrolatum Refined Oil Residium Road Oil Soap Oil Tailings Transformer Oil and Wool Oil viz
In metal cans without jackets unpacked L
C L 1
In metal cans jacketed
unpacked L C L 2
In metal cans boxed L
C L 3
In metal cans C L 4
In barrels or half barrels L C L 4
Same C L 6
In tank cars C L Minimum capacity of tank but not less than 24000
lbs 6
In iron drums or iron barrels actual weight
L C L 4
Note 1 The weight of contents of tank cars shall he computed at 66 pounds per gallon
Note 2 The weights on shipments in wood and cans shall be computed as follows
In wooden barrels containing not over 52 gallons 410 pounds each the weight of each gallon in excess of 52 gallons to he computed on basis of 76 pounds per gallon
In wooden halfbarrels contaln
lng not over 30 gallons 240 pounds each
In square cans completely cased each case containing 10 gallons 80 pounds each
Note 3 Shipments of petroleum grease paraffine wax and petrolatum shall he charged for on basis of actual weight Notes 1 and 2 will not apply
Paraffine wax may be shinped in boxes or bags at the same ratings as govern on shipments in barrels and half barrels
Oil Cocoa in original packagesV 1
Oil Cocoa in barrels 3
Oil Palm Seed crude L
C L Class K with 20 per cent added
Oil Cottonseed L C L 5
Same C L without percentage See Note R
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Noth Shipments of Cottonseed Oil In tank cars will be billed at a minimum weight based on shell capacity of tank computed at 7 pounds per gallon
When the shell capacity of tank is 6250 gallons or more settlement will be made on basis of actual weight subject to a minimum weight of 6250 gallons computed at 1 pounds per gallon
When the shell capacity of tank is less than 6250 gallons settlement will be made on basis of actual weight subject to a minimum weight based on the shell capacity of tank computed at 7 pounds per gallon
One remnant shipment of cottonseed oil in tank cars will be allowed made each season from each mill at the current carload rate subject to a minimum weight of 24000 pounds Transportation companies do not furnish tank cars
Oil Kerosene see Coal Oil
Oil Lard and Linseed
Oil Lubricating the product of Coal Oil same as Coal Oil
Oil Mill Rolls returned for repairs rating to apply in both directions
Oil Pine same as Coal Oil
Oil Sassafras in glass or cans boxed
Oils in glass or cans packed except Coal Oil and Sassafras Oil
Oils in jars not packed not taken
Oils N O S in bbls
Oil Tank Wagons see Vehicles
Oleomargarine see Butter
Olives in glass packed
Olives in barrels or casks
Onions in sacks L C L
Onions in barrels or crates
Onions in barrels crates boxes or in sacks pr in bulk C L
Onion Sets same as Onions
Oranges see Fruit
Ordnance Stores N O S
Ore Copper see Copper
Ores Iron L C L
Same C L min wt
25000 lbs class P less 40 per cent
Ores samples or specimens
must be prepaid
Organs see Musical In
struments
Outfits graders or contractors L C L
Same C L min wt
24000 lbs
Same C L min wt
24000 lbs with live stock
Outfits House Moving Contractors consisting of capstans secondhand chains ropes pulleys jack screws horsepower wrenches rollers wire cables bolts crowbars pickaxes shovels saws sledge hammers monkey wrenches blocking etc but not including ma
3 4 chines or machinery in
mixed shipments L C L Same C L min wt
20000 lbs
Ovens viz
Bakers sectional steel
4 K D L C L
Same C L
N O S S U not packed
1
3
D 1 2 4
N O S S U packed N O S K D packed Overalls see Garments cotton
Oysters in cans or kegs Oysters shell in barrels Oysters shell in bulk C L Oysters in glass packed
cr
3
6
3
5
n
p
1
4
5
6
6
1
6
2
6
Packing Asbestos see Asbestos
Packing Hemp
Packing Metallic
Packing Rubber
Paintings and Pictures well boxed value of each box not to exceed 200 D1 Paintings and Pictures over 200 in value 3 T1 Paints Red and White Lead and Linseed Oil viz
OR
2
6
5
1
D 1
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In glass or earthenware boxed 1
Bulk dry in boxes or
cases 5
Bulk earth metallic or dry in barrels casks sacks or kits L Ct L 6
Same C L L
Bulk not dry in wooden or steel kegs or pails kits barrels buckets casks iron or steel drums or tin kegs with flat top enclosed in veneer or
sheet metal jackets 5
In tin cans Jacketed
not packed 2
In tin cans boxed crated or packed in barrels 4
Paneling see Woodwork
Pants Jeans Cotton and Wool Mixed in bales or
in cases 3
Paper Bags see Bags
Paper Barrels nested packed 2
Paper Barrels not nested 4 T 1
Paper Binders Board see Binders Board
Paper Bottle Covers packed or pressed in bales 3 Paper Boxes see Boxes paper
Paper Cans see Cans Paper
Paper Card 1
Paper Collars see Collars
Paper Hangings in bundles 1
Paper Hangings boxed v 2
Paper Pads or Tablets and Blank Books with flexible paper backs in bundles crates or boxes L
C L 3
Same C L 5
Paper Pasteboard 6
Paper Printing or Wrapping 4 B
Paper same as above in
boxes 2
Paper in rolls for manufacture of bags B
Paper Pulp see Pulp
Paper Roofing see Roofing
Paper Sand and Flint 3
Paper Shirtboards see Sbirtboards
Paper Stock Waste viz Cotton Sweepings Motes Regins and inters Cotton Seed Hull Shavings or Fibre in bales with privilege to carrier of compressing value limited to 2 cents per pound and so speci
fied on bill of lading R
Paper Stock wasteCotton Sweepings and Motes
N O S 6
Paper Stock wasteCotton N O S 5
Paper Stock waste Woolen Jute or tailings
in bags 6
Paper Stock waste Woolen Jute or tailings
pressed in bales R
Paper Stock wastePaper in sacks bbls or
hhds 6
Paper Stock wastePaper pressed in bales or
orates R
Paper Stock wasteRags in sacks bbls bales
hhds or crates R
Paper Straw Boards 5
Faper Toilet packed or
in rolls or bundles 5
Paper wall any quantity
ih bundles l
Paper wall any quantity
in boxes 4 2
Paper Ware N O S 1
Paper Writing Book or Blotting in boxes 2
Parers Fruit boxed 2
Paris White same as paint
Paste in barrels 6
Peaches dried see Fruit
Dried
Peaches green see Fruit
Peach stones packed 6
Peanuts see Nuts
Pearl Ash 5
Peas Cow in bags barrels or boxes see note D
NoteBags must be made of burlap not less than 10 ounces per yard or cloth and be sufficiently strong and so closely woven and stitched as to
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carry contents safely and prevent sifting Bags which have been used for fertilizers or other articles containing acids must not be used
Peas N O S in bags barrels or boxes 5
Pea Hullers see Hullers
Pecans see Nuts
Pegs Shoe in bags 1
Pegs Shoe in barrels or
boxes 2
Peltries see Skins
Pencils Slate 3
Pepper and Spices in bags 3 Pepper and Spices N O
S ground in boxes 2
Pepper Sauce see Sauce Pepper
Perfumery 1
Petroleum see Oil
Phosphate Rock C L min
wt 24000 lbs p
Phosphate fruit beverage ready for use and not fountain juices extracts etc in barrels or kegs B
Photographic Material l
Pianos see Musical Instruments
Pickers Cotton Raw Hide 2
Pickles in glass packed 1
Pickles in barrels or casks 4
Pickles in cans boxed 4
Picks and Mattocks see Special Iron List
Picture Backing in packages 4
Pictures see Paintings
Pigs Feet see Meat
Pineapples in cans boxed 4
Pineapples in glass
packed 1
Pineapples C L and L
C L see Oranges etc under Fruit
Pine Straw loose C L
Class P less 20 per cent
Pins in cases 1
Pins Clothes see Clothes Pins
Pins Insulators see Telegraph Brackets
Pipe Copper Brass or
Metal N O S 1
Ppe Copper Brass or Metal N O S boxed 3 I
Pipe and Tile Drain or
Roofing L C L 5
Pipe and Tile Drain or Roofing C L min wt
25000 lbs R
Pipe Earthen not Drain
L C L i
Pipe Earthen not Drain
C L 3
Pipe Fittings see Iron
Pipe heating furnace galvanized iron or tin viz Crated or boxed not
nested D1
Crated or boxed nested 2
Same side seams not
closed nested wired
in bundles or crated
L C L 4
Same C L 5
Pipe Iron see Iron Bar
Band etc
Pipe iron in coils parts of ice machinery L C L
Same C L
Pipe Lead in rolls or reels 4 Pipe Lead in casks 5
Pipe Organs K D boxed same as Pianos
Pipe Sheet Iron Spiral 1
Pipe stove and elbows
L C L D 1
Pipe Stove and elbows
C L Loose or in bundles straight or mixed
C L minwt 20000 lbs 3 Pipe Stove side seams not closed viz nested and wired or crated L C L 1 Same O R of rust
L C L
Pipe nested and wired or crated or otherwise C
L min wt 20000 lbs
Pipe Tin boxed
Pipe Wood L C L
Same C L
Pipes Tobacco in boxes
Pitch any quantity same as Rosin
Planters see Agricultural Implements
Planes same as Tools N
O S
Plaster Board wall plaster rates plus 20 per cent
Plaster Wall Cement or Calcined including Plas
6
P
5
6
3
6
3
5
4
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ter of Paris in bbls or Sacks L C L
Same C L
Plaster Land same as Fertilizers
Plate Tin see Tin Plate Plated or White ware Plates Paper and Wood
L L
Plates Paper and Wood C L min wt 24000
lbs
Plates Heel see Heel Plates
Plows see Agricultural Implements
Plow Materials see Agricultural Implements
Plumbago
Plumbers Material N O
S packed
Plumbing Fixtures see Iron and Steel articles Poles Tent see Tents Poles N O S not over 3b feet in length C L min
wt 30000 lbs
Polishing Powders and Compounds see Powders
Polish Stove and Shoe
packed
Polish Stove and Shoe
in Glass packed
Ponies Shetland same as Live Stock
Porcelain Ware
Pork see Meats
Porter same as Ale
Posts split or round C L min wt 30000 lbs Class P less 20 per cent
Potash N O S
Potash Ball package
Potash German Muriate of and Sulphate of same as Fertilizers Potatoes L C L in bbls or sacks
Potatoes C L
Poultry dressed see Meats
Poultry live C L
Same L C L
Powder Baking
Powder Bleaching
Powder Gun and other Explosives L C L
D 1
Same C L min wt 5000 lbs 1
Powdered Leaves in boxes or barrels 1
Powders and other Washing Compounds see Soap Powders Cattle Horse or Condition 1
Powders Polishing Compounds etc 3
Powers Horse see Agricultural Implements Preserves in glass packed 1
Preserves in cans boxed 4
Preserves in wood N O S 3
Presses Cider see Agricultural Implements Presses Cotton and Hay see Agricultural Implements Presses Copying 2
Presses Printing see Machinery Presses N O S 2
Printed Matter in sheets boxed prepaid 2
Prints same as Domestics Pruners see Agricultural Implements Prunes in boxes or kegs 2
Prunes in casks 4
Pulleys see Machinery Pulp Paper or Wood R
Pumice Stone 3
2 Pumps and Pump Material wooden L C L 3
Same C L 4
Pumps Hand 1
Pumps Steam pumping engines and machinery L C L O
same C L 4
Putty L C L 5
Pyrites L C L prepaid in boxes or barrels B
Pyrites C L min wt 24000 lbs P
R Q
D Quartermasters Stores 1
N Quicksilver in iron flasks 1
Quilting attachments K
2 D in bundles 2
R Radiators and Heaters steam or water L C L 3
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Rags see Paper Stock Rasps see Files
Railing see Woodwork Raisins not strapped
Raisins strapped
Rakes see Agricultural Implements
Rattan
Rat Traps see Traps Reapers see Agricultural Implements
Red Lead same as Paints
Reeds
Reels viz
Cable empty L C L Same C L min wt
12000 lbs
Hose Garden and Lawn viz
Set up L C L
Knocked down packed L C L
K D or S U C L Hose Iron K D packed
Reflectors packed
Refrigerators see Furniture
Regins see Paper Stock Registers Cash boxed
Retorts Clay
Retorts Copper
Retorts Iron see Iron Retorts Soda Water
Rice rough
Rice in sacks
Rice clean in bbls or
casks 1
Rice clean in boxes or
kegs
Rice Flour see Flour Rivets Iron see Iron
Robes Buffalo
Rods Nail see Iron
Rods Meat see Hooks Rollers Field Road and Sugar see Agricultural Implements
Rollers Printers
Roofing Asbestos see Asbestos
Roofing Cement and Roof Coating liquid in barrels
or casks L C L
Same C L
Roofing Felt or Paper in
bdls or rolls
Roofing or Sheathing Cement and Prepared or
CB
OK
1
2
1
2
3
5
D1
1
4
2
D 1
D1 1
1 2
4
D
C
O
3
D 1
1
6
A
B
CR OR
Composition Roofing sheet same as Roofing Felt or Paper
Notb Roofing In rolls each roll containing liquid cement tin roofing caps or nails sufficient to lay the roofing may be carried at the ratings applying on the roofing
Roofing Glass see Glass
Roofing Granite packed 5
Roofing Iron see Iron Roofing
Roofing Material C L min wt 25000 lbs consisting of 71 per cent gravel 18 per cent tar and 11 per cent paper
of the gross weight L
Note Necessary tools for applying roofing may be shipped in same car at the published rate on such tools
Roofing Slate L C L 6
Roofing Slate C L min wt 25000 lbs See Rule
12 P
Roofing Tile see Pipe
Roofing Tin in rolls 5 6
Root Angelica in barrels
or boxes 1
Roots and Herbs value not over 10c per pound L
C L 4
Same C L 6
Roots and Herbs value over 10c per pound 3
Rope N O S 3
Rope Bed Cord 3
Rope Clothes Line 3
Rope Hair see Hair
Rope Cotton see Domestics
Rope Old 6
Rope hemp jute or manilla same as yarn jute or sisal
Rope Wire see Wire
Rosin any quantity Class K less 20 per cent without percentage
Rosin Dross same as Rosin
Rubber Belting see Belting
Rubber Car Springs see Springs
Rubber Clothing and Rubber Goods N O S see Clothing
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Rubber Hose see Hose
Rubber Packing see Packing
Rubber old scrap 5
Rugs N O S 1
Rugs Grass Hemp Hair
Steel Wire Rubber and
Cocoa 3
Rugs Oil 1
Rustic Work not boxed 3T1 Rustic Work crated 1
Rustic Work entirely
boxed 2
Rye see Grain
S
Sacks same as Bags
Saddlery 2
Saddlery Horse Collars 2
Saddlery Horse Collars other than Leather Saddlery Harness boxed 2
Saddlery Harness in bundles 1
Saddles not boxed 1
Same boxed 2
Saddletrees not boxed 1
Same boxed 2
Sadirons see Iron
Safes Iron each weighing 3000 pounds or less 4
Safes Iron each weighing over 3000 lbs and not
over 6000 lbs 3
Safes Iron each weighing over 6000 lbs and not over 10000 lbs 2
Safes Iron each weighing over 10000 lbs Special Contract
Safes Kitchen and Pantry
see Furniture
Safes or Covers Cheese
boxed 3T1
Sago in bags boxes or
barrels 3
Sails 1
Saleratus see Soda
Sal Soda 6
Salt in sacks or barrels
L C L C
Same C L min wt 20
000 lbs O
Salt Brick see Brick
Salt Cake same as Fertilizers
Salt Table 6
Salts Bleaching same as Lime Chloride of
R
1
4
CR
OR
Salts Epsom in casks or barrels L C L 5
Salts Epsom C L R
Salts Epsom L C L N
O S 4
Saltpetre L C L 5
Same C L M
Samp 2
Sand N O S C L min wt 30000 lbs class P less 20 per cent See Rule 12
Sand L C L in barrels B Sand or Dust Moulding 5
Sand Paper see Paper
