FORTYFOURTH REPORT OF THE RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA PRINTED BY T HE A J SHOWALTER CO DALTON GA General N IVERSITY Athen s Library of Georgia Georgia CHAS MURPHEY CANDLER Chairma GEORGE HILLYER YiceChairman PAUL B TRAMMELL Commissioners JAMES A PERRY JOHN T BOIFEUILLET J PRINCE WEBSTER Rate Expert ALBERT COLLIER Secretary JAMES K HINES Special Attorney REPORT LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL AND REVIEW Atlanta Ga April 1st 1917 To Jtiis Excellency N E Harris Governor Sir In obedience to law the Railroad Commission of Georgia submits this its FortyFourth Report the same being for the year ended December 31 1916 In line with the requirements of the Interstate Commerce Commission the Railroad Commission of Georgia has heretofore required annual reports ds to their business from steam railroads express companies and telephone and telegraph companies to cover the twelve months ending on June 30th of each year During the past year the Interstate Commerce Commission after advising with the State Commissions and the various public service corporations under its jurisdiction determined to change the reporting year from June 30th so as to correspond with the calendar year and end on December 31st In concert with this action this Commission has also adopted the calendar year as the reporting year This report therefore carries financial operating and statistical reports of the utilities above mentioned for two twelve months periods towit for the fiscal year ended June 30 1916 and for the calendar year ended December 31 1916 Beginning with 1917 reports for the calendar year will be required and summarised in the Commissions annual reports CLASSIFICATION OF PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS REPORTING TO THE COMMISSION FOR 1916 AND 1915 The number and character of public service corporations reporting to the Commission for 1916 as compared with those reporting in 1915 are as follows towit 1916 Street Railroad Gas Electric Light and Power Companies 54 Steam Railroads 66 Terminal Companies 5 Express Companies 1 Telegraph Companies 2 Telephone Companies 89 Cotton Compress Companies 12 1915 54 64 5 1 2 89 12 Totals 229 227 3 General Library1 University of Georgia Athens Georgia It will be noted that the number of public utilities reporting for 1916 is two more than reported in 1915 This increase is in the number of steam railroads in the State two new railroads towit the Ocmulgee Valley and the Washington Lincolnton railroads having commenced operations during 1916 NUMBER AND CHARACTER OF FORMAL COMPLAINTS HANDLED AND DISPOSED OF DURING 1916 AS COMPARED WITH 1915 During 1916 the Commission made final disposition of 514 petitions complaints and subjects requiring formal action or order as shown in the following comparative table and classification towit 1916 1915 Passenger fares and service 73 57 Freight rates 135 180 Freight service 62 32 Claims for overcharge loss damage and demurrage 65 87 Side tracks and spur tracks 18 15 Depots and stations 17 48 Street ear service and fares 3 10 Gas and electric rates and service 15 25 Express rates and service 23 25 Telegraph and telephone rates and service J 52 29 Stock and bond issues 15 8 Miscellaneous 42 15 Totals 514 530 This table shows a decrease of sixteen in the number of subjects formally disposed of during 1916 under 1915 and a decrease under 1914 of eightyfour cases In addition to the subjects thus disposed of by formal action of the Commission it has through interviews conferences and correspondence handled and disposed of more than 2500 inquiries claims contentions adjudications etc without formal docketing or hearings The Commission is fully convinced that the decrease in the number of complaints requiring formal action by th Commission is due almost wholly to the amicable relations in the main existing between the public and the corporations serving them In the main 1916 has also been a fairly prosperous business year and it has been our observation that during prosperous times and with fairly satisfactory business conditions complaints as to the rates and services of public utilities are less frequent than in periods of dull and depressed business conditions The most serious complaints lodged with the Commission during the past winter have been as to car nd equipment shortages on the railroads of the State While much of this trouble has been due to freight congestion at the ports particularly in the East and to this extent unavoidable by the rail carriers yet we are satisfied that much of it in Georgia has been due to the lack of repairs and maintenance 4 during 1914 and 1915 when transportation conditions were such as to require rigid economy in operating Concurrently with the return of normal traffic conditions during 1915 and especially during the past winter prices of equipment have greatly increased It has also been difficult to secure prompt deliveries even at increased prices Of the ten trunk lines operating in Georgia six had fewer freight cars in service on June 30 1916 than in 1913 notwithstanding there was a much heavier tonnage of traffic than in 1913 Many of the short lines in Georgia own very limited equipment and are practically without any of special types such as coal cars stock cars etc Locomotives in service June 30 1916 were fewer than in 1915 and only slightly in excess of the number in service in 1913 In view of the probable demands which will be made by the Federal Government during the next fall and winter for preferred transportation of troops and governmental supplies and materials the Commission is fearful that the movement of crops and commercial freight may be seriously inconvenienced and delayed FINANCIAL RESULTS OF OPERATIONS OF PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS REPORTING TO THE COMMISSION It will be noted that the results of the operations of public service corporations reporting to the Commission for the fiscal year ended June 30 1916 show a gratifying improvement both in gross and net as compared with the previous year Gross earnings are not quite so large as for the year ending June 30 1914 but net earnings are larger At the time this report goes to press gross earnings are bolding up well as compared with all previous years but operating expenses and taxes are showing considerable increases I Summary of Financial Operations IntraState of Corporations and Companies Subject to the Jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission of Georgia for the Fiscal Years 1916 1915 and 1914 Railroad Companies Gross Earnings Operating Expenses Net Earnings 52 Cos Deficits 12 Cos 1916 5192310484 3638978515 1560917883 7585914 1915 4529769741 3468353724 1080292021 18876005 1914 5307995177 3955589157 1355580383 3174363 Terminal Companies Gross Earnings Operating Expenses Net Earnings 3 Cos Deficits 2 Cos 15487835 23171968 1105091 8789224 13992574 23254468 1081420 10343314 13214669 24798439 1082771 12666441 Telegraph and Express Compans Gross Earnings Operating Expenses Net Earnings 2 Cos Deficits 1 Co 347619209 326217732 22362987 961510 5 315069733 301809822 14753025 1493114 349500908 338084269 13173274 1756635 33005 Compress Companies Gross Earnings Operating Expenses Net Earnings 12 Cos Deficits Street Railroads Power Gas and Electric Light Companies Gross Earnings Operating Expenses Net Earnings 50 Cos Deficits 4 Cos Telephone Companies Gross Earnings Operating Expenses Net Earnings 88 Cos Deficits 1 Co Total for all Companies Gross Earnings Operating Expenses Net Earnings 207 Cos Deficits 20 Cos 78297364 50641584 27655780 91400952 57339511 34075802 14361 100784938 68752208 32032730 1272485704 634454429 638632886 601611 1172959961 594977806 578468895 486740 1174084861 614703277 560496832 1115248 395764536 207148316 188616771 551 369192980 197614097 171754559 175676 363032941 198723228 164360254 50541 7301965132 4880612544 2439291398 17938810 6492385941 4643349428 1880425722 31389209 7308613494 5200650578 2126726144 18763228 it should be borne in mind that net earnings as shown above represent the excess of earnings over 1 operating expenses and are not synonymous with net income From net earnings there must be deducted taxes and interest charges before there can be any dividends to stockholders although interest charges on funded debt incurred for capital account expenditures are in the nature of a return on investment STEAM RAILROAD MILEAGE The following table shows the actual railroad mileage in the state in operation June 30th fos the past two years 1916 Miles single track main line 738879 Miles second track main line 11572 Miles passing and yard track 206371 1915 729572 11036 203865 Total miles of rail all descriptions in actual operation 956822 944473 It will be noted that main line mileage in actual operation on June 30 1916 shows an increase of 123 miles over 1915 The increase was mainly in the construction and placing in operation since 1915 of the Ocmulgee Valley Railroad the Washington Lincolnton Railroad the Midland Railway and an extension of the Savannah Northwestern Railway all short lines Second line track increased 536 miles and passing and yard tracks increased 2506 miles The total miles of rails all descriptions increased 12349 miles over 1915 6 persons STEAM AND STREET RAILROAD ACCIDENTS The reports of accidents required of steam and street railroads include all persons killed or injured m their road operations classified as Passengers Employees and Other Persons The class designated as Other Persons inc udes mail express and news agency employees all trespassers and also all lawfully on rights of way or at street or road crossings etc A summary of the reports shows the following Steam Railroad Accidents Passengers killed Passengers injured 113 Employees killed Employees injured 741 Other persons killed Other persons injured Total killed and injured Street Railroad Accidents Passengers killed Passengers injured Employees killed Employees injured 92 Other persons killed Other persons injured 272 Total killed and injured 1326 B Ihe total number of all persons killed and injured in steam and street railroad accidents during 1916 was 2487 compared with 2641 in 1915 and 2715 in 1914 STOCK AND BOND APPROVALS It will be noted from the summary following that 1916 like 1915 has not been aefr f mUCh activity in the organization and promotion of new or large public ESM Ed ilroad bond approvals by the Commission being 5200 0000 bonds of the Atlanta Birmingham Atlantic Railway Company in its reorganization and 700000000 of bonds of tthe Atlanta Charlotte Air Line Railway Company for the completion of double tracking beetween Atlanta and Char 1916 1915 1914 2 7 8 113 203 321 30 29 33 741 990 689 70 91 53 130 188 177 1086 1508 1281 1916 1915 1914 5 0 0 950 795 994 1 0 0 91 87 129 7 9 9 272 242 302 1326 1133 1434 Stock and Bond Approvals for the Year Ended December 31 1916 Capital stock totals 79379000 Mortgage bonds totals 1367700000 Time notes and equipment obligations 1257 952 56 Total approvals 1572874256 As compared with 1229804145 in 1915 7 Taxes Paid in Georgia By Public Service Corporations By steam railroads By terminal companies By express companies By street railroads ga electric light and power companies By telegraph companies By telephone companies By cotton compress Cos 1916 1915 1914 203237695 179731797 188045901 i 4214028 4021710 4212743 2845020 3070615 2043233 70707052 77856078 74290030 3066679 2920974 2007419 5 18432341 18470491 17381419 3354466 3016610 3413152 305857281 289088275 291393897 The above table includes only taxes paid within Georgia to the State Counties Municipalities and School Districts These figures do not include any taxes paid to the Federal Government such as Capital Stock Income and Excess Profit Taxes It is well known that these Federal taxes have been materially increased during the past year and that additional increases for war expenses will be made during this year LITIGATION In the last annual report of the Commission mention was made of the fact that at that time there was pending in the courts only one case to which the Commission was a party that being an appeal pending in the Supreme Court of Georgia by J itney Bus operators based upon the refusal of one of the judges of Fulton Superior Court to issue an order restraining the Commission from the promulgation of rules regulating their public services as common carriers Since then the Supreme Court has aflirmed the action of the lower court and the case has been remanded for trial on the main issues During 1916 as already stated the Commission has made final disposition of 514 formal petitions complaints etc involving orders and rulings not one of which has been appealed from or contested before the courts or elsewhere PETITIONS FOR INTRA STATE FREIGHT RATE REVISION In its last annual report the Commission mentioned the fact that there were then on file with it petitions by practically all of the railroads of the State for radical and revolutionary revision of our intrastate freight classification and tariffs and in the rules and regulations now in force in Georgia governing rail transportation of freight traffic wholly within the State and that since its creation in 1879 the Commission had not been called upon to conduct an investigation of such importance and magnitude as was involved in these petitions They are still pending Because of the scope of the inquiry and of the complexities in the questions involved much time for the proper preparation of their cases by the carriers and for counter showings by shippers and other interested 8 protestants was needed and it was not until August 17 1916 that actual hearings and introduction of evidence were commenced The fullest opportunity for submission of all relevant testimony has been given to all parties desirous of being heard and the introduction of evidence was only completed on May 8 1917 the Commission having been actually engaged in hearing testimony sixtyone days The oral testimony introduced covers 7675 typewritten pages besides over 1300 formal exhibits of from one to three hundred and thirtyfour pages each Petitioners and protestants have been given until July 7th next for the filing of printed briefs and arguments after which the Commission will begin its study of the completed record The extent of this inquiry the amount of work involved in its proper disposition by the Commission and the farreaching effect of such orders as the Commission may issue therein are almost inconceivable to one who has had no part in its conduct nor expert familiarity with its complexities involving not merely the reformation of our freight classification the reconstruction of our freight rate structure and the amendment of the rules and regulations governing rail freight transportation within Georgia but their relation to interstate classifications rates rules and regulations RECOMMENDATIONS Under the law it is made the duty of the Railroad Commission of Georgia to recommend from time to time such legislation as they the Commissioners may deem nefeessary In obedience to this mandate the Commission has from time to tipie submitted recommendations as to legislation A few of these have been considered by committees of the General Assembly but so far as we can recall none have been enacted into laws Some of these are in our opinion of such importance hat we feel constrained to again invite the attention of the General Assembly thereto FREIGHT CLASSIFICATION AND TARIFFS In its FortyFirst Report the Commission stated that in its opinion its then most urgent and important duty was to make a complete and radical revision of its freight classification and of its standard tariff but that this duty so important alike to carriers and shippers because of the amount of work involved and its technical character was difficult of performance for the lack of a sufficient clerical force in the Commisions office The task would have been undertaken anyhow during the latter part of 1915 had it not been for the fact that about the time the work would have started the Commission received notice that the railroads of the State would a little later file concerted petitions for the general freight rate revision already mentioned It was then decided to merge the revision the Commission had in mind into the general revision to be asked for by the rail carriers in the interest of economy in both labor and expense It is well known that freight rates are in a general way described as class 9 I rates nd commodity rates Some particular commodities moving in commerce because of their peculiar and individual characteristics are transported under rates applicable alone to them these are generally known as special commodity rates There are numerous commodities so nearly alike in character and movement as that they can be grouped and moved under rates applicable alike to all of the group these are generally known as commodity groups It is manifestly impracticable however to prescribe a specific or individual rate for every individual commodity or small groups of commodities moving between each and every railroad point in the state It has therefore been found necessary to classify or group in a large way all known commodities moving or likely to move in commerce according to their similarity in character handling value movement and other like considerations Tariffs of charges or rates are then prescribed for each class for varying distances according to the value weight bulk packing risks cost of carriage and other similar considerations and these are known as class rates The different freight classes and the rates or tariff of charges applicable thereto should bear logical and harmonious relation to each other The original and only general freight classification ever attempted or promulgated by the Railroad Commission of Georgia was published as effective May 1 1880 There has been no effort to revise it as a whole since its issuance although numerous amendments and additions have been since made These have been made from time to time by differently constituted Commissions through more than a third of a century as individual cases and needs were brought to the attention of the Commission and as a result of this piece process of building by different builders our current State Classification is permeated with inconsistent conflicting and obsolete descriptions groupings and ratings so that it is often difficult for the Commission itself to give effect to harmonious constructions The variety of articles and commodities now being transported in commerce is greatly increased since 1880 Commodities absolutely unknown and methods of packing undreamed of in 1880 move freely today Many articles moving in 1880 are no longer known to trade or transportation Our classification must be revised as a whole and while the task is heavy it has been rendered somewhat less burdensome by the assistance received from both carriers and shippers in the general rate revision petitions just heard In this connection the Commission most earnestly invites your special attention to those provisions in Section 6 of the Act of 1879 creating the Commission now embodied in Section 2632 of the Civil Code of 1910 which require the publication in nine newspapers in nine different cities in the State of every amendment to or change in the freight classification or freight tariff or any revision or reissue of them prior to their becoming effective or operative The expense of such publication of the revision the Commission is undertaking or even of any considerable amendment of our classification and tariffs is absolutely prohibitory and wholly unnecessary as serving no useful purpose The publication in nine newspapers in the nine principal cities of Georgia of a modern freight classification 10 and tariff table such as the Commission expects to promulgate at the publication rates prescribed in Code Section 2632 would cost the State approximately twentyfive thousand dollars Some of the large dailies of the State in the citiesnamed have refused to carry our tariff circulars at the rates named in the Code We therefore earnestly recommend the repeal of the provisions of Code Section 2632 requiring newspaper publication of classification and tariff circulars issued by the Commission and in lieu the substitution of a 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 manner and form as the Commission may deem reasonable and proper and copy of the same served by mail on each carrier or public utility affected thereby Unless and until the General Assembly provides some such legislation as is now urged it will be absolutely impossible to make effective legally any general revision of our existing obsolete and imperfect freight classification COMPETING LOCAL PUBLIC UTILITIES In its FortyFirst Report the Commission took occasion to comment upon the evil as it saw it arising out of unrestrained and unreasoning competition between local public utilities occupying the same field and to the burdens almost invariably placed upon the public by reason of unnecessary and unwise investments and expenditures of capital resulting from conditions which generally follow a contest for business The attention of the Commission has been again attracted to the subject by a case now under consideration by it and the practical difficulties facing it in finding a remedy within its power for the manifest and unfortunate evil results flowing from these conditions As we have heretofore stated our public policy has been to encourage competition as a regulator of prices and a provider of good service Our observation and experience in dealing with competitive situations arising in local utility fields has convinced us that unrestrained competition between the local utilities in certain lines at least accomplishes neither of the above ends effectually and without great economic waste We do not believe competition in local utility fields is either a consistent regulator of rates or an economical provider of permanent good service It means a duplication of investments organization and operating expenses unnecessary in the public service rarely permanently maintained and in the end burdensome upon the public In our opinion a well regulated monopoly in the local public utility field with its service under governmental supervision its practices regulated by a governmental agency and its rates prescribed by governmental authority will render better service upon more reasonable rates with less discrimination in rates and practices and larger and more lasting benefit to the public in the end than are ever secured under unrestrained competition The Commission therefore repeats a former recommendation as to legislation prohibiting the grant of franchises by municipal authorities to local public utilities where there is a going established local public utility rendering safe adequate and efficient service at reasonable rates already occupying the field except after 11 application to and issuance by the Railroad Commission of a certificate of public convenience and necessity In our opinion the government which wisely and properly assumes to prescribe reasonable rates and to compel adequate public service by local public utilities should also protect such utilities and the public from unwise unreasoning and useless competition and consequent economic waste PUBLIC ROAD GRADE CROSSINGS The Commission has several times directed attention to the accidents frequently occurring at grade crossings of public highways by steam and electric railways There are hundreds of dangerous highway grade crossings in this State constituting daily menaces to life limb and property As highway and railroad construction increase as the number of railway trains operated multiply yearly as population and the consequent use of the public roads increases and since the autopasseiiger cr and freight truck with ever increasing speed and power are rapidly supplanting horse and mule drawn vehicles the risks and dangers at highway grade crossings are rapidly multiplying There are over 50000 automobiles in use in Georgia at this time They have great speed and power They are driven by men and women by skilled and unskilled by children and octogenarians The frequency of collisions at grade crossings and their sad results is not surprising The lessening of such accidents is a present problem and of increasing urgency It can be solved with less expense now than in the future It is no small problem from an economic standpoint nor is it one to be worked out in a month or year The Commission recommends that the entire subject of the elimination improvement and safeguarding of grade crossings of public highways outside the limits of municipalities be placed under its jurisdiction and that it be empowered to order their elimination by under or over passage or their improvement or safeguarding as in its discretion and after investigation appears reasonable practicable and proper with power to apportion the cost in each instance as it deems equitable The Commission further recommends that no new grade crossings of first class established public roads outside the limits of municipalities by railroads hereafter constructed or of constructed railroads by new highways be allowed except after application to and approval by the Railroad Commission Respectfully submitted CHAS MURPIIEY CANDLER Chairman GEORGE HILLYER ViceChairman PAUL