Saratoga Chips 5
Sardines see Fish
Sash unglazed Blinds Doors and Frames L C
L
Same C L
Sash Glazed L C L
Same C L
Sash Weights see Iron Sauce Pepper in glass packed
Sauces N O S
Sauer Kraut in barrels Sausage see Meat Sawbucks Wooden in bundles
Sawdust L C L in barrels or bags
Sawdust loose C L min
wt 25000 lbs
Saw Logs see Logs
Saw Mills see Machinery Saws N O S loose Saws N O S on boards Saws N O S boxed
Sawplates packed
Scales and Scale Beams
set up wrapped
Scales and Scale Beams
K D wrapped
Same boxed
Scrapers Road and Pond see Agricultural Implements
Screens Door or Window wire in bundles boxes
or crates L C L
Screens Door or Window wire C L min wt 15
000 lbs
Screws Wood packed Screws N O S packed
to oi to rf co ii m h k hdoseo ctp tdw
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Scythes see Agricultural Implements
Sea Grass pressed in bales 4
Seats Telegraph Pole see Telegraph Materials
Seed Cane Sorghum B
Seed Corn in boxes 2
Seed Flax 4
Seed Garden 2
Seed Garden returned over same line by which originally forwarded 4
Seed Grass and Clover L
C L 3
Same C L 4
Seed Linseed 4
Seed Millet B
Seed Mustard 6
Seed Sunflower 6
Seed N O S 7 2
Separators see Agricultural Implements
Sewing Machines see Machinery
Shades Window see Window Shades Shadines See Fish Shafting See Machinery Shafts See Vehicle Ma
terial
Shale same as Clay
Shavings and Chips pressed in bales 6
Sheathing Metallic boxed or crated or in bundles wired 3
Sheetings same as Domestic Sheep see Live Stock
Sheep Skins see Skins
Shellac see Gum
Shellers see Agricultural Implements
Shells viz
Oyster crushed or ground or not crushed or ground in bulk in bags or barrels L C L
LCL fertilizer rates
In packages named or in bulk C L min wt
30000 lbs
C L fertilizer rates Shells Sea L C L prepaid D1
Same C L 5
Shingles L C L B
Shingles C L min wt
24000 lbs p
CR I QR
Shingles
Metal other than iron steel or tin in boxes
L C L 4
Same C L 6
Iron steel or tin in boxes or crates L
C L 5
Same in packages named straight or mixed C Lt min
wt 20000 lbs 6
Ship Stuff same as Bran Shirtboards made of pasteboard printed or not
printed 6
Shirting same as Domestics
Shirts 1
Shirts and Drawers unlaundered entirely cotton see Garments cot
ton
Shoe Findings See Findings
Shoe Lasts see Lasts Shoe Pegs see Pegs
Shoe Polish see Polish Shoes See Boots
Shoes Horse and Mule
see Special Iron List Shoddy Wool pressed in
bales 6
Shoddy in bags not
pressed 4
Shoddy in crates 5
Shooks and Heading see Barrel Material
Shorts See Rule 12 D
Shot Bullets and Granulated Steel viz
In bags 2
In boxes strapped 3
In double sacks cooperage or drums 5
Shovels see Agricultural Implements
Show Cards see Signs
Show Cases Display or Wall Cases and Cabinets Show Cases glazed or unglazed Display or all Cases and Cabi1 nets glazed in boxes
or crates S U L C L D 1 Same K D L C L l Same S U or K D C
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Bases or Stands unglazed same as Fixtures
Shrubbery see Trees
Shucks in bales rough
See Rule 12 D
Shucks prepared haled shipped from factory or furniture warehouse 4
Shuttle Blocks rough 3
Sieves Tin nested packed in boxes 2
Sieves Wire boxed or
crated 2
Signs Card Metallic or
Wood 2
Signs Glass same as Glass Colored Stained etc
St Johns Bread in bbls
or boxes 1
Signs Trade boxed freight to be prepaid or
guaranteed 2
Sisal see Yarn
Sizing for factories L C
L 5
Same C L 6
Skewers see Bobbins
Skins Deer see Hides
Slag C L min wt 30000 lbs See Rule 12
Class P less 20 per cent
Slate Mantels See Mantels
Slate Pencils see Pencils
Slate Roofing see Roofing Slates School boxed 3
Sledges see Iron
Smoke Stacks Flues or Hoods N O S L C L 1
Same C L min wt 20000 lbs 6
Smoke Stacks Flues or Hoods cut in sections side seams not closed
nested L C L 4
Same C L min wt 20
000 lbs 6
Smokers Bee see Bee Smokers
Snaths see Agricultural Implements
Snuff in casks bbls or
boxes 2
Snuff in jars packed 2
Same not packed D1
OR
CR I OR
Soap Castile and Fancy 2
Soap Common 6
Soap Powders and other Washing Compounds same as Soap common
Soap Stock including cottonseed oil foots pitch or tankbottoms residuum of cottonseed oil refinings Class Rf without percentage
Soapstone Crude C L min wt 25000 lbs See
Rule 12 P
Soapstone in kegs barrels
casks or sacks L C L 6
Same G L A
Soda in kegs boxes and
drums 5
Soda Ash same as Fertilizers
Soda Caustic in iron casks
or drums 6
Soda Fountains see Fountains Soda
Soda Fountain Retorts see Retorts
Soda Nitrate of in boxes 1 Soda Nitrate of L C L same as Fertilizer L C
L
Soda Nitrate of C L same as Fertilizer C L
Soda Sal 6
Soda Silicate of 6
Softener Cotton and Wool N O S
Same in barrels
Solder
Sorghum see Syrup
Spades see Agricultural Implements
Spelter in slabs or casks 5
Spices see Pepper
Spikes Iron see Iron
Spokes and Shafts See Vehicle Material
Sponge D1
Spools and Beams Yarn empty without percentage 6
Spreaders see Agricultural Implements
Springs Bed Furniture in bundles wired together li
Same in barrels or casks 3
Same in boxes 2
R
wMct
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CR I OR
Springs Car N O S 6
Springs Car Rubber loose 4 Same boxed 5
Springs Vehicle see Special Iron List
Stairwork see Woodwork Stamp Mill Machinery see Machinery
Staples Fence see Special Iron List
Starch L C L 4
Starch C L min wt 24
000 lbs C
Stationery 2
Statuary Iron Lawn Or naments etc See Iron Statues 3 T 1
Staves see Barrel and Box Material
Steam Gauges see Machinery
Steam Heaters See Machinery
Steel not packed of 6
Steel packed 2
Steel wired or strapped 5
Steel Bars each 200 lbs and over 5
Steelyards K D packed 4
Steelyards unboxed 1
Stereotype Plates boxed for newspapers from
manufacturer 2
Stereotype Plates old boxed returned to manufacturer 5
Stereotype Plates N O S 2
Stills Worm crated 1
Stone Granite and Marble
When shipper desires to assume risk of loss or damage in order to secure lower rate he is required on demand of carrier to sign bill of lading releasing said carrier of liability
Stone Granite and Marble
L C L valuation lipited to 500 per cubic foot 4
Same valuation not restricted 1
Stone Granite and Marble viz
Blocks and Slabs including furniture marble slabs for interior finish
and grave and monumental work rough dressed or finished unlettered valuation limited to 20 cents per cubic foot
C L min wt 25000
lbs P
Same L C LI of 6
Building Stone and Cement Building Blocks including Tile but not other interior finish nor ornamental work cut or sawed into shape rough dressed or carved but not polished
1 protected otherwise
at owners risk valuation limited to 20 cents per cubic foot
C L min wt 25000 lbs Class P less 20 per cent Not subject to Rule No 27
Same L C L I of 6
Blocks Paving rough rubble and Crushed Stone C L min wt
30000 lbs Rule 12
Class P less 20 per cent
Same L C L of 6
Curbing C L min wt
25000 lbs Class P less
20 per cent
Same L C Li of 6
Monuments and Grave stones lettered valuation limited to 20 cents per cubic foot packed charges prepaid or guaranteed C L min wt
25000 lbs P
Same L C L of 6
Stoneware same as Earthenware
Stools Piano see Furniture
Stove Boards boxed or
crated 3
Stove Furniture L C L 1
Same C L 3
Stove Pipe See Pipe
Stove Plates L C L 1
Same C L 3
Stoves and Ranges viz
Alcohol Gas Gasoline
3
5
3
5
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Oil or Vapor boxed or
crated L C Lr 2
Same boxed crated or loose C L min wt
16000 lbs 4
Stoves Stove Plates Furniture and Hollow Ware
including the necessary
pipe L C L 1 3
Same C L 3 5
For special rates between junction points see Circular 309
Straw see Hay Rule 12
Straw Boards 5
Straw Goods 1
Straw Pine See Pine
Straw or Wooden Bottle Covers pressed in bales 3
Stucco same as Plaster
Calcined
Sugar in bags 2 4
Sugar in double sacks same as in barrels
Sugar in boxes strapped 4 5
Same not strapped 2 4
Sugar in bbls and hogsheads 6
Sugar Cane L C L prepaid 6
Same C L prepaid O
Sugar Grape 6
Sulphates L C L 6
Sulphates Ash and Soda
C L same as Fertilizers
Sulphur in boxes L C L 1
Sulphur in bags barrels casks or kegs L C L 4
Sulphur for spraying purposes or for manufac
ture of Fertilizers C L Same as Fertilizers Sumac viz
Ground in bags or bbls
L C L 4
Same C L min wt 20
000 lbs 5
Leaf C L min wt 16
000 lbs 4
Sumac Extract in bbls or
casks 4
Sweeping Factory see Paper Stock
Swings wooden or wood and iron combined including roller swings L
C L 3
Same C L min wt 20
000 lbs 6
Syrup and Molasses viz
In barrels halfbarrels
kegs or hogsheads R
In tank cars minimum weight 50000 lbs See Note R
Note Syrup and Molasses In tank cars will be handled at an estimated weight of 117 pounds per gallon where actual weight can not be ascertained
Syrup in cans same as Fruit and Vegetables in cans
Syrups in glass boxed 1
Syrup cane in glass
packed 5
Syrups Fountain see Juices Fruit
T
Tables Billiard see Billiard Tables
Tackle Fishing see Fishing Tackle
Tacks packed 6
Tailings see Paper Stock
Talc apply Soapstone rates
Tallow in barrels B
TallowN O S 5
Tamarinds same as Oranges
Tanbark see Bark
Tanks
Iron or Steel N O S
S U L C L 3
Same C L min wt 20
000 lbs 6
Tin Sheet Iron or Sheet Steel plain or galvanized viz
With pump hood and measure inside of tank boxed or crated L C L D1
N O S S U L C L D1
N O S K D L C L 2 N O S C L min wt
15000 lbs 4
Tanks Wood set up D1
Tanks Wood K D packed B
Tank Stuff same as Fertilizers
OR
6
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Tapioca in boxes bbls or
bags 3
Tar Pitch in bbls same as Rosins
Tar Coal in barrels L C
L B
Tar Coal C L See Rule
12 O
Tarpaulins packed in boxes or bales same as Domestics
Tea 1
Telegraph and Telephone Material viz
Poles C L min wt
25000 lbs P
Poles L C L B
Insulator Brackets or Pins without percentage C L K
Same L C L R
Braces Cross arm Iron of 6
Cross arms with Insulator Pins or Brackets affixed 6
Same without Insulator Pins or Brackets L
C L 6
Same without Insulator Pins or Brackets C
L min wt 24000
lbs P
Insulators Porcelain or
Glass packed 4
Wire see Wire
Seats Pole 4
Supplies mixed shipments of consisting of
Sal Ammoniac Pencil Zincs Bluestone Muriatic Acid Machine Bolts Washers Hand Axes Pliers Connectors Screw Drivers Linemens Spurs Screws Iron Pole Steps Wire Pointed Tacks or Staples Lightning Arrestors
Fuse Blocks Terminal Heads for Cables Anchor Rods Paraffine Rubber Tubing Cable Aerial Submarine and Underground and other analogous materials 3
Telephones boxed 3
Outfits for construction or repair of telephone or telegraph line Same as Outfits Graders or Contractors
Wire Copper and Insulated L C L
Same C L
Wire Telegraph other than abov same as wire common
Tents Tent Poles and Pins TerraCotta in packages TerraCotta Architectural
C L
TerraCotta Architectural packed in casks tierces
etc L C L
Terra Japnica
Thread Spool Cotton and
Silk
Thread Cotton Factory products in balls bales or skeins packed in burlaps or cases same as Domestics
Threshers see Agricultural Implements Tickings same as Domestics
Ties Cotton and Hay Tile viz
Drain and Roofing see Pipe
Fire for Lining etc
Hollow fireproof L C
L
Same C L min wt 25
000 lbs
Marble etc see Stone Paving Cement C L same as Stone Building and Cement Building Blocks
Paving Cement L C L Packed
Timber N O S rough hewed round split or sawed other than fuel same as Lumber
Tin Block and Pig
Tin Foil in boxes
Tin Plate in boxes or rolls
L C L
Tin Plate C L
Tin Roofing see Roofing
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CR Oft
CR OR
Tin Scrap in rolls or bundles wired or crated 6
Tinners Trimmings N O
S 2
Tinware and Tin Stamped Ware boxed or crated 4
Tires Locomotive see Iron
Tires Wagon see Iron
Tobacco Box Material L
c l 6
Same C L min wt 24
000 lbs P
Tobacco cases and boxes
empty 1
Tobacco Cut in boxes
bbls or bales 1
Tobacco Leaf in cases 1
Tobacco Plug in boxes
or kegs 1
Tobacco Screws and Fixtures See Machinery Tobacco Smoking 1
Tobacco Stems prized 6
Same not prized 1
Tobacco Unmanufactured
not prized
Same prized 2
Toe Calks see Calks
Tongues Pickled in barrels or kegs 4
Tongues Smoked 3
Tonqua Beans in boxes or
bbls 1
Tools Edge 2
Tools Mechanic boxed 2
ToothpiGks 2
Tow in bales 2
Same compressed 3
Toys viz
Drums boxed 3T1
Furniture childrens L
C L D1
Same C L min wt
15000 lbs 1
Hobby Horses entirely boxed or crated L
C L D1
Hobby Horses not boxed 3 T 1 Hobby Horses boxed or crated C L min wt
15000 lbs 1
Sleds or Sleighs childrens L C L in bdls D l Same C L min wt
15000 lbs 1
Trunks 11
Wax Show Figures D1
3
1
Wheelbarrows C h i 1drens in bdls L C L D1
Same C L min wt
15000 lbs 1
Mixed C L min wt 15
000 lbs 1
Toys N O S 1
Tracks Railway portable of iron or wood
K D L C L 4
Same C L 6
Trains Sugar see Agricultural Implements
Traps Fly D1
Traps Mouse and Rat 1
Traveling Bags see Bags Trays Butter see Butter Trays
Trees and Shrubbery baled
or boxed L C L prepaid or guaranteed
Same C L
Tripe see Meat
Tripoli 4
Trucks Warehouse and
Factory L C L 3
Same C L 6
Trunks single 11
Trunks nested or filled with merchandise crated
or strapped 1
Trunks empty or filled with merchandise corded
or wrapped 1
Trunks filled with merchandise not corded or
wrapped D1
Trunks N O S D1
Tubes Sheet Metal see Iron
Trunks Sample D1
Tubs N O S 1
Tubs Bath all kinds L
C L 1
Tubs Bath cast iron C L 4
Tubs Bath N O S C L
min wt 10000 lbs 2
Tubs Bath see Iron and Steel Articles
Tubs Bath folding wrapped or crated i 1
Tumblers packed 2
Turbine and Water Wheels see Wheels
Turnips in barrels or sacks 6
Turpentine Spirits in packages less than a barrel 3
6
O
1
2
1
3
2
4
R
5
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Turpentine Spirits in barrels without percentage R
Turpentine Spirits in tank cars See Note without percentage R
Note On shipments in tank cars when the shell capacity of tank Is less than 6250 gallons weights will be assessed on shell capacity of tank multiplied by 72 pounds to the gallon When capacity of tank is 6250 gallons or more settlement will be made on basis of actual weight subject to a minimum weight of 6250 gallons multiplied by 72 pounds to the gallon Transportation companies do not furnish tank cars
Turpentine Cups viz
Earthen Same as Earth
enware
Fibre or Fibreoid L C
L 3
Same C L minimum weight 15000 lbs 5