B TR4MMELL JAMES A PERRY JOHN T BOIFEUILLET Commissioners i J PRINCE WEBSTER Rate Expert ALBERT COLLIER Secretary 12 1 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 YI No provisions of this article shall be deemed held or 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 Power to regulate Vates and fares Corporations 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 13 Liability of Railroad Companies as carriers Time of responsibility What pasr sengers may be refused Carrier of passengers For baggage On baggage Limit as to value of baggage The following references to the laws of the State on the subject of transportation 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 F 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 G A carrier of passengers may limit the value of the baggage to be taken for 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 14 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 H 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 the day 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 I 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 J 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 anjr 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 L 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 2261 Carriers to furnish water and light on passenger coaches Equal accommodations to all Police of railroads Posting time of delayed trains Carriers hound to extraordinary diligence M Effect of notice to limit 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 N Bound to deliver without unreason able delay 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 0 Time of responsibility 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 P Carrier has lien on goods 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 Q Fraud on carrier 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 Freight lists how made out 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 Freight receipts to be issued 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 16 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 bet 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 T 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 U Where there are several connecting railroads under different companies and the goods are intended to be transported over more than fone railroad each company shall be 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 V 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 ctfrs 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 Duplicate freight receipts Liability of railroads where there are several Roads required to deliver to and receive cars from connecting roads Weighing by sworn weigher When lumber etc laps from one car to another 17 together after uncoupling them at both ends from other cars and in all sue instances the aggregate weight of the freight upon said two or be averaged so that each of the cars shall be charged with an Ml 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 Unjust discrimination prohibited 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 tiansportat of any rard car on its said road or upon any ofthe 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 tariffsor 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 freig t 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 hoicever That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to t e transportation of passengers or property or to the receiving delivering storage or handling of property wholly within one State and not shipped to or froma foreign country from or to any State or Territory as aforesaid The following is the law under which the Railroad Commission was created being Act No 2b9 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 relation thereto and to appoint Commissioners and to prescribe their powers and duties in relation to the same Whereas 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 omilssioner sha11 be appointed for two years one for four years and one or 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 Commit sioner shal be removed from office his term of office shall expire The Governor s all have the same power to fill vacancies in the office of Commissioner as to durCThVaCanCleS and if fr any reaSOn said Commissioners are not appointed dunug 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 Un e as barl of the term of office of said Commissioners respectively 5 thTrfd SaM Oonmissioners stall late an oath of office to be tZhi Governorand shall not jointly or severally or In any way be raLod comn y OT bndS f be the agent or PpWy of anv railroad company or have any interest in any way in any railroad and shall so continue dnrmc the term of office and in case any Commissioner becomes Commis oners appointment term and salary 39 Location of office employment of Secretary ex penses etc disqualified in any way he shall at once remove the disqualifications or res g and on failure so to do he must be suspended from office by the Governor a dealt with as hereinafter provided In any case of suspension the Governor maj 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 eighteen hundred dollars at the expense of the State The office of sa d C missioners 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 Extortion by railroads forbidden 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 organize 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 gui y of extortion and upon conviction thereof shall be dealt with as herema er Unjust discrimination for bidden provided Sec IV 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 ereo 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 Duty of commissioners 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 20 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 rulesand 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 passengers 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 Sec VI That the said Railroad Commissioners are hereby authorized and required to make for each of the railroad corporations doing busniess in this Commis v s uuouicsb in Lims sioners State as soon as practicable a schedule of just and reasonable rates of charges Sft for the transportation of passengers and freights and cars on each of said rates pub railroads and said schedule shall in suits brought against any such railroad ll8h 8Mneetc corporations wherein is involved the charges of any such railroad corporation for the transportation of any passenger or freight or cars or unjust discrimination m 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 c urges for the transportation of passengers and freights and cars upon the railroads and said Commissioners shall from time to time and as often as cir 2 shaanhamah reQUire ChaUge aM reViSG SaW SCheduleS When W 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 Lcn RomeaTtb 1 f Atlnta AugUSta Albany Savannah exceed flftv Lt CUS and Columbus in this State at a rate not to is opo J 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 ule T re 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 S sha11 be the duty of at P ffiX SIXene stations in a conspicuous place a copy of Mid schedule for by time 0i the PCOre 1 That when any rate or change is made by the Commissioners that affects only one road or roads in a particular locality 21 Jurisdiction and power of Commis sioners Power of Commissioners over contracts between railroads Injuries re suiting from violation of rules the insertion need only He made in the paper published inoneof pities named nearest where the change is made Act 27th September lb That the schedules thus prepared shall not be taken as evidence as herein provided until schedules shall have been prepared and published as aforesa d for all the railroad companies now organized under the laws of this State or Lt w beOrganized a the time of said publication All such schedules purporting to be printed and published as aforesaid shall be received and held L 111 such suits as prima facie the schedules of said Commissioners without further of1 than the production of the schedules desired to be used as evidence with a certificate of the Railroad Commission that the same is a t ue copy if the schedule prepared by them for the railroad company ov covpovatn therein named and that the same has been duly published as require y Sec VII That it shall be the duty of said Commissioners to instigate the books and papers of all the railroad companies doing busing Tth and to ascertain ii the rules and regulations aforesaid have been complied with a irmake personal visitation of railroad offices stations and other places of business for the purpose of examination and to make rules and regulation concerningsuch examLtion which rules and regulations shall be observed and obeyed as other rules and regulations aforesaid said Commissioners shall a have full power and authority to examine all agents and employees of said railed companies and other persons under oath or otherwise 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 2h examinations and which rules and regulations herein be obeyed and enforced as all other rules and regulations provided for m this Act Sec VIII That all contracts and agreements between railroad companies doing business in this State as to rates of freight and passenger tari s 8 be submitted to said Commissioners for inspection and be seen whether or not they are a violation of law or of the provisio Constitution or of this Act or of the rules and regulations sioners and all arrangements and agreements whatever as to M earnings of any kind by competing railroad companies doing 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 Commissionersmay 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 to 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 4 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 o action and recovery for such wrong or injury in the county where the same was done in any court having jurisdiction thereof and the damages to be recovered shallbe 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 businss as common carriers upon any of the lines of railroad in this State street railways excepted the same as to railroad corporations hereinbefore mentioned dunlSafr if aU Ulai commutes In tils State shall on demand Issue yieate 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 rrv0sucrfrePT1Cwn ShaU State the arges over other roads that agent of the n consignee presents the railroad receipt to the agent of the railroad that delivers such freight such agent shall deliver the Goned6 HT4 UPn Payment f the rate Charg6d fr the Class of heights men the sltY TiPt W any railrad COmpany sha11 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 for to mate to the fKiS Uty f 1110 Commissioners herein provided nu t Goromov reports of the transactions of their office and o recommend from time to time such legislation as they may dim a visable under the provisions of this Act Q Commissioners who is hereby authorized to administer oaths Tn Rules of evidence Meaning of terms Duplicate freight receipts Reports of Commissioners Power of Commissioners over witnesses 23 I Railroad officers to report to Commissioners missioners to issue an attachment for such witness and before the Commissioners and give his testimony upon such matters as Stoll be lawfully required by such Commissioners and said court sHall ave ps 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 t is c or w wilfully and unlawfully hinder delay or obstruct said Commissioners m the discharge of the duties hereby imposed upon them shall forfeit ami pay a su 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 Duty to inrestigate through rates Shall call attention of railroad officials to discrminations Shall appeal to Interstate Commission Attorney General to represent vfJommission 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 ft shall be the duty of Railroad Commission of the State of Georgia to investigate thoroughly all throug reig 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 m their opinion excessive or unreasonable or discriminating m its nature itshafi b the duty of the Railroad Commission to call the attention ot in Georgia to the fact and to urge upon them the propriety of changing su 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 Interstate Commerce Commission and appeal to it for relief Sec 4 Be it further enacted That in all work devolving upon the Railr 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 Re 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 24 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 Statey 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 lJj 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 above rented Act be and the same is hereby amended as follows towit After the word tariffs in the second line add the following words And the location arid 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 be 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 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 IX of original act 25 Power to institute suit without notice Inspection by Commission required If condition un safe to be put and kept in safe condition Reasonable time to be given Not to affect liability for damages Penalty for not obeying orders 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 offense 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 provi e 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 saine 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 m this State and if found in an unsafe or dangerous condition to require the same put and icept 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 passageof this Act the Railroad Commission of this State is hereby empowered and required upon complaint made to inspect fo themselves or through an agent the railroads or any railroad or any part o 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 timbe 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 beliable 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 oi 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 26 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 overcharge 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 i Sec 3 Be B 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 iildirectly by means of rebate or any other device in such charges between persons Sec 4 Be it further exacted 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 Commission to fix charges for storage And when such charges shall begin Power to vary rates Provisions of other acts as to Railroad Commission applied 27 TO REGULATE EXPRESS AND TELEGRAPH COMPANIES AN ACT Express and Telegraph Companies to be under the control of the Commission For rgulation 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 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 toall 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 shajl 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 wholly or in part in this State so far as said pro visions 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 0 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 28 CARS FOR WHITE AND COLORED PASSENGERS AN ACT 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 thesame 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 ec 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 unlawul 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 Equal accommodations in separata cars Employees to assign passengers their cars or compart ments Penalty for violating provisions of this act Oars properly divided White and colored passengers not to occupy same compartments 29 Cars to be comfortable etc Railroad Commission may regulate transpor tation of freights Shippers requirements of 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 DEDIVERY 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 fe 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 after 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 re 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 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 AN 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 limes 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 Bills of lading between points within State Claims against Railroad companies penalty for failure to pay 31 Railroad Passengera station ac Commodations for at night Penalty for failure to provide Railroad Commissioners election of Term of office and elections 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 passenger trains 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 passenger trains and taking on and putting off passengers or that operate passenger trains at or through countyseats and towns and cities having a population of more than 1000 in this State stall 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 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 be 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 be 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 authorise 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 authorise 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 afiy 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 procedures 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 Regulations Vacancies 33 Five Ominissioners Terms of office Qualifications of Oom missdoners Chairman of Board Hate Expert Printed reports admissible as evidence Section 1 From and after the passage and approval of this Act the Railroad Commission of Georgia shall consist of five members to be elected by the qualified 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 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 terms 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 si5t years each Sec 2 Any person thirty years of age who is qualified to vote as an elector in this State and who is not directly or indirectly interested in any mercantile 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 It shall be the duty of 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 Sec 4 The said Railroad Commission is hereby authorized and empowered 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 insaid Commission The printed reports of the Railroad Commission published by its authority shall be admissible as evidence in any court in Georgia without further proof and the schedules of rates made by the Commission and any order passed or rule or regulation prescribed by the Commission shall be admissible in evidence in any court in Georgia upon the certificate of the Secretary of the Commission 34 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 line 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 ordersin 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 Unes 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 authoritv 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 svstem o accounts prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission to examine all toooks contracts records and documents of any person or corporation subject to e r supervision and compel the production thereof Said Commission shall 35 GEnerL LIBRARVI University of Georgia Athens Georgia Railroads Hocks Terminals and other corporations Authority over Street Power of Commission 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 companiesfor 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 procure 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 Side tracks 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 rerdceger 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 insuffiPhysicai cient service is being rendered the public or any community It shall have connection 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 Overcharges authority to fix penalties for neglect on the part of railroad companies to adjust an osses overcbargeg and iosses 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 Transferring freight and the prompt 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 Depots and and authority to order the erection of depots and stations where it deems the Agents 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 Schedules regulate schedules and compel connection at junction points of competing lines I suance Sec 8 Each of the companies or corporations over which the authority of ofSstocks he Railroad Commission is extended by law shall be required to furnish said and Bonds Commission a Ugt 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 36 for the 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 be 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 vioation 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 be refunded by amy issue of stocks or bonds or by any evidence of indebtedness Tunning 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 o ained 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 acts or information obtained through public hearings or such as are not confidential m their nature 9 ft COmm carrier r 0ther Ion or company mentiouec tills Act shall do cause to be done or permit to be done any act matte 01 thing prohibited forbidden or declared to be unlawful or shall omit tc do any act matter or thing required to be done either by any law of the Stats of Georgia by this Act or by an order of the Commission such common carrie drthOTTaeIO OT company shaU be ble 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 iltul 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 lo damage or Injury may be brought iu any court of competent jurisdiction by any such person or corporation vJw 10i The procedure for the enforcement of penaties for a violation of orders rules or regulations of the Railroad Commission provided in sectioi at noth lhtbeACOde f Gergia f 1895 are hereby pealed provide t nothing in this Act shall be construed as to affect suits now pending ft Indebtedness payable within twelve months exempted Commissioners required to treat officii al information confidential Liability of corporations Repeal of Sections of Code 37 penalties or to affect penalties upon which right of action shall have accrued lation of the provisions of this Act or of any preceding Act or of any sucn oruer 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 How action guch corporatioI1 0r company in this State or in the county of the State where penaUimay sucp violation has occurred and wrong shall be perpetrated or m any county m be brought thls gtate 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 be brought in the name of the State of Georgia by direction of the Governor Anv 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 dispose 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 prior to the passage and approval of this Act Repeal of Sections 3 and 4 Act approved August 23 1905 regulations established by the Commission Rules and Orders of Commission Penalty for violations of courts 38 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 any 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 empolyee 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 fund 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 The fflCe attorney to the RaiIroad 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 y L e Sec 17 That a11 law and parts of laws in Conflict with this Act vision thereof be and the same are hereby repealed Approved August 221907 or any pro Punishment for aiding or abetting violations Officers approving or directing violations Domicile of Commission Contingent and Printing Funds Attorney to Commission Repealing Section 39 CARS FOR PEACHES CANTALOUPES ETC AN ACT To require railroad 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 agents 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 shipped intended shipping same on the day such product would have arrived had the same been carried in the 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 addi 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 same is iced usual of transportation on schedule time for such freight In tional 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 40 JrlT h i h r lfUSe 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 T ammd An Act to increase the membership of the Railroad Commission of ll 1901 prescribe the Qualifications for membership etc approved Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georaia C thl That an IctfippS ugust 23 1907 entitled An Act to Increase the Membership of the Railroad e and the same is hereby amended by adding after the nineteenth liDe f SeCtion 7 of said ct 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 Thatte railroad commission shall have authority to ascertain the cost of construction and nanlesTi 7 Z f GeOTSia corporationsToom Ce auttoritv t enday amploy necessary experts Said commission shall Srrrrses With reference t0 sp tracts aad sWc tracks t0 thcir nse construction removal or change with full power similarflanteiiTh rf 18 furmshed manufacturing plants warehouses and the ludgment of th usmessalnS tlM lmc 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 dent1dnrorjT aIUi aUthority t0 order compel the operation of suffisei fa bT8 fTT service when in its judgment inefficient or insufficient b g rendered the public or any community It shall have power to orTer T judgment Practicable and to the interest of the public lines ofaihLTT matag and