Iron steel or tin with or without hangers not nested in barrels boxes bundles or crates
L C L 1
Nested in barrels boxes bundles or crates
L C L 4
Nested or not nested in packages or loose
C L minimum weight 30000 pounds 6
Twine 3
Type boxed 2
Type Old in boxes barrels
or kegs 3
Typewriters boxed D1
U
Umbrellas boxed 1
Urns see Iron
V
Vaults Burial see Burial Vaults
Vehicles and material for Vehicles as follows
In all items under heading of Vehicles the term Wagons is intended only to apply to rough cheap farm wagons with or without springs and is not intended for buggies or varnished pleasure or business wagons which articles and articles of like character take same class as Buggies Trotting Wagons etc
OR
Vehicles viz
Automobiles Locomobiles or other selfpropelled Vehicles See notes viz
S U L C L
K D boxed or well crated L C L
S U or K D C L min wt 10000 lbs
CR
D 1 11 1
Note Automobiles or other selfpropelled vehicles too bulky to be loaded in box cars will not be accepted for transportation unless properly protected by tarpaulins and small or detachable parts must be removed and packed in boxes which must be securely fastened to the vehicle or to the floor of the car
Gigs and Sulkies Same as Carriages Buggies and Trotting Wagons
Hook and Ladder Trucks
Village handhauled S
U D1
Same K D li
Hose Reels N O S and Hook and Ladder
Trucks L C L min
wt 4000 lbs each Dl Same C L min wt
20000 lbs 5
Hose Reels or Hose
Carts twowheeled K
D boxed or crated L
C L D1
Same C L min wt
20000 lbs5
Hose Wagons with 1 Chemical Engine at
tachments min wt
4000 lbs each D1
Carriages Buggies Gigs
Sulkies and Trotting Wagons boxed or well crated C L min wt
8000 lbs 3
Carriages Buggies Gigs
Sulkies and Trotting Wagons loose C L min wt 24000 lbs 3 Carriages Buggies Gigs Sulkies and Trotting Wagons set up L C v L actual weight 4 T 1 Carriages Buggies Gigs Sulkies and Trotting
OR
4
4
3 T 1
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Wagons L C L K D boxed or well crated value not to exceed 15 per 100 lbs in case of total loss for which carrier is liable Carriages Buggies Gigs Sulkies and Trotting Wagons L C L K D boxed or well crated value over 15 per 100 lbs in case of total loss for which
carrier is liable
Carriage and Buggy Shafts and Poles fully wrapped shipped separate from vehicles Carriages Childrens K D in boxes bndls or
crates
Carriages Childrens set
up boxed
Carriages Childrens set
up unboxed
Cars Railroad see Cars Carts Hand K D and packed or bundled Dump Carts with wheels
detached
Hearses K D boxed or
crated
Hearses set up see Stage Coaches under Vehicles
Oil Tank Wagons S U L C L min wt 4000
lbs
Same tongues wheels poles or shafts detached L C L
Same C L min wt
20000 lbs
Road Village or Pleasure Carts see Carriages etc
Stage Coaches Omnibuses and Hearses actual wt
Vehicle Material Boxes Skeins and Springs see Special Iron List Vehicle Material Buggy Bodies Bows Doubletrees Felloes Hubbs Rims Seats Shafts Singletrees Spokes
CE
OR
CR
OR
D 1
D1
D1 1
D 1 3 T 1
3
4
n
D 1
2
5
4 T 1
1J
3 T 1
Whiffletrees and Wheels N O S viz
Finished L C L
Same C L
In the white L C L
Same C L
In the rough L C L Same G L Dashes boxed or crated Bicycles Tricycles or Velocipedes viz Crated or boxed not taken otherwise L C
L
Same C L min wt
10000 lbs i
Velocipedes Railroad Wlagons and Carts C
L min wt 24000 lbs Wagons and Carts Farm or Lumber set
up actual weight
Wagons and Carts Farm or Lumber taken apart and thoroughly knocked down in any quantity actual weight Wagons Childrens same as Childrens Carriages
Wagons Street Sprinklers
Wagon Parts Wood unpainted K D and packed in crates or
bundles
Wagon Tires see Tires Valves Brass see Brass Varnish in barrels or kegs Varnish in cans boxed Varnish in cans not boxed Vaseline in cans packed Vaseline in glass packed Vault Lights see Glass Vegetables Desiccated Vegetables in cans see Fruit in cans
Vegetables N O S prepaid or guaranteed
Veneering boxed
Same not boxed
Ventilators sheet metal L
C L
Same C L min wt
10000 lbs
Vermicelli
Vinegar in barrels or kegs
lk
3
1
4
D 1
D1
1
D 1
D 1
1
1
B
1
1
161
CR
Vinegar in glass same as Beer Ale and Porter in glass
Vinegar Shavings or Chips
in bags 5
Vises packed or unpacked 4
Vitriol Blue in barrels 5
W
Wadding D1
Wagon Jacks see Jackscrews etc
Wainscoting sexe Wood work
Wall Plaster See Plaster
Washers in kegs of 6
Washers in other packages 2
Washing Compounds see Soap
Waste and Paper Stock N
O S in bales with privilege to carrier of compressing value limited to 2c per pound R
Same otherwise packed 6
Waste Manufactured String for packing wiping etc in bales or
bags 5
Waste Paper etc1 see Paper Stock
Water Ammonia in iron casks 5
Water Ammonia in glass
packed 3
Water Coolers and Filters
See Coolers
Waters Aerated Carbonated and Mineral Waters in wood or in galvanized
iron cans 6
Same in glass or earthenware packed L C L 4
Same in glass or earthenware packed or in wood straight or mixed
C L 6
Noth Ale Beer and Water Packages empty returned consisting of barrels halfbarrels and kegs and bottles in wooden wire or sheet metal cases barrels or casks
In less car loads 6th class carloads minimum weight 10000 lbs onehalf of the rate applying on same when filled and moving in reverse direction
Watermelons see Melons
Wax N O S 4
CR
OR
Wax Comb Foundation boxed
Wax Extractors crated
Wedges see Iron
Weights Sash see Iron
Weights Clock packed
Well Curbing See Curbing
Well Buckets See Buckets
Whalebone
Wheat see Grain
Wheat Cracked see Food Preparations
Wheelbarrows see Agricultural Implements
Wheels and Axles Car see Special Iron List
Wheels and Vehicles see Vehicles
Wheels Water Wheels Well same as Pulleys 3 4
Whetstones boxed 3
Whips Whiskey see Liquors 1
Whiting N G S 5
Whiting in boxes Whiting in barrels casks 3
or sacks dry C L L
Willow Reeds in bales 2
Willow Ware Willow Ware Baskets D 1
nested Window Casings see Woodwork 1
Window Shades 1
Window Shade Cloth Window Frames see Sash etc 1
Wind Mills K D in bndls Wine see Liquors Wines High same as Liquors Wire Common Barbed or S
otherwise see Special Iron List
Wire Binding Wire copper and insulated 3 5
L C L 2
Same C L 4
Wire Cloth Wire Fence See Fencing Wire Goods boxed N 1
O S 3
Wire Grass see Grass 1
Wire Mattresses see Fur
niture
Wire Rope 4
Wire Seives see Sieves
162
CR
Wire Screens 1
Wire Telegraph see Telegraph
Wire N O S 3
Wire Work Racks Stands
Vases Signs and Figures boxed or crated3 T 1 Wire Work Woven Table
Toilet and Household Articles boxed or crated D 1 Wire Fencing see Fencing Wire
Wire Netting see Netting Wire
Wood Green or Dry C L of 10 cords to be billed by cord See Rule 12 P Wood Ashes see Ashes
Wooden Butter Dishes
packed L C L 3
Wooden Butter Dishes C
L min wt 24000 lbs 6
Wooden Covers see Covrs
Wooden Ware N O S 1
Wooden Ware does not include Willow Ware which is D 1
Wood Liquor in barrels 3
Wood Plates L C L 3
Wood Plates C L min
wt 24000 lbs 6
Wood Hard in the rough shaped for manufacturing It C L 0
Same C L see Handles
Woodwork viz Railing Balusters Wainscoting Stairwork Paneling Window Casings all of oak or other hardwoods for in
oR
CR
OR
side finish of houses in bundles crates or boxes
L C L 4
Same C L Woolen and Cotton Goods mixed without percent 6
D 1 age Wool washed in bags not 5
1 pressed 2
Wool unwashed in hags
not pressed Wool washed in bags 4
pressed in bales Wool unwashed pressed in bags or bales not to exceed in size 2i ft x 3i ft x 6 ft nor weighing 3
less than 200 lbs Woolen Goods without per 6
centage 4
Wool Mineral in hags 1
Wringers Clothes packed 2
3 Same not packed Y Yachts see Boats Yarn Cotton same as Domestics D 1
Yarn jute or sisal 6
Yarns N O S 3
Yeast in wood 3
Yeast in boxes 3
Yokes Z 1
Zinc in sheets or rolls Zinc in blocks or pigs L 4
C L 5
Same C L Zinc Cornices see Cornices 6
Zinc Oxide Zinc Paints see Paints 5
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DISTANCE TABLES
Indicates NonAgency Stations
ALABAMA GREAT SOUTHERN RAILROAD
GeorgiaTennessee Line 000 Wildwood 184 Morganville New England Trenton 457 723 1043 Tatum Rising Fawn Sulphur Springs 1275 1822 2352
ATLANTA WEST POINT RAILROAD
Atlanta 000 Union City 1707 St Charles 4651
Fairburn 1881 Grantville 5094
Milton Avenue 496 Wright s 2144 Trimble 5526
Oakland 720 Palmetto 2519 Hogansville 5769
McCollum 3028 Louise 6424
East Point 656 Madras 3316 LaGrange 7088
College Park 857 McBride 3723 Cannonville 7780
Red ak 1233 Newnan 3881 80 10
Stonewall 1573 Moreland 4518 West Point 8619
ATLANTA BIRMINGHAM ATLANTIC RAILROAD
BRUNSWICK TO BIRMINGHAM
Brunswick V 00
Southern Junction 90
Brobston 123
Anguilla 159
Leicht 171
Blounts 194
Thallman 211
Lott 240
Browntown 270
Fendig 312
Needmore 347
Hortense 380
Zirkle 435
Offerman 487
Bristol 555
Coffee 628
Mill City 680
Rockingham 702
Alma 734
Guysie 772
Sessoms 809
Nicolls 842
Chatterton 900
Douglas 973
Upton 1001
Bushnell 1049
Ambrose 1089
Wray 1120
Osierfield 1169
Ashton 1208
Fitzgerald 1260
Abba 1334
Arp 1354
Rebecca 1416
Double Run1471
Hatley 1516
Musselwhite 1580
Cordele 1629
Ross 1670
Vienna 1725
Lilly 1786
Byrojnville 1834
Dooling 1859
Fields 1909
Montezuma 1941
Oglethorpe 1957
Bartlett 2009
Ideal 2057
Southland 2088
Rupert 2131
Charing 2181
Mauk 2224
Norwich 2254
Junction City 2304
Paschal 2310
Talbotton 2382
Berry 2431
Woodland 2483
Chalybeate Springs 2543
Manchester 2560
Bullochville 2614
Warm Springs 2620
Durand 2676
Stovall 2732
Big Springs 2777
Knott 2802
LaGrange 2868
Pyne 2931
Abbottsford 2970
GeorgiaAlabama
Line 2998
Standing Rock
Ala 3018
Roanoke Ala3111
Birmingham Ala 4538
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ATLANTA BIRMINGHAM ATLANTIC RAILROADContinued
MANCHESTER TO ATLANTA
Manchester 00 Haralson 289 Union City 561
Persico 48 Senoia 344 Dungamore 596
Woodbury 103 Aberdeen 428 Ben Hill 648
Imlac 142 Tyrone 473 Stratford 705
Gay 192 Fife 530 Bellwood Yard 757
Alvaton 246 Atlanta 782
WAYCROSS TO SESSOMS
Sessoms 00 Bolen 110 Waltertown 195
Murray 41 Haygood 141 Waycross 260
Beach 70
FITZGERALD TO THOMASVI LLE
Fitzgerald 00 Kell 296 Corbetts 551
Fletcher 58 Iniss 322 Sunset 579
Mystic 92 Omega 352 Murphy 613
Pinetta 115 Crosland 389 Coolidge 660
Hansen 154 Norman Park 425 Merrillville 703
Harding 181 Barbers 466 Touraine 719
Brighton 202 Kingwood 501 Dillon 740
Tifton 256 Moultrie 524 Thomasville 808
ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY
SAVANNAH TO SOUTH CAROLINA STATE LINE
Savannah
Savannah
Dale
Millers
Burroughs Ways
Baileys Siding
Fleming
Aimars Siding
McIntosh
Allenhurst
Walthourville Aimar
Ludowici
000 Big Stick Lbr Co Monteith 1089 OLearys 1313 1522
SAVAN NAH TO FLORIDA STATE LINE
000 Doetorfown 5269 Baybon 8174
fi gig Tesiip 5719 Nahunta 8561
1018 GrayMitchell Lbr Hickox 8820
1175 Co 6129 National Turpen
1594 Broadhurst 6687 tine Co 8959
2148 Fairfield 6978 Bachelot 9324
2420 McKinnon Bros N G Wades
2810 Siding 6987 Siding 9509
3134 McKinnon Bros Winokur 9745
3628 Siding 7157 N G Wades
3864 McKinnon 7237 Siding 10179
41 80 7625 Newell 10420
4627 G S Holmes Siding Folkston 7897 11164
7897
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ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANYContinued
JESUP TO ALABAMA STATE LINE
Jesup 000 Peeks Siding 8999 T D Lewis 15520
Slover 496 Delmar 9076 Cairn 15736
C S Meadows Jr 932 Indianola 9397 W D Lewis Siding 15955
Screven 1153 Truloves Still 9595 Maxwell Brick Co 16341
Offerman 1926 Dashers Siding 9774 Whigham 16432
Patterson 2137 Valdosta 10002 Boyd s Siding 16583
Owen 2596 S M Stanley 10110 Curry Bostwick 16879
Blackshear 2975 Paine Smith 10380 Climax 17079
Homestead 3224 Kinderlou 10569 Autrey Chapman 17392
Deans Still 3324 Ousley 10941 Farrar Lumber Co 17749
Bonnyman 3602 Durden 11159 McCaskill Spur 17788
Way cross 3969 Blue Springs Bathesay Lbr Co 17788
Buskin 4576 Lumber Co 11290 Bainbridge 17928
Hay Keaton 4847 Quitman 11703 West Bainbridge 18061
Glenmore 5109 Companys Track 12166 Oglesby Lbr Co 18396
Manor 5408 Dixie 12389 Smiths Spur 18406
Lewis Mfg Co 5637 Pidcock 12667 Hanover 18561
Argyle 5902 Molloys Still 13044 Cyrene 18765
Tra vis ville 6080 Kirbys Ping Mill 13061 Hodges Powell 18784
Drawdys Still 6275 Boston 13120 Brinson 19053
Homerville 6525 Companys Siding 13490 Stuart Lbr Co 19121
Bhinessmith Newark 13820 Caldwell Siding 19413
Hughes 6680 Neils Siding 14110 Iron City 19562
Cutting 6905 Thomasville 14340 Sharp Hagen 19679
DuPont 7350 Pine Park 15075 Lela 19820
W A Flowers J B Dobson 15372 Donaldsonville 20020
Siding 7940 Beverly Jakin 20630
Stockton 8177 McCollum 15382 Jakin Brick Yard 20886
Albritton Sons 8516 Ham Company 15405 Saflfold 21076
Naylor 8695
WAYCROSS TO FOLKSTON
Way cross 000 Fort Mudge 1497 Conners Mills 2680
J B Lewis 383 Hickox Lumber Co 1749 G W Stokes Co 2727
Astoria 615 Stone Siding 1786 Uptonville 2816
Braganza 689 Baee Pond 2034 Homeland 3216
M Griffon 1073 Folkston 3439
THOMASVILLE TO ALBANY
Thomasville 000 Ocklocknee 1152 Flint 3817
Company s Siding 400 Hansel 1562 H T Neal 3927
Homer Williams 500 Meigs 1877 Baconton 4242
Pasco 607 Pelham 2401 DeWitt 4574
Williams 719 Leland 2752 Hardaway 4960
Sou Sawmill Co 977 Camilla 3218 Albany 5822
Companys Track 3345
MONTICELLO BRANCH
Thomasville 000 Hicks Siding 593 Company s Siding 613
Aeosta 262 Metcalf 1003
CLIMAX TO FLORIDA STATE LINE
Climax 000 Fowltown 858 Faceville 1533
Otiska 196 Fowltown Tobacco Beeovery 2157
Stricklands 489 Co 1129 Dell Siding 2485
Eleanor s Spur 657 Clardys Siding 1369 Edwards Company 2770
166
ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANYContinued
OTISKA TO AMSTERDAM
Otiska 000 Mise Spur 247 Amsterdam 1030
Wataga 900
WAYCROSS TO BRUNSWICK
Waycross 000
Colgans Still 700
Sehlatterville 1055
Bawles Still 1200
Hoboken 1473
Companys Track 1673 Blackshear Mfg
Co 1701
T J Peek 2024
Morgans Siding 2100
Nahunta 2355
Private Siding 2614
Llaton 2836
J N Strickland 3098
Atkinson 3180
J P Davenport
Sid 3465
Waynesville 3530
Bladen 4076
Jamaica 4369
Anguilla 4614
Townsend 4614
Pyles Marsh 4910
Southern Junction 5255
Dock Junction 5514
Brunswick 5815
WAYCROSS TO ALBANY
Waycross 000 Leliaton 3953 Baker Ogden 7780
Deanwood 200 Pinebloom 4123 Hillsdale 7820
Waresboro 800 Willacoochee 4240 Ty Ty 7898
Sappville 1141 Gress Mfg Co 4466 Philips Hook 8054
Hasty 1400 Companys Siding 4740 Sumner 8606
Fairfax 1635 Glory 4824 Poulan 8935
Millwood 1926 Alapaha 5329 Company s Siding 9161
McDonald 2327 J J Bouse 5378 Sylvester 9241
Stuarts Siding 2530 E O Baker 5630 Companys Siding 9438
Doughtry MeKey Enigma 5992 Willingham 9673
Lumber Co 2927 Brookfield 6360 Pinson s Siding 9873
Pearson 3075 Solumco 6560 Acree 10224
Kirkland 3415 Vanceville 6760 Johnsons Siding 10584
E L Peterson 3871 Tifton 7122 Albany 11197
DUPONT TO FLORIDA STATE LINE
DuPont 000 Withers 962 Alexanderville 1740
Coastine 516 Haylow 1170 Tarver 2031
Barnes Mill 616 Bramberg 1474 Barnes Still 2419
ATLANTIC WAYCROSS NORTHERN RAILROAD
Kingsland Scotchville 000 Woodville 600 Arnow 800 St Marys 850 1100
AUGUSTA SOUTHERN RAILROAD
Augusta 000 Blythe 2176 Mitchell 5926
Neeo 504 Keysville 2653 Halley 6087
Adam 547 Padgetts 2853 Agricola 6171
Adventure 689 Noah 3010 Chalker 6424
Gracewood 860 Matthews 3134 Eloyd Creek 6565
DeBruce 1070 Wrens 3598 Amerson 6790
Melton 1275 Spread 4107 Marvins 6888
Hepzibah 1506 Avera 4547 Warthen 7084
Moores 1589 Bock Comfort 4839 Gilmore 7237
Elwood 1713 Gibson 5067 Sandersville 8026
Edie 1844 Hodges 5319 Tennille 8353
Beall Springs 5516

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BLAKELY SOUTHERN RAILROAD
Blakely 000 Sheffields Still 1100 Warrens Switch 1700
McLendon 600 Sheffield 1400 D L Siding 2100
Callafield 1000 J akin 2200
BOWDON RAILWAY
Bowdon Junction 000 Mt Zion 310 Jonesville 960
Earnest 160 Burwell 710 Bowdon 1200
BRINSON RAILWAY
Savannah 000 Ardmore 3580 Bascom 6480
Pipemaker 520 Kildare 3870 Hiltonia 6740
Newtonville 740 Leola 4120 Millhaven 7160
890 Newington 4360 Murryhill 7540
Keller 1070 Eureka Springs 4560 Sardis 7740
Coldbrook 1460 Shepards 4760 Bill Davis 8200
Blandford 1770 Hunters 4890 Alexander 8540
Rahn 2120 White Hill 5090 Old Church 9000
Springfield 2460 Kitson 5360 Waynesboro 9600
Bethel 2860 Waters 5540 Elmore 10020
Lorenzo 3070 Sylvania 5740 Leroy 10430
Shawnee 3390 Lewis 6210 St Clair 10860
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY
SAVANNAH TO ATLANTA
Savannah 00
Central Junction 34
Pooler 82
Bloomingdale 123
Meldrim 170
Eden 193
Marlow 261
Pineora 275
Guyton 303
Tusculum 351
Egypt 404
Oliver 459
Halcyondale 500
Cameron 546
Dover 574
Ogeechee 615
Rocky Ford 664
Scarboro 707
Paramore Hill 742
Millen 788
Cushingville 830
Millen 00
Lawton 50
Perkins 70
Munnerlyn 105
Rogers 868
Herndon 901
Midville 963
Gertrude 1004
Wadley 1069
Bartow 1113
Almira 1160
Davisboro 1222
Sun Hill 1301
Tennille 1352
Oconee 1464
Toomsboro 1549
McIntyre 1617
Gordon 1706
Lewiston 1749
Griswold 1815
Macon 1908
Macon Junction 1917
Rivoli 1986
Lorane 2031
MILLEN TO AUGUSTA
Idlewood 145
Waynesboro 205
Greens Cut 270
Bolingbroke 2060
Smarrs 2122
Forsyth 2172
Colliers 2230
Goggins 2286
Barnesville 2333
Milner 2398
Orchard Hill 2452
Griffin 2513
Pomona 2565
Sunnyside 2583
Hampton 2617
Lovejoy 2666
Orrs 2708
Jonesboro 2731
Morrow 2776
Forrest Park 2813
Hapeville 2855
East Point 2881
Ft McPherson 2906
Atlanta 2945
McBean 328
Tahoma 408
Allens 428
Augusta 535
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CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAYContinued
Dover 00
Clito 51
Statesboro 99
Jimps 154
Register 187
Pulaski 233
DOVER TO BREWTON
Parish 252
Metter 294
Canoe 344
Stillmore 387
Lexsy 442
Wesley 464
Nunez 475
Covena 534
Norristown 566
Adrian 635
Scott 685
Brewton 769
GRIFFIN TO CHATTANOOGA
Griffin 00 Buchanan 805 Holland 1400
Esmond 45 Felton 879 Taliaferro 1439
Rio 80 Dugdown 900 Lyerly 1458
Vaughan 85 Featherstone 920 Berryton 1495
128 Youngs 958 Summerville 1528
Chestlehurst 159 Cedartown 1012 Trion 1573
Senoia 192 Lake 1061 Wilsons 1633
Turin 242 Boody 1089 Martindale 1642
Sharpsboro 259 Reeseburg 1110 Guild 1666
Raymond 299 Chambers 1141 LaFayette 1708
Newnan 360 Silver Creek 1148 Warrens 1755
Sargents 417 Lindale 1159 Noble 1766
Whitesburg 470 Rome 1203 Pigeon Mtn Jctn 1783
Banning 484 West Rome 1222 Rock Springs 1795
542 Morrisons 1255 Chickamauga 1845
Carrollton 598 Berry Hill 1270 Lytle 1878
Mandeville 671 Buckhalter 1298 Missionary Ridge 1899
Bowdon Junction 681 Lavender 1310 Rossville 1933
Bremen 728 Sprite 1357 Chattanooga 1979
CHICKAMAUGA TO DURHAM
00 W ests 63 Hinkles 126
Harps Switch 32 Lula Lake 104 Vulcan 144
Cenchat 56 Durham 172
LYERLY TO DEWEY
Lyerly 00 Alabama State Line 70
MACON TO COLUMBIA
00 Oglethorpe 502 Dowell 1080
Wise 37 Greens Mill 543 Lockett 1121
Rutland 64 Andersonville 595 Walker 1163
Walden 91 Bagley 660 Dueker 1190
Echeconnee 117 Americus 700 Holt 1243
Byron 167 Maddox 755 Leary 1281
Powersville 208 Sumter 792 Williamsburg 1334
Ohio 230 Smithville 824 Commissary Hill 1374
Bliss 251 Adams 883 Arlington 1410
Ft Valley 283 Leesburg 950 Baneroft 1478
Masseys Lane 335 Century 990 Peru 1502
Marshallville 359 Forrester 1008 Blakely 1541
Winchester 386 Newsom 1021 Hilton 1644
Barron rs Lane 431 Albany 1055 State Line near
Montezuma 484 jj j y tf Columbia Ala 1664
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CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAYContinued
MACON TO COLUMBUS
Macon 00 Ft Valley 283 Paschal 645
Wise 37 Nakomis 357 Geneva 700
Rutland 64 Beeehwood 393 Juniper 736
Walden 91 Beynolds 416 Box Springs 771
Echeconnee 117 Bonita 451 Upatoi 821
Byron 167 Pebble 469 Commonwealth 867
208 Butler 500 Sehatulga 906
Ohio 230 Tangent 544 Muscogee Junction 973
Bliss 251 Howard 592 Columbus 996
Junction City 639
FORT VALLEY TO PERRY
Ft Valley 00 Woods 45 Botan 84
Feagan 27 Myrtle 60 Hopedale 92
Hupree 39 Shanty No 11 73 Perry 124
AMERICUS TO COLUMBUS
Americus 00 Hoyle 237 Halloca 477
Naftnra 66 Buena Vista 283 Ochillee 526
LaCrosse 86 Elm View 316 Sand Hill 563
Provo 102 Kinchef oonee 344 Bellefonte 576
Ellaville 141 Zellobee 364 Esquiline 584
Walls Crossing 183 Glen Alta 384 Muscogee Junction 614
Putnam 213 Ida Vesper 419 Columbus 638
Christopher 439
CUTHBERT TO FORT GAINES
Cuthbert 00 Shanty No 28 77 Pecan 166
Guthbert Junction 19 Coleman 100 Killen 200
Coles 39 Jones 155 Ft Gaines 215
SMITHVILLE TO GEORGETOWN
Smithville 00 Shellman 244 Hatcher 501
Edwards 30 Pachitla 282 Wire Bridge 544
Bronwood 82 Cuthbert 348 Georgetown 579
Dawson 142 Cuthbert Junction 367 State Line near
Graves 182 Springvale 420 Eufaula Ala 591
Morris 454
MACON TO ATHENS
Macon 00 Bound Oak 280 Madison 726
M A Junction 45 Hillsboro 338 Apalachee 819
Sand Pit 67 Adgateville 376 Farmington 889
Van Buren 72 Minneta 425 Bishop 920
Morton 156 Monticello 453 Watkins ville 957
Gray 177 Machen 532 Sidney 978
Bradleys 209 Shady Hale 540 Whitehall 1008
Wayside 245 Godfrey 610 Athens 1052
Waring 662

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CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAYContinued
GORDON TO PORTERDALE
Gordon 00 Meda 343 Broughton 645
Ivey 38 Eatonton 379 Newborn 670
Stevens Pottery 81 Willard 468 Mansfield 695
Carling 153 Athon 511 Hayston 715
Milledgeville 169 Aikenton 526 Starrsville 752
Meriwether 247 Machen 558 Covington 807
Dennis 293 Kelly Farrar 598 613 Porterdale 863
COLUMBUS TO RAYMOND
Columbus 00 Hamilton 241 Harris 451
Nankipooh 74 Tip Top 276 Greenville 495
Fortson 110 Chipley 328 Allie 549
Hines Crossing 130 Meriwether W S Primrose 585
Mobley 150 Springs 370 Luthersville 632
162 Durand 400 Bexton 671
Kingsboro 202 Raymond 729
BARNESVILLE TO THOMASTON
Barnesville 00 Middlebrooks 50 The Rock 85
Wilkinsons 30 Topeka Junction 65 Thomaston 165
SAVANNAH TO TYBEE PASSENGERClass EFour Cents per Mile
FREIGHTSee table below
BETWEEN SAVANNAH AND ANY STATION
Pee 100 Lbs Per Bbl Per 100 Lbs Per Ton Pee Oae Load Per 100 Lbs Per Ton 2000 Lbs
1 2 3 4 5 6 A B C D E F G H J K 1 LM 1 N O P R di o 8 s a HH
50 45 40 30 25 20 20 20 15 12 20 25 10 2000 2000 M000 75 85
Savannah 00 Estill
St Augustine 50 Fort Screven
McQueens 90 Point
Lazaretto 130 Post Office
140 Atlantic Club 168
157 Hotel Tybee 173
163 South End 177
163
CHARLESTON WESTERN CAROLINA RAILWAY
Augusta Bon Air
000 Martinez 677 Evans
1190 Sneaas
1429
ELBERTON EASTERN RAILWAY
Elberton 000 Fortsonia 900 Malloryville 1900
Cauthan 600 Bell 1100 Tignall 2200
Norman 1600
171
FITZGERALD OCILLA BROXTON RAILROAD
Osierfield 000 Horton 480 Jowers 960
Thurman 120 Hokesboro 710 Broxton 1410
FLEMINGTON HINESVILLE WESTERN RAILROAD
Hinesville 000 Flemington 200 McIntosh 525
Martins 300
FLINT RIVER NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD
Ticknor 00 Sale City 810 Cotton 1635
Smiths Siding 200 Akridge 1042 Rogersville 1912
Terrace 433 Laneys 1161 Spence 2100
Hays Siding 596 Hinsonton 1370 Pelham 2303
FLORIDA CENTRAL RAILROAD
Thomasville 000 Beverly 490 Hammond 1002
Cherokee 150 Myrtlewood 620 Roddenbery 1303
FLOVILLA INDIAN SPRINGS RAILWAY
Flovilla 00 Indian Springs 262
GAINESVILLE MIDLAND RAILWAY
Gainesville 000 Pendergrass 1507 Clarksboro 3085
Candler 681 Holders 1807 Attica 3307
Klondike 814 Jefferson 2234 Oconee Heights 3704
Belmont 933 Arcade 2564 Athens 4132
Talmo 1221 Red Stone 2932
MONROE BRANCH
Belmont 000 Sells 1200 Bethlehem 2192
350 Mulberry 1315 Campton 2639
Braseltons 700 Winder 1728 Walker Park 2919
Hoschton 839 Beddingfield 2192 Monroe 3200
GAINESVILLE NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD
Gainesville 000 Clermont 1600 Asbestos 3000
Clark 700 Meldean v 2200 Nacoochee 3400
Dewberry 1100 Cleveland 2600 Helen 3600
Brookton 1400 North Helen 3700
GEORGIA RAILROAD
AUGUSTA TO ATLANTA
Augusta 000 Saw Dust 2576 Barnett 5798
Wheeless 490 Dearing 2892 Crawf ordville 6446
Belair 989 Bonesville 3253 Robinson 7048
Grovetown 1515 Thomson 3738 Union Point 7612
Forrest 1614 Mesena 4306 Greensboro 8321
Berzelia 2074 Camak 4694 Carey 8934
Campania 2315 Norwood 5059 Swords 9180
Harlem 2462 53 M P 5300 Buckhead 9566
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GEORGIA RAILROADContinued
AUGUSTA TO ATLANTA
Madison 10330 Covington 12993 Stone Mountain
Dorsey 10786 Almon 13318 Clarkston
Rutledge 11222 Conyers 14042 Scottdale
Social Circle 11936 Lithonia 14646 Decatur
Aleovy 12475 Redan 15029 Clifton
Hazlebrand 12701 Atlanta
MACON TO CAMAK
Camak 000 Glen Ford 2820 Browns
Warrenton 375 Devereux 3225 Haddocks
Mayfield 1275 Carrs 3575 James
Coleman 1728 Oconee Siding 4325 Roberts
Culverton 1950 Milledgeville 4530 C R R Junction
Granite Hill 2130 State Farm 4775 Macon
Sparta 2380
ATHENS BRANCH
Union Point 000 Stephens 1554 Dunlap
Woodville 471 Hutchings 1900 Wintersville
Bairdstown 646 Crawford 2202 Athens
Maxeys 1245 Arnoldsville 2710
WASHINGTON BRANCH
Barnett 000 Hillman 662 Little River
Sharon 384 Ficklin 940 Washington
MONROE BRANCH
Social Circle 000 Gresham 510 Monroe
GEORGIA FLORIDA RAILWAY
AUGUSTA GA TO MADISON FLA
Augusta 00 Colespur 890 Huffer
Keysville 254 Pendleton 914 Jct Broxton Brch
Allene 282 Niirmantnwn 927 Douglas
Brushy Creek 289 Billvan 955 Persia
St Clair 320 Vidalia 1002 Vickers
Gough 362 Petrose 1061 Bear Creek
Yidette 402 Sharps Spur 1087 St Ilia
Rosier 444 Alston 1112 Mora
McGruder 483 Uvalda 1149 0Berry
Lawsons Crossing 507 Charlotteville 1168 Towanda
Midville 554 Brick Yard 1210 Willacoochee
Napiers 571 Orico 1214 Bannockburn
Stevens Crossing 588 Halls Spur 1227 Crenshaw
Suttons Mill 599 Hazlehurst 1284 Weber
Summertown 610 Roper 1335 Whites
Blun 645 Goldsmith 1358 Roxie
Halls Mill 667 Brooker 1382 Delta
Modoc 675 Denton 1405 Nashville
Swainsboro 719 Ellis 1435 Sneed
Courtney 758 Lehigh 1446 Allenville
Wesley 797 Boyds Mill 1479 Luckie
Lombard 837 Garrant 1483 Rays Mill
15526
16033
16250
16480
16725
17100
5400 5810 6425 6890
7400
7800
3020
3198
3900
1140
1720
1010
1535
1579
1592 1601
1645
1650
1667
1690
1715
1747
1765
1811
1843
1869
1894
1907
1926
1939
1964
1999
2027 2036
173
GEORGIA FLORIDA RAILWAYContinued
AUGUSTA GA TO MADISON FLAContinued
Barretts 2087 Wisenbaker 2241 Clyattville 2322
Seaford 2127 MacVille 2255 Lola 2335
Bemiss 2142 Dees 2283 Olympia 2353
Chapman 2194 Briggston 2300 Pinetta Fla 2395
Valdosta 2220 Madison Fla 2494
MILLEN BRANCH
n n Stinmnre 124 Thrift 337
Penhoopee 08 Wade 193 Butts 365
Oak Park 40 Graymont 227 Emmalane 395
Ohoopee Park 63 Summitt 237 Harmony Junction 407
Kenfield 82 Garfield 294 Millen 441
BROXTON BRANCH
Douglas 00 Broxton 73 Biverside Brick Co 151
Blystone 12 Clyatts 105 McLeans 161
Lotts 41 Pridgen 127 Barrows Bluff 188
Sapps Still 142
MOULTRlESPARKS BRANCH
OD 70 Ellenton 220
Suttons 10 Barnesdale 82 Pineboro 270
Neesmiths 4o Sparks 122 Normans 291
Cottle 45 Nola 168 Kingwood 320
Cheek 60 Burney Hill 180 Moultrie 342
Bayboro 208
ADEL BRANCH
Sparks 00 Adel 22
GEORGIA COAST PIEDMONT RAILROAD
Brunswick 000
Freedmans 950
Broadfield 1320
Darien 1860
Ridge 2160
Inwood 2270
Meridian 2530
Hudson 2620
Valona 2760
Oak Hill 2880
Crescent 2980
Eulonia 3410
Darien Junction 3980
Tibet 4780
Goosepond i 5140
Brewer 5390
Ludowici 5690
Hilton 6020
Wefanie 6210
Roderick 6430
Donald 6680
Beard Creek 7140
Alton 7300
Glennville 7590
Kicklighter 7770
Lynn 7910
Purvis 8110
Bradleys 8290
Tootle 8550
Hughland 8710
Reidsville 9150
Collins 9840
GEORGIA FLORIDA ALABAMA RAILWAY
Richland 000 Wades 2014 Edison 4384
Dixons 477 White House 2314 Turman 4830
Kimbrough 667 Cuthbert 2749 Arlington 5377
Barges 1137 Randolph 3551 Rowena 5790
Troutman 1283 Carnegie 3742 124 Mile Post 5931
Gore 1590 Moye 3956 Damascus 6366
Benevolence 1768 141 Mile Post 4231 Warrens Mill 6632
174
GEORGIA FLORIDA ALABAMA RAILWAYContinued
Corea
Colquitt Nicholas ville Babcock Eldorendo
6844 Ausmac
7249 Lynn
7607 Whites Mill
7767 West Bainbridge 8234 Bainbridge
8541 Bower 10115
8714 Attapulgus 10553
8934 Laingkat 10766
9224 Florida State Line 10996 9327 Tallahassee 13363
GEORGIA NORTHERN RAILWAY
Boston 000
Spengler 272
4 Mile Post 450
Oaklawn 541
7 Mile Post 700
Barwick 843
Hollis 1056
Pavo 1300
Shelly 1562
Ione 1700
Autreyville 2040
22 Mile Post 2200
Mauzy 2343
Cooper 2500
Corbetts 2600
Moultrie 2858
Blasingame 3293
Schley 3363
Sigsbee 3700
Doerun 4151
Ticknor 4300
Pritchett 4566
Bridgeboro 4839
MePhaul 5000
Gantt 5138
Underwood 5400
Nelms 5565
Eamsey 5700
Pecan City 5900
Strom 6122
Darrow 6400
Shackelford 6550
Albany 6744
GEORGIA SOUTHERN FLORIDA RAILWAY
Macon 000
Macon Yard 127
Sofkee 786
Avondale 1061
Elberta 1300
Wellston 1598
Bonaire 2129
Kathleen 2484
Tivola 2898
Grovania 3491
Elko 3839
Unadilla 1 4391