operatlon f physical connection between porated tel t T ntereect1 ch other or entering the same ineorporated town or city within this State It shall have authority to fix penalties or fatoes to1dirPart f raUrad COmpanIes t0 aVust overcharges and losses hLe n a r d S lf deemed unjast a reasonable time It shall the promm f aathrity t0 preribe rules and penalties covering and requiring cars to sbin a Carmge ad delVery f frelgM the prompt Wishing of icrL f a g SUp ireight and sha11 als be authorized to preroads f nM 2TF1 tlanSler 0i CEra througl1 yards by connecting denote and If miSS1r 1 taVe POWer d autBollty to order the erection of rnTt and sf fa f V S the 8ame cccessary and to order the appointment and service thereat of depot or station agents The commission shall have Railroad Commission powers of Experts employed Spur tracks Regulation oif passenger service Connections may be required Overcharges etc adjusted Freight carriage of etc regulated Depots Schedules 41 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 in the 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 EMPLOYERS 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 witlt this Act be and the same are hereby repealed Approved August 14 1909 42 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 Railroads must sell tickets of connecting roads At rate fixed by Railroad Commission etc Unlawful to refuse to check bagtgage over connecting lines Unlawful to refuse to put tickets on sale with agents of connecting lines Or to refuse to reca ve tickets jr check baggage Proviso Penalty for violating this Act 43 REQUIRING COMMON CARRIERS TO TRACE FREIGHT ETC AN ACT Carriers upon application must trace freight Penalty for failure 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 line 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 morecommon 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 be 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 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 business 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 thegiving 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 caseswhere 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 Each company shall keep conspicuously posted at all of its stations offices and agencies in Georgia a copy of the schedule or schedules of iates 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 Definition of the word Company All unjust discrimination forbidden All rates bona fide No rebates Rates of Commission are maxi mum rates Rates may be reduced below maximum provided no discrimination is made Tariffs to be kept posted Changes in tariffs to be posted 45 Advances and reductions Notice of Special rartes must be approved by Commission Long lines allowed to meet short lines rates Georgia points may be put on equality w th points in other States Bates for short distance not to exceed long distance Rates apply in both directions Duty to accept and transport goods Exact charge may be collected 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 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 anqther 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 first train practicable provided however that carriers will not be required to accept for transportation the following articles Bank Bills Coin or Currency Deeds Drafts Notes or Valuable Papers of any kind Jewelry Postage or Revenue Stamps Precious Metals or articles manufactured therefrom Precious Stones RULE 9 In ho case shall any company collect 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 46 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 March of each year a report duly sworn to for the fiscal year ending December 31st 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 March of each year a report for the fiscal year ending December 31st immediately preceding All of said reports shall be rendered on and in accordance with the printed forms that the Commission will prescribe and furnish for that purpose In addition to the foregoing each of 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 boohs 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 Comihission initiates action notice shall be given to the persons or corporations interested in or affected thereby ten days 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 Claims for overcharge and loss Monthly Reports Annual Reports Blanks furnished by Commission Other in formation to be furnished when required Books etc to be produced How to bring Complaints Rules of procedure Giving notice to interested parties 47 Arguments may be made either in person or writing Commission reserves the right to modify rules of pro cedure Right reserved to suspend or modify any regulation 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 cse 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 KULE 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 48 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 aver 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 20 miles and For all under Baggage Over 150 Pounds For 30 miles and over 20 40 v 30 V 90 60 40 25 70 60 30 80 70 35 90 80 40 100 90 45 Rates prescribed are maximum rates Low rates for children Minimum fare of ten cents allowed Tickets should be purchased Extra charge un less tickets are purchased Baggage allowed Excess baggage rates 49 Charge for transporting baggage which is unaccompanied by passenger Dimensions of baggage to be checked free For 110 miles and over 100 50 cents per 100 pounds 120 ft 110 I 55 44 44 130 120 55 44 44 140 130 60 a 44 ft 150 ft ft 140 65 a 44 66 160 150 L fc 70 66 170 160 75 a 44 180 170 80 a 44 190 f ISO 85 66 44 200 190 90 210 j 200 95 44 220 210 100 44 230 ft 220 105 240 ft 230 t 110 66 66 260 240 115 44 290 fit 260 120 320 290 125 44 350 ft 320 130 44 44 400 ft 350 135 4 450 400 140 66 Minimum excess baggage charge 10 cents NoteThe above Tariff is subject to the provisions of Freight Rule No One of the Commission Where baggage is transported on a passenger ticket which for any reason is not used by the holder for personal transportation and application for refund is made the carrier shall if such ticket shows baggage checked charge for the transportation of such baggage only on the total weight thereof not exceeding double the excess baggage rates per 100 pounds above shown and the difference between this sum and the original price paid for the passenger ticket plus any excess baggage charge made shall be refunded 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 aify common carrier within this State may charge for any piece of baggage except immigrant baggage checked at 50 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 All railroad depot or terminal companies in this State shall receive at all stations where they have agents all baggage proper for transportation presented 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 tor 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 y railroads m this State shall be kept supplied with suitable sanitarv or sterilized drinkingcups which shall be placed or kept so as to be at all times easi y accessible to passengers and may be supplied from a dispensing or ven mg 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 Must re ceive baggage and issue claim checks Storage charges Baggage must be checked 15 minutes before train leaves Excursion rates exempted Must sell tickets at depots Comfortable cars and waitingrooms 51 RULE 10 Waitingrooms to be opened before arrival of trains At nonjunction stations Delayed trains must be bulletined Notice to be given of obstructions Convenient stopping of passenger trains Guns on passenger trains 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 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 trains 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 Careful handling of baggage 53 Continuous mileage rates when applicable Freight to be promptly received Bills of lading what they must show Prompt delivery of freight to consignees Expense bi lls what they must show Prompt interchange of freight Actual weights to govern FREIGHT RULES RULE 1 Where in this State two or more connecting lines of railroad are operated by or under one management 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 laines 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 be computed upon a continuous mileage basis the same as upon the line of a single railroad company whether such railroads have separate boardsof directors or not RULE 2 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 bills of lading shall show separately and in detail the weight and freightclass 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 b to be charged for transporting eachclass to the destination named in each bill of lading 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 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 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 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 54 actually in force upon said railroad on goods of the ame 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 27 RULE 5 Any railroad or any line of connecting railroads may reduce any rate of 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 apd shall see to it that the car to be weighed is free from all bearing of any other car of 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 I isworn weigher for thei Railat do certify on oath that I this day of weighed 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 balanced immediately before weighing said ear and that to the best of my knowledge the abovementioned weights are correct Signed lr Weigher forRailroad AtJ Minimum freight charge Bates for over 250 miles and under 20 miles No unjust discrimi nation to he made Actual weightsto apply Actual weights how ascertained Sworn weigher duties of Certificate of weight 55 I Live stock weights In the event a carload shipment originates at or moves from a point where there is no track scales it shall be the duty of the carrier to have the same weighed at the first convenient weighing station in the general line of direction in which the shipment moves and immediately thereafter upon written request furnish the shipper with a true copy of the weight certificate above prescribed 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 be 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 con 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 eachlbs Mare and Foal together for bothlbs Colts under one year old each1000 lbs Colts Ddnkeys or Ponies crated each actual weight but not liss than i000 lbs Cow and Calf together for both2500 lbs Yearling cattle except bulls each T000 lbs Yearling bulls each 2000 lbs Calves under one year old not crated each1000 lbs Calves under one year old crated each actual weight but not less than 175 lbs 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 but not less than 100 lbs Hogs boxed or crated each actual weight but not less than 150 lbs Pigs boxed or crated each actual weight but not less than 100 lbs GoatsSame as Sheep KidsSame as Lambs 56 10000 5000 3500 300 1500 1000 Rates on live stock will apply when the actual value does not exceed the following actual value to be stated by shipper in writing in shipping order Jacks or Stallions each Horses or Mules each 100 00 Mare and Colt together Yearling Colt Cow and Calf together Domestic Horned Animals each Yearling Cattle each 2 Calves Hogs Sheep or Goats For every increase of 100 per cent or fraction thereof in the actual value there shall be an increase of 5 per cent in the rate except that anv animal the value of which exceeds 150000 will be accepted only under special contract When the value is not stated by the shipper in writing in the shipping order carriers will not be required to accept shipments 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 shaH 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 mixed shipment the rate for horses shall apply Shippers may be required to feed water and care for live stock at their own expense haT Samei dne bj the Carriers the actual expense of so doing may be collected upon the shipment s It shall be the duty of railroad companies without extra charge to transport rirV1 n i6 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 thre cars inclusive one attendant For four to seven cars inclusive two attendants For eight cars or over three attendants Hn cases where actual weights can not be ascertained as elsewhere prescribed y the Commission the following named articles shall be accepted for transportation according to the scale of estimated weights below given LUMBER LIME ETC LUMBER Ash black 5000 Basswood and Butternut 4 000 Chestnut and Cypress k Ann if soit Elm rock 6000 Per 1000 feet GREEN SEASONED 3500 2750 3000 3500 4000 Extra charge for high valuation Live stock regulations Estimated weights Lumber canned goods etc 57 Gum Hickory Oak Poplar s White Pine Yellow Pine seasoned dressed Flooring 1316x2 face flat back 1816x3 face flat back 1316x3 face hollow back 1316x3y2 face flat back 1316x5 face flat back 1216x5 face flat back all heart face 150 lbs per M heavier N0 S Ceilings 516x3 r 716x3 916x3 1116x3 1216x3 ttr m o s Per 1000 feet GREEN SEASONED 5000 6000 6000 4500 4000 3500 5000 4400 2800 2700 Per 1000 feet 2300 lbs 2200 lbs 2050 lbs 2400 lbs 2400 lbs 2300 lbs 2300 lbs 900 lbs 1200 lbs 1600 lbs 1950 lbs 2000 lbs 500 lbs Partitions 1316x3 B C E 2S N O S r Drop Siding Patterns 105 and 106 Pattern 116 Patterns 115 117 and 11S N O S Bevel Siding From 1in stock From 1in stock Weatherhoarding Square edge from 1instock 2100 lbs 2000 lbs 2000 lbs 2200 lbs 1600 lbs 2000 lbs T1100 lbs 1500 lbs 1400 lbs Moulded Base 8in 10in and 12in 2200 lbs D M or shiplap in 2300 lbs D M or shiplap 1316in i 12500 lbs Boards S 2 S 1316in from 1in stockr2800 lbs 58 S 2 S 1116 from 1in stock S 2 S 1in from 1in stock S 4 S 3 and 5in n S 4 S 7in S 4 S 9 and 11in N O S Framing 2x4 to 4x8 S 4 S in N O S v Yellow Pine Green dressed Framing 2x4 to 4x8 S 4 S 34in Timbers 6x6 and up S 4 S in Yellow Pine Green Rough Boards Under 2in Framing 2x4 to 4x8 Timbers 6x6 and up Staves Straight Sawn Green Cylinder Sawn Green Shingles Green Dry Laths Green Dry Tan Park dry per cord Tan Bark green per cord Fence Posts and Rails and Telegraph Poles per cord Clay per cubic yard Cross Ties Green each Cross Ties Dry each Sand per cubic yard Stone crushed per cu yard Gravel per cubic yard Stone undressed per cubic foot Lime per bushel Coal per bushel Coke per bushel4 Portland Cement per barrel Other Cements per barrel 2900 lbs 3000 lbs 2400 lbs 2600 lbs 2700 lbs 2800 lbs 3000 lbs 3000 lbs 3800 lbs 4000 lbs 5500 lbs 5000 lbs 4500 lbs Weight per 1000 4000 lbs 3500 lbs 500 lbs 450 lbs 800 lbs 500 lbs 2000 lbs 2600 lbs 3500 lbs 3000 lbs 200 lbs 150 lbs 3000 lbs 2500 lbs 3200 lbs 160 lbs 80 lbs 1 80 lbs 40 lbs w 400 lbs 300 lbs 59 CANNED GOODS Fractions how disposed of 214 its 2 dozen cans per case 60 lbs iy 4 dozen cans per case 70 lbs 1 y2 flat 2 dozen cans per case 36 lbs 1 2 dozen cans per case 22 lbs 1 4 dozen cans per case 42 lbs 2 ibs 2 dozen cans per case 42 lbs 3 u 2 dozen cans per case 65 lbs 6 1 dozen cans per case 65 lbs 1 gallon cans V2 dozen cans per case 45 lbs 1 gallon cans 1 dozen cans per case 90 lbs Tall 1 pound can 2 dozen cans per case 24 lbs Tall 2 pound can2 dozen cans per case 50 lbs Tall 1 pound can 4 dozen cans per case 46 lbs RULE 8 Fractions that occur in the net rate after adding or deducting any percentage 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 computetf 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 Total 81 from which deduct fraction leaving desired rate of 8 cents Ex 2Standard Rate 95 20 per cent added 19 Total114 Substituting 5 for the fraction the desired rate is 115 cents Ex 3Standard Rate 8 20 per cent added 16 Total 96 Substituting 5 for the fraction the desired rate is 95 cents Ex 4Standard Rate 55 25 per cent added 13 Total 68 Adding a unit instead of a fraction the de sired 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 60 shall be computed as one cent and fractions less than half a cent shall be dropped Example Ex 1Standard Rate17 20 per cent added 34 Total204 Deducting the fraction the desired rate is 20 cents Ex 2Standard Rate 18 20 per cent added 36 Total216 Estimating the fraction as a unit the desired rate is 22 cents In publishing rates on commodities which take a per ton or per carload basis and for the sake of convenience it is desired to show such rates reduced to a per hundred pound basis fractions resulting in the decimal shall be disposed of in the same manner as above outlined Example Standard Rate 3833 Rate to apply 38 Standard Rate 3451 Rate to apply 35 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 above the Standard Tariff that percentage alone shall be applied to the Standard 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 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 m Southern Classification provided said last named Classification carries a specific rating 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 Percentage of Increase how applied Percentage of decrease How to apply percentages of increase Articles not included in Classification 61 RULE 11 Equal facilities to all railroads Discretionary reduction on these articles Loading and unloading to be done by shipper L C L rate not to exceed C C L rate per 100 lbs must not exceed L C L Flag stations shipments from and to 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 whenever 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 Staves Empty Barrels Wood Syrup Sugarcane Straw Shucks Hay Fodder Corn in ear Tanbark 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 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 6f 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 62 Provided however that in no case shall any rate be thus made higher than Excessively it would be were the mileage rate applied tq the distance such shipment is inhibited6 actually transported RULE m 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 7 00 For 5000 6000 pounds 8 00 For 6000 7000 pounds 10 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 articles are loaded on an open car on account of being too long or too bulky to be loaded through the side door of a box car they shall be charged at the actual weight and class rate for each article provided that in no case shall the charge for each shipment for one consignee be less than 4000 pounds at firstclass rate 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 RULE 18 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 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 63 Extra heavy articles charges for handling Special contract if car insufficient Passenger trains rates of freight on Distances regulations concerning Over 100 miles RULE 19 Ton Definition of Minimum carload Carloads in excess of minimum weight Carload shipment definition of Lapped lumber etc Telegraph material distribution of on right of way Ten miles minimum for short lines A ton as intended by all of the regulations of tbe Commission is 2000 pounds unless otherwise specified 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 specifiedcarload weight for such freight charges for the transportation thereof shall 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 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 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 and 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 r All such freights shall be billed 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 64 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 Whn 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 trahsportation 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 thp transportation of loaded cars in intraterminal service except to and from team tracks of connecting carriers 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 carrier200 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 500 to be divided as follows Initial carrier 200 Intermediate carrier 100 Delivering carrier a 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 company for any purpose whatever without the consent of the owner of such property Transfer or switching charge JVnt charges to be equitably divided Empties returned free Definition of term 1 switching Charges for local intra terminal service Division of joint charges Use of property by another railroad not authorized 65 Depots hours for keeping open Earlier or later delivery or receiving not prohibited Shipping instructions must accompany goods Preparation of goods for shipment Inspection facilities for Joint rafes 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 the exception of an intermission of ohe 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 package containing the same shall legibly bear the name andaddress of the intended consignee 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 qntum for its service id 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 1 Fractions resulting from deductions as herein required shall be disposed of in accordance with Freight Rule No 8 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 NoteDisposition of fractions in constructing joint rates by use of Freight t 66 Rule No 27 Upon consideration the Commission hereby interprets its Freight Rule No 27 to mean that fractions resulting in the deduction of 10 per cent from the locals of each line as required by said rule shall be disposed of in accordance with the provisions of Freight Rule No 8 before combining the factors which constitute the joint rate 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 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 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 When 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 be taken at the carload rate per 100 pounds and at the highest minimum carload weight established for either of the articles 17 Narrow gauge railroads carloadweights Transfer to and from narrow gauge railroads Reduced rates on re turned shipments Mixed shipments Reweghing C L shipments Overloading cars by shippers 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 th 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 charg 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 actual 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 th 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 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 the 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 68 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 company a shipment for transportation between points within this State and shipments 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 for to the interests of the shippers and by that reasonable and practicable route to observe over which the lowest charge for transportation applies and any damage resultmg to a shipper from a disregard of this obligation by any company shall be tions repaired by the company responsible for the misrouting making reparation to shipper to the extent of the difference between the necessary expense incurred m 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 dam RULE 33 Whenever a shipper tenders to any railroad express or other transportation as hereinprovided ages sustained in excess of the difference in expense incurred i in making delivery RULE 34 Allowance for dunnage Gi 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 timeduring 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 noticeof 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 otherthan 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 rsidence 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 freetime 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 onother 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 disputethe Commission shall judge 70 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 high and 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 prescribd written notice duly mailed to the consignee at the point of delivery shall be taken and held to be sufficient 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 carsin one day Order notify shipments Substan tial compliance Amounts thait may be charged Arrival definition of 71 RULE 5 Cars must be accessible for unloading Rejected shipments Distant con signees 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 Provided That where such notice is alleged to have been served by mail and the consignor 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 other than for the said sixday period within which the carrier is entitled to give such notice 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 I RULE 7 A consignee whose place of business is located five miles or over from the depot to which his freight is hilled shall not be subject to any storage charge thereon until a sufficient time shall elapse after legal notice of the arrival of such freight fqr 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 72 RULE 8 Where loaded ears are detained at the point of consignment for want of proper shipping instructions or by reasons of improper or excessive loading 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 he so delayed RULE 9 Railroad companies are required to furnish cars promptly upon request