Pinehurst 4879
Eindlay 5168
Vienna 5615
Bichwood 5945
Cordele 6451
Wenona 6918
Arabi 7444
Sibley 7754
Dakota 7922
Macon 000
Valdosta 15163
Worth 8146
Ashburn 8477
Sycamore 8737
Inaha 9161
Cycloneta 9525
Chula 9813
Little Penn 10100
Tifton 10521
Eldorado 11191
Lenox 11806
Osgood 12038
LaConte 12300
Sparks 12554
Adel 12769
Cecil 13422
Hahira 13814
Mineola 14426
Valdosta 15163
Blanton 16118
Howell 16497
Mayday 16759
B DIVISION
Dasher 15756
Lake Park 16343
Haylow 17373
Fruitland 17686
Thelma 17867
Headlight 18558
Coln 19234
Fargo 19842
Edith 19900
Council 20436
Ewing 20568
Eddy Fla21617
Baxter Fla 22263
Moniac Ga 22316
St George Ga 23480
Kent Fla 23903
Crawford i 24412
Keens 24700
Plummer 25039
Kingsgrove 25425
Hoyt 25663
Grand Crossing 25817 Jacksonville Fla 26178
Melrose 16720
Palatka Fla 28600
GEORGIA SOUTHWESTERN GULF RAILROAD
ALBANY NORTHERN RY
Cordele 000 Warwick 1273 Walters 2466
Milldale 628 Oakfield 1741 Beloit 2725
Baines 743 Starr Farm 1919 Smiths 2880
i W illiams Still 891 Philema 258 Albany 3500
175
GREENE COUNTY RAILROAD
Apalachee 000 Bostwick 680 Good Hope 1347
Embee 1080
HARTWELL RAILWAY
Bowersville 000 Air Line 400 Hartwell 1010
HAWKINSVILLE FLORIDA SOUTHERN RAILROAD
Hawkinsville 000
Tippett s Still 359
Chancey 559
Wallace 719
Millerville 925
Finleyson 1209
Pineview 1327
Bartonville 1553
Pope City 1800
Seminole 1967
McCall 2306
Pitts 2525
Bush 2907
Double Run 3142
Felder 3386
Amboy 3685
Worth 4259
Ashburn 4575
Josella 4861
Little River 4912
Hobby 5078
Coverdale 5262
Terrel 5484
Shingler 5805
Wordsville 6085
Sylvester 6310
Fruit Farm 6450
Gorday 6774
Alfords Switch 7042
Parkerville 7222
Livingstons Spur 7373
Bridgeboro 7600
Becks Siding 7772
Lester 8119
Ragan 8453
Greenough 8619
Faircloths Siding 8755
Felix 8900
Adelaide 9134
Camilla 9624
HAWKINSVILLE WESTERN RAILROAD
Hawkinsville 000 Browndale 800 Duncan 1800
Coates 500 Garnett 1100 Perry 2300
Grovania 1400
LAWRENCEVILLE BRANCH RAILROAD
Lawrenceville 000 Huff 500 Suwanee 961
LEXINGTON TERMINAL RAILROAD
Lexington 000 Crawford 358
LOUISVILLE NASHVILLE RAILROAD
BETWEEN MARIETTA AND KNOXVILLE
Marietta 000
Elizabeth 195
Oakhurst 373
Blackwells 729
Woodstock 1208
Toonigh 1587
Holly Springs 1803
Univeter 2005
Canton 2365
Keithsburg 2905
Gober 3253
Bannister 3303
Ball Ground 3524
Nelson 3873
Tate 4148
Jasper 4643
Westbrook 4872
Talking Rock 5279
Cams Mill 5477
Whitestone 5708
Talona 5994
Tioga 6116
Ellijay 6711
Northcutt 7099
White Path 7276
Cherry Log 7530
Lucius 7691
Blue Ridge 8245
Curtis 8791
Kyle 9229
Etowah Tenn14354
Knoxville Tenn 20364
176
LOUISVILLE NASHVILLE RAILROADContinued
ATLANTA TO KNOXVILLE VIA CARTERSVILLE
Atlanta 000 Fairmount 6807 Eton 9632
Cartersville 4764 Eanger 7259 Crandall 9941
Junta 4898 Oakman 7714 Fairy 10297
White 5678 Coniston 8249 Cisco 10539
Bydal 6064 Eamhurst 8692 Etowah Tenn 13650
Bolivar 6371 Chatsworth 9228 Knoxville Tenn 19660
MURPHY 1 BRANCH
Blue Eidge 000 Sweet Gum 1158 Murphy N C 2527
Mineral Bluff 469
CRANDALL BRANCH
Crandall 000 Grassy Mountain 112
LOUISVILLE WADLEY RAILROAD
Wadley 000 Aldreds 670 Louisville 1000
Moxley 470
MACON BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY
Macon 00 Dyas 327 Woodbury 750
Sofkee 80 Culloden 390 Snelson 801
Skipperton 118 Yates ville 435 Harris 833
Hardy 155 Upson 497 Odessadale 906
Lizella 208 Thomaston 568 Mountville 946
Montpelier 255 Crest 657 Eobertson 994
Moran 283 Thunder 699 LaGrange 1048
MACON DUBLIN SAVANNAH RAILROAD
Macon Swift Creek Winthrop Pikes Peak Fitzpatrick Eipley Jeffersonville Gallemore
000 Danville 504 Allentown 1070 Montrose 1244 Haskins 1550 Dudley 1721 Shewmake 2285 Moores 2756 Dublin
3121 Catlin 3295 Minter 3754 Rockledge 3990 Orland V 4244 Soperton 4527 Tarrytown
4821 Kibbee 5350 Vidalia
5908
6306
6804
6976
7620
8079
8400
9226
MILLTOWN AIR LINE RAILWAY
Naylor 000 01dlot 500 Darsey
Carters 400 Milltown
700
1000
MILSTEAD RAILWAY
Conyers 00 Milstead 29
OCILLA PINEBLOOM VALDOSTA RAILWAY
Pinebloom 000 G F Depot 113 Metts Siding
Willachoochee 100 Louthers Still 288 Gaskins Still
500
813
177
0CILLA SOUTHERN RAILROAD
NASHVILLE TO ROCHELLE
Nashville 000 Barrineau 1820 Dorminey 3540
Isom 200 Gladys 1965 Fitzgerald 3882
Fred 360 Mixon 2356 Irwin 4470
Griner 460 Melvin 2540 Abba 4766
Ashwood 592 Reason 2720 Van 5068
Auvil 928 Ocilla 2856 Salem 5270
Alapaha 1280 Henderson Mill 3056 Talmadge 5472
Fletchers 1380 Frank 5666
Lucy Lake 1650 Barnes 3440 Rochelle 6225
OCILLA TO IRWINVILLE
Ocilla 000 Paulk 339 Irwinville 971
Mystic 599
PELHAM HAVANA RAILROAD
Cairo 00 Cranford 63 Maxwell 125
Grady ville 32 Booth 82 Calvary 153
Reno 105
REGISTER GLENNVILLE RAILWAY
Register 000 Hagan 1750 Moody 2700
New Hope 215 Claxton 1909 Easterling 2825
Dink 350 Winburn 1868 Coe 3025
Adabelle 600 Dean 2300 Birdford 3225
Undine 1123 Jennie 2625 Glennville 3550
Brookland 1350
ROME NORTHERN RAILROAD
Rome 000 Armuchee 931 Storys Mill 1474
West Rome Yard 132 Thomas 1076 Shackelton 1702
Gammon 433 Crystal Springs 1334 Gore 1877
Brayton 675
SANDERSVILLE RAILROAD
Sandersville 000 Tennille 390
SAVANNAH AUGUSTA NORTHERN RAILWAY
Statesboro 00 Portal 120 Canoochee 300
Colfax 50 Aaron 170 Matlee 350
Bland 90 Miley 210 Stevens Crossing 390
Garfield 250
SAVANNAH SOUTHERN RAILWAY
Lanier 00 Buia 43 Strumbay 122
Norden 22 Hayman 68 Willie 148
Letford 93
LETFORD TO SPIERS
Letford 37
178
Ouyler Blitchton Eldora Olney Ivanhoe
SAVANNAH STATESBORO RAILWAY
000 Hubert 1238 Brooklet 2400
418 Stilson 1615 Grimshaw 2640
653 Areola 1940 Pretoria 2834
853 Truckers 2100 Statesboro 3260
1059
SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY
SAVANNAH TO SOUTH CAROLINA STATE LINE
Knvnnnnli 000 Bineon 1910 Berry 8 2980
Meinhard 1110 Stillwell 2490 Clyo 3250
Exley 1580 i Columbia S C 14170
COLUMBUS TO ALBANY
Columbus 000 Richland 3900 Dawson 6550
Esquiline 520 Saville 4400 Sasser 7250
Masseys 800 Kimbroughs 4500 Stevens 7500
Ocbillee 1100 Weston 4810 Armena 7700
Hurley 1350 Leveretts 5180 Oakland 7800
Cusseta 1850 Chambliss 5410 Palmyra 8250
Renfroe 2800 Parrott 5640 Vasons 8400
Brooklyn 3230 Yoemans 6150 Albany 8800
ABBEVILLE TO OCILLA
Abbeville 000 Forest Glen 930 Fitzgerald 2180
Cortez 410 Bowens Mill 1240 Whitley 2680
Browning 570 Queenland 1580 Ocilla 3080
Lulaville 1760
ATLANTA TO CALHOUN FALLS S C
Atlanta 000 Glouster 2860 Athens 7290
Howells Transfer 300 Winns Spur 3130 Hull 7920
Deerland 560 Lawrenceville 3450 Colbert 8410
Armour 670 Dacula 4050 Comer 8960
Mina 710 Auburn 4510 Berkeley 9520
Wallace Mill 910 Carl 4620 Deadwylers 9820
Belt Junction 1110 Winder 5160 Oglesby 9970
North Decatur 1120 Russels 5290 Ethridge 10290
Montreal 1530 New Timothy 5620 Elberton 10730
Tucker 1800 Statham 5950 Middleton 11310
Caldwell 2120 Bogart 6350 Pearl 11620
Lilburn 2360 Cleveland 6720 Heardmont 11750
Luxomni 2520 McElroy 6880 Calhoun Falls S C 12410
ATLANTA TO BIRMINGHAM
Howells 000 Dallas 2745 Cedartown 5645
Edna 526 Thomas 3353 Akes 6119
Rice 951 Divide 3782 Esom 6590
Floyd 1141 Rockmart 4364 Birmingham Ala
Powder Springs 1712 Fish 4877 18th St 16298
Hiram 2184 Grady 5052
179
SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAYContinued
ROCKMART TO CARTERSVILLE
Bockmart 000 Deatons 672 Shelman 1587
Aragon 403 Taylorsville 899 Browns 1683
Portland 480 McGinnis 1127 Ladds 1944
Davittes 544 Stilesboro 1353 Cartersville 2282
LOGANSVILLE LAWRENCEVILLE BRANCH
Lawrenceville 000 Grayson 530 Logansville 1033
SAVANNAH TO FLORIDA STATE LINE
Savannah 000 Darien Junction 4190 Glencoe 7690
Anderson 910 Townsend 4580 Waverly 7980
Burroughs 1100 Cox 5220 White ak 8360
Ways 1520 Altamaha Sand Pit 5370 Satilla River 8769
Belfast 2020 Altamaha River 5528 Woodbine 8810
Limerick 2380 Everett 5850 Colesburg 9120
Dorchester 2690 Jenks 6370 Seals 9490
Riceboro 3150 Thalman 6590 Kingsland 9990
Jones 3880 Bladen 6940 Jacksonville Fla 13720
Savannah 000
Williams 970
Ottawa 1250
Meldrim 1730
Cuyler 1983
Arden 2178
Ellabelle 2394
Lanier 2680
Norden 2894
Pembroke 3200
Reka 3527
Groveland 3923
Palaky 4140
Daisy 4471
Claxton 48 84
Hagan 5064
Bellville 5306
Manassas 5578
Collins 6115
Danton 6345
Ohoopee 6830
Lyons 7464
Stacers 7564
GEORGIA AND ALABAMA
Vidalia 7984
Higgston 8354
McGreggor 8734
Ailey 8984
Mt Yernon 9164
Ochwalkee 9464
Glenwood 9644
Stuckey 10074
Alamo 10354
Erick 10724
Helena 11364
Milan 12394
Calvin 12860
Rhine 13264
Copeland 13500
Abbeville 13904
Kramer 14430
Rochelle 14824
Pine City 15114
Pitts 15334
Seville 15714
Listonia 16060
Penia 16314
Cordele 16814
Coney 17424
Flintside 17860
Cobb 18054
DeSoto 18524
Leslie 18654
Parkers 18860
Huntington 19124
Gatewood 19520
Americus 19864
New Point 20330
Salters 20760
Plains 20894
Wise 21430
Preston 21894
Richland 22704
Randalls 23100
Lumpkin 23584
Louvale 24334
Union 24754
Omaha 25454
Montgomery Ala 33760
SHEARWOOD RAILWAY
Brooklet 000 Watersville 450 Denmark 755
Alderman 219 Davis Station 537 Harville 831
SMITHONIA DUNLAP RAILROAD
Dunlap 000 Smithonia 615
180
SMITHONIA DANIELSVILLE CARNESVILLE RAILROAD
Smithonia 000 Colbert 475
SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY
ATLANTA TO CHATTANOOGA
Atlanta 00 Aragon 545 Shannon 819
Peyton 71 Long 551 Pinson 834
Chattahoochee 79 Ravenel 563 Plainville 867
Oakdale 93 Seney 591 Reeves 909
Nickajack 123 Byrd 608 Oostanaula 924
Mableton 151 Brice 623 Sugar Yalley 977
Austell 183 Chambers 668 Hill City 1005
Powder Springs 231 Silver Creek 676 Carbondale 1039
Hiram 282 Lindale 690 Phelps 1079
Dallas 342 Rome 731 Dalton 1129
McPherson 398 North Rome 748 Waring 1181
Braswell 448 Berwin 779 Yarnell 1221
Beatty s Switch Rockmart 472 512 Beauxite 793 Cohutta Chattanooga 1263 1530
ATLANTA TO BIRMINGHAM
Atlanta 00 Lithia Springs 208 Arlington Vineyard 504
Peyton 71 Douglasville 268 Bremen 531
Chattahoochee 90 Winston 320 Waco 560
Oakdale 93 Yilla Rica 381 West 603
Nickajack 123 Temple 443 Tallapoosa 636
Mableton 151 Morgan 481 Hooper 678
Austell 183 Birmingham 1673
ATLANTA TO FORT VALLEY
Atlanta 00 Lowry 342 Culloden 757
Sawtell 38 Yaughn 366 Mussella 823
Schoen 41 Zetella 398 Bonds Spur 873
Cornell 53 Williamson 442 Roberta 884
Haasville 84 Zebulon 504 Hammett 931
Thames 110 Means ville 549 Gaillard 943
Riverdale 143 Vega 574 Rollo 953
Selina 160 Piedmont 603 Allon 958
Hillyer 168 Topeka Junction 644 McCarty Sand Pit 960
Helmer 179 Blalock High Johnson Sand Pit 962
Kenwood 190 tower Spur 658 Sage a Sand Pit 963
Fayetteville 237 Rest Haven 664 Zenith 980
Harp 269 Mathews Spur 670 Lee Pope 990
Ackert 292 Yates ville 704 Hartley Spur 1025
Woolsey 307 Castlin Spur 746 Fort Valley 1050
COLUMBUS TO McDONOUGH
Columbus 00 Ossahatchie 199 Nebula 376
Gentian 59 Byrds Spur 207 Strannahan Spur 387
Col Quarry Track 96 Waverly Hall 235 Warm Springs 420
Flat Rock 103 Oak Mountain 280 Raleigh 462
Midland 137 Shiloh 338 Woodbury 510
Ellerslie 182 Pinedale 369 Molena 564
181
SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANYContinued
COLUMBUS TO McDONOUGHContinued
Neal 591 Williamson 719 87 4
Concord 635 Rover 742 Luella 910
Jolly 671 Central Coal Spur 753 Greenwood 944
Reidsboro 684 Griffin 792 McDonough 979
ATLANTA TO SOUTH CAROLINA LINE
Atlanta 00 Buford 371 Sanitarium V 722
Armour 59 Flowery Branch 438 Alto 738
Crosskeys 107 Oakwood 475 Baldwin 765
Chamblee 134 Gainesville 532 Cornelia 779
Doraville 147 New Holland 551 Mt Airy 798
Norcross 194 White Sulphur 591 Ayersville 866
Pittman 226 Lula 656 Currahee 901
Duluth 258 Bellton 666 Toccoa 931
Suwanee 307 Yonah 699 Deercourt 984
ATLANTA TO BRUNSWICK
Atlanta 00 Macon 872 Hazlehurst 1889
Boseland 28 Reid 968 Johnsonville 194 0
Constitution 59 Phillip 983 Graham 1952
Henrico 77 Bullard 1035 Pine Grove 1985
Conley
Ellenwood
Rex
Stockbridge
Mahers Quarry
Tunis
Flippen
McDonough Locust Grove
Jenkinsburg
Jackson
Central Ga Power
Co
Flovilla
Cork
Berner
Juliette
Polhill
Macon Stone
Supply Co
Dames Ferry
Popes Ferry
Holton
Virgin
Toccoa
Hays Crossing Eastanollee
Avalon
Martin
94
126
144
185 200 223
240
280 352
401
455
472
505
538
595
640
673
682
716
740
789 822
00
47
72
111
121
Adams Park 1075
Ettriek 1095
West Lake 1136
Ainslie 1161
Newberry 1183
McGriff 1202
Coley 1222
Cochran 1262
Empire 1319
Dubois 1349
Gresston 1365
Eastman 1448
Godwinsville 1499
Chauncey 1546
Soumi 1559
Aehord 1602
Helena 1634
McRae 1648
Scotland 1698
Towns 1748
Wilcox 1795
Lowery 1803
Lumber City 1816
Ocmulgee 1829
TOCCOA ELBERTON
Lavonia 185
Bowersville 240
Canon 264
Royston 308
Vanna 352
Bowman 383
Prentiss 2016
Baxley 2048
Wheaton 2087
Surrency 2143
Brentwood 2192
Odum 2252
Burnett 2263
Nesbit 2301
Drawdy 2322
Jesup 2348
Whaleys 2375
Odessa 2397
Gardi 2414
Bennetts Still 2424
Pendarvis 2446
Grangerville 2470
Mount Pleasant 2516
Everett 2553
Belle Vista 2578
Zuta 2613
Walbirg 2631
Sterling 2654
Gignlatt 2686
Brunswick 2745
Harper 409
Hard Cash 421
Dewy Bose 439
Goss 464
Elberton 506
182
SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANYContinued
ATHENS BRANCH
Athens 00 Commerce 184 Maysville 258
Center 73 Wilsons Church 209 Gillsville 317
Nicholson 115 Lula 390
CLEVELAND AND COHUTTA BRANCH
Cleveland Tenn i 00 Marble Switch 87 Red Clay 127
Blue Springs 58 Weatherly 109 Cohutta 148
HAWKINSVILLE BRANCH
Cochran 00 Mobley 53 Hawkinsville 103
ROSWELL BRANCH
Chamblee 00 Dunwoody 53 Roswell 98
Morgan Junction 59
ATTALLA AND ROME
North Rome 00 Robinson 90 Early 183
fWest Rome 33 Oreburg 104 Gadsden Ala 560
Huffaker 61 Coosa 132 Attalla Ala 613
Mi Hope 160
BETWEEN ROME AND SELMA
Rome 00 Cave Spring 151 Oremont 204
Six Mile 53 Etna Pump Station 178 Prior 220
Cunningham 86 Marsh Mining Co 181 Etna 230
Yancey 106 Hematite 195 Fearing 237
Vans Valley 131 Selma Ala 1955
VILLA RICA BRANCH
Villa Eica 00 V C C Cos Mines 29
Adel
Pine Valley Greggs Barney
SOUTH GEORGIA RAILWAY
000 Marchman 1400 Quitman 2852
425 Morven 1575 Baden 3319
608 Kennedys 1800 Empress 3652
1088 Spain 2184 Florida State Line 3851
Fodie 2281
STATENVILLE RAILWAY
Statenville 000 Mercer 500 Christian 900
Bohannon 400 Touchton 700 Haylow 1400
SYLVANIA GIRARD RAILROAD COMPANY
Sylvania 00 Zeigler 55 Thomasboro 98
Waters 17 Woodeliff 78 Rocky Ford 145
TALBOTTON RAILROAD
Talbotton 000 Paschal 663
183
TALLULAH FALLS RAILWAY
Cornelia 000 fTurnerville 1605 Tiger 3137
Demorest 438 Tallulah Lodge 1977 Clayton 3471
Habersham 602 Tallulah Falls 2090 Mountain City 3775