therefor When a shipper flies 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 even 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 carload shipments 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 necesary in reaching its destination twentyfour hours shall be allowed at each point where such rehandling or transfer is necessary RULE U Where in accordance with the rules of this Commission 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 Detention of cars by shippers Railroads required to furnish cars when ordered Ralroads must re ceive and promptly transport freight Loading cars 73 Railroads must promptly deliver freights at destination 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 in 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 da yon 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 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 is located And if it be necessary in reaching the designated side track to pass over the tracks of two or more railroads the initial line shall make delivery as above to it 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 morethan 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 of one railroad to be transported to destination by someother 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 perday for each day or fraction of a day such violation continues 74 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 made 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 within thirty days after demand in writing is made thereof 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 placin 75 Depots etc to be established No discontinuance of agencies without consent of Commission Application for de ports 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 BOLE 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 every 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 pon 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 76 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 tpwn 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 on 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 be 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 tep 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 Tariff of rates Llmits oZ free delivery Time of filing messages to beshown when desired 77 GENERAL ORDERS AND CIRCULARS Atlanta August 24 1907 Office of the RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA 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 Montgomery 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 78 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 v Campbell Wallace tt tit ttttt Secretary chairman Office of the RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA Atlanta October 21 1909 File No 7065 Ordered That the resolution passed by the Commission dated September 3rd 1909 amending General Order No 1 relating to reports of passes etc monthly y 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 jj 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 79 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 ratenot 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 McLendon Secretary Chairman Office of the RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA Atlanta October 29 1907 GENERAL 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 theterms 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 80 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 Montgomeby S G McLendon Secretary Chairman Office of the RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA Atlanta October 29 1907 GENERAL ORDER NO 5 Obdebed 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 Obdebed Fubtheb That a cppy hereof be mailed to each of said companies without delay By order of the Board Geo F Montgomeby 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 Montgomeby S G McLendon Secretary Chairman 81 Office of the RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA Atlanta November 6 1907 GENERAL ORDER No 7 Obdebed 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 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 local authorities By order of the Board Geo F Montgomeby S G McLendon Secretary Chairman Office of the RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA i Atlanta November 6 1907 GENERAL ORDER No8 Obdebed 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 Montgomeby S G McLendon Secretary Chairman 82 Office of the RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA Atlanta January 3 1908 GENERAL ORDER No 9 It is hereby ordered by the 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 MontGomeby 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 Obdebed 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 Montgomeby a G McLendon Secretary Chairman 83 Office of the RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA Atalnta 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 0 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 IS 1890 as follows 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 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 throughthe proper channels By order of the Board Geo F Montgomery S G McLendon Secretary Chairman 84 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 m 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 Obdebed That so far as relates to shipments between points in Georgia sai action of the railway companies is unreasonable and not authorized by any rule of this Commission Obdebed Fubtheb That all railway companies in Georgia shall accept for transportation between points in this Statei all shipments of brick sewer pipe 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 eo Hillyeb rcereturll ViceChairman Office of the RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA Altanta 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 clung T l corporations subject to Its Jurisdiction for reports as to stocks and Donds 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 85 Obdebed That the Rate Expert of the Commission be and he is hereby directed to systematize and make proper record of said reports and rules Obdebed Fubtheb 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 Ge0 Hillyeb 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 riiore 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 Cominission 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 GlIX Secretary Chairman 86 Office of the RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA Atlanta December 23 1909 File No 9163 GENERAL ORDER No 15 Whereas 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 rates or charges below the maximum rates or charges prescribed by the Commission and to make effective special rates upon approval of the Commission and Whereas said companies corporations and persons are from time to time changing their schedules of rates and charges as provided for by said rules and Whereas the flies of this office do not contain complete information as to all rates and charges published by said companies corporations and persons it is Ordered 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 speediest information of each derailment or collision on its line in which any person is injured whether passenger employee or other person stating the time place and character of such accident and shall within 48 hours thereafter 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 such othr information as may be called for by the Commission Obdebed Fubtheb That on or before the tenth day of each month each of said railroad and street railroad companies shall file a written report of all 87 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 CampbellWallace 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 cahse 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 each accident and shall within fortyeight hours thereafter file a written report thereof on forms to be prescribed by this Commission Obdebed Fubtheb That on or before the 15th day of each month each 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 88 Office of tlie 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 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 lly 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 Station to be Reported 1 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 Valdosta Albany 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 jj jjjjr Secretary Chairman Note This order suspended by the Commission on April 28 1915 until further notice 89 Office of the RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA Atlanta October 7 1910 File 7333 GENERAL ORDER No 20 Whereas the Railroad Commission of Georgia by General Order No 3 adopted as applicable to free transportation between points in Georgia the terms governing interstate free transportation prescribed by the Act of Congress approved June 29th 1906 known as the Hepburn Act and Whereas 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 how Oedebed 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 accordance 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 with a minimum charge of twentyfive 25 cents 90 On carload shipments placed on delivery tracks 5 per day in addition to the regular demurrage charges Section B On 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 M Candles Secretary Chairman Office of the RAIXiROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA Atlanta July 12 1912 File 10663 GENERAL ORDER No 22 On and after October 1 1912 each railroad company operating in Georgia shall keep conspicuously posted at each of its stations offices and agencies in Georgia the following notice 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 be found beginning on page 49 of this report Office of the RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA Atlanta November 8 1914 File 10913 GENERAL ORDER No 23 In the Matter of Publishing and Filing Tariffs with the Railroad Commission of Georgia Section 1 All tariff publications containing rates fares charges rules regulations etc covering Georgia intrastate traffic shall conform in general style and makeup to the form prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission Sec 2 All changes in rates charges rules regulations etc shall be sym bolized and such explanations made thereof as will indicate the character of the change Sec 3 No tariff shall contain in excess of four supplements or amendments unless special permission be first obtained from the Railroad Commission of Georgia to issue supplemental or amendatory matter in excess of said four supplements Sec 4 All tariffs must be filed in the office of the Railroad Commission in accordance with the general rule of the Commission prescribing that advanced rates must be filed ten days before the effective date and reduced rates three days before the effective date provided however that the filing of such tariffs with the Commission shall not be construed as an approval of any of the rates charges rules regulations etc of any carrier which advances a charge or decreases a service which has not been authorized by the Railroad Commission of Georgia Sec 5 That each carrier shall within six months from February 1 1915 file in the office of the Railroad Commission a local commodity tariff publishing all local commodity rates effective between all local stations on its line which are not published in the general commodity tariffssuch as lumber fertilizer cotton seed oil etc and thereafter only have in effect one such local commodity tariff Sec 6 That each carrier in this State shall within six months from February 1 1915 file in the office of the Railroad Commission of Georgia a Georgia interline commodity tariff publishing all Georgia commodity rates effective bebetween all stations on its line and all stations on other lines in Georgia which are not published in the general commodity tariffs such as lumber fertilizer cotton seed oil etc and thereafter only have in effect one such local commodity tariff provided however that the Commission will construe as a compliance with Sections 5 and 6 a consolidated issue carrying all of the commodity rates above enumerated or will permit the consolidation of such local commodity tariffs with its regular local mileage tariff Sec 7 Carriers will only be allowed to enjoy the benefits of the Commissions General Rule No 6 permitting the long route lines to meet the short route lines rates when proper tariff publication is made to cover in advance of shipments Sec 8 In the construction and publication of rates on commodities embraced in the Commissions twothirds of sixth class rating the basic sixth class rate shall be the regularly published and filed sixth class rate of the various carriers Sec 9 In interpreting the Commissions Freight Rule 10 providing for the use of Southern Classification on Georgia shipments where the Georgia Classification does not provide a specific rating the term N O S when shown in the Georgia Commissioners classification shall be construed as specific rating in said Georgia Commissioners classification The above tariff rules and regulations shall become effective on and after February 1 1915 and repeals everything in conflict By order of the Commission Campbell Wallace C M Candleb Secretary Chairman 92 RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA J P Brown Chairman 1 H Warner Hill l Commissioners Jos M Brown Geo F Montgomery Secretary Atlanta Ga July 19 1905 CIRCULAR No 309 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 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 300 miles use seventyfive per cent of 6th class plus one cent for distances in excess of 100 miles use seventyfive per cent of 6th Atlanta Athens Augusta Adel Adrian Albany Americus Arlington Athens Atlanta Augusta Bainbridge Bremen Brunswick Cartersville Cedartown Collins Columbus Cordele Covington Culloden Cuyler Dalton Dawson Dublin Elberton class less one cent BETWEEN Brunswick Columbus Rome Savannah AND Empire Everett Fitzgerald Fort Gaines Fort Valley Griffin Harris Hawkinsville Haylow Helena Jesup LaGrange Macon Madison Marietta Meldrim Milledgeville Millen Montezuma Moultrie Newnan Ofiferman Dalton Macon Rockmart Pidcock Pitts Quitman Rockmart Rome Sandersville Savannah Sparks Statesboro Stillmore Swainsboro Tennille Thomaston Thomasvilie Tifton Valdosta Vidalia Vienna Washington Waycross Woodbury 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 Secretary J P Brown Chairman 93 RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA H Warner Hill Chairman Jos M Brown 1 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 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 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 94 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 30 150 230 120 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 85 320 160 110 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 affer November 15 1913 and repeals everything in conflict By order of the Commission Campbell Wallace C M Candleb Secretary Chairman CIRCULAR No 383 FREIGHT RATES Effective December 1 1913 as per formal order of the Commission dated November 12 1913 the following table of mileage ratqs on cotton sea island in the seed were made effective between all Georgia stations on the following lines of railway Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company Seaboard Air Line 95 Railway Georgia Southern Florida Railway Company Atlantic Railroad and Southern Railway Company Distance Miles Cotton Sea Island in the seed packed in bags L C L Atlanta Birmingham Cotton Sea Island in the seed packed in bags or in bulk C L min wt 20000 lbs 5 8 80 10 8 SO 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 G5 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 90 CIRCULAR NO 392 Freight Tariff of the Macon Birmingham Railway Company Atlanta Ga May 11 1913 The Macon Birmingham Railway Company is hereby temporarily removed from Freight Tariff Class D bn and after June 1st 1915 and for a period of two years thereafter the said Macon Birmingham Railway Company will be allowed to charge as maximum rates for the transportation Of freight the Standard Tariff of the Railroad Commission of Georgia subject to the following conditions On Classes 1 2 3 4 5 6 A B G H K L M N O and R for 50 miles and under the Standard Tariff with 60 added over 50 miles the Standard Tariff with 50 added On Classes C D F j and P The Standard Tariff with 10 added On Lime and Ice the Standard Tariff with 10 added By order of the Commission Campbell Wallace C M Candler Secretary Chairman CIRCULARS The following circulars contain the amendments of the rates rules and other regulations published in the 43rd Report of the Commission which amendments are carried forward in their proper places in this Report Chas Mubphey Candles Chairman Geo Hill yes ViceChairman Joseph F Gray Paul B Trammell J A Perry J P Webster Rate Expert Commissioners RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA Atlanta Ga June 19 1916 CIRCULAR No 399 Freight and Passenger Tariff of the Washington Lincolnton Railroad Co The Washington Lincolnton Railroad Company is hereby placed in Class D of the Railroad Commissioners Freight Tariff Classification and Class E of Passenger Tariff Classification of Railroads and said Railroad Company is allowed to charge for the transportation of freights and passengers no more than the rates prescribed by the Commission for said classes Classification The following changes in and additions to the Commissioners Classification of Freights are hereby adopted CR OR Change item now reading Marl Green Sand in bags of barrels Not taken when in bulk I To read Marl Green Sand in bags or barrels Change item now read j ing Zinc Oxide 5 To read Zinc Oxide LCL 5 Same CL min wt 30000 lbs R This circular shall be in effect on and after July 15 1916 and repeals everything in conflict C M Candler Chairman 98 CIRCULAR No 400 Freight Tariff of the Wrightsville Tennille Railroad Company The Wrightsville Tennille Railroad Company is hereby transferred from Freight Tariff Class C to Freight Tariff Class D of the Commissions Freight Tariff Classification and is allowed to charge for the transportation of freight no more than the rates prescribed for said Freight Tariff Class D Effective May 1st 1916 GENERAL RULES RULE No 11 Change paragraphs Nos 2 and 4 now reading Each railroad terminal express and telegraph company shall file in the office of the Commission on or before the 15th day of September of each year a report duly sworn to for the fiscal year ending June 30th immediately preceding Each street railroad power gas telephone and electric light company shall file in the office of the Commission on or before the 15th day of February of each year a report for the fiscal year ending December 31st immediately preceding to read Each railroad terminal express and telegraph company shall file in the office of the Commission on or before the 15th day of March of each year a report duly sworn to for the fiscal year ending December 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 15th day of March of each year a report for the fiscal year ending December 31st immediately preceding This circular shall be in effect on and after January 10 1917 except where otherwise shown and repeals everything in conflict C M Candles Chairman CIRCULAR No 401 Freight Rates on Peanuts Effective April 1 1917 the following rates on Peanuts raw in hull in sacks or in barrels or in bulk in C L min wt 24000 lbs are established as the maximum rates of the Railroad Commission of Georgia Mles Kate Miles Rate 5 5 80 14 10 6 85 14 15 7 90 15 20 8 95 15 25 9 100 15 30 9 110 16 35 10 120 16 40 10 130 16 45 11 140 16 50 11 150 17 55 12 160 17 60 12 170 17 65 13 180 17 70 13 190 18 75 14 200 18 99 Peanuts continued Rate 19 19 19 20 20 20 21 21 21 22 22 22 22 23 23 23 23 24 24 24 24 25 25 25 25 26 26 The above rates apply in cents per 100 pounds Class DV Railroadsadd 10 per cent CLASSIFICATION The following changes in and additions to the Commissioners Classification of Freights are hereby adopted Add items Beans soy orvelvet in sacks or barrels any quantity or in bulk C L min wt 24000 lbsD Beans soya or velvet ground straight or when mixed with ground velvet or soya bean hulls andor stalks in sacks or bags any quantity D Feed mixed composed of two or more of the following articles viz Alfalfa Meal Grain Grain Products including corn cob meal Hay Velvet or Soya Beans Velvet or Soya Bean Meal Cotton Seed Meal Peanut Meal Cotton Seed Hulls Peanut Hulls Soya or Velvet Bean Hulls Corn Shucks or Husks whether treated with blackstrap molasses or not when in bags or sacks any quantityD Velvet Bean Hulls in sacks or bales L C L and in same packages or in bulk C L min wt 24000 lbsD Peanut Meal and Cake same rates as cotton seed meal and cake Peanut Hulls Soya and Velvet Bean Hulls in sacks or bales LCL and in the same packages or in bulk C L min wt 24000 lbs D Hulls Peanut Soya or Velvet Bean in sacks or bales LCL and in the same packages or in bulk C L min wt 24000 lbs D This circular shall be in effect on and after April 1 1917 except where otherwise shown and repeals everything in conflict C M CANDLER Chairman Freight rates of Miles 210 220 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 300 310 320 330 340 350 360 370 380 390 400 410 420 430 440 450 460 470 100 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 Atlanta Birmingham Atlantic Ry Co Augusta Southern R R Co East Georgia Ry Fitzgerald Odila 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 Bowdon Railway Company Elberton Eastern Railway Company Georgia Coast Piedmont R R Co Greene County Railroad Co Hartwell Railway Co Macon Birmingham Ry Co Milltown Air Line Railway Minimum passenger fare 25c Special 2 Cents per mile Western Atlantic R R 2y2 Cents per mile Georgia Railroad Georgia Southern Florida Ry Co Seaboard Air Line Railway Southern Railway Co 3 Cents per mile Louisville Nashville R R Co Macon Dublin Savannah R R Co Midland Railway Rome Northern Railroad Co Savannah Northwestern R R Co Savannah Statesboro Ry Co South Georgia Ry Co Tennessee Ala Ga R R 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 Oeilla Southern Railroad Co Pelham Havana Railroad Savannah Southern Railway Co Shearwood Railway Co Statenville Railway Co Sylvania Girard R R Co Washington Lincolnton R R Co Group Atlantic Waycross Northern R R Co 5 cents per mile maximum charge of 50 cents Flovilla Indian Springs Ry allowed a minimum charge of 25 cents Lexington Terminal R R allowed a minimum charge of 25 cents Louisville Wadley R R Co 4 cents pe 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 Savannah Hines ville Western R R Co 5 cents per mile minimum charge 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 101 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 Lextington Terminal Railroad Co Class Monroe Railroad Co Union Point White Plains Railroad Co Western and Atlantic Railroad Co B Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co Class C Atlanta Birmingham Atlantic Ry 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 D Atlantic Waycross Northern Railroad Co Augusta Southern Railroad Co Bowdon Railway Company Charleston and Western Carolina Ry Co East Georgia Ry Elberton Eastern Railway Company Fitzgerald Ocilla and Broxton Railroad Co Flint River Northeastern Railroad Flo villa 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 Louisville and Wadley Railroad Co t Macon and Birmingham Ry Co Macon Dublin Savannah Railroad Co Midland Railway Milltown Air Line Railway Millstead Railroad Co Ocilla Pinebloom Valdosta Railway Co Ocilla Southern Railroad Co Oemulgee Valley Railway Co Rome Northern Railroad Pelham Havana Railroad Co Savannah Hinesville Western R R Co Sandersville Railroad Co Savannah Northwestern R R Co Savannah and Statesboro Railway Co Savannah Southern Railway Co Shearwood Railway Co South Georgia Railway Co Statenville Railway Company Sylvania Central Railroad Co Talbotton Railroad Co Tallulah Falls Railway Co Tennessee Ala Ga R R Co Valdosta Moultrie Western Railroad Co Wadley Southern Railway Co Washington Lincolnton R R Co Waycross Southern Railroad Co Waycross Western R R Co Wrightsville Tennille Railroad Co On 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 valuaton limited to 20 cents per cubic foot O L Class P plus 25 per cent On same I C L 23 of 6 QOO M B Ry now allowed to charge special scale as per circular No 392 102 FREIGHT TARIFF CLASSES Each company doing business as a common carrier of freights in this State is allowed to 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 twentyfive per cent added On glasses 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 50 miles and under the Standard Tariff with 50 added over 50 miles the Standard Tariff with 40 added On Classes C D F and Jall distancesthe Standard Tariff without percentage On Class Pall distancesthe Standard Tariff with 10 added On Lime and Iceall distancesthe Standard Tariff with 10 added NOTE Carriers in Class D in constructing local rates are hereby authorized to charge for the greater distance with the decreased percentage rates equal to the charge authorized for the lesser distanc with the greater percentage Illustrating 50 miles Class G plus 5010y2c 55 miles Class G plus 4010c Carriers authorized to charge for 55 miles Class G10y2c 103 STANDARD TARIFF Dis PEE 100 POUNDS 1 Per Bbl Per Per 100 100 Lbs Lbs tance 1 2 3 4 5 6 A V B 1 0 D E 1 t Miles Cts 1 Jts Cts Jts Cts Cts Cts Cts 1 Cts 1 Cts Cts Cts Cts Cts 5 12 11 10 8 7 6 6 6 4 3 7 9 2 8 10 16 14 13 10 9 8 8 8 5 5 9 H 3 10 15 18 16 15 12 11 9 9 9 6 5 11 12 3 12 20 20 18 16 14 12 10 10 10 7 6 12 14 5 14 25 22 20 18 16 13 11 11 11 7 6 13 15 5 16 30 24 21 39 17 14 11 11 11 7 e 14 15 6 17 35 26 23 21 19 15 12 12 12 8 7 y2 15 16 6 19 40 27 24 22 20 16 12 12 12 8 7 y2 16 16 6 20 45 29 26 24 21 17 13 13 13 s 8 17 17 6 21 50 30 27 25 22 18 13 13 13 s 8 18 17 7 22 55 32 29 26 23 19 14 14 14 9 8 19 18 7 23 60 33 30 27 24 19 14 14 14 9 8 9 18 7 21 65 35 32 28 25 20 15 15 15 9y2 9 20 19 7 25 70 36 33 29 26 20 15 15 15 9 9 20 19 7 26 75 38 35 30 27 21 16 16 16 10 9 y2 21 20 7 27 80 39 36 31 28 21 16 16 16 10 9 21 20 7 28 85 41 37 32 29 22 17 17 17 i 10 22 21 7 29 90 42 38 33 29 22 17 17 17 i 10 22 21 8 29 95 44 39 34 30 23 18 18 18 u 11 23 23 8 30 100 45 40 35 30 23 18 18 18 n 11 23 23 sy4 30 110 48 42 37 31 24 19 19 19 12 11 24 23 8 31 120 51 44 39 32 25 20 20 20 13 12 25 24 8 32 130 54 46 41 33 26 21 21 21 13 12 26 25 8 33 140 57 48 43 34 27 22 22 22 13 13 27 26 9 34 150 60 50 45 35 28 23 23 23 14 13 28 28 9 35 160 62 52 46 36 29 24 24 24 14 13 29 29 9 36 170 64 54 47 37 30 25 25 25 15 14 30 31 9 37 180 66 56 48 38 31 26 26 26 15 14 31 31 9 38 190 68 58 49 39 32 27 27 27 16 15 32 33 9 39 200 70 60 50 40 32 27 27 27 16 15 32 33 9 40 210 71 62 51 41 33 28 28 28 17 16 33 34 9 41 220 72 64 52 42 33 28 28 28 17 16 33 34 10 42 230 73 66 53 43 34 29 29 29 18 17 34 36 10 43 240 74 68 54 44 34 29 29 29 18 17 34 36 10 44 250 75 70 55 45 35 30 30 30 19 18 35 38 10 45 260 76 71 56 46 35 30 30 30 19 18 35 38 10 46 270 77 71 56 46 36 31 31 31 20 19 36 40 10 46 280 78 72 57 47 36 32 32 32 20 19 36 40 10 47 290 79 72 57 47 37 32 32 32 21 19 37 42 10 47 300 80 73 58 48 38 33 33 33 21 19 38 42 11 48 310 81 73 58 48 38 33 33 33 21 19 38 42 11 48 320 82 74 59 49 39 34 34 34 21 20 39 42 11 49 330 83 74 59 49 39 34 34 34 22 20 39 44 11 49 340 84 74 59 49 39 34 34 34 22 20 39 44 11 49 350 85 75 60 50 40 35 35 35 23 21 40 46 11 50 360 85 75 60 50 40 35 35 35 23 21 40 46 11 50 370 85 75 60 50 40 35 35 35 23 21 40 46 11 50 380 88 76 61 51 41 36 36 36 25 23 41 50 11 52 390 88 76 61 51 41 36 36 36 25 23 41 50 11 52 400 88 76 61 51 41 36 36 36 25 23 41 50 11 52 410 91 77 62 52 42 37 37 37 26 24 42 52 11 54 420 91 77 62 52 42 37 37 37 26 24 42 52 11 54 430 91 77 62 52 42 37 37 37 26 24 42 52 11 54 440 94 78 63 53 43 38 38 38 27 25 43 54 11 53 450 94 78 63 53 43 38 38 38 27 25 43 54 11 56 460 94 78 63 53 43 38 38 38 27 25 43 154 12 56 STANDARD TARIFF Per 100 Lbs 1 Per Ton 11 Per Dis Per Car Load 1100 Lb tanee J 1 K L M N 0 P R Miles Cts Cts Cts Cts Cts Cts Cts Cts 5 8 4 35 55 5 00 5 50 5 00 4 10 10 5 50 80 6 50 8 00 6 00 5 15 12 5 y2 55 85 7 50 9 00 7 00 5y2 20 13 6 60 90 8 00 10 00 7 50 6 25 14 ey2 65 95 9 00 11 00 8 00 6y2 30 15 7 70 1 00 10 00 11 00 8 50 7 35 16 7y2 75 1 05 12 00 12 00 9 00 7y2 40 17 8 80 1 10 13 00 12 00 9 50 8 45 18 8 85 1 15 14 00 13 00 10 00 sy2 50 19 8 90 1 20 14 00 13 00 10 00 9 55 20 8 95 1 25 14 00 14 00 10 50 9 60 21 9 95 1 30 14 50 14 00 11 00 10 65 22 9 1 00 1 35 15 50 15 00 11 50 10 70 22 9 1 00 1 40 16 00 15 00 12 00 11 75 23 9 y2 1 05 1 45 16 50 16 00 12 50 11 80 23 9 1 10 1 50 17 00 16 00 13 00 12 85 24 9y2 1 15 1 55 17 50 17 00 13 50 12 24 9y2 1 15 1 60 18 00 17 00 14 00 13 95 25 10 1 20 1 65 19 00 17 00 14 50 14 100 25 10 1 20 1 70 20 00 17 00 15 00 14 110 26 10 1 25 1 80 21 00 18 00 15 50 15 120 27 io y2 1 30 1 90 23 00 18 00 16 00 16 130 28 ioy2 1 35 2 00 24 00 19 00 16 50 17 140 29 i 1 40 2 10 25 00 19 00 17 00 18 150 30 i 1 50 2 20 26 00 20 00 17 50 18 160 31 12 1 60 2 25 27 00 20 00 18 00 19 170 32 12 1 70 2 30 28 00 21 00 18 50 19 180 33 12 1 80 2 35 29 00 21 00 19 00 20 190 34 13 1 90 2 40 29 50 22 00 19 50 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 33 21 220 37 14 2 20 2 55 31 50 23 00 20 66 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 21 33 22 250 40 15 2 50 2 75 33 50 24 00 21 66 22 260 41 15 2 60 2 75 34 00 24 00 22 00 1 22 270 42 15 2 70 2 85 34 50 25 00 22 33 1 22 280 43 16 2 80 2 85 35 00 25 00 22 66 i 23 290 44 16 2 90 2 95 36 00 25 00 23 00 23 300 45 16 2 95 3 00 36 50 26 00 23 33 23 310 46 17 3 05 3 10 37 00 26 00 23 66 23 320 47 17 3 05 3 20 38 00 26 00 24 00 24 330 48 17 3 15 3 30 38 50 27 00 24 25 1 24 340 49 17 3 15 3 40 39 00 27 00 24 50 1 24 350 50 17 3 28 3 50 40 00 27 00 24 75 1 I 24 360 51 17 3 28 3 50 40 00 27 00 25 00 i e 24 370 52 17 1 3 28 3 50 40 00 27 00 25 25 1 f f 24 380 53 18 3 41 3 60 41 00 29 00 25 50 1 26 390 54 18 3 41 3 60 42 00 29 00 25 75 1 26 400 55 18 f 3 41 3 60 42 00 29 00 26 00 1 26 410 56 19 3 54 3 70 44 00 i 31 00 26 25 1 28 420 57 19 3 54 3 70 44 00 31 00 26 50 1 28 430 58 19 3 54 3 70 44 00 31 00 26 75 28 440 59 20 3 67 3 80 46 00 33 00 27 00 1 30 450 59 20 3 67 3 80 46 00 33 00 27 25 1 30 460 60 20 3 67 3 80 46 00 1 33 00 1 27 50 1 30 DIRECTIONS FOR COMPUTING RATES Eor the 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 162 where the distance from Savannah to Tennille is shown to be 135 miles Turning to page 102 a classified list of railroads in Georgia is found the Central being in Class C and on the opposite page 103 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 107 arranged in alphabetical order and under the head of D it will be seen that Dry Goods are in hrstclass Turn to the Standard Tariff page 104 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 2y 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 local rate allowed to be charged by each road handling the freight To illustrate on a shipment of freight taking firstclass 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 irstclass Fairburn to Atlanta which is 20 cents from this deduct 10 per cent or 2 cents leaving 18 cents as proportion of A W P for transporting joint shipment Fairburn to Covington to this add the Georgia R R rate from Atlanta to Covington 41 miles 27 cents less 10 pfer cent account joint shipment or 24 cents which represents Georgia R R proportion for hauling joint through shipment from Fairburn 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 be found on page 102 and on page 103 will be found the percentage of increase allowed to such roads and care should be 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 106 CLASSIFICATION OF THE RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA Supersedes Classification Contained in 43rd Report and all Amendments Thereto Revised to April 1 1917 EXPLANATION OF CHARACTERS 1 represents First Class 2 represents Second Class 3 represents Third Class 4 represents Fourth Cass 5 represents Fifth Class 6 represents Sixth Class 1 represents lYz times First Class D 1 represents Double First Class 3 T 1 represents Three Times First Class 4 T I 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 0 L represents Car Load N O S represents Not Otherwise Specified C R represents Carriers Risk O R represents Owners Risk CR I OR Agricultural Implements N O S C L 20000 lbs owners to load and unload Agricultural Implements L C L 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 6traw 3 iy2 3T 1 1 3 4 3T 1 1 D 1 2 4 D 1 and Hay set up 1 1 Cutters Ensilage Straw and Hay K D and 1 packed 3 Distributors Guano set 1 up 1 1 Distributors Guano K D 9 2 I Drills Grain set up H 1 2 Drills Grain K D 1 packed 3 S 4 Dusters Bran set up 3T 1 I D 1 Dusters Bran K D packed 2 I Elevators Hay S U D 1 CR OR Same K D Elevators for Cotton manufactured of wood 3 and iron S H D 1 Same K D 3 Evaporators Fruit Evaporators Sugar iron 1 set up Same with legs or rockers detached Fans Grain See Mills Fanning Feeders and Condensers 1 2 Cotton Gin 2 3 Forks Hav and Manure 3 Furnaces Evaporator 1 Gins Cotton 2 3 Guano Horns tin N O S D 1 Guano Horns tin crated Harrows and Harrow 3 Frames 3 4 Harrow Teeth packed 6 Hay Caps 3 Hoes in bundles Hoes without handles 3 in barrels or casks A Horse Powers K D 2 3 Horse Powers Railroad or Endless Chain iy2 Hullers Cotton Seed and Clover viz S U loose or on skids L C L i y2 107 CR OR CR OR S U in boxes or crates L C L 1 K D in boxes bundles or crates L C L 3 In packages named loose or on skids C L 20000 lbs 6 Incubators K D and packed or crated L O L 1 Same C L min wt 15000 lbs 3 Kettles pans and pots cast iron over 27 inches in diameter L C L 4 Same O L min wt 20000 lbs 6 Knives Hay packed 2 Machines Hemp 1 Machines Smut 3 Machines N O S See Machines Machines Mowing and Reaping Binders and Harvesters whether combined or separate K D L C L 2 2 4 Same partly boxed C L min wt 20000 lbs 4 Machines Mowing and Reapings Binders and Harvesters whether combined or separated set up 1Y2 Purifiers Middlings3T 1 Mills Burr stone Port able 3 Mills Cider 4 Mills Corn and Hominy 3 Mills Cotton Seed 2 Mills Cane and Sorghum 5 Mills Fanning set up3T 1 Mills Fanning K D 1Y2 Mills with Trains Sugar 3T 1 Mills N O S 2 Mowers Lawn hand power not packed 1 Same K D packed handles in bundles 2 Pans Sugar Same as Evaporators Sugar Planters Corn and Cotton K D in bundles or boxes 2 6 1 D 1 4 1 1 D 1 3 Planters Corn and Cotton set up1 1 Plow Handles and other Wood in shape for implements boxed crated or bundled 4 Plow Singletrees and Doubletrees 5 Plow Irons and Mold Boards over 20 pounds each 4 Plow Plates Points Wings Castings and Steel Same as Bar Iron Plows Gang and Sulky3T 1 Plows set up N O S 1 Plows N O S K D 4 Presses Cider 4 Presses Cotton set up 1 Presses Cotton K D 4 Presses Hay set up 1 Same small and detachable parts removed and packed 4 Iron castings for hay presses boxed23 of 6 Presses N O S 2 Pruners Tree in bundles 1 Rakes Hand in bundles 3 Rakes Horse set up 1 Same K D and well packed Rollers Field and Road 3 Rollers Sugar 3 Scrapers Road and Pond 3 Scythes in bundles 2 Scythes in boxes 2 Snaths Scythew 1 Separators Same as Threshers Shellers Corn 1 Shovels and Spades in bundlesi 3 Spreaders Manure set up at 1Y2 Spreaders Manure K D boxedj 2 Threshers V Trains Sugar3T 1 Wheelbarrows Iron 3 I Wheelbarrows Railroad 1 Wheelbarrows Wood set up 1 Wheelbarrows Wood K D and packed or bundled 5 D 1 2 5 1 3 5 5 4 2 2 1 D 1 1 3 CR 1 OR A Accoutrements Military 1 i Acids N O S D 1 Acids Carbolic 4 Acids Dry 3 Acids Muriatic and Sulphuric in carboys boxed L C L D 1 2 Acids Muriatic and Sulphuric in carboys boxed C L 2 4 Acid Sulphuric in iron casks 3 6 Acid Sulphuric in tank cars 6 Agate Granite or Enameled Ware iron or steel L C L 2 Same C L 4 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 6 Alum N O S 4 Ammonia Sulphate of same as Fertilizers Ammonia Waters See Waters Ammonia Water Casks returned empty 6 Ammunition N 0 S 1 Anchors Guy 4 Same N 6 S 5 Andirons packed 4 Same unpacked 5 Antimony Crude 3 Antimony Metal 4 Anvils 5 Apples green See Fruit Apples dried See Fruit dried Apple Butter See Butter Argols in boxes bbis or casks 4 Arsenic crude in kegs boxes or barrels 3 Asbestos in boxes kegs bags or bales L C L 2 OR I OR Asbestos in barrels or casks L C L 6 Asbestos in bbis or casks C L L Asbestos Cement L C L Asbestos Cement C L Asbestos Ore L C L Asbestos Ore C L Asbestos Packing in rolls or cases L C L Asbestos Packing C L Asbestos Roofing in rolls or cases L C L1 Asbestos Roofing C L Ashes or Coal Cinders In bags barrels or boxes L C L Same C L min wt 36000 lbs Ashes and Meal Cotton Seed See Cotton Seed Ashes Wood apply fertilizer rates Asphaltum packed L C L Asphaltum C L Automobiles See Vehicles 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 Baggage Personal Effects in Trunks Bagging in rolls or bales N O S Bagging Oil Press Bags Burlap Bags Cotton Bags GunnyI Bags Paper Bags Traveling Baking Powders See Powder Bale Rope 5 Balusters See Woodworks 109 M0 05 0505 03 M M Of G q f1 C CO t1 CR OR CR OR Bananas See Oranges combination of Cloth etc under Fruit and wood K D and Band and Hat Boxes See packed together 6 Boxes Baskets or cylindrical Barilla T 3 basket frames cotton Bark Ground in bags or patent combination of bbls N O S 5 cloth and wood S XL Bark Tan in sacks 5 nested center space Bark Tan C Lmin filled with bags L C L 3 4 wt 24000 lbs P Same without bags 3 Barley See Grain Same with or without Barley Pearl 3 bags C L 6 Barrel and Box Material Baskets Grate See Iron C L min wt 24000 Bath Boilers See Boilers lbs P Bath Tubs See Tubs Barrel and Box Material Batting Cotton in lots or L C L 6 100 bales of 50 lbs each 6 Barrels tight half Bar Batting N O S See rels Kegs and Kits Cotton empty except Ale and Beans dried in boxes 2 Beer empties and loose Same in barrels or barrels L C L Class sacks D R plus 20 per cent Beans soya or velvet in Same 0 B 10000 lbs P scks or barrels any Barrels half Barrels and ci uantitv or in bulk C Kegs empty Ale L min wt 24000 ri and Beer estimated lbs D weights barrel 100 Beans soya or velvet lbs half barrel 50 lbs ground straight or keg 30 lbs E when mixed with Barrels loose such as ground velvet or soya lime sugar cement or bean hulls and or flour estimated weight stalks in sacks or bags 25 lbs each L C L 6 any quantity D Saipe C L min wt 10 Bearings Brass See 000 lbs not subject to Brass Freight Rule No 19 P Beauxite Ore Same as Barrels iron See Iron Clay and Steel Articles ed Cord See Rope Barrels Paper nested Bed Springs See Springs packed 2 Bedsteads Brass See Barrels Paper not nested 4 T 1 Furniture Barytes L C L 6 Beef canned packed Barytes C L 30000 lbs P See Canned Goods Base Balls and Bats 1 Beef See Meats oMhU Baskets Cotton Pickers Beer Empties returned Split Nested 3 See Note under Waters Baskets N O S D T aerated Baskets Fruit See Beer and Ale in wood es Boxes Fruit timated weights bbls Baskets wood splint 350 lbs bbl 180 with tops or handles lbs quarter bbl 100 1 nested or in bundles of lbs 8th bbl 50 lbs L T four with ends placed C L 2 4 in each other L C L 1 Beer and Ale in wood es Baskets nested 1 timated weights as Baskets Cotton Patent above C L 4 E 110 CR I OR OR OR Beer Ale and Mineral water barrels half barrels or kegs empty See Barrels Beer Ale and Porter in glass packed L O L securely wired and sealed or locked 2 Beer Ale and Porter in glass packed C L securely wired and sealed or locked 4 Beer Ale and Ginger Ale in glass packed securely wired and sealed or locked L C L 2 Beer Ale and Ginger Ale in glass packed securely wired and sealed or locked C L 4 Bees in HivesD 1 Bee Smokers boxed 1 Beeswax 4 Beet pulp dried in kegs barrels or in sacks D Beets in barrels 3 Bellows 1 Bells Bell Metal or Brass 1 Bells and Fixtures viz Sheet or cast Iron loose 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 4 E 4 E 1 6 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 Bluing Laundry Liquid In glass or earthenware packed in barrels or boxes 2 In bulk in barrels 4 Dry In barrels or boxes 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 L4T1 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 Boats Steam Yachts min wt 10000 lbs 2 Boilers Bath and Range 1 Boilers see Machinery Bolts see Iron Boneblack f 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 Cov ers Bottles empty packed 1 1 D1 5 4T1 2 3 111 CR OR Bows and Shafts see Vehicle Material Box and Barrel Stuff see Barrel and Box Material Boxes Hat and Band packed jD 1 Boxes Fruit and Baskets C L not less than 20000 lbs to be charged for R Baskets fruit berry and vegetble nested and packed solid either in cases or securely fastened L C L 2 Boxes Fruit L C L 1 Boxes Cigar empty packed iD1 Boxes Cracker empty returned 5 Boxes empty including 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 wtv 10000 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 3 T 11 D 1 Boxes paper folding K D and shipped flat in bales bundles or crates same as Bags Paper Boxes Piano empty returned K D 6 Boxes Post Office Letter 2 Boxes Tobacco empty 1 j Boxes Vehicle see Vehicle Materia Box Straps iron see Iron Brackets insulator see Telegraph Brackets wood N O S finished and boxed 34 Brackets wood in white made of pine or other CR I O R wood 3 Brackets Iron Shelf packed 1 3 Brandy See Liquors Bran L C L D Bran C L min wt 25000 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 Bread 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 f Brick Bath 6 Brick Salt Plain in boxes L C L C f Same C L O f Brick Salt Medicated in boxes L C L 4 Same C L 6 Brick Machines see Machinery Brimstone same as Sulphur Bristles 1 Brittania Ware 1 Brooders See Agricultural Implements Broom Corn pressed in Bales L C L B Broom Corn pressed in Bales C L min wt 14000 pounds D Broom Corn and Broom Handles mixed C L min wt 14000 lbs D Brooms any quantity 4 i Brushes i 1 Buckets N O S Same as Wooden Ware Buckets Coal 1 Buckets Well 4 Bucks saw See Saw I bucks 112 to to CR I OR Buckles Turn packed L O L Same C L Buckwheat Flour I Buggies see Vehicles Building Material consisting of baseboards ceiling easing 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 Casings Newel Posts Stair work and Wainscoting mixed L C L 4 Same C L e Bungs g Burial Cases see Coffins Burial Vaults cement L G L 4 Same C L min wt 15000 lbs g Burlaps 6 Burning Fluid ZZZZZ 1 Burr Blocks finished 4 Burr Blocks rough 5 Butter Butterine and Oleomargarine in cans 1 Butter Butterine and Oleomargarine in kegs firkins buckets pails boxes and tubs 5 Butter Apple and other Fruits in wood 4 Butter Trays paper nested same as Bags paper C Cabbages packed 3 Cabbages loose C L 3 Cabinet Ware See Furniture Cages Bird boxed 3T 1 Cages Bird K D nested and packedD 1 Cake nitre See Nitre Cake oil See Cotton Seed Cgke salt See Salt CR OR Calcicake k Calks Toe in kegs 5 Calicoes same as Domestics Camphiene v Camphor II Z Candles boxed ZZZZZ 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 4 Cans empty N O S3T1 Cans galvanized iron for manufacture of ice L C L 4 Same C L min wt 15000 lbs 4 Cans Glass See Glass Cans Milk Shipping Loose or in packages L C L 4 Loose or in packages C L min wt 16 000 lbs 4 Milk Shipping returned loose 4 Cans Paper cratedI iy2 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 Blasting with or without wire attachments in boxes1 D1 Caps and Hats l Caps Percussion l Caps Hay See Agricultural Implements Capstans1 3 113 CR I OR Carbons Electrib Light packed L C L 2 Carbons Electric Light packed C L 3 Carboys See Glass Cards Cotton and Woolen Hand packed 1 Cards Cotton and Woolen 1 Cards Playing 1 Cards show boxed See Signs Carpeting well covered 1 Carpets Hemp and Rag 2 Carpet Lining See Lining Carriages See Vehicles Car mileage freight of a cent per mile Car mileage passenger 3 cents per mile Carrara Same as white Lead Cars and Locomotives viz Cars Logging K D or set up C L min wt 24000 lbs same car with bodies to be loaded and unloaded by owners and at owners risk 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 CR I OR Cars Logging smaller parts boxed Cars Logging set up L C L Street or Tramway operated either by steam cable horse or electric power single D1 Street or Tramway operated either by steam cable horse or electric power C L two or more on a car minimum weight 20 000 lbs 5 Cars hand lever or crank for railway use S Tt L C L 1 S TT C L minimum weight 20000 lbs 5 K D L C L 2 K D released C L Cars knocked down i e cars from which trucks or other detachable parts have been removed and loaded on 5 4 Box Cab Refrigerator Tank and Track Scale Test Cars 6c per mile Coaches Baggage Mail and Express Cars 10c per mile Stock cars slatted 6c 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 th others Locomotives and Tenders including tram engines moved by their own power 114 CR I OR CR I OR 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 Subject to a minimum charge of 200 for each road handling maximum charge for entire movement of 6000 Locomotives and tenders including tram engs 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 of 6000 for entire movement Cartridges metallic or paper not high explosives boxed L C L 1 Same C L 5 j Carts Hand see Vehicles I Cases j and Crates Egg see Boxes Cases CocaCola and Soda Water empty L C L 3 I Cases show see Show Cases Cash Registers see Reg isters Casing window see Woodwork Casks Iron see Drums under Iron Cassia 3 Castings iron see Iron Castings Plaster D1 Castor Pomace same as Fertilizers Catsup in wood 4 Catsup in glass boxed 2 Cattle see Live Stock Caustic Soda see Soda 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 Cement 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 Ma chinery 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 m 4 Chert C L min wt 36000 lbs P Chestnuts see Nuts Chests Commissary 1 Chests ice see Refrigerators Chicory 4 115 CR O R Chimogene same as Oil I coal Cfiinaware 1 Chloride of Lime see Lime Chocolate i Chromos same as Paint ings Chufas C L see Nuts Churns 3 Cider in barrels or kegs B I Cider in glass packed 2 I Cider Mills and Presses see Agricultural Implements CIGARS See Note In wooden boxes strapped corded and sealed with metal seal bearing identification mark cording to pass through each and every board and over and outside of each and every seam in top bottom and sides of box or In shipping cases with cleats at both ends extending all around case with strapping wire ex I tending around the case at both ends interlaced in and out through cleats side boards and in frames and with a wire extending around the middle of the case I in and out through side boards and crossing all joints on outside Two additional wires interlaced through the end frames of the case all in such manner that no part of the end frames nor any part of the case can be disturbed without breaking the wires and showing the case to be tampered with j The ends cf three wires to meet on outside of case and sealed with approved metal seals CR OR or In wooden boxes metal or wire strapped ends completely encircled by straps or wire secured to each board and for every foot or fraction thereof in length of box an additional strap or wire encircling the box to be secured to each board ends of all straps or wires to be sealed with metal seal bearing identification mark 1 Note Each metal strap or wire must be of one piece N O S in boxes 3T 1 Not boxed not taken Cigar Lighters 1 Cigar Boxes see Boxes Citron 2 Clay in boxes barrels or casks L C L B Clay C L See Rule 12 min wt 40000 lbs P Clay Burnishing packed 5 Clay German 5 Cleaners cotton seed see Agricultural Implements Clocks boxed 1 Clock Weights see Weights Clothes Lines see Rope Clothes Pins 2 Clothing 1 Clothing Rubber and Rubber Goods N O S 1 Clover Seed see Seed Coal and Coke L C L in boxes barrels or bags L Coal and Cyke C L min wt 30000 lbs L Coal RatesAll percentages now allowed Railroad Companies in this State on Goal and Coke in carload quantities are withdrawn and the said companies excepting the Western and Atlantic and Georgia Railroad Companies are allowed to charge ior the transportation of Coal and Coke in carload quantities as follows For fifty miles and under Class L For one hundred miles and 116 over fifty miles Class L less 5 Per cent Vrnn0nf huildred miles ThiftM L less 10 Per cent aJh tiWenern and Atlantic and the Georgia Railroad aSSBfte are allowed to of pnif0r transportation of Coal and Coke in carload quantities as follows r flfty miles and under Class L less 10 per cent or distances over fifty cent8 laSS h 1688 15 per Coal Cinders See Ashes or Coal Cinders Coal Oil see Oil Coal Tar see Tar Coeoa t Cocoa Matting see Matting 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 m single sacks 3 Coffee Ground or Roasted m double sacks boxes or barrels k Coffee Substitutes Cereal Same as Food Preparations cereal Coffee Mills see Mills CofiSns plain or stained not painted nor varnished wrapped l Coffins N O S boxed or crated o Coffins K D3 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 flutepi and ornamental same as Woodwork CR I OR Combs Curry see Currycombs Commissary Chests and Stores 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 g Same 0 L23 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 g Underground for electrie wires earthen cement concrete terra cotta or clay L C L 6 Same C L23 of 6 Wooden creosoted L c l4 Same C L g Confectionery candy value limited to 6 cents per lb and so specified on Bill of Lading 4 Confectionery candy value limited to 20 cents per lb and so specified on Bill of Lading 3 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 8 4 Copper in boxes barrels or casks 3 Copper Scrap packed 5 Copper Scrap loose 4 Copper Vessels in boxes barrels or casks 2 117 CR I OR OR Copper Bottoms Copper Plates Sheets Bolts and Rods 3 Copper Flues 2 Copper Ingots Pigs and Matts 4 Copper Ore C L min wt 30000 lbs P Copper Ore L C L 6 Copper Stills worm crated 1 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 Boxed or crated S XL L C L D 1 Same nested L C L 1 Loose L C L 3 T 1 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 hi 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 cents 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 applied500 lbs to be the average weight per bale when original weight can not be ob3 tained 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 Cotto 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 J 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 118 CR OR 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 see Boxes Crates for peaches and apples include wooden or splint inside carriers without tops or handles nested f Crates for peaches and apples L C L set up 1 Crates