Clarksville 731 Joy 2529 York Siding 3972
Hills 888 Mathis 2631 Eabun Gap 4054
fAnnandale 1074 Wiley 2785 Dillard 4159
Hollywood 1298 Franklin N C 5720
TENNESSEE ALABAMA GEORGIA RAILROAD
Chattanooga 00 Cassandra 200 Chesterfield 500
Cravens 17 Kensington 219 Jamestown 552
Alton Park 35 Archer 230 Blanche 575
Woodburn Ga 63 Estelle 242 Taff 596
Rock Creek 78 Marsh 273 Loop 612
Flintstone 84 Hillsdale 281 Congo 632
Moonsboro 92 Bronco 315 Little River 652
Eagle Cliff 99 Sharpe 332 67 5
Chenchat 111 MeConnellsville 350 Blue Pond 689
Costello 127 Hawkins 357 Bristow 734
High Point 142 Harrisburg 372 Wilsonia 834
Kendrick 154 Teloga 396 Citico 850
Cooper Heights 183 Chelsea 427 Gadsden Ala 917
Menlo 462
TIFTON TERMINAL COMPANY
Tifton 00 Glovers Switch 40 Waterloo Siding 100
Willis Switch 80
UNION POINT WHITE PLAINS RAILROAD
Union Point 000 Caldwells 500 Jarrells 1213
White Plains Siloam 643 White Plains 1363
Junction 162
VALDOSTA MOULTRIE WESTERN RAILROAD
Valdosta 000 Masons 1500 Troy 3100
Troupville 600 Morven 1700 Weldon 3300
Killian 791 Scruggs 2287 Evelyn 3625
Cates 900 Joyce 2400 West Broad Hgts 4000
Golden 1075 Simpson 2500 Moultrie 4160
Tillman 1310 Berlin 2895
WADLEY SOUTHERN RAILWAY
WADLEY TO COLLINS
Wadley 000 Swainsboro 1980 Corsica 4070
Creek Junction 080 Gary 1 2330 Cobbtown 4550
Greenway 460 McLeod 2650 Jarriels 4950
Blundale 830 Stillmore 3300 Collins 5300
Dellwood 1420 Aline 3970
WADLEY TO ROCKLEDGE
Wadley 000 Tom 1280 Adrian 2740
Creek Junction 080 Kite 1480 Rixville 2920
Pinetuckey 600 Hodo 1690 Orianna 3300
Ennis 1050 Meeks 2060 Rockledge 3700
Odomville 2470
184
WAYCROSS AND SOUTHERN RAILROAD
Hebardville Waycross Grundy 000 Lavinia 200 Fredel 500 Atwood 800 01ive 1000 Walker 1200 Hopkins 1500 1800 2000
Waycross WAYCROSS WESTERN 000 Kineva RAILROAD 1600 Mexico 2500
Durango 600 Hinson 1800 Harley 2700
Pine Valley 900 Hodges 2100 Dickerson 2900
India 1000 Sandy Bottom 2300 Tomlinson 3200
Crews 1300 Sirmans 3800
WESTERN ATLANTIC RAILROAD
Atlanta 000
Simpson Street 090
Howells 303
Bolton 688
Gilmore 942
Vinings v 1112
Smyrna 1498
Marietta 2043
Elizabeth 2180
Noonday 2616
Kennesaw 2865
Lena 3203
Acworth 3460
Hugo 3904
Allatoona 4007
Bartow 4222
Emerson 4301
Etowah 4593
Cartersville 4759
Junta 4809
Bogers 5089
Cass e 5236
Bests 5541
Kingston 5868
Cement 6055
Halls 6364
Adairsville 6851
McDaniels 7472
Calhoun 7806
Besaca 8397
Tilton 9031
Dalton 9910
Bocky Face 10386
Tunnell Hill10684
Catoosa 11300
Binggold 11453
Graysville 12028
Chickamauga Tenn 12602
Boyce 13200
Chattanooga 13677
Kingston 000
Wooleys 305
Eves 717
ROME BRANCH
Dykes 1125
Freeman 1237
Brick Yard 1552
Borne 1810
WRIGHTSVILLE TENNILLE RAILROAD
Tennille 000 Manning 2551 Dexter 4826
382 Brewton 2786 Alcorns 5188
Pftacocks 582 Condor 3233 Chester 5457
945 Dublin 3627 Yonkers 5875
Donovan 1331 Southwestern June Eoddy 6110
Wrightsville 1654 tion 3840 Empire 6418
Idylwild 1932 Harlow 4165 Baileys Park 6775
Meadows 2149 Vincent 4363 Sparrows Spur 6996
Lovett 2378 Springhaven 4620 Hawkinsville 7506
SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION
Pii IVlin 000 Mayberrv 850 Petway 1879
Southwestern June Bentz 1055 Leon 1975
tion 000 Cadwell 1493 Plainfield 2057
Cheeks Still 333 Batson 1751 Southerland 2334
Tingle 517 Eastman 2854
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Tariff of rates
Limits of free
delivery
Time of filing messages to be shown when desired
TELEGRAPH
Tariff and Rules Governing Telegraph Companies
rule 1
Except as otherwise specially provided no telegraph company shall collect more than twentyfive cents for its service in transmitting any message of ten words or less exclusive of date address and signature between any two points within this State nor more than two cents for each additional word of a day message nor more than one cent for each additional word of a night message and no additional charge shall be made for repeating a messagethat is telegraphing it back to the office where it originated for comparison
RULE 2
Telegraph companies doing business in this State shall in each incorporated town or city in which they maintain offices make delivery to all points within the corporate limits of such town or city of all telegraphic messages to the addressee or to some one authorized to accept the same at his her or their place of business or residence or leave a written notice thereof in case there is no one at such place of business or residence to receipt for the same and such deliveries shall be made without extra charge where the addressees residence or place of business he within or not exceeding one mile from the office of the delivering telegraph company
For the delivery of one or more messages by one messenger at the same time to one addressee beyond the mile limit above referred to telegraph companies may charge no more than fifteen cents for the first mile or fraction thereof beyond such mile limit and ten cents for each subsequent mile or fraction thereof beyond
Wherever practicable such telegraph companies may deliver such messages by telephone upon written request of the sender or addressee thereof and charge the actual expense of so doing
RULE 3
Telegraph companies are required to show on each telegram they transmit and deliver between points in Georgia the correct time expressed in hours and minutes that such telegram was received at office of delivery And where the sender of any such message desires to show also the correct time of filing with initial office the transmitting company shall where the words necessary to express the filing time added to the words in the body of the message do not exceed ten words carry said information free But where such words added to the words in the body of the message exceed ten words a charge of two cents per word for each word in excess of ten shall be allowed subject to a maximum extra charge for showing said time of filing of five cents
SPECIAL NOTICE
See Rules Governing the Erection and Location of Depots and General Rules
Rules Tariffs and
Classifications
GOVERNING
EXPRESS COMPANIES
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TARIF A
Merchandise Rates Per Hundred and Graduated Rates for Packages Weighing Less
than One Hundred Pounds
As fixed by the Railroad Commission of Georgia
Applying Over All Lines Except Those Shown Under Special Local Merchandise Tariffs
Distance Rates per 100 lbs RATES PER 100 POUNDS 4 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 105 115 120 130 135 140
MILES r 20 40 60 80 100 130 160 180 200 250 300 350 400 450
Miles Cents Packages Less Than 100 Lbs
1 to 20 30 Over 0 not over 5 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25
21to 40 40 Over 5 not over 10 25 25 25 25 25 30 30 30 30 30 35 35 40 45
41to 60 50 Over 10 not over 20 25 25 25 25 30 30 30 30 35 35 40 45 45 50
61to 80 60 Over 20 not over 30 25 25 25 30 30 35 35 40 45 50 50 50 55 55
81 to 100 70 Over 30 not over 40 25 25 30 35 40 45 45 50 50 60 65 65 70 75
101to130 80 Over 40 not over 50 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90
131 to 160 90 Over 50 not over 60 25 30 35 45 55 60 65 70 75 85 95 100 105 110
161 to 180 1 00 Over 60 not over 70 25 35 45 50 60 70 75 80 95 100 110 120 130 130
181 to 200 105 Over 70 not over 80 30 40 50 60 70 75 90 100 105 115 120 130 135 140
201 to 250 1 15 Over 80 not over 90 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 105 115 120 130 135 140
251 to 300 1 20 Over 90 not over 100 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 105 115 120 130 135 140
Packages weighing five pounds and under shall not be charged more than 25 cents by one company for any distance within this State but when such packages are handled by two or more companies each company may charge 25 cents less 20 per cent
TARIFF B
Governing Perishables Etc
Rates Per Hundred Pounds and Graduated Rates for Packages Weighing Less than
One Hundred Pounds
As fixed by the Railroad Commission of Georgia
Distance Rates per 100 lbs RATES PER 100 POUNDS r 30 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90
MILES 20 40 60 80 100 130 160 180 200 250 300 350 400 450
Miles Cents Packages Less Than 100 Lbs
1 to 450 Over 0 not over 5 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25
1 to 20 3 Over 5 not over 10 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 30 30 30 35 40 45 45
21 to 40 30 Over 10 not over 2 25 25 25 25 25 25 30 30 35 35 40 45 45 45
41 to 60 35 Over 20 not over 30 25 25 25 25 25 30 30 35 35 40 45 50 55 55
61 to 80 40 Over 30 not over 40 25 25 25 25 30 SO 35 40 40 45 50 55 60 65
81 to 100 45 Over 40 not over 50 25 25 25 30 30 35 40 40 45 50 55 60 65 70
101 to 130 50 Over 50 not over 60 25 25 30 30 35 40 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75
131 to 160 55 Over 60 not over 70 25 30 30 35 40 45 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80
161 to 180 60 Over 70 not over 80 30 30 35 40 45 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85
181 to 200 65 Over 80 not over 90 30 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90
201 to 250 70 Over 90 not over 100 30 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90
NotPackages weighing five pounds and under shall not be charged more than 25 cents by one company for any distance within this State but when such packages are handled by two or more companies each company may charge 25 cents less 20 per cent
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TARIFF E
Governing the following perishables when carried by Express Companies
Dkessed Poultry Fbesh Fish Fresh Meat Butter and Sausages
Rates Per Hundred Pounds and Graduated Rates for Packages Weighing Less than One Hundred Pounds on above articles
As fixed by the Railroad Commission of Georgia
Distance Rates per 100 lbs RATES PER 100 POUNDS 8 25 25 23 27 30 85 40 43 45 50 54 58 60 63
MILES 4 20 40 60 80 100 130 160 180 200 250 30013501400450 1 1 1
Miles Cents Packages Less Than 100 Lbs
1 to 450 1 to 20 21 to 40 41 to 60 61 to 80 81 to 100 101 to 130 131 to 160 161 to 180 181 to 200 201 to 250 Over 0 not over 5 Over 5 not over 10 Over 10 not over 20 Over 20 not over 30 Over 30 not over 40 Over 40 not over 50 Over 50 not over 60 Over 60 not over 70 Over 70 not over 80 Over 80 not over 90 Over 90 not over 100 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 27 27 27 27 25 25 25 25 25 25 30 30 30 30 30 25 25 25 25 25 28 30 33 35 35 35 25 25 25 25 28 30 33 35 40 40 40 25 25 25 27 30 83 35 40 43 43 43 25 25 27 28 30 35 38 40 45 45 45 25 27 28 30 35 38 40 45 50 50 50 25 28 30 33 38 40 45 45 50 50 51 25 30 33 35 40 45 45 50 58 58 58 25 33 35 38 43 45 50 55 60 60 60 25 35 35 40 45 50 55 60 63 63 63
25 25 25 27 30 35 40 43 45 50
MILK TARIFF
Rates on Milk per can depot delivery only Empties to be returned free Milk not for depot delivery Tariff E rates
Miles Per 5gallon can Per 8gallon can Per 10gallon can
5 6 cents 9 cents 11 cents
10 7 11 14
15 8 12 fj 15
20 9 14 16
25 9 14 18
30 9 14 18
35 10 16 20
40 10 16 20
45 11 17 21
50 11 17 21
55 12 18 Uj 23
60 12 18 23
65 13 20 26
70 13 20 26
75 14 22 27
80 14 22 27
85 15 23 29
90 15 23 g 29
95 15 24 30
100 16 25 81 14
125 18 27 33
150 20 29 35
175 22 31 37
200 23 32 38
225 24 33 ip 39
250 over 25 34 40
Cream or Milk in cans packed in ice same rates per hundred pounds as apply on tengallon cans of milk in above tariff
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SPECIAL LOCAL MERCHANDISE TARIFFS
The following tariffs covering merchandise rates only are applicable over the lines named in said tariffs respectively
Bowdon Railway
Over And Not Merchandise
Miles Over Miles Per 100 Lbs
0 5 30
5 10 35
10 15 40
Brinson Railway
Over And Not Merchandise
Miles Over Miles Per 100 Lbs
0 7 40
7 12 40
12 15 40
15 17 50
17 20 50
20 22 50
22 25 50
25 27 60
27 32 60
32 37 60
37 40 60
40 42 65
42 47 65
47 50 65
50 70 75
70 85 80
85 100 90
Elberton Eastern Railway
Miles Per 100 Lbs
5 30
10 35
15 40
20 45
25 50
30 55
Fitzgerald Ocilla Broxton R R
Over And Not Merchandise
Miles Over Miles Per 100 Lbs
0 7 40
7 12 40
12 15 40
15 17 50
17 20 50
20 22 50
22 25 50
25 27 60
27 32 60
32 37 60
37 40 60
40 42 65
42 47 65
Flint River Northeastern R R
Over And Not Merchandise
Miles Over Miles Per 100 Lbs
0 15 40
25 40 60
40 50 65
50 70 75
70 85 80
85 100 90
Gainesville Northwestern Railroad Company
Miles Per 100 Lbs
5 30
10 35
15 40
20 45
25 50
30 55
35 55
40 60
Georgia and Florida Railway
Over And Not Merchandise
Miles Over Miles Per 100 Lbs
0 15 40
35 25 50
25 40 60
40 50 65
50 70 75
70 85 80
85 100 90
100 120 100
120 140 110
140 160 110
160 200 125
Georgia Coast Piedmont R R
Over And Not Merchandise
Miles Over Miles Per 100 Lbs
0 7 30
7 12 36
12 17 41
17 20 45
20 22 45
22 27 50
27 32 54
32 37 59
37 40 62
40 47 62
47 52 63
52 57 68
57 60 69
60 62 69
62 67 74
67 77 75
77 80 77
80 82 77
82 87 80
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Georgia Southwestern Railway Gulf
Over And Not Merchandise
Miles Over Miles Per 100 Lbs
0 10 35
10 15 40
15 20 45
20 25 50
25 30 55
30 35 60
Gulf Line Railway
Over And Not Merchandise
Miles Over Miles Per 100 Lbs
0 7 40
7 12 40
12 15 40
15 17 50
17 20 50
20 22 50
22 25 50
25 27 60
27 32 60
32 37 60
37 40 60
40 42 65
42 47 65
47 50 65
50 52 75
52 57 75
57 60 75
60 62 75
62 67 75
67 70 75
70 72 80
72 77 80
77 80 80
80 82 80
82 85 80
85 87 90
87 92 90
92 97 90
Macon and Birmingham Railway
Over And Not Merchandise
Miles Over Miles Per 100 Lbs
0 5 30
5 10 40
10 15 45
15 20 45
20 25 50
25 30 55
30 35 60
35 40 60
40 45 60
45 50 65
50 55 70
55 60 70
60 65 75
70 75 75
75 80 75
80 85 80
85 90 80
90 95 85
95 100 90
100 110 90
O cilla Southern Railway
Over And Not Merchandise
Miles Over Miles Per 100 Lbs
0 5 30
5 10 35
10 15 40
15 20 45
20 25 50
25 30 55
30 35 60
35 40 60
40 45 60
45 50 65
50 55 70
55 60 70
60 65 75
65 70 75
70 75 75
Rome Northern Railroad
Over And Not Merchandise
Miles Over Miles Per 100 Lbs
0 7 40
7 12 40
12 15 40
15 17 50
17 20 50
20 22 50
South Georgia and West Cbast
Over And Not Merchandise
Miles Over Miles Per 100 Lbs
0 20 45
20 40 65
40 65 75
65 90
Stillmore Air Line
Over And Not Merchandise
Miles Over Miles Per 100 Lbs
1 20 45
20 40 60
40 60 75
W rights ville Tenaille Railroad
Over And Not Merchandise
Miles Over Miles Per 100 Lbs
0 20 40
20 40 60
40 60 65
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RULES
RULE I
The above tariffs are maximum rates and will apply to all Express Companies doing business within the State of Georgia and will be governed by the rules and regulations of the said Express Companies as far as said rules are applicable to the business done within the State of Georgia and are not in conflict with the rules adopted by the Commission governing Express Companies
RULE XL
The rates for the transportation of shipments by express service passing over two or more railroads under the same management or control by lease ownership or otherwise shall be based on continuous mileage but when such shipments pass over two or more railroads not under the same management or control by lease ownership or otherwise thirty per cent 30 may be added to the Express Standard Tariff based on continuous mileage When such shipments are handled by two or more express companies each company may charge its local less ten per cent
However no more than twentyfive cents 25c may be collected as a minimum charge on shipments taking pound rates between any two points within this State both of which are served by the same express company and no more than 25 cents may be collected as a maximum charge on any shipment weighing five pounds and less between any two points within this State both of which are served by the same express company but where such shipments are handled by two or more express companies each express company may charge 25 cents less 20 per cent
RULE III
The Express Companies are directed to have published and posted at all their offices in the State of Georgia the said classifications rates and rules with such explanations as are necessary for a full understanding of the same
RULE IV
Graduated rates apply to matter weighing less than one hundred pounds
RULE V
Two or more packages weighing each 10 pounds or over forwarded by one shipper at the same time to one consignee may be charged for on the aggregate weight as above Packages weighing less than 10 pounds each shipped as in the foregoing section may be aggregated provided they are estimated and charged for as weighing 10 pounds each Actual weight only must be entered on the waybill If articles of different classes are aggregated the charge may be made at the rate applying to the highest class
RULE VI
Valuation ChargesWhen the value of any merchandise shipment C O D or otherwise exceeds 5000 the following additional charge may be made on value Charge for value whether insured or not When merchandise
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rate is 100 or less per 100 pounds 5 cents for each 10000 value or fraction thereof When merchandise rate exceeds 100 and not more than 300 per 100 pounds 10 cents for each 10000 value or fraction thereof These rates apply only to packages or shipments of merchandise jewelry and valuable papers
RULE VII
If C O D matter is refused or can not be delivered the shipper must be immediately notified and if not disposed of within thirty days after such notice it may be returned subject to charge both ways
RULE VIII
Gunpowder Dynamite Kerosene Benzine Naptha Gasoline Matches and all other explosive or dangerous inflammable oils acids or materials may not be received for transportation
RULE IX
Fancy Poultry Pet Stock or Dogs that have paid double merchandise rates to Fairs and Exhibitions may be returned free if accompanied by a certificate from the Secretary that they are being returned to the original owner
RULE X
No Express office where Express business is done in this State shall be discontinued or abolished without first obtaining the consent of the Commission upon application duly filed by said company wherein shall be stated the reasons therefor
RULE XI
When ice is used for preservation of shipments of commodities in Tariff E in eluding oysters in shell deduct Twentyfive per cent 25 from the gross weight
RULE XII
The sender of any article by express between points in this State who shall prepay the charges on same is authorized to plainly mark such articles paid or prepaid but nevertheless it shall be the duty of the agent or employee of the express company receiving same to place thereon a label showing that it has been prepaid or to write or stamp upon such article the word paid or prepaid or other words showing the payment of charges at the initial point and it shall be unlawful for such express company or any of its agents or employees to collect charges from the receiver of such article under forfeiture of twice the amount of the proper charge
Failure to refund charges so collected within twentyfour hours after demand substantiated by the paid mark on the article or shipping receipt either at initial point or destination shall be punishable by such further penalty as tbe Commission may determine
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RULE XIII
In cities or towns in this State where delivery service is maintained by an ex press company no extra charge shall be made for door delivery within a radius of one mile from the office of such company provided the point of delivery is within the corporate limits of any such city or town
RULE XIV
All express companies operating in this State and which hold themselves out as carriers of fresh fish shall give notice to the consignor of the failure or refusal of the consignee to receive such shipments when the same have remained on hand four hours during daylight after arriving at point of destination said notice to given by filing a telegram to that effect with a telegraph company doing a commercial telegraph business between points of origin and destination provided that it shall not be necessary to give such notice unless the carrier is directed by the shipper so to do in writing or printing attached to the package
This shall not apply where there is no commercial telegraph office open for business at either initial or destination point at the expiration of the time fixed herein
Should the carrier sell such shipments on the order of the shipper in any manner not pointed out by law it shall be entitled to a commission for such services of ten per cent of the amount realized
The carrier shall not await answer to its said telegram to the shipper longer than two hours after which time it shall act in reference to said shipments in accordance with its duty under the law
Should the said shipment perish or become damaged because of the carriers observance of the requirements of this order it shall not be liable in damages therefor if not otherwise at fault
The carrier shall reice such shipments only when directed so to do by the shipper and when it is practicable so to do and when shipments are reiced same shall be done at actual cost and at the expense of the shipper
The shipper shall pay the going and return charges on shipments which are returned under this order together with the telegraph tolls
i SPECIAL NOTICE
See Rule Number One of the Rules Governing the Erection and Location of Depots etc
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CLASSIFICATION OF PERISHABLES GENERAL SPECIALS ETC
CARRIED AT LESS THAN MERCHANDISE RATES AND AS PRESCRIBED
IN TARIFF B
Ale
Apples
Asparagus
Bananas
Beans
Beef Fat
Beer
Beer Tonic
Berries
Cabbages
Calves dressed Canteloupes in crates or barrels
Carrots
Celery
Cheese
Cherries
Chestnuts
Cider
Clams
Cocoanuts
Crabs
Crab Meat raw Not including deviled cooked crabs Crackers
Cucumbers
Eggs
Egg Plants
Fish Roe
Fish salted or dry Frogs live
Fruit
Furs coarse
Game
Grapes
Greens
Green Corn
Hides green
Honey in comb strained well packed
Ice Cream
Lard
Lemons
Lettuce gross weight Lobsters
Mineral Water
Okra
Oieo Butter and Oil Oranges or Oysters in shell
Oysters canned
See Scale of Weights Parsnips
Peaches
Pears
Peas
Pine Apples
Plums
Pomegranates
Pop
Potatoes
Radishes
Rabbits dead
Skins undressed of any kind
Soda Water
Squashes in crates Strained Honey Sugar Cane
Vegetables green Tomatoes
Terrapins
Trees and Shrubs tor planting when boxed or baled prepaid or guaranteed
Turtles in barrels Turtles live
Turnips
Yeast compressed
EXPLANATION OF ABOVE TABLESto find rate per one hundred pounds
ExampleFind the distance for forty miles or any distance between 21 and 40 on the left side of the Table of Merchandise Rates and the column on the right under the head of cents gives the correct rate40 cents
To find the rate on packages less than 100 pounds Look under the head of packages less than 100 pounds and find the weight of packages on which rate is wanted and run your finger along to the right until you get under the number of miles wanted at the top of the table and where the two cross you will find the rate For exampleWanted the rate on a package weighing between 41 and 50 pounds for 60 miles Find weight of package over 40 and not over 50 pounds under head of packages less than 100 pounds and run your finger to the right until it comes to the column under the 60 miles and it will give the rate wanted35 cents
Extra Rate ChargesOn matter subject to half rate as one and onehalf or double rate find graduated rate according to tariff and then add onehalf or double it as required Example If a package weighs 26pounds rated at double rate and the rate to destination is 100 E per 100 pounds the charge for 20 or 25 pounds is 50 cents double this 100is the proper amount
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CLASSIFICATION OF MERCHANDISE EXPLANATORY NOTES
A means that the article is governed by Tariff A
A means that the article is governed by onehalf of Tariff A
Double A means that the article is governed by two times Tariff A
3 times A means that the article is governed by three times Tariff A
4 times A means that the article is governed by four times Tariff A
8 times A means that the article is governed by eight times Tariff A
The following special rates are to be used only on the conditions named below within the State
SECTION AAdvertising Matter consisting of Printed Engraved or Photographed Advertisements on paper or cardboard not under glass and Almanacs Signs or Cards without glass in frames or racks may be charged at the Merchandise rate per one hundred pounds for actual weight charges to be prepaid or guaranteed and no charge to be less than 25 cents
NoteThe rates on advertising matter given herein will be applied only on matter distributed gratuitously for advertising purposes and must not be applied on any package containing articles that are sold to the consignee Any article of merchandise packed with advertising matter will subject the shipment to the regular graduate at merchandise rate
SECTION BThe following matter may be charged for at the Merchandise rate per one hundred pounds for actual weight charges to be prepaid or guaranteed
Auxiliary Newspapers Patent insides and other appliances used in place thereof including Reading Matter Plates minimum twentyfive cents
Packages of clothing shipped to or by laundries minimum twentyfive cents
Catalogues and Prices Current with prices extended to and from dealers and their traveling salesmen value limited to 1000 minimum twentyfive cents
Samples of Soap from manufacturers when given away for advertising purposes minimum twentyfive cents
Sample Cans of Cooked Corn from packing houses minimum twentyfive cents
Sample Cans of Meats from packing houses minimum twentyfive cents
NoteWhen graduated or other rates quoted in this card are less than these they should be applied When shipments are ordered returned these rates apply
The following special rates are to be used only on the conditions named below on business within the State
SECTION CRates on Printed Matter and Seeds and Bulbs prepaid to railroad points only within the State for manufacturers publishers and dealers
The following articles may be carried at ten cents for each one and onehalf pounds or less and for single packages exceeding one and onehalf pounds one cent for each additional two ounces or fraction thereof unless the graduate rate is less
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Almanacs
Blanks printed bound or in sheets
Blotters and Elotting Pads
Books printed bound or unbound fBulbs
Blank Books
Blank Cards
Blank Envelopes
Card Boards
Calendars
Cards printed Catalogues
Circulars
Cbromos
Chromo Lithographs Cuttings
Engravings
Envelopes address printed
Flexible or Paper Patterns
Hand Bills
Heliotype Work
Ins Policies blank Labels
Litho Views of Cities mounted on cloth with rollers
Letter Papers Lithographs
Magazines
Maps
Ornamented paper Pamphlets
Paper for Cash Rei
printed in rolls or sheets
Periodicals
Photos not framed Plants
Posters
Prospectuses
Proof Sheets Publications
Roots
Samples of Merchandise including Grain Cloth Medicine and Sample Cards
Scions
tSeeds
Sheet Music
Show Cards unmounted Stereoscopic Views
Any of the above mentioned articles which represent advertising may be taken under Section A when it gives a lower rate
fPackages of Bulbs or Seed exceeding 40 ounces in weight 4 cents per package less than rate of onehalf cent per ounce unless regular graduate is
less
Printed Matter Rates apply solely to articles enumerated and only when shipped by manufacturers publishers or dealers The value of each package must be limited to Ten Dollars be prepaid and have the nature or the contents
written stamped or printed thereon and be so packed that the description may be readily verified by examination
SECTION DEspecial care and judgment must be exercised in the use of the following special rates offering them only to manufacturers and dealers to secure large and continuous shipments
Packages of Merchandise not including Jewelry Grocers Samples and Electrotype and Stereotype Plates for advertising cuts value not exceeding 10
may be forwarded at a rate of one cent per ounce
Crab soft shell Empties may be returned free O R between all points
Sample Cans or Jars securely packed of cooked or preserved fruits vegetables or fish when shipped by manufacturers only pound rates This applies between all points
Samples of Wall Papers sent to dealers charge pound rates