for peaches and apples set up C L min wt 20000 lbs R I Crates for peaches and apples L C L K D B f Crates for peaches and ap pies K D C L Inin wt 24000 lbs P f Crayons Chalk 4 r Creameries packed or j wrapped 2 f Cream Tartar in boxes or kpgs 2 f Cream Tartar in barrels or hogsheads 3 f Crockery same as Earth f enware r Croquet Sets in boxes 2 Cross Arms Telegraph and Telephone see f 4 Telegraph Crossties hewed or sawed of dimensions from 6x8 inches by 7 ft to 7x9 inches by 9 ft 6 inches J C L min wt 32000 f lbs subject to Rule 12 P f Cross Bars see Iron f Crucibles f 3 Crushers Corn and Cob see Agricultural Imple f ments Crystals Washing 5 Cultivators see Agricultural Implements CR I OR Curbing Well 2 Currants see Fruit Currycombs same as Hardware N 0 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 3T 1 Deer Skins pressed in bales 2 Deer Tongue im barrels bales or boxes value limited to 6 cents per lb L C L5 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 Lime stone rates Domestics Demons Sheetings Shirtings Tickings Cotton Jeans Duck Checks Calicoes Prints Cotton Rope Thread 1 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 Agricultural Implements Dross Rosin same as Rosin Drugs and Medicines N o s 1 119 GR I OR Drums See Musical Instruments Drums iron See Iron and Steel Articles Dry Goods N O S 1 Dry Goods in boxes or bales Dry Goods in trunks crated or strapped 1 Dry Goods in trunks corded or wrapped 1 Dry Goods in trunks not corded or wrappedD 1 Dust Collectors S U not crated or boxed 3 T 1 Same crated or boxed D 1 Same K D crated or boxed i 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 E 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 i Electric Light Carbons See Carbons Electric Appliances viz Batteries N O S L C M i Same C L min wt 20000 lbs 3 Battery Cups and Jars earthenware in packages L C L 2 Same C L 5 CR I OR Arc Light Globes and Bulbs in crates boxes bbls or casks L C L Di Same C L min wt 16000 lbs 2 Dynamos same as Machinery N O S Meters boxed 1 Meters N O SD 1 Hoods Electric Light iron nested in packages 2 Electrical Instruments Fittings and Fixtures N O S boxed I 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 cents per lb 3 Emery N O S J 2 Empties dairy returned bv the line over which shipment has been made not over 100 pounds 5 cents each for any distance Enameled Ware see 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 bales L C L 5 Excelsior made from Georgia pine C L min wt 10000 lbs D Exhibitors boxed or crated 3T 1 Exhibitors woven or crated D 1 Explosives same as Powder 120 CR OR CR I OR Extinguishers Eire hand glass or grenade packed 1 y2 Extinguishers Eire on wheels same as Engines Eire I Extract Bark for tanning in wood 5 Extract Bark for tanning in glass packed 2 Extract of Indigo s6e Indigo Extract of Logwood see Logwood Extract of Malt in glass packed same as Ale Extract and Essences N o s i Facings foundry Apply Soapstone rates m Factory sweepings and cotton waste see Pa per Stocks i Fans viz t Electric or Fan Motors packed L C L l Same C L 3 Hly metal folding packed 2 I N O S in boxes 1 I Fanning Mills see Agri I cultural Implements Mills Fanning Farina 2 Fasteners box see Iron Faucets boxed 2 I Feathers j j Feed mixed composed of two or more of the fol r lowing articles viz Al 1 falfa Meal Grain Grain Products including Corn I Cob Meal Hay Velvet or Soya Beans Velvet or Soya Bean Meal Cotton Seed Meal Peanut Meal Cotton Seed Hulls Peanut Hulls Soya or Velvet Bean Hulls Corn Shucks or Husks whether treat ed with blackstrap mo I 1 lasses or not when in bags or sacks any quantity d Feeders Cotton Gin see Agricultural Implements Felloes see Vehicle Material Felt Roofing see Roofing Felting Boiler Fence Wire and Wood combination Fencing Wire N O S Fencing Woven Wire See Special Iron List Fenders Iron See Iron Fertilizer C L min wt 30000 lbs See Note Class M less 10 Same L C L Class K less 10 Not subject to Freight Rule No 27 Including also Ammonia sulphate of Ashes cotton seed Ashes rice straw Ashes tan bark Ashes wood Bones Bran cotton seed hull Cake cotton seed oil Cake nitre Cake salt Carbonate of Potash crude Cassava Pomace Castor Pomace Cinders wood Cyanamid Lime nitrogen Fish Scrap Fleshings trimmings and scrapings of hides Garbage Tankage dried and ground in bags Guano Gypsum Land Plaster Hartsalz Manure Salts Double Manure Salts Muriate of Potash and Sulphate of Potash 2 5 5 121 See rating on following page CR I OR Hoof and Horn Meal Humus Swamp earth soil or peat Marl Green Sand in bags or barrels Meal cotton seed Mussell or Clam Shell Dust Plaster land Soda Nitrate of Sylvinit Tankage and dried blood Note Articles enum erated above may be shipped in mixed carloads subject to mimimum C L Weight of 30000 lbs at the carload fertilizer rates Fertilizer including fertilizer materials as above not in bulk L C L Acid Phosphate in bulk C L min wt 40000 1 lbsapply fertilizer rates less 10 Same L C L and not in bulk C L Apply fertilizer rates Not subject to Freight Rule No 27 Kaiinit in bulk C L min wt 40000 lbs Apply Fertilizer rates less 10 Same L C L and not in bulk C L Apply Fertilizer rates Not subject to Freight Rule No 27 Fibre Palmetto and Pine pressed in bales 6 Figs in drumg l 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 Firecrackers and Fireworks packed so marked 1 hi m tibfft rH u 50 M CR I OR Fire Extinguishers see Extinguishers Fireplaces portable including the necessary pipe2 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 D 1 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 1 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 C Flour Rice C Flues Copper see Copper Flues Iron See Iron 122 CR j O R CR OR Flues Brass See Brass Frames Mounted with FluorSpar L C L 6 Mirrors or Looking FluorSpar C L M Glasses when shipped Fly Fans see Fans separately from other Fodder see Hay Furniture 3 T 1 D 1 Foil Tin in boxes 2 Frames quilting see Food Animal or Poultry Quilting Attachments viz Freezers Ice Cream 2 Dry Animal and Poultry Fruit and Vegetables in Powders Condiments or cans without percent Tonics in sacks boxes age L C L 5 pails with wooden or Same C L without metal covers drums or percentage 6 barrels L C L 4 Fruit in Glass packed 1 3 Same C L 6 Fruit Berries dried 4 Animal and Poultry Feed Fruit Berries green pre N 0 S bulk in sacks D paid 1 Food Preparations Cereal Fruit Boxes and Baskets viz see Boxes Grits Corn in boxes 6 Fruit Dates 2 Grits Corn other than Hife Fruit Dried Currants 2 3 in boxes same as 1 Fruit Dried N 0 S 3 Meal Corn Fruit Dried Apples and i Hominy same as Grits Peaches L C L 4 6 Same in barrels half 1 Fruit Dried Apples and barrels kegs drums 1 Peaches C L 6 t c or boxes or in paper 1 Fruit Green N 0 S pre packages 6 I paid or guaranteed 3 Food Preparation N 0 S PH Fruit Apples Peaches in sacks f 5 1 Pears not dried and Food Prepared N 0 S 1 1 other green fruit in Food Preservatives pack 1 n barrels or boxes L ed 3 C L B Foots pitch or tank bot 1 Fruit Apples in barrels toms Cottonseed See i boxes or crates or in Soap Stock bulk C L 0 Forges Portable 3 Fruit Peaches not Forks Hay and Manure dried and other srreen see Agricultural Imple fruit in barrels boxes ments or crates carloads pre Fountains and Fixtures paid 0 Soda including marble Fruit Juices See Juices l stone and onyx parts Fruit Bananas in crates packed D 1 1 boxes cylindrical car Fowls dressed B riers or cloth sacks Fowls live in coops C L 1 N prepaid or guaranteed Same L C L 1 2 L C L 4 Frames Bed wrapped or Same unpacked own crated 2 3 ers risk prepaid or Frames Door and Win guaranteed subject to a dow see Sash etc minimum charge on Frames Picture Mirror or 5000 lbs actual weight Looking Glass loose or if in excess of that i in bundles 3T 1 D 1 amount L C L 4 Same wrapped 1 1 Same loose or packed Same crated or boxed i 2 C L 6 CE OR Fruit Oranges Lemons and t Pineapples in boxes L C L 4 Same C L 6 Fullers Earth same as Clay Furnaces Charcoal cast iron 3 Charcoal s o 1 d e ring sheet iron 1 Clay encased in sheet iron pail shaped L C L 4 Same C L 6 Clay N O S pail shaped Packed L C L 4 Loose or packed C L 6 Furnaces Evaporator see Agricultural Implements Furs see Hides Fuse D 1 Furniture C L viz Bed Slats in bundles crates or loose min wt 24000 lbs Bedsteads metal min wt 12000 lbs 5 6 4 Chairs Wooden with Cane Splint Rattan Reed Bamboo or Wooden Seats not V upholstered m i n wt 8000 lbs 3 4 Chairs N O S 8000 lbs 2 3 Chair and other Furniniture Stuff or Stock j Wooden N O S K D in the rough or in the white and Chairs K D in the white min wt 24 000 lbs 4 5 Chair Seats in bundles or packed min wt 20000 lbs 3 4 Fixtures of either hard or soft wood not including showcases for fitting Banks Barber Shops Offices Saloons Stores etc with or without mir 2 rors glass to be CR OR properly boxed min wt 12000 lbs 2 I 3 Mattresses Wovenwire or Spring Beds min wt 12000 lbs I 4 Mattresses Straw Cotton Shuck Hay and Excelsior min wt 12000 lbs 4 I Poles Curtain rough or m in the white min wt 24000 lbs 4 5 Vault or Office Iron or Steel consisting of Filing Cabinets or Cases Shelving Counters Roller Book Shelves and Tables crated or boxed min wt 24000 lbs 3 4 N O S all kinds finished or in the white straight C L min wt 12000 lbs 2 I 3 N O 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 3 Furniture L C L viz Beds Spring or Woven Wire see Mattresses Wire Bedsteads Folding boxed or crated See note 1 2 Note Same rate applies to folding beds in comb nation with wardrobes desks etc Bedsteds Iron or Brass K I 2 I 3 Bed Slats Wooden in bundles or crates 3 4 Bed Slats Metal in bundles or crates 1 2 Bookcases Iron 1 1 Bookcases wrapped or crated S IT including Sectional or Elastic Bookcases in set up sections D 1 1 Same K D lj 1 Bookcases and Desks combination wrapped or crated 1 1 124 CE I OR CR 1 OR Buffets see Sideboards Bureaus of Hardwood wrapped or crated Same of common wood s Cabinets Wooden Revolving for displaying hardware wrapped or crated Cabinets Kitchen see Safes Castors Roller packed Chairs Bamboo Rattan Reed or Willow wrapped or crated Chairs Barber Dental Folding Reclining or Surgical S IT wrapped or packed Same K D or folded wrapped or packed Chairs Camp or Folding Seat Chairs Auditorium Opera Church etc packed K D Chairs Porch or Lawn iron or iron and wood combined S IT Same K D 2 Chair and Stepladder combination D 1 Chairs Rocking Hardwood or Metal Frames with Cane Splint Rattan Reed Willow Bapiboo Leather or Wooden Seats not upholstered set up unwrapped or wrapped with paper L C L D 1 Same without rockers l Same without rockers tied in pairs seat i to seat 1 Same without rockers of common wood completely K D wrapped or not wrapped packed in bundles 2 Chair Stock same as Chairs K D packed 1 2 i y2 1 i y2 i y2 i 2 3 1 2 D 1 D 1 1 1 1 2 3 1 y2 1 1 2 3 Chairs N 0 S S IT D 1 Chairs N 0 S completely K D 11 Chair Seat Material viz Cane Rattan Reed Willow Bamboo or Leather packed or in bales iy2 Chair Seat Material Fiber Leather Board or Veneer v i Chair Seats in bundles or packed i Chair Splints Wooden packed or in bundles or bales i Chiffoniers same as Bureaus China Closets wrapped or crated D 1 Church Furniture N 0 S wrapped or crated S IT D 1 Same K D 1 Cots Woven Wire S IT D 1 Same K D or folded 2 Cots N 0 S of hard wood S IT D 1 Same of common wood 1 Cots N 0 S of hard wood K D 1 Same of soft wood Couches metal folding K D or folded 2 i y2 Cradles or Cribs wrapped or crated S IT Same K D or folded i Cushions Furniture in bales or cases iy2 Desks and Seats School S U i Desks and Seats School K D 2 Desks N 0 S wrapped or crated i Display or Wall Cases or Cabinets unglazed in boxes or crates i Dressing Cases or Dressers same as Bureaus Easels D 1 m i 1 2 2 2 1 y2 ll2 2 1 y2 3 iy2 2 2 3 1 D 1 2 1 2 3 2 iy2 125 CR I OR Filing Cabinets Cases or Boxes crated or boxed Fixtures not including show cases for fitting banks barber shops offices saloons stores etc with or without mirrors glass to be properly boxed wrap 1 ped or crated 1 2 Footstools See Hassocks Frames Lounge or Sofa S U Same backs taken off D 1 m 1 2 Hall Stands see Hat Racks Hassocks or Footstools iy2 1 Hat Racks folding packed 1 Hat Racks or Hall Stands N O S wrapped or crated S U D1 iy2 Same K D or with tops detached and secured inside of package crated or boxed iy2 i Lounges with backs wrapped or c r a t ed S H 1 i D 1 iy2 Same with backs ta ken off iy2i 1 Lounges without backs wrapped or crated f S U iy2i i Marble for Furniture i see Stone l Mattresses viz Hair Wool or Feather HI iy2 Spiral Spring not compressed HI Spiral Spring in packages containing two or more com pressed not to exceed three inches per mat tress in thickness 1 2 Straw Cotton Shuck and Excelsior 3 1 Wire entirely taken apart and K B boxed 1 2 Woven Wire 1 1 Spring N 0 S D1 iy2 CR OR N 0 S VVr Poles Curtain wooden and Fixtures boxed 1 2 or crated Same without Fix 1 2 tures boxed or crated Poles Curtain N 0 S and Fixtures boxed 2 3 or crated Racks or Stands His iy2 1 play S U Same K D wrapped or packed Refrigerators and Ice Chests wrapped or D I iy2 m i packed Refrigerator Material 2 3 thoroughly K B 2 3 Safes or Cabinets Meat or Kitchen tin wood or wood and tin com 1 bined S U 1 Same with legs de H 1 iv2 tached packed 1 2 Same K D flat 2 3 Settees same as Chairs Sideboards or Buffets 1 wrapped or crated Sofas and Teteatetes 1 2 wrapped or crated Springs Bed see Springs Spring Beds see Mattresses wire Stands or Racks Music HI iy2 S H Same K B flat wrapped or packed Stools Piano wrapped HI iy2 iy2 i or packed Tables Bamboo Rattan Reed or Willow wrap lVz 1 i ped or packed Tables Billiard and Billiard Table Beds 3 T 1 boxed or crated Tables of hardwood N 0 S wrapped or 1 1 crated S TJ Same of common HI iy2 wood Tables of hardwood K iy2 i D flat or folded flat Same of common 2 wood 2 I 3 Table Legs Slides Leaves Tops and Supports wrapped or crated 2 Vault or Office iron or steel consisting of filing cabinets or cases shelving counters roller book shelves i and tables crated or boxed i Wardrobes wrapped or crated S U 1 Same K D flat 1 Washstands of hardwood wrapped or crated g i Same of common wood 2 N O S of hardwood S IT wrapped or packed D1 Same of common wood TM N O S of hardwood K D wrapped or packed 1 I Same of common wood 2 2 1 2 2 3 iy2 1 2 3 G Gambier 4 Game see Poultry Garments Cotton such as jackets or jumpers pants overalls unlaundered shirts and drawers and knitting factory products shipped in original packages contents to be legibly marked on each package 5 Gas in iron buoys requiring flat or gondola car minimum weight 5000 lbs each l Gas for dental purposes or for calcium lights in cylinders 1 Gas Liquid Carbonic Acid in iron drums or tubes carriers option See Note 5 Note Drums or tubes containing Carbonic Acid Gas must be plainlymarked by proper label or otherwise NOTICE DANGER This package must not be exposed to th sun or stored in a warm place Gasoline see Oil Gauges Steam see Machinery Gelatine Generators Gas Ginger Ground in boxes Ginger in bags Gins Cotton see Agricultural Implements Ginseng Girders Iron see Iron Glass Carboys empty Glass Chimneys Glass Demijohns empty not packed Glass Demijohns filled not packed or boxed not taken Glass Demijohns filled boxed Glass Demijohns empty packed Glass Floor Lights rough and heavy Glass Fruit Jars see Jars Glass Insulators see Insulators Glass Lanterns see Lanterns Glass Oil Cans with metal jackets packed Glass Plate 7xl5 feet or under outside measurement 1 D1 3 2 4 4 T 1 3T1 3 I D 1 1 I 5 L l I I I i Dll 2 Glass Plate over 7xl5 feet outside measurement subject to min wt of 1500 lbs 3 Tl D 1 Glass Eoofine and Sky light not Window Glass 2 1 3 Glass colored stained decorated enameled ground figured or etch ed L C L 1 1 Same C L 1 1 2 Glass Vault Lights rough 1 and heavv 5 Glassware fine cut or en 1 graved D1 1 Glassware N O S 2 I 3 127 CE OR CR Glass Window plain colored enameled or ground L C L 3 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 3 Glycerine Nitro plainly labeled L C L 4 T 1 Glycerine Nitro plainly labeled C L 3 T 1 Graders Outfits see Outfits Grain D Grain Corn in ear sack ed L C L D Grain Corn in ear C L Subject to Eule 13 Class N without per centage 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 30000 lbs P Grass bear 6 Grass Seed see Seed I 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 j Grenades packed 1 Grindstones 6 Grindstone Fixtures packed or in bundles 3 Grits Corn same as Meal Corn Groceries N O S 2 Guano see Fertilizers 4 Guano Horns see Agricultural Implements Gum Camphor see Camphor Gum Copal Kowrie and Shellac 2 Gums N O S 2 Gun Cotton D1 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 ormore crated L C L 2 Same C L 4 Gypsine in cases same as Paint dry in cases Gypsum Land Plaster Fertilizer Same as Fertilizers Gums Chewing 1 H B 1 Hair in sacks 1 Hair Cattle for plastering pressed in bales 6 Hair Curled pressed in bales and Hair Rope 2 Hair Goods manufactured packed in boxes D 1 Hames in bundles or packed 3 Hammers other than Sledge same as Tools N O S Hammocks and Fixtures 1 Hams same as Meat salted Hand Carts see Vehicles Handles N O Si 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 128 CE I OR CR Handles Plow and other wood in shape for im plements 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 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 I Hat Boxes see Boxes I Haversacks same as Accoutrements Hay Fodder and Straw pressed in bales C L min wt 20000 lbs D I Hay Fodder and Straw i pressed in bales L C L R Heading see barrel and Box Material Hay Caps see Agricultu ral Implements Hay Presses see Agricul tural Implements Head Lights boxed D1 Hearses see Vehicles Heaters Steam see Ma chinery Heel Plates packed 4 i Hemp in bales 3 Herbs see Roots Hessians in original bales 6 Hides furs peltries and Skins viz Furs in bags 3T 1 Furs in boxes bundles or trunks strapped D 1 I Furs N O S see I Skins N O S Hides dry loose 1 Hides dry tied in bundles or bales any quantity 4 i Hides green 5 Hides green salted 6 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 D 1 5 Same pressed in bales l Same N O SD 1 Skins Sheep dry in bales l Same green in bundles 2 Same salted in bundles 3 Hinges and Butts packed L C L 4 Same C L i 6 Hives Bee empty set up 1 Hives Bee K D crated 6 Hobby Horses see Toys Hoes see Agricultural Implements Hods Coal 1 Hogs see Live Stock Hogsheads empty double barrel rate Hollow Ware lobse L C L 1 Hollow Ware loose shipped separately from Stoves C L min wt 15000 lbs 3 Follow Ware packed 3 Hominy see Food Preparations Honey in glass or tin boxed 1 j Honey in comb boxed 1 Honey in barrels or kegs 1 Honey Extractors crated 1 Honey Section boxes and Frames in crates or boxes 3 Hoofs and Horns Hooks Hasps and Staples N O S packed 4 129 CR I OR CR OR 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 Carriarges see Vehicles Hose Leather Hose Reels Fire see Vehicles Hose Reels Garden see Reels Hose Rubber Hosiery sam as Knitting Factory Products Hospital Stores Household Goods less than carload shipments of H H G must be prepaid or freight guaranteed t gj Household Goods and bo old Furniture packed Eh value over 5 per 100 i 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 5 value limited to 5 4h per 100 lbs and so expressed in bill of Js lading said valuation 0 only to apply in case of total loss L C L Household Goods and S old Furniture well f packed value not expressed in bill of lad ing L C L Household Goods and w old Furniture well 4 4 B D 1 1 2 1 2 3 1 D 1 1 1 1 4 packed C L min wt 20000 lbs value limited to 5 per 100 pounds said valuation only to apply in case of total loss Household Goods and old Furniture with Live Stock one attends dant to have passage sc free on same train as of car C L value lim ited to 5 per 100 I g pounds said valua tion only to apply in case of total loss D 1 m Explanations 1All Bundles of Bed ding Trunks of Cloth ing Household Goods S or similar articles not Furniture will not be received for a transportation unless o packed chests of a similar articles must be strapped or securely trailed This does 1 not apply to C L of Household Goods 2Bills of Lading and W WayBills must designate character and number of packages 3These instructions apply to old and secondhand Furniture Clothing Bedding etc not to new articles Houses portable L C L 4 Same C L 6 Hubs and Felloes see Vehicle Material Hullers Clover etc see Agricultural Implements Hullers Pea same as Corn Shellers under Agricultural Implements Hulls Peanut Soya or Velvet Bean in sacks or bales L C L and in the same packages or in bulk C L min I wt 24000 lbs D 6 5 CR OR Husks and Shucks in bales See Rule 12 Hydrants Fire Plugs and Water Gates D lee L C L in casks barrels boxes or bags packed in sawdust chaff shavings or straw prepaid B Ifee C L l Images and Figures Bronze or Metal packed not Iron Statuary 3 T 1 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 1 and Telephone Material Iron and Steel Articles viz Barrels or Brums 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 be accepted as nested when two or more sections are placed one within another Same side seams not closed nested packed or wired in D 1 CR I OR 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 Bust Collectors min wt 15000 lbs 4 Boiler flues or tubing L C L 6 1 Same C L of 6 Box Straps of 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 machinery unpacked each piece weighing under 200 pounds 3 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 2 Same unpacked 1 Grates packed 2 Same loose lh j Journal Boxes of 61 Manhole Covers Street Catch Basin Covers or Sewer Inlets iron or steel Weighing each less than 50 pounds loose or in bundles weighing each less than 50 pounds L C L 2 Weighing 50 lbs or over loose or in b u n d 1 es weighing each 50 lbs or over L C L 5 131 CB I OE CE OE In barrels boxes or crates L C L 5 In packages or loose straight or mixed C L min wt 30 000 lbs of 6 Mantels packed 2 Same unpacked 1 Nail Eods packed 2 Same unpacked 6 Planished or Eussia 2 Plumbing Fixtures viz Cast Iron Bath Tubs Lavatories or Washstands Water Closet Hoppers Cisterns or Tanks and Sinks without fittings packed mixed C L 4 Sinks loose or in crates or barrels L C L 3 Same C L 4 Washstands or Lavatories packed L C 3 L 3 Same C L 4 Water Closet Hoppers Cisterns or Tanks L C L 3 Same C L 4 Water Closet loose 1 Same boxed or crated 3 Eailing and Fencing 3 Eetorts 6 Eoofing packed or in bundles 6 Sad Irons packed L C L 5 Same C L 6 Sash Weights wired any quantity K Scrap L C L see note of 6 Same C L 2240 lbs to ton see note 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 originaly intended for use when new Scrap Sheet in rolls or bundles wired or crated of 6 3 3 5 M 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 Poors 4 Sponge purifying mate rial 3 Stand Pipe Material K DV 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 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 consist ing of columns pedestals capitals saddles door and window jambs plates sills studding lintels rolled beams channel bars girders angles tees and zees Axles Car Wagon and Carriage Bar Band Boiler Hoop and Bod Blooms and Billets steel Bolts Nutsy Eivets and Washers packed or in sacks or bundles Brake Shoes 132 CR OR Bridge Material Castings Guano Distributors 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 Coup lers Cultivator Teeth Discs Foots Standards Frogs Harrow Teeth Heel Bolts Mould Boards Blades Plant Fenders Plates Points Shares Wings Braces and Bars and Plow S h a p es 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 Tires Vehicle Vehicle Material viz Boxes Skeins and Springs CR Wheels Car and Locomotive Wire Common Barbed or otherwise on reels or in coils Isinglass same as Mica Ivory i Ivory Black 4 J Jack Screws and Wagon Jacks Japan Ware J aponica Jars Fruit Glass or Earthenware any quantity Jeans Cotton same as Domestics Jeans Cotton and Wool mixed Jellies in glass packed Jellies in cans boxed Jellie in wood N O S 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 In bulk in barrels or in tin cans boxed L C L In glass or earthenware packed in barrels or boxes or in tin cans boxed or crated or in bulk in barrels C L Junk and Jute Jute Butts Jute Waste or Tailings see Paper Stock Jute Tarn see Yarn K Kainit See Fertilizers Kalsomine same as Paint Kaolin same as Clay Kegs empty N O Sesame as Barrels Kegs empty N O S in crates 3 1 133 M f M W CO ji CO CR I OE Kegs Ale and Beer see Barrels Ale and Beer 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 L Ladders not over 30 ft long 1 Ladders over 30 feet long D 1 Ladders Step r 2 Lampblack in casks barrels or boxes 3 Lamps and Lamp Goods packed 2 Land Plaster same as fertilizers vi Lanterns packed 1 Laprings packed 5 Lard f 4V Lard Substitutes or Com pounds viz Solids V 4 Oils Cooking or Edible products of cotton seed oil or coeoanut oil viz In glass or earthen ware 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 24000 lbs P Laths L C L B CR I OR 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 V 6 Lead Black in kegs or bbls 5 Lead Pipe see Pipe Lead Whitdf Same as Paiints Leather loose N O S 1 Leather in rolls or bpxes 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 v or mats 3 Licorice in mass boxed 4 Lightning Rods in boxes 3 Lightning Rods in bundles 1 2 Lightning Rod Fixtures packed 1 2 Limei in sacks casks or q barrels C L Yv L Same L C L B Lime Chloride of in barrels or casks6 Lime Chloride of N O S 4 Lime Liquid prepared for whitewashing can ned and packed 5 Limestone for Furnaces C L min wt 40000 lbs P Limestone Whitestone or Marble ground powdered or pulverized L C L same as Fertilizer For special rates on C L shipments see Circular No 376 Limestone N O S C L min wt 40000 dbs Lining Carpet Linseed Linters see Paper Stock 134 n d CR I OR Lint Flues Cotton Gin see Machinery Liquors Whiskey or Domestic Wine in glass packed in boxes or baskets each package weighing not less than 20 pounds 2 Liquors in wood X O S 1 Liquors Whisky Domestic Brandies and Domestic Wines in wood owners risk of leakage value limited to 75c per gallon and so endorsed on bill of lading Liquors Whisky in wood X 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 Live Live Stck Cattle Sheep Hogs etc C L with out percentage 3 Lockers Trunk metal or I metal and wood combined L C L 2 Same C L 4 1 Lockers Wall metal or metal and wood combined set up L C L 2 Same K D 4 1 Same K D C L 6 Locks same as Hardware X 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 j sawn Apjdy Lumber rates H 3 2 2 N 4 X CR OR Logs X 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 4000 pounds P Logwood 2 Logwood Extract of C L dry l 4 Looking Glasses same as Mirrors Looms see Machinery Lumber Dressed or rough L C L B Same C L min wt 24000 lbs See rule 12 Lye Concentrated M Machinery and Machines viz Belting Chai nM or Sprocket Chain loose or packed same as machinery X O S Boilers Sectional sam as Boilers but not to be taken as castings 3 Boilers Steam 30 feet and over including necessary stack L O l a Boilers under 30 feet including necessary stack L C L See 1 Rule 14 3 Boilers X O S Same as Machinery XOS Brick Machines 4 Conveyors Spiral L C L 4 Cotton Gin Lint Flues O L 6 Same L C L packed 3 Cotton Presses set up see Agricultural Im plements Electrical Machinery Transformers L C L 3 135 CE I OE Same C L min wt 24GOO lbs 6 Engines Calorie Fire Portable and stationary L C L 2 3 Same C L 4 6 Hoisting K D Machinists Tools Planers Lathes Drill Presses etc 4 2 3 N O S all kinds C L 6 N O S all kinds L C L 3 Printing Presses K D boxed or crated 3 Same not boxed 1 2 Printing Presses set up D 1 1 Pulley and Tackle Blocks 5 Pulley Wheels and Blocks 5 Saw Mills L C L detachable parts unboxed 2 3 Sam detachable parts boxed 4 Saw Mills C L same as Machinery N O S Shafts Shaft Collars Shaft Couplings Shaft Hangers Pillow Blocks or Shaft Pulleys without Clutch Attachments L C L 5 Same straight or mixed C L min wt 20000 lbs 6 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 L M Steam Gauges 1 Steam Heaters see Eadi ators Textile Machinery Beams packed L C L 4 Bobbins Shuttles Spools and Skewers packed or in bags L C L 4 I Card Clothing packed 1 L C L 1 1 CE I OE Card Flats packed L C L v 3 Cards hand packed L C L 1 Cones paper nested packed or in bags L C L 3 Cones paper not nested packed or in bags L C L D 1 Cylinders parts of Cotton or Woolen Mill Machinery shipped separately therefrom S U packed L C L 1 Loom Harness or Eeeds in boxes L C L 1 Loom Harness Shafts or Sticks in boxes or rates L C L 4 Looms Hand S U loose or on skids lJ K D in boxes or crates 2 Looms other than hand L C L IVz Looms other than hand S U C L min wt 16000 lbs 5 Looms other than hand K D C L min wt 20000 lbs 6 Lug straps in boxes L C L 4 Picker sticks in boxes or crates L C L 4 j Pickers Leather Loom in boxes or crates L C L 3 Eollers iron or steel L C L 3 Spindles in boxes L C L 2 I Tongue Clamps L C L 4 j Tubes Paper Parallel or Tapered not nested packed or in bags L C L 3 I Textile Machinery N O S S TL loose or on skids L C L 1 S TJ in boxes or crates L C L 2 K D in boxes bundles or crates L C L 3 Textile Machinery except Looms straight 136 CR I OR or mixed C L or in mixed C L with Looms minimum wt 20000 lbs 6 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 Agricultural Implements Machines Sewing not boxed or crated 3 T Same boxed or crated including parts thereof S IT 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 30000 lbs P Manganese Ground packed g Manila o Mantels Iron see Iron Mantels Slate packed 2 Mantels Wood crated or boxed L C L 2 IV2 CR 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 barrels Same L C L Marbles in casks or boxes Marble Tiles Matches in wood or paper packed in cases alone marked matches Match Splints packed in cases L C L 4 Same C L 6 Mats Matting and Rugs Grass hemp hair steel wire rubber and cocoa o n o s i Oil Press Cloth or Matting worn out Same as Rags Mattocks and Picks see Special Iron List Mattresses see Furniture Meal and Ashes Cotton Seed see Cotton Seed Meal Corn in barrels or sacks Meal Oat see Food Preparations Measures j Meat N O S B Meat Bacon and Pork E 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 Pigs Feet in glass packed Shipments of articles enu D B 137 W CE I OE merated under head of Meats in quantities Ifess than 10000 pounds must be in bags bales boxes or crates Meat Cutters see Machinery Meats Desiccated see Desiccated Medicated Brick see Brick Medicines and Drugs N O S 1 Medicines Patent LCL 1 Same C L 1 Melodeons see Musical Instruments Melons freight guaranteed C L min wt 24000 lbs Melons L C L 4 MerryGoBounds LCL 1 MerryGoEounds 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 3 T 1 Mileage Gar see Car Mileage Milk Condensed boxed 4 Milk minimum charge allowed 15 cts B Millet D Millet Seed see Seed 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 4 Cob 4 Mills Cane see Agricul tural Implements Mills Cider see Agricul4 tural Implements Mills Coffee and Paint set up u 2 Mills Corn see Agricultural Implements CE I OE Mills Cotton Seed see Agricultural Implements Mills Flour roller Mills N O S Mill Stones finished Mill Stones rough Mill Stuff Eule 12 L 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 but 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 i 4 Mineral Waters see Water Mining Cars and Wagons same as Cars Logging Mirrors 3 feet or under outside measurement packed i 3 T 11 Mirrors over 3 feet not exceeding 7xl2 out I side measurement packed 3 T 1 Mirrors over 7xl2 outs i d e measurement packed 4T 1 Molasses same as Syrup Monuments etc see Stone Mops m 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 bundlesV 1 Mouldings common for building purposes 4 1 Mouldings N O S D 1 I Mouldings Iron see Cornices Mouse Traps see Traps Mowers see Agricultural Implements D 1 138 cq cq io CR I OR Mucilage packed 2 J Musical Instruments viz Drums 3 T 1 Melodeons Organs cabinet or Pianos boxed L C L 1 I Same L C L not I boxed not taken Same boxed wrapped or crated C L minimum weight 8000 lbs 1 Organs Pipe K D boxed 1 I Organ Pipes boxed 1 I N O S 1 j Mustard Ground in boxes 2 I Mustard prepared in glass packed 2 j Mustard prepared in kegs or barrels 3 I Mustard Seed 6 N j Nails Brass and Copper well packed in boxes or kegs 3 Nail and Spikes Iron see Iron Naval Stores see Rosin Turpentine etc r r I Netting wire N O S in f boxes casks crates or roljs L Cf L v 2 Same C L 5 1 Netting wire meshes one inch qr greater in roils same as Fencing woven f wire I Nitre Cake same as Fertilizers I Notions 1 Nutmegs 2 liuts Chestnuts prepaid 3 J 5 Nuts Pecans in barrels L C L IHMH 3 Nuts Pecans in barrels C L 5 Nuts Cocoa packed or sacked L bL 5 Nuts Cocoa 0 L 6 I Nuts Edible in bags N O S 1 Same in barrels or casks N O S 2 I CR 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 Ochre in sacks barrels or casks L C L 5 Same C L 6 Ochre to be used in manufacture of Fertilizers same as Fertilizers Oil Cake same as Fertilizers Oil Cloth 16 feet long or over boxed 1 Oil Cloth less than 16 feet long boxed 2 Oil Cloth baled 1 Oil Cloth not boxed or baled not in shipping order Oil Castor in glass packed J Oil Castor in bbls 3 Oil in cans encased in wood 1 Oil Petroleum and Petroleum Products viz Benzine Gasoline and Naptha 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 ncft less than 24000 pounds i 6 Coal Oil Crude Oil Distillates Fuel Oil Gas Oil Grease not Axle Kerosene Oil Lubricating Oil not 139 CR I OR Axle Grease Miners 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 pallon 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 be computed on basis of 7 pounds per gallon in wooden halfbarrels containing not over 30 gallons 240 pounds each In square caps 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 shipped in boxes or bags at the same ratings as govern on shipments in barrels and half barrels Oil Cocoa in original packages 1 Oil Cocoa in barrels 3 Oil Palm Seed crude L CR OR C L Class K with 20 per cent added Oil Cottonseed L C L 5 Same C L without percentage See note R Note 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 7 pounds per gallon When the shell capacity of tank is less than 6250 gallons settlement will be made on basis of acthal 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 3 4 Oil Lubricating the product of Coal Oil same as coal Oil Oil Mill Rolls returned for repairs rating to apply in both directions 4 I Oil Pine same as Coal Oil Oil Sassafras in glass or cans boxed 3 T 1 D1 Oils in glass or cans packed except Coal Oil and Sassafras Oil 1 Oils in jars not packed not taken Oils N O S in bbls 3 Oil Tank Wagons see Vehicles Oleomargarine see Butter Olives in glass packed 1 Olives in barrels or casks 4 140 CB 1 OR Onions in sacks L C L 5 I 6 Onions in barrels or crates 6 Onions in barrels crates boxes or in sacks or in bulk C L 6 Onion Sets same as Onions Oranges see Fruit Ordnance Stores N O S 1 Ore Copper see Copper Ores Iron L C L 6 Same C L min wt 40000 lbs P Ores samples or specimens must be prepaid 6 Organs see Musical Instruments Outfits graders or contractors L C L 2 Same C L min wt 24000 lbs f 6 Same C L min wt 24000 lbs with live stock 5 Outfits House Moving Contractors consisting of capstans secondhand chains ropes pulleys jack screws horse power wrenches rollers wire cables bolts crowbars pickaxes shovels saws sledge hammers mon key wrenches blocking etc but not including f machines or machin ery in mixed ship i ments L C L 3 1 Same C L min wt 20 000 lbs 6 Ovens viz 1 Bakers sectiidnal steel 1 K D L C L 3 1 Same C L 5 I N O S S U not packed D1 N O S S H packed 1 N O S H H packed 2 Overalls see Garments f cotton Oysters in cans or kegs 4 Oysters shell in barrels 1 5 Oysters shell in bulk C L K Oysters in glass packed 1 1 2 CR P Packing Asbestos see Asbestos Packing Hemp 4 Packing Metallic 2 Packing Rubber 3 Paintings and Pictures well boxed value of each box not to exceed 200 D 1 Paintings and Pictures over 200 in value 3 T 1 Paints Red and White Lead and Linseed Oil viz In glass or earthenware boxed 1 Bulk dry in boxes or cases 5 Bulk earth metallic or dry in barrels casks sacks or kits LCL 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 I 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 taper Cans see Cans Paper 1 Paper Card 1 Paper Collars see Collars 141 CR I OR CR OR Paper Hangings in bundles 1 Paper Hangings boxed 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 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 Shirtboards Paper Stock Waste viz Cotton Sweepings Motes Regins and Linters Cotton Seed Hull Shavings or Fibre in bales with privilege to carrier of compressing value limited to 2 cents per pound and so specified on bill of lad ing R Paper Stock wasteCotton Sweepings and Motes N O S 6 Paper Stock wasteCotton N O S 5 Paper Stock w a s t e Woolen Jute or tailings in bags 6 Paper Stock w a s t e Woolen Jute or tailings pressed in bales R Paper Stock wastePaper in sacks bbls or hhds 6 Paper Stock wastePaper pressed in bales or crates R Paper Stock waste Rags in sacks bbls bales hhds or crates R Paper Straw Boaids 5 Paper Toilet packed or in rolls or bundles Paper Wall any quantity in bundles Paper Wall any quantity in boxes Paper Ware N Q S Paper Writing Book or Blotting in boxes Parers Fruit boxed Paris Whiite same as paint Paste in barrels Peaches dried see Fruit Dried Peaches green se Fruit Peach stones packed Peanuts see Nuts Also Circular No 401 Peanut Meal and Cake same rates as cotton seed meal nd cake Peanut Hulls Soya and Velvet Bean Hulls in sacks or bales L C L and in the same packages or in bulk C L min wt 24000 lias Pearl Ash Peas Cow in bags barrels or boxes see note 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 carry contents safelyand prevent sifting Bas which have been used for fertilizers or other articles containing acids must not be used Peas N O S in bags barrels or boxes Pea Hullers see Hullers Pecans see Nuts Pegs Shoe in bags Pegs Shoe in barrels or boxes Peltries see Skins Pencils Slate Pepper and Spices in bagS Pepper and Spices N O S ground in boxes Pepper Sauce see Sauce Pepper 1 Perfumery 5 2 1 2 2 6 I D 5 D 5 1 I I 2 I I 3 I 3 j 2 I 1 142 Petroleum see Oil Phosphate Bock C L min wt 30000 lbs P Phosphate fruit beverage ready for use and not fountain juices extracts etc in barrels or kegs B Photographic Material 1 Pianos see Musical Instruments Pickers Cotton Baw I Hide 2 I Pickles in glass packed 1 Pickles in barrels or casks 4 I Pickles in cans boxed 4 Picks and Mattocks see Special Iron List Picture Backing in pack ages 4 Pictures see Paintings Pigs Feet see Meat Pineapples in cans boxed 4 Pineapples in glass packed 1 Pineapples C L and L i C L see Oranges etc under Fruit Pine Straw loose C L min wt 25000 lbsg P Pins in cases 1 Pins Clothes see Clothes Pins Pins Insulators see Tele graph Brackets Pipe Copper Brass or I Metal N O S 1 Pine Copper Brass or Metal N O S boxed 3 Pipe and Tile Drain or Booting L C L 5 Pipe Sewer Earthen or Concrete and Fittings not metal Flues Flue Linings Flue Tops Chimney Caps and Drain Tile earthen or concrete Wall Coping vitrified in straight or mixed carloads min wt 25000 pounds P Pipe Earthen not I Drain L C L 1 2 3 6 5 Pipe Earthen not Drain C L 3 Pipe Fittings see Iron Pipe heating furnace galvanized iron or tin viz Crated or boxed not nested D 1 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 iee machinery L C Li 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 side seams closed or elbows loose or wired in bundles L C L D 1 Same in boxes or crates L C L lYz Same loose wired in bundles in boxes or crates in straight or mixed carloads min wt 12000 lbs 3 Pipe stove side seams not closed nested wired in bundles or in crates L C L 4 Same in straight carloads or in mixed carloads with stove pipe or elbows C L min wt 20000 lbs 3 Pipe nested and wired or crated or otherwise C L min wt 20000 i lbs 3 Pipe Tin boxed 2 Pipe Wood L C L 3 j Same C L 4 j Pipes Tobacco in boxes 1 Pitch any quantity same as Bosin j 143 CR I OE CR I OE Planters see Agricultural Implements Planes same as Tools N O S Plaster Board wall plaster rates plus 20 per cent Plaster Wali Cement or C a 1 c i ned including Plaster of Paris in bbls or sacks L C L B Same C L L Plaster Land same as Fertilizers Plate Tin see Tin Plate Plated or White Ware 1 Plates Paper and Wood L C L 3 Plates Paper and Wood C L min wt 24000 lbs 6 Plates Heel see Heel Plates Plows see Agricultural Implements Plow Materials see Agricultural Implements Plumbago 5 Plumbers Material N O S packed 4 Plumbing Fixtures see Iron and Steel articles Poles Tent see Tents Poles N O S not over 30 feet in length C L min wt 30000 lbs P Polishing Powders and Compounds see Powders Polish Stove and Shoe packed 4 Polish Stove and Shoe in Glass packed 3 Ponies Shetland same as Live Stock Porcelain Ware 1 Pork see Meats Porter same as Ale Posts split or round C L min wt 30000 lbs P Potash N O S 5 I Potash Ball package 5 Potash German Muriate of and Sulphate of same as Fertilizers Potatoes L C L in bbls or sacks 6 Potatoes C L 6 Poultry dressed see Meats Poultry live C L 1 Same L C L 1 Powder Baking 3 Powder Bleaching 4 Powder Gun and other Explosives L C L D1 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 Lj 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 2 Prunes in boxes or kegs 2 Prunes in casks 4 Pulleys see Machinery Pulp Paper or Wood R Pumice Stone 3 Pumps hand or windmill iron or steel cast SU Loose wired in bundles barrels boxes or crates L C L 3 E D N 2 A 3 144 CR I OR Wooden and pump material wooden L C L 3 Pumps power other than windmill SU loose or on skids in boxes or crates KB in bundles or crates L C L 3 Pump parts for hand or windmill pumps Cylinders working barrels Brass in barrels boxes or crates 2 Iron or steel lined with brass or enamel or not lined in barrels boxes or crates L C L 3 Putty L C L 5 Pyrites L C L prepaid in boxes or barrels Pyrites C L Min wt 24000 lbs p Q Quartermasters Stores 1 Quicksilver in iron flasks 1 Quilting attachments K D in bundles 2 R Radiators and Heaters steam or water L C L 3 Same C L 5 Rags see Paper Stock Rasps see Files Railing see Woodwork Raisins not strapped 1 Raisins strapped 2 Rakes see Agricultural Implements Rattan 2 Rat Traps see Traps Reapers see Agricultural Implements Red Lead same as Paints Reeds 2 Reels viz Cable empty L C L 3 Same C L min wt 12000 lbs 5 Hose Garden and Lawn viz CR I OR Set up L C L I 1 Knocked down packed L C L 1 K D or S H C L 4 Hose Iron K D packed 2 Reflectors packed D1 Refrigerators see Furniture Regins see Paper Stock Registers Cash boxed D 1 Retorts Clay 1 Retorts Copper 2 Retorts Iron see Iron Retorts Soda Water 4 Rice Clean in sacks barrels casks or in cartons in boxes c Broken carloads in bags used for brewing purposes D Rough j n o s5 Rice Flour see Flour Rivets Iron see Iron Robes Buffalo Hi Rods Nail see Iron Rods Meat see Hooks Rollers Field Road and Sugar see Agricultural Implements Rollers Printers 1 Roofing Asbestos see Asbestos Roofing Cement and Roof Coating liquid in barrels or casks L C L 6 Same C L A Roofing Felt or Paper in bdls or rolls B Roofing or Sheathing Cement and Prepared or Composition Roofing f sheet same as Roofing Felt or Paper Note Roofing in rolls each I roll containing liquid cement tin roofing caps or nails sufficient to lay the roofing may be carried at the ratings applying on the roofing j Roofing Glass see Glass Roofing Granite packed 5 Roofing Iron see Iron Roofing I 145 CE OR CE OE 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 I Note Necessary tools for applying roofing may be shipped in same car at the published rate on such tools Roofing Slate Jj CL 6 Roofing Slate C L min wt 30000 lbs See Rule 12 P Roofing Tile see Pipe Roofing Tin in rolls 5 Root Angelica in barrels or boxes 1 Roots and Herbs value not over 10c per pound L C L 4 Same C L 6 J Roots and Herbs value over 10c per pound 3 Rope N O S 3 I Rope Bed Cord 3 Rope Clothes Line 3 Rope Hair see Hair Rope Cotton see Domestics Rope Old 6 j Rope hemp jute or ma nilla 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 Rubber Hose see Hose Rubber Packing see Packing Rubber old scrap 5 Rugs See Mats Matting and Rugs Rustic Work not boxed 3T 3 Rustic Work crated 1 I Rustic Work entirely boxed 2 Rye see Grain S 6 R 1 Sacks same as Bags Saddlery 2 Saddlery Horse Collars 2 Saddlery Horse Collars other than Leather Saddlery Harness boxed 2 Saddlery Harness in bundles Saddles not boxed Same boxed Saddletrees not boxed Same boxed Sadirons see Iron Safes Iron each weighing 3000 pounds or less Safes Iron each weighing over 3000 lbs and not over 6000 lbs Safes Iron each weighing over 6000 lbs and not over 10000 lbs Safes Iron each weighing over 10000 lbs Special Contract Safes Kitchen and Pantry see Furniture Safes or Covers Cheese boxed is 3 Sago in bags boxes or barrels Sails Saleratus see Soda Sal Soda Salt in sacks or barrels L C L Same C L min wt 20000 lbs Salt Brick see Brick Salt Cake same as Fertilizers Salt Table Salts Bleaching same as Lime Chloride of Salts Epsom in casks or barrels L C L Salts Epsom C L Salts Epsom L C L N 7 A O S 4 Saltpetre L C L 6 4 M6 fedu 05 O a a 3 to W tOMtoMM CR I 0R Same C L M Samp 2 Sand N O S C L min wt 36000 lbs p Sand L 0 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 3 Same C L B Sash Glazed L C L 1 Same C L5 Sash Weights see Iron Sauce Pepper in glass packed 1 Sauces 1ST O S 1 Sauer Kraut in barrels 4 Sausage see Meat Sawbucks Wooden in bundles 3 Sawdust L C L in barrels or bags 6 Sawdust loose C L min wt 30000 lbs p Saw Logs see Logs Saw Mills see Machinery Saws K O S loose m Saws N O S on boards 1 Saws N O S boxed 2 Sawplates packed 4 Scales and Scale Beams set up wrapped 1 Seales and Scale Beams K D wrapped 3 Same boxed 4 Scrapers Road and Pond see Agricultural Implements Screens Door or Window wire in bundles boxes or crates L C L 2 Screens Door or Window wire C L min wt 15000 lbs 5 Screws Wood packed 2 Screws N O S packed 4 Scythes see Agricultural Implements Sea Grass pressed in bales 4 Seats Telegraph Pole see Telegraph Materials Seed Cane Sorghum B CR I OR Seed Corn in boxes Seed Flax Seed Garden Seed Garden returned over same line by which originally forwarded Seed Grass and Clover L C L Same C L Seed Linseed Seed Millet Seed Mustard Seed Sunflower Seed N O S Separators see Agricultural Implements Sewing Machines see Machinery Shades Window see Window Shades Shadines See Fish Shafting See Machinery Shafts See Vehicle Material 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 LL C L 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 147 tfa CE OE CE I OE 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 L7 5 Same in packages named straight or mixed C L 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 I Shirts and Drawers unlaundered entirely cotton see Garments cotton I Shoe Findings See Findings Shoe Lasts see Lasts Shoe Pegs see Pegs Shoe Polish see Polish Shoes See Boots 1 Shoes Horse and Mule see Special Iron List Shoddy Wool pressed in bales 6 I Shoddy in bags not pressed 4 I Shoddy in crates 5 Shooks and Heading see Barrel Material Shorts See Buie 12 D Shot Bullets and Gran i ulated Steel viz In bags i 2 I In boxes strapped 3 In double sacks cooperage or drunis 5 Shovels see Agricultural Implements Show Cards seeSigns 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 D 1 Same K D L C L 1 Same S U or K D C L min wt 10000 pounds 1 Bases or Stands un glazed same as Fixtures Shrubbery see Trees Shucks in bales rough See Buie 12 D I Shucks prepared baled 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 i Sizing for factories L C L 5 I Same C L 6 Skewers see Bobbins Skins Deer see Hides Slag C L min wt 36000 lbs P Slate Mantels See Mantels Slate Pencils see Pencils Slate Booting see Booting 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 20000 lbs7 6 Smokers Bee see Bee Smokers Snaths see Agricultural Implements 148 CR OR Snuff in casks bbls or boxes 2 Snuff in jars packed 2 Same not packed D1 Soap Castile and Fancy 2 Soap Common 6 R Soap Powders and other W a s h i ng Compounds same as Soap common Soap Stock including cottonseed oil foots pitch or tankbottoms residuum of cottonseed oil refinings Class R without percentage Soapstone Crude C L min wt 30000 lbs See Rule 12 Soapstone in kegs barrels casks or sacks L P 1 C L 6 I Same C L A 1 Soda in kegs boxes and 5 drums Soda Ash same as Fertilizers Soda Caustic in iron 5 1 1 casks or drums Soda Fountains see Fountains Soda Soda Fountain Retorts see Retorts 6 Soda Nitrate of in boxes Soda Nitrate of L C L same as Fertilizer L C L Soda Nitrate of C L same as Fertilizer C L 1 Soda Sal 6 Soda Silicate of Softener Cotton and 6 Wool N O S 5 Same in barrels B Solder 5 Sorghum see Syrup Spades see Agricultural Implements 1 Spelter in slabs or casks Spices see Pepper Spikes Iron see Iron Spokes and Shafts See Vehicle Material 5 Sponge D1 Spools and Beams Yarn empty without percent 1 age 6 1 CR OR Spreaders see Agricultural Implements Springs Bed Furniture in bundles wired together 1 Same in barrels or casks 3 Same in boxes 2 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 30 000 lbs c Stationery 2 Statuary Iron Lawn Ornaments etc See Iron Statues 3 T 1 1 Staves see Barrel and Box Material Steam Gauges see MaI chinery I Steam Heaters See Ma chinery Steel not packed of 6 Steel packed 2 Steel wired or strapped 5 Steel Bars each 200 lbs and over g Steelyards K D packed 4 Steelyards unboxed 1 Stereotype Plates boxed for newspapers from manufacturer 2 Stereotype Plates 0 1 d boxed returned to manufacturer 5 Stereotype Plates N O S 2 Stills Worm crated 1 3 Stone Granite and Marble When shipper desires to assume risk of Joss 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 149 J CR OR CR I OR Stone Granite and Marble L C L valuation limited to 500 per cubic foot i 4 Same valuation not restricted 1 Stone Granite and Marble viz Blocks and Slabs including f u r n i ture 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 L 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 protected otherwise at owners risk valuation limited to 20 cents per cubic foot C L min wt 30000 lbs P Same L C L of 6 Blocks Paving rough rubble and Crushed Stone C L min wt 36000 lbs P Same L C L of 6 Curbing C L min wt 30000 lbs h P Same L C L of 6 j 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 j Same L 0 L of 61 Stoneware same as Earthenware Stools Piano see Furniture Stove Boards boxed or crated 3 Stove Furniture L C L 1 3 Same C L 3 5 Stove Pipe See Pipe i Stove Plates L C L 1 3 Same C L 3 5 Stoves and Ranges viz Alcohol Gas Gasoline Oil or Vapor boxed or crated L C L 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 Circuar 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 1 2 Sugar in double sacks same as in barrels Sugar in boxes strapped 4 Same not strapped 2 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 manufacture of Fertilizers C L same as Fertilizers 150 CE Sumac viz Ground in bags or bbls L C L 4 Same C L min wt 20000 lbs 5 Leaf C L min wt 16000 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 20000 lbs 6 1 Syrup and Molasses viz In barrels halfbarrels kegsor hogsheads R In tank cars minimum weight 50000 lbs See Note R Note Syrup and Molasses in tank ears 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 j Tailings see Paper Stock Tale apply Soapstone rates Tallow in barrels B Tallow N O S 5 Tamarinds same as Or anges Tanbark see Bark Tanks OR CR 5 Iron or Steel N O S S U L C L 3 Same C L min wt 20000 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 D 1 N O S S U L C L D 1 N O S K D L C L 2 N0 S C L min wt 15000 lbs 4 Tanks Wood set upD1 Tanks Wood K D packed B Tank Stuff same as Fertilizers 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 Tarpaulins packed in boxes or bales same as Domestics Tea Telegraph and Telephone Material viz Poles C L min wt 25000 lbs Poles L C L Insulator Brackets or Pins without percentage C L K j Same L C L Braces Cross arm Iron of 6 Cross arms with Insulator Pins or Brackets ets affixed 6 Same without Insulator Pins or Brackets L i i 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 OR tdd CR OR CR Supplies mixed ship Tickings same as Do ments of consisting mestics of Ties Cotton and Hay R Sal Ammoniac Pencil Tile viz Zincs Bluestone Drain and Roofing see Muriatic Acid Ma Pipe chine Bolts Wash Fire for Lining ete 4 ers Hand Axes Hollow fireproof L C Pliers Connectors L 6 Screw Drivers Same C L min wt Linemens Spurs 25000 lbs P Screws Iron Pole Marble etc see Stone Steps Wire Point Paving Cement C L ed Tacks or Sta same as Stone Build pies Lightning Ar ing and Cement restors Fuse Building Blocks Bloc ks Terminal Paving Cement L C Heads for Cables L packed R Anchor Rods Par Timber N 0 S rough affine Rubber Tub hewed round split or ing Cable Aerial sawed other than fuel Submarine and Un same as Lumber derground and oth Tin Block and Pig 5 er analogous mate Tin Foil in boxes 2 rials 1 Tin Plate in boxes or Telephones boxed 1 rolls L C L 4 Outfits for construction Tin Plate C L 5 or repair of telephone Tin Roofing see Roofing or telegraph line Tin Scrap in rolls or bun Same as Outfits dies wired or crated 6 Graders or Contrac Tinners Trimmings N 0 tors S 2 Wire Copper and Insu Tinware and Tin Stamped lated L C L 2 Ware boxed or crated 4 Same C L 4 Tires Locomotive see Wire Telegraph other Iron than above same as Tires Wagon see Iron wire common Tobacco Box Material L Tents Tent Poles and C L 6 Pins 2 Same C L min wt TerraCotta in packages 3 4 24000 lbs P TerraCotta Arehiteetu Tobacco cases and boxes ral C L 6 TerraCotta Architect Tobacco Cut in boxes ral packed in casks bbls or bales 1 tierces etc L C L 3 5 Tobacco Leaf in cases 1 Terra Japonica 4 Tobacco Plug in boxes Thread Spool Cotton and or kegs 1 Silk 3 Tobacco Screws and Fix Thread Cotton Factory tures See Machinery products in balls bales Tobacco Smoking 1 or skeins packed in Tobacco Stems prized 6 burlaps or cases same Same not prized 1 as Domestics Tobacco Unmanufactur Threshers see Agricul ed not prized tural Implements Same prized 2 152 CR OR Toe Calks see Calks Tongues Pickled in bar rels or kegs Tongues Smoked Tonqua Beans in boxes or bbls 4 3 1 Tools Edge 2 Tools Mechanic boxed 2 Toothpicks 2 Tow in bales 2 Same compressed 3 Toys viz Drums boxed 3 T Furniture childrens L C L D 1 Same C L min wt 15000 lbs 1 Hobby Horses entirely boxed or crated L C L D 1 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 D1 Same C L min wt 15000 lbs 1 Trunks 1 Wax Show Figures D 1 Wheelbarrows C h i 1 drens in bdls L C L D1 Same C L min wt 15000 lbs 1 Mixed C L min wt 15000 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 CR I OR Tripoli 4 Trucks Warehouse and Factory L C L 3 Same C L 6 Trunks single iy2 Trunks nested or filled with merchandise crated or strapped l Trunks empty or filled with merchandise corded or wrapped l Trunks filled with merchandise not corded or wrapped pj Trunks N O S D 1 Tubes Sheet Metal see Iron Trunks Sample D1 Tubs Bath all kinds L C L 1 Tubs N O S 1 Tubs Bath cast iron C 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 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 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 oounds to the gallon Transportation companies do not furnish tank cars 153 CE I OE CE I OE Turpentine Cups viz Earthen Same as Earthenware Fibre or Fibreoid L C L 3 Same C L minimum weight 15000 lbs 5 Iron steel or tin with or without hangers npt 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 bbxed 2 Type Old in boxes barrels or kegs 3 Typewriters boxed El U Umbrellas boxed 1 Urns see Iron 1 Vaults Burial see Burial Vaults Vehicles and material for Vehicles as follows In all items under heading of Vehicles the tferm 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 Vehicles viz Automobiles Locomobiles or other selfpropelled V ehicles See notes viz S U L C LEl K E boxed or well crated L C L 1 S U or K E C L min wt 10000 lbs 1 I Note Automobiles or other selfpropelled vehicles too I 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 hand hauled S UEl Same K E 1 Hose Eeels N O 6 and Hook and Ladder Trucks L C L min wt 4000 lbs each El Same C L min wt 20000 lbs 5 Hose Eeels or Hose Carts two wheeled K E boxed or crated L C L El Same C L min wt 20000 lbs 5 1 Hose Wagons with Chemical Engine attachments min wt 4000 lbs each El 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 L actual weight 4T 1 Carriages Buggies Gigs Sulkies and Trotting Wagons L 0 Jj K B boxed or well crated value not to exceed 15 pr 100 lbs in case of total loss for which carrier is liable El 4 4 3 T 1 154 CBI OE 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 D 1 Carriage and BuggyShafts and Poles fully wrapped shipped separate from vehicles D 1 Carriages Childrens K D in boxes bundles or crates 1 Carriages Childrens set up boxed D1 Carriages Childrens set up unboxed 3 T 1 Cars Eailroad see Cars Carts Hand K D and packed or bundled 3 Dump Carts with wheels detached 4 Hearses K D boxed or crated 1 Hearses set up see Stage Coaches under Vehicles Oil Tank Wagons S U L C L min wt 4000 lbs D1 Same tongue s wheels poles or shafts detached L C L 2 Same C L min wt 20000 lbs 5 Bead Village or Pleasure Carts see Carriages etc Stage Coaches Omnibuses and Hearses actual wt 4 T 1 V e h i c 1 e Material Boxes Skeins and Springs see Special Iron List Vehicle Material Bodies Bows Double trees Felloes Hubbs Eims Seats Shafts Singletrees Spokes Whif m 3T 1 CE I OE fletrees 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 C L Dashes boxed or crated Bicycles Tricycles or Velocipedes viz Crated or boxed not taken otherwise L C L 1 Same C L min wt 10000 lbs 3 Velocipedes Eailroad 1 Wagons and Carts C L min wt 24000 lbs 4 Wagons and Cart s Farm or Lumber set up actual weight D 1 Wagons and Cart s Farm or Lumber taken apart and thoroughly knocked down in any quantity actual weight 6 Wagons Childrens same as Children s Carriages Wagons Street Sprinklers D1 Wagon Parts Wood unpaiuted K D and packed in crates or bundles 5 Wagon Tires see Tires Valves Brass see Brass Varnish in barrels or kegs 2 Varnish in cans boxed 2 Varnish in cans not boxed 1 Vaseline in cans packed 2 Vaseline in glass packed 1 Vault Lights see Glass Vegetables Desiccated 4 Vegetables in cans see Fruit in cans Vegetables N O SI prepaid or guaranteed Velvet Bean Hulls in sacks or bales L C L and in same packages 155 to os cn oi 4 tn to CR OR CR OR or in bulk C L min i wt 24000 D Veneering boxed 1 Same not boxed D 1 Ventilators sheet metal L C L D 1 Same C L min wt 10000 lbs 1 Vermicelli 1 Vinegar in barrels or kegs B 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 see Woodwork 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 etc see Paper Stock Water Ammonia in iron casks 5 I Water Ammonia in glass packed 3 j Water Coolers and Filters See Coolers Waters Aerated Carbonated and Mineral Wa ters in wood or in gal vanized iron cans 6 Same in glass or earth enware packed L C L 4 Same in glass or earthenware packed or in wood straight or mixed C L 6 Note 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 Wax Comb Foundation boxed 2 Wax Extractors crated 1 Wedges see Iron Weights Sash see Iron Weights Clock packed 5 Well Curbing See Curbing Well Buckets See Buckets Whalebone 1 Wheat see Grain Wheat Cracked see Food Prenarations Wheelbarrows see Agri cultural Implements Wheels and Axles Car see Special Iron List Wheels and Vehicles see Vehicles Wheels Water 3 Wheels Well same as Pulleys Whetstones boxed 3 Whips 1 Whiskey see Liquors Whiting N O S 5 Whiting in boxes 3 Whiting in barrels casks or sacks dry C L L Willow Reeds in bales 2 Willow Ware D1 Willow Ware Baskets nested 1 Window Casings see Woodwork Window Shades 1 I 4 L f 156 CR OR CR I OR Window Shade Cloth 1 Window Frames see Sash etc Wind Mills K D in bundles 3 Wine see Liquors Wines High same as Liquors Wire Common Barbed or otherwise see Special Iron List Wire Binding 3 5 Wire copper and insulated L C L 2 Same C L 4 Wire Cloth 1 Wire Fence See Fencing Wire Goods boxed N 0 S 3 Wire Grass see Grass Wire Mattresses see Furniture Wire Rope 4 Wire Sieves see Sieves Wire Screens 1 Wire Telegraph see Telegraph Wire 1ST 0 S 3 Wire Work Racks Stands Vases Signs and Figures boxed or crated 3 T 1 D 1 Wire Work Woven Table Toilet and Household Articles boxed or crated Di I Wire Fencing see Fenc I ing Wire Wire Netting see Netting Wire Wood Green or Dry C L of 10 cords to be i billed by cord See Rule 12 p 1 Wood Ashes see Ashes Wooden Butter Dishes packed L C L 1 1 3 j Wooden Butter Dishes C L min wt 24000 lbs Wooden Covers see Cov 6 1 1 ers Wooden Ware N 0 S 1 3 Wooden Ware does not include Willow Ware 1 which is D1 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 L C L 6 Same C L see Handles Woodwork viz Railing Balusters Wainscoting Stairwork Pane ling Window Casings all of oak or other hardwoods for inside finish of houses in bundles crates or boxes L C L 4 Same C L 6 Woolen and Cotton Goods mixed without percentage 5 Wool washed in bags not pressed 2 Wool unwashed in bags not pressed 4 Wool washed in bags pressed in bales 3 WoOl unwashed pressed in bags or bales not to exceed in size 2 ft x 3 ft x 6 ft nor weighing less than 200 lbs 6 Woolen Goods without percentage 4 Wool Mineral in bags 1 Wringers Clothes packed 2 Same not packed D 1 Y Yachts see Boats Yarn Cotton same as Domestics 1 Yarn jute or sisal 6 Yarns N 0 S 3 Yeast in wood 3 Yeast in boxes Yokes 3 1 Z Zinc in sheets or rolls 4 Zinc in blocks or pigs L C L Same C L 6 1 Zinc Cornices see Cornices Zinc Oxide L C L 5 Same C L min wt 30000 lbs R 1 Zinc Paints see Paints 157 DISTANCE TABLES f Indictates NonAgency Stations ALABAMA GREAT SOUTHERN RAILROAD GeorgiaTennessee Morganville 457 Tatum 1275 Line 000 New England 723 Rising Fawn 1822 Wildwood 184 Trenton 1043 Sulphur Springs 2352 ATLANTA WEST POINT RAILROAD Atlanta 000 Lakewood 496 Oakland City 720 East Point 656 College Park 857 Red Oak 1233 Stonewall 1573 Union City 1707 Fairburn 1881 Wrights 2144 Palmetto 2519 McCollum 3028 Madras 3316 McBride 3723 Newnan 3881 Moreland 4518 St Charles 4651 Grantville 5094 Trimble 5526 Hogansville 5769 Louise 6424 LaGrange 7088 Cannonville 7780 Gabbettville 8010 West Point 8619 ATLANTA BIRMINGHAM ATLANTIC RAILWAY BRUNSWICK TO BIRMINGHAM Brunswick 00 Southern Junction 90 Brobston 123 Anguilla 159 Leicht 171 Thallman 211 Browntown 275 Hauger 300 Fendig 312 Needmore 347 Hortense 380 Clover 401 Zirkle 435 Offerman 487 Bristol 555 Coffee 628 New Lacy 675 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 Fitzgerald 1260 Abba 1334 Arp 1354 Rebecca 1416 Double Run 1471 Hatley 1516 Musselwhite 1580 Cordele 1629 Ross 1670 Vienna 1725 Lilly 22 1786 Byromville 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 Beall 2431 Woodland 2483 Chalybeate Springs 2543 Manchester 2560 Bullochville 2614 Warm Springs 2620 Durand 2676 Stovall 2732 Knott 2802 LaGrange 2868 Pyne 2931 Abbottsford 2970 GeorgiaAlabama Line 2998 Standing Rock Ala 3018 Roanoke Ala3111 Birmingham Ala 4538 158 ATLANTA BIRMINGHAM ATLANTIC RAILWAYContinued MANCHESTER TO ATLANTA Manchester 00 Persico 48 Woodbury 103 Imlac 142 Cay 192 Alvaton 246 Sessoms 00 Murray 41 Beach 70 Haralson 289 Senoia 344 Aberdeen 428 Tyrone 473 Fife 53O WAYCROSS TO SESSOMS Bolen lio Haywood 141 Union City 561 Dungannon 596 Ben Hill 648 Stratford 705 Bellwood Yard 757 Atlanta 779 Waltertown 195 Waycross 260 Fitzgerald Fletcher Mystic Pinetta Hansen Harding Brighton Tifton FITZGERALD TO THOMAS VILLE 00 Kell 58 Iniss 92 Omega 115 Crosland 154 Norman Park 181 Barbers 202 Kingwood 256 Moultrie 296 Sunset 322 Murphy 352 Coolidge 389 Merrillville 425 Dillon 466 Turners 501 Thomas ville 524 579 604 660 703 740 776 808 ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY SAVANNAH TO SOUTH CAROLINA STATE LINE Savannah 00 Montieth 1320 OLearys 1556 Big Stick Lumber Co 1102 Savannah00 Dale 657 Miller 1039 Burroughs 1188 Ways 1605 Daniel 1998 Fleming 2433 Liberty Lumber Co 2874 McIntosh 3145 Allenhurst 3687 Walthourville 3877 Aimar 4222 TO FLORIDA STATE 536 M B 4513 Ludowici 4642 Doctortown 5281 J F Breen 5482 Jesup 5743 C F Gray 5950 Broadhurst 6673 MeKinnon 7168 McKinon Bros Siding 7168 Hortense 7642 Trudie 7900 LINE G E Strickland O W C S Raul erson Raybon 8162 Nahunta 8572 Hickox 8942 Natl Turpentine Co 8986 fBachelott 9341 Winokur 9734 Newell 10407 Folkston 11173 JESUP TO ALABAMA STATE LINE Jesup 00 Slover 481 E C Smith 677 Screven 1134 Offerman 1913 Patterson 2122 Owen 2561 Blackshear 2968 Homestead 3250 Deans Still 3390 Waycross 3980 Buskin 4555 C C Woodall 4847 Glenmore 5102 Manor 5403 Argyle 5897 Travisville 6124 Drawdys Still 6257 Homerville 6519 Rhine Smith Hughes 6713 159 ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANYContinued JESSUP TO ALABAMA STATE LINEContinued Cutting Dupont Fryes Siding Stockton Naylor Delmar Indianola Trueloves Still Valdosta Paine Smith Kinderlou Ousley Blue Springs Durden Blue Springs Lumber Co 11175 Quitman 11702 Sou Saw Mill Co 11911 Emersons Siding 12152 Dixie 12385 Easons Crossing 13499 Newark 13819 Neils Siding 14108 Thomasville 14326 Singleterry Ballard 14837 Pine Park 15069 Ham Co 15393 C A Vanduzee 15517 Cairo 15737 Cannon Stone 16050 Whigham 16440 Boydville 16584 Curry Bostwiek 16882 Climax 17081 McCaskell Spur 17779 Farrar Lumber Co 17741 Rathesay 17779 Bainbridge 17932 Elterta Crate Co 18044 Gulf Guano Co 18046 Empire Cotton Oil Co 18083 Flint River Milling Co 18081 Bainbridge Fetz Co 18086 Cyrene 18762 Brinson 19057 Stuart Lumber Co 19092 Iron City 19562 Sharp Hagan 19657 Lela 19872 Donalsonville 20025 Jakin 20695 Jakin Brick Yard 20861 Saffold 21073 6916 Pidcock 12665 7346 Boston 13111 8032 Monroe Siding 13479 8172 8690 9080 9384 9501 9994 10387 10556 10938 11109 11175 WAYCROSS TO FOLKSTON Waycross J B Lewis Astoria Braganza Thomasville Companys Siding Pasco Williams Sou Saw Mill Co Ochlocknee Hansel Meigs Thomasville Climax Otisea Whitaker Whittle Strickland 00 M Griffin 1094 Uptonville 2821 365 Fort Mudge 1463 Homeland 3227 615 Knox Scott 1689 Folkston 3411 771 Raee Pond 2008 THOMASVILLE TO ALBANY 00 J M Wilkes 2103 DeWitt 4671 359 Pelham 2399 W O B Carter 596 Petty 2784 Sons 4771 688 Camilla 3216 Putney 4948 955 H T Neil 3752 Yarborough Sons 5123 1150 Flint 3815 Albany Junction 5672 1537 Baconton 4239 Albany 5820 1874 MONTICELLO BRANCH 00 Metcalfe 1014 CLIMAX TO FLORIDA STATE LINE 00 Eleanor Siding 656 Faceville 1536 199 Fowlton 861 Recovery 2160 404 Cumings Chason 1131 Dell Siding 2588 484 Otiska Mizes Siding OTISKA TO AMSTERDAM 00 Wataga 252 745 160 Amsterdam 1001 ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANYContinued WAYCROSS TO BRUNSWICK Waycross 00 Colgans Still 734 Schlatterville 1089 Hoboken 1500 Blackshear Mfg Co 1820 Caney Bay 2052 Nahunta 2384 Lulaton 2864 J M Strickland 3160 Atkinson 3212 Harrington Bros 3495 Waynes ville 3560 Coleridge 3768 Bladen 4108 Jamaica 4400 Anguilla 4645 Pyles Marsh 4900 Southern Junction 5288 Dock Junction 5533 Brunswick 5846 Waycross 00 Deenwood 210 Waresboro 764 Sappville 1145 Hasty 1349 Fairfax 1554 Millwood 1895 Axson 2318 Stewart Siding 2423 Doughtry McKey Lbr Co 2865 Pearson 3042 Kirkland 3383 WAYCROSS TO ALBANY Cowerson Knox 3607 E L Peterson 3838 Leliaton 3923 Pine Bloom 4093 Willacoochee 4207 Glory 4888 Alapaha 5288 F O Baker 5646 Enigma 5962 Cockran Beckham 7 5897 Brookfield 6328 Vanceville 6632 Tifton 7109 Dupont 00 Withers 962 Haylow 1170 DUPONTLAKELAND Bamberg 1475 Alexanderville 1740 Tarver 2030 Phillips Lumber Co 7382 Hillsdale 7714 Ty Ty 7967 Sumner 8575 P D Bridges Co 8575 Poulan 8904 Sylvester 9209 Willingham 9642 Artesia 9872 Acree 10193 A A Acree Siding 10276 Johnsons Siding 10533 Albany 11169 Cuthbert s Siding and Barnes Still 2394 ATLANTIC WAYCROSS Kingland 000 Woodville Scotehville 600 Arnow NORTHERN RAILROAD 800 St Marys 850 Augusta Neeo Adventure Graeewood DeBruce Melton Hepzibah Moores Elwood Edie Blythe Keysville AUGUSTA SOUTHERN RAILROAD 000 Padgetts 2853 Agricola 504 Noah 3010 Chalker 689 Matthews 3134 Floyd Creek 860 Wrens 3598 Amerson 1070 Spread 4107 Marvins 1275 Avera 4547 Warthen 1506 Rock Comfort 4839 Gilmore 1589 Gibson 5067 Duggan Spur Sandersville 1713 Kenmore 5269 1844 Beall Springs 5516 Tennille 2176 Mitchell 5926 2653 Halley 6087 1100 6171 6424 6565 6790 6888 7084 7237 7505 8026 8353 Bowdon Junction 000 Earnest 160 BOWDON RAILWAY Mt Zion 310 Burwell 710 Jonesville 960 Bowdon 1200 161 CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY Savannah Central Junction Pooler Bloomingdale Meldrim Eden Marlow Pineora Guyton Tusculum Egypt Oliver Halcyondale Cameron Dover Ogeeche Rocky Ford Scarboro Paramore Hill Millen Cushingville Millen Lawton Perkins Munnerlyn Dover Clito Statesboro Jimps Register Pulaski Griffin Esmond Rio Vaughn Brooks Chestlehurst Senoia Turin Sharpsboro Raymond Newnan Sargent Whitesburg t Banning Clem Carrollton Mandeville Bowdon Junction Bremen SAVANNAH TO ATLANTA 00 Rogers 868 Bolingbroke 2060 34 Herndon 901 Smarr 2122 92 MidviUe 963 Forsyth 2172 123 Gertrude 1004 Colliers 2230 170 Wadley 1069 Goggins 2286 193 Bartow 1113 Bamesville 2333 261 Almira 1160 Milner 2398 275 Davisboro 1222 Orchard Hill 2452 303 Sun Hill 1301 Griffin 2513 351 Tennille 1352 Pomona 2565 404 Oconee 1464 Sunnyside 2583 459 Toomsboro 1549 Hampton 2617 500 McIntyre 1617 Lovejoy 2666 546 Gordon 1706 Orrs 2708 574 Lewiston 1749 Jonesboro 2731 615 Griswold 1815 Morrow 2776 664 Mogul 1867 Forest Park 2813 707 Macon 1908 Hapeville 2855 742 Macon Junction 1917 East Point 2881 788 Rivoli 1986 Ft McPherson 2906 830 Lorane 2031 Atlanta 2945 MILLEN TO AUGUSTA 00 Idlewood 145 McBean 32 50 Waynesboro 205 Tahoma 408 70 Green s Cut 270 Allen 428 105 Augusta DOVER TO BREWTON 535 00 Parish 252 Nunez 475 51 Metter 294 Covena 534 99 Canoe Hfi fi 154 Stillmore 387 Adrian 635 187 Lexsy 442 Scott 685 233 Wesley 464 Brewton 769 GRIFFIN TO CHATTANOOGA 00 Buchanan 805 Holland 1400 45 Felton 879 Taliaferro 1439 80 Dugdown 900 Lyerly 1458 85 Featherstone 920 Berryton 1495 128 Youngs 958 Summerville 1528 159 Cedartown 1012 Trion 1573 192 Lake 1061 Wilsons 1633 242 Relay 1089 Martindale 1642 259 Reeseburg 1110 Guild 1666 299 Chambers 1141 LaFayette 1708 360 Silver Creek 1148 Warrens 1755 417 Lindale 1159 Noble 1766 470 Rome 1203 Pigeon Mtn Jctn 1783 484 West Rome 1222 Rock Springs 795 542 Morrisons 1255 Chickamauga 1845 598 Berry Hill 1270 Lvtle 1878 671 Cochrans Spur 1293 Missionary Ridge 1899 681 Lavender 1310 Rossville 1933 728 Sprite 1357 Chattanooga 1934 CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAYContinued CHICKAMAUGA TO DURHAM Chickamauga Harps Switch Cenchat Lyerly Macon Wise Rutland Walden Echeconnee Byron Powersville Ohio Bliss Ft Valley Masseys Lane Marshallville Winchester Barron s Lane Montezuma 00 Wests 63 Hinkles 12 6 32 Lula Lake 104 Vulcan 14 4 56 Durham 172 LYERLY TO DEWEY 00 Alabama State Line 70 MACON TO COLUMBIA 00 Oglethorpe 502 Dowell 1080 37 Greens Mill 543 Lockett 1121 64 Andersonville 595 Walker 1163 91 Arles 660 Ducker 1190 117 Americus 700 Holt 1243 167 Maddox 755 Leary 1281 208 Sumter 133 4 230 Smith ville 824 Commissary Hill 1374 251 Adams 883 Arlington 1410 283 Leesburg 950 Bancroft 1478 335 Century 990 Peru 1502 359 Forrester 1008 Blakely 1541 386 Newsom 1021 Hilton 1644 431 Albany 1055 State Line near 84 Columbia Ala 1664 Macon oO Wise 37 Rutland 64 Walden 91 Echeconnee 117 Byron 167 Powersville 208 Ohio 230 Bliss 251 Ft Valley 283 MACON TO COLUMBUS Nakomis 357 Beeehwood 393 Reynolds 416 Bonita 451 Pebble 469 Butler 500 Tangent 544 Howard 592 Junction City 639 Paschal 645 Geneva 700 Juniper 736 Box Springs 771 Upatoi 821 Ordway 867 Schatulga 906 Muscogee Junction 973 Columbus 996 FORT VALLEY TO PERRY Ft Valley 00 Woods 45 Botan 8 4 Feagan 27 Myrtle 60 Hopedale 92 DuPree 39 Shanty No 11 73 Perry 12 4 Americus Naeora LaCrosse Provo Ellatdlle r Walls Crossing Putnam Doyle AMERICUS TO COLUMBUS Buena Vista 283 Halloca 477 Elm View 316 Ochillee 526 Kinchefoonee 344 Sand Hill 563 Zellobee 364 Bellefont 576 Glen Alta 384 Esquilme 584 rIda Vesper 419 Muscogee Junction 614 Christopher 439 Columbus 638 163 CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAYContinued CUTHBERT TO FORT GAINES Cuthbert 00 Shanty No 28 77 Pecan Cuthbert Junction 19 Coleman 100 Killen Coles 39 Jones 155 Ft Gaines 16 20 21 Smithville Edwards Bronwood Dawson Graves Shellman SMITHVILLE TO GEORGETOWN 00 Pachitla 282 Hatcher 501 30 Cutbert 348 Wire Bridge 544 82 Cuthbert Junction 367 Georgetown 579 142 Springvale 420 State Line near 182 Morris 244 454 Eufaula Ala 591 Macon 00 Mogul 45 Sand Pit 67 Van Buren 72 Morton 156 Gray 177 Bradley 209 Wayside 245 MACON TO ATHENS Round Oak 280 Hillsboro 338 Adgateville 376 Minneta 425 Monticello 453 Machen 532 Shady Dale 540 Godfrey 610 Warings 662 Madison 726 Apalachee 819 Farmington 889 Bishop 920 Watkinsville 957 Sidney 978 Whitehall 1008 Athens 1052 Gordon Ivey Stevens Pottery Carling Milledgeville Meriwether Dennis GORDON TO PORTERDALE 00 Meda 343 Bronghton 64 5 38 Eatonton 379 Newborn 67 0 81 Willard 468 Mansfield 695 153 Apollo 511 Hayston 71 5 169 Aikenton 526 Starrsvillo 75 9 247 Machen 558 Covington 807 293 Kelly 598 Porterdale 863 Farrar 613 COLUMBUS TO RAYMOND Columbus 00 Hamilton 241 Harris 451 Nankipooh 74 Tip Top 276 Greenville 495 Fortsori 110 Chipley 328 Allie 549 Hines Crossing 130 Meriwether W S Primrose 585 Mobley 150 4 Springs 370 Luthersville 632 Cataula Kingsboro 162 202 Durand 400 Bexton Raymond 671 729 BARNESVILLE TO THOMASTON Bamesville 00 Middlebrooks 50 The Rock85 Wilkinsons 30 Topeka Junction 65 Thomaston 165 164 wo I CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAYContinued SAVANNAH TO TYBEE PASSENGERClass EPour Cents per Mile FREIGHTSee table below BETWEEN SAVANNAH AND ANY STATION Per 100 Lbs Per Bbl Per 100 Lbs Per ip011 Per Car Load Per 100 Lbs Per Ton 2000 Ths 1 2 3 4 5 6 A B C D E F G H J K L M N o P R oS Ice and Lime 50 45 40 30 25 20 20 20 15 12 20 25 10 2000 2000 1000 75 85 Savannah 00 Estill 140 Atlantic Club St Augustine 50 Fort Screven 157 Hotel Tvbee McQueens 90 Point 163 South End Lazaretto 130 Post Office 163 168 173 177 CHARLESTON WESTERN CAROLINA RAILWAY Augusta 000 Martinez 815 Sneads 14 32 Bon Air 682 Evans 1196 EAST GEORGIA RAILWAY CO Register oOO New Hope 215 Dink 350 Adabelle 600 Undine 1123 Brookland 1350 Hagan 1750 Claxton 1909 Winburn 1868 Dean 2300 Jennie 2625 Moody 2700 Easterling 2825 Coe 3025 Birdford 3225 Glenville 3550 ELBERTON EASTERN RAILWAY Elberton 000 Bell 1100 Malloryville fCauthan 600 Rivers 1300 Tignali Fortsonia 900 Norman 1600 FLINT RIVER NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD Ticknor 000 Sale City 810 Cotton Smiths Siding 200 Akridge 1042 Rogersville Terrace 433 Laneys 1161 Pelham Hays Siding 596 Hinsonton 1370 Flovilla Gainesville Candler Klondike Belmont Talmo Belmont Thurmack Braseltons Hoschton FLOVILLA INDIAN SPRINGS RAILWAY 000 Indian Springs GAINESVILLE MIDLAND RAILWAY 000 Pendergrass 1507 Clarksboro 681 Holders V 1807 Attica 814 Jefferson 2234 Oconee Heights 933 Arcade 2564 Athens 1221 Red Stone 2932 MONROE BRANCH 000 Sells 1200 Bethlehem 350 Mulberry 1315 Campton 700 Winder 1728 Walker Park 839 Beddingfield 2192 Monroe 165 1900 2200 1635 1912 2333 262 3085 3307 3704 4132 2192 2639 2919 3200 I GAINESVILLE NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD Gainesville 000 Brookton 1400 Yonah 3200 Clark 700 Clermont 1600 Nacoochee 3400 Autry Dewberry 900 Meldean 2200 Helen 3600 1100 Cleveland Asbestos 2600 3000 Robertstown GEORGIA RAILROAD AUGUSTA TO ATLANTA Augusta 000 Wallace Wheless 474 Barnett Belair 979 Crawfordville Grovetown 1504 Robinson 1588 Union Point Berzelia 2064 Greensboro Campania 2322 Thurston Harlem 2454 Carey Sawdust 2568 Swords Hi Dearing 2886 Buckhead Bonesville 3249 Madison Thomson 3733 Dorsey Mesena 42 99 Rutledge Camak 4685 Social Circle Norwood 5055 Alcovy MACON DIVISIONCAMA Camak 000 Sparta Warrenton 358 Glenford Norris 742 Devereux Mayfield 1271 Carrs Coleman 1734 Oconee Siding Culverton 1896 Milledgeville Granite Hill 2170 5319 Hazlebrand 12705 5794 Covington 12994 6443 Almon 13360 7070 Conyers 14040 7609 Lithonia 14682 8320 Redan 15034 8552 Stone Mountain 15532 8932 Clarkston 16037 9163 Scottdale 16246 9566 Decatur 7 16