Onion SetsCharge merchandise rates except that they may also be taken under the head of Rates on Printed Matter Seeds and Bulbs See Section C Vegetables under head of General Special only covers Green Vegetables used for food
Strawberry and Other Live Plants should be classed as plants see Classification Card and charged for at merchandise or double merchandise rates as indicated Only trees and shrubs are enumerated under head of General Specials not nursery stock or shipments from nurseries
Packages of Almanacs for city delivery received by freight for distribution may be charged for at 25 cents each
Stencil Plates and Shipping Cards to be used on packages to be returned by express when shipped by commission merchants to their customers may be charged at advertising matter rates as fixed by Section A
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Ice Cream at actual gross weight with an allowance of 20 per cent for ice at regular merchandise rates unless there are authorized specials to the contrary
Safety Bicycles not knocked down and boxed or crated charge double merchandise rates same as Ordinary Bicycles
Burlaps which have been used for covering shipments of silk from silk mills may he returned free
Airtight Jersey Butter Jars six in crate to be returned empty when shipped full by express may he returned between all points at 15 cents each
Fish Roe may he classed same as Fresh Fish
Sulkies Knocked Down not Boxed or CratedCharge three times merchandise rateminimum charges 300
Harvesters Knocked DownCharge single merchandise rate They should not he classed as Bulky Agricultural Implements on which double merchandise rate is charged as provided in Classification
Shell Clams in Bulk should he wayhilled at the estimated weight for Oysters that is 10 pounds to the gallon
Empty Paper BoxesCharge double merchandise rate
Shipments of Posters to Traveling Shows should he taken at graduated merchandise rates and not at the rates given under Section A of Classification Card
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GENERAL CLASSIFICATION
ExplanationsSpecial rules under each heading apply to all articles enumerated thereunder A stands for single A Rate A for onehalf A Rate iy2A for One and Onehalf A Rate D A for Double A Rate St A for Three Times A Rate Etc Special for Special Rates or Scales of Special Rates In the absence of Special Rates on Special Rate matter use Single Merchandise Rates 0 R for Owners Risk 0 R B for Owners Risk of Breakage K D for Knocked Down Minimum for minimum charge on a single shipmenti e no single charge less than the one specified
All articles not enumerated below or not analogous to those enumerated are to be charged for at A Rates
A
Acids dangerous refuse see Rule 8
Advertising Matter see Sec lion A
Agricultural Implements bulky Plows ordinary stirring
and breaking
Ale
Almanacs see Section A and Section C
Animals and Birds LiveRe j ceive them only at O R of injury death or escape taking a Release as provided for Live Stock Feed and utensils must be provided by shippers They must be boxed or caged Enter the number of animals in each box or cage on waybill Charges may be prepaid or
guaranteed
Alligators live
Cats
Deer
Ferrets
Guinea Pigs
Opossums
Pet Animals
Rabbits
Dogs in crates boxes or kennels actual weight Dogs on chains estimated
weight 100 lbs each
Antlers
Apples
Asparagus
D A
A
B
D A
i y21 a
D A D A B B
B
Bananas
Beans
Beef Fat
Beer
Berries
Butter
Beer Tonic see Scale of Rates Bees in stands O R
Benzine refuse see Rule 8 BicyclesOrdinary see Vehicles
BicyclesRailroad taken
apart see Vehicles
BicyclesSafetyK D and crated see Vehicles BicyclesSafetynot K D and boxed
Bicycle Wheels see Vehicles Birds Live Receive them only at O R of injury death or escape taking a Release as provided for Live Stock Feed and utensils must be provided by shippers Charges must be prepaid or guaranteed Enter the number in each crate on the waybill
Blanks printed bound or in Sheets see Section C Blotters and Blotting Pads see Section C
Boats Metallic Folding securely packed
B
B
B
B
B
B
iy2A
D A
D A
D A
Boats Row and Canoes including paddles and equipment minimum 200 4 t A
Shells and all Racing Crafts including Outriggers minimum 400 8tA
Books printed bound or unbound see Section C
Book Cases same as Furniture
Bread pound rates minimum 25 cents B
Brick samples of charges prepaid Pound Rates
Buggies see Vehicles
Burial Gases A
Burros see Live Stock
Bulbs see Section C
C
Chromos see Pictures also Section C
Chromo Lithographs see Section C
Chronometers see Instruments
Cigar Boxes empty
Circulars see Section C
Clothing packages of to or from Laundries see Section B
Colts see Live Stock
Corn cooked sample cans of see Section B
Cows see Live Stock
Crabs deviled or cooked
Crayon Portraits see Pictures
Cuttings see Section C
Cabbage
Calves dressed
Cantaloupes in crates or bbls
Carrots
Celery
Cheese
Cherries
Chestnuts
Cider
Clams
Cocoanuts
Crabs
Crab meat raw not including deviled or cooked crabs
Crackers
Cucumbers
Calendars see Section C Calves see Live Stock Calves dressed see Perishables etc
Cameras Photographs securely boxed
CamerasPhotograph in
light carrying cases
Canoe see Boats
Cards printed see Section C Carriages see Vehicles Castings Fragile receive
only at O R B
Catalogues see Section C Catalogues and prices current with prices extended to or from dealers and their traveling salesmen value limited to 1000 Section B
Cats see Animals
Chairs see Furniture
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
D
Deer see Animals
DesksSchool see Furniture DesksOffice same as Furniture
Dogs see Animals
Doll Carriages and Doll Chairs of small value Dressed Poultry
Dress Forms
Dynamite refuse see Rule 8
B
B
B
A D A
1A
E
Eggs
Egg Plants
Emery Wheels
Empties O R returned by the company that carried them when full Unless otherwise provided for they must be called for and delivered by owners and charges must be prepaid Empties not enumerated are to be charged for in accordance with size and weight of analogous empties When carried by two or more companies between common points charges to be divided equally delivering company to have the odd cent Empties that have not been shipped full by express charge merchandise rates
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Bags and sacks for news companies may be transported free or Tariff B rates
Beer Empties may be transported free or Tariff B rates
Berry Stands or Crates 10c Each Bread Baskets or Boxes 5c Each Butter under 100 pounds
5 cents each for any distance
Cans in boxes or kegs and
oil cans in jackets 10c Each
Cans for Alcohol Fish
Oils and Varnishes They may be delivered to regular patrons 15c Each
Clothing Baskets for clothing houses and merchant
tailors 125c Each
Coops 10cEach
Crates and Kennels pet animal or dog minimum
50c V2A
Demijohns in boxes or kegs 10c Each
Egg Cases 5cEach
Fruit Empties 10c Each
Gas Cylinders minimum
15c A
Homing Pigeon Baskets minimum 50c each for each company carrying A
Ice Cream Freezers minimum 15 cents A
Ice Cream Freezers empty may by agreement with
owner be returned subject to charges on delivery at rates fixed in classification A
Jars 5c Each
Jugs in boxes or kegs 10cEach
Kumyss Boxes 25c Each
Liquor Kegs 10c Each
Meat Boxes may be returned subject to chargeson delivery by agreement
with owners 25c Each
Milk Cans may be transported free or Tariff B rates
Mineral Water Cases may be transported free or Tariff B rates
Oyster and Scallop Empties
Not over 5 gallon capacity 10c Each Over 5 gallon and not over
10 gallon capacity15c Each
Over 10 gallon capacity 25c Each Cases containing empty
jars or bottles 15c Each
Pony Refrigerators for
FruitM25c Each
Soda Fountains minimum 15c A
Engravings see Pictures also Section C
Envelopes address printed see Section C
Explosives refuse see Rule
8
F
Feathers closely compressed
and baled A
Feathers not closely compressed and baled D A
Ferrets see Animals
Firearms O R
Guns or Rifles trussed or boxed or taken apart and packed in sole leather or canvas cases A
When not so packed 3tA
Pistols or Revolvers securely packed A
Fire Brick A
FishSalted or Dry B
FishFresh E
Fish Roe B
Fresh Meats E
Frogs live B
Furs coarse B
FishLive When carried by more than one Company rates on Packages each 7 pounds or less do
not apply A
Fruit B
Furniture O R B
Boxed or Crated A
Not Boxed or Crated D A
Burlapped except chairs from manufacturers only A
Chairs boxed or crated Chairs not boxed or crated A
and not otherwise specified D A
Chairs Barber burlapped
boxed or crated A
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Chairs Dentists boxed or crated not exceeding 7500
in value
Chairs Dentists boxed or crated exceeding 7500
in value
Chairs Iron Frame or
Folding Opera
Letter File Cases boxed or
crated
Piano Stools boxed or
crated
Piano Stools not boxed or
crated
School Desks
FursCoarse including undressed skins
FursDressed
G
Game
Gasoline refuse see Rule 8
Ginger Ale
Glass must be boxed or crated
O R B
Ground
Mirrors
Stained
Show Cases
Plate
Signs
Windows
Goats see Live Stock
Grapes 1
Greens
Green Corn
Guinea Pigs see Animals Guns see Firearms Gunpowder refuse see Rule 8
H
Harvesters K D
Hand BagsOld
Hand Bills see Section C Heliotype Work see Section C
HidesGreen
HobbyHorses
Hogs see Live Stock
Honey O R refuse unless properly packed
Honey in comb and strained
well packed
Horses see Live Stock
A
D A A A A
D A
A
B
A
B A
D A
A
B
B
B
B D A
A
B
Inflammables refuse see Rule 8 Instruments O R Musical Instruments encased in wooden boxes in addition to their own cases A
Musical Instruments not boxed not otherwise specified 1 3t A
Pianos boxed minimum 500 for each Company carrying A
Pianos not boxed minimum 500 for each Company carrying iy2A
Organs boxed A
Organs not boxed for music dealers A
Organs not boxed for other than music dealers 1A
Surveyors Instruments except Tripods must be refused unless boxed Surveyors Instruments enclosed in a single box or case 3t A
Surveyors Instruments strapped so that they can not move in their own box or case and covered with one or more additional boxes with proper packing between A
Chronometers must be refused unless boxed 3t A
Thermometers must be refused unless boxed or securely packed Value not exceeding 500 each A
Value exceeding 500 each D A
Tripods A
Insurance Policies blank see Section C J Jarsairtight butter Jewelry sealed or unsealed rates in Section D do not apply Graduated rates A
X
Kerosene refuse see Rule 8
Ii
Ice Cream
I
B
Labels see Section C Lard
B
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Laundries packages of clothing shipped to or by see Section B
Lemons
Lettuce gross weight B
Lobsters B
Letter File Cases see Furniture
Lithographed Views of Cities mounted on cloth with rollers see Section C
Lithographic Stones O R must be boxed or crated D A
Liquids in glass demijohns or earthenware O R Refuse when enclosed in paper or paper boxes or otherwise improperly packed A
Lithographs see Pictures also Section C
Live Stock Receive only at O R of death injury or escape Shipper must be required to sign a contract on the form furnished by the company releasing the Express as well as all transportation companies whose line may be used from any and all liabilities for loss or damage Feed and utensils must be provided by shippers Charges must be prepaid or guaranteed Horses may not be taken unless authorized by Superintendents
Burros crated A
Burros not crated not exceeding 500 lbs in weight and 100 in value minimum 5 for each company carrying lA
Calves crated A
Colts see Ponies
Cows not crated estimate single animal at 1000 lbs D A Cows crated A
Goats
Hogs crated A
Horses estimate single animals at 1000 lbs minimum 25 for each company carrying in absence of an agreement to divide
the through rate 3 t A
Horses car loads of 10 horses estimate at 10000 lbs and 1000 lbs more for
each additional horse Ponies or Colts not exceed A
ing 500 lbs in weight and 100 in value minimum 1000 for each company carrying in absence of an
agreement to divide the through rate When not crated iy2A
When crated i A Pony Colt or Horse A
weighing over 500 lbs net will be classified
same as a Horse A
Sheep crated Lobsters see Perishables A
M
Magazines see Section C
Maps see Section C Marble and Slate manufac
tured must be boxed or crated O R A
Matches refuse see Rule 8 Mattresses Meat sample cans of from A
packing houses see Section B B
MeatFresh or cured
Men refuse Milk minimum charge 15c
See Milk Tariff Mineral Water B
Mirrors see Glass
N
Naptha refuse see Rule 8
Negatives see Photographic Dry Plates
Newspapers charge according to local agreements
Newspapers auxiliary see Section B
O
Okra
Oars crated
Oars not crated B
Oleo Butter
Oleo Oil
Oil explosives or inflammables refuse see Rule 8
Opera Chairs see Furniture
Opossums see Animals
Organs not boxed for other
than music dealers 14A
Oranges B
Oysters in Shell Glass Jars
Canned in Patented Oyster Carriers or in bulk See note
a w td
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NOTEWhen shipped in bulk with or without ice estimate at 12 pounds per gallon
When shipped in cans or patented carriers with or without ice the following estimated weights apply
Pint cans 1lbs Each
Standard or cans2
Full quart cans 3
Halfgallon cans 6
Gallon cans 12
Excess to he charged pro
portionately
Shippers must mark the number and capacity of cans on each case or the gallonage when shipped in bulk
P
Painting see Pictures
Pamphlets see Section C
Paper for Cash Register see
Section C
Parsnips B
Peaches B
Peas B
Pears B
Pine Apples B
Plums B
Pomegranates B
Pop B
Potatoes B
Poultry dressed B
Patent Insides see Section B
Peanut Roasters A
Periodicals see Section C Photographs not framed see Section C
Photographic Dry Plates and Negatives O R B A
Pianos not boxed minimum 500 for each company carrying lA
Piano Stools see Furniture
Pictures O R must be securely crated or boxed and marked Pictures Oil Paintings etc Shippers must invariably declare value and it must be entered on the receipt
Chromos
Crayon Portraits
Engravings Lithographs Machines or Stencil Paint
ings
Oil Paintings
Pictures
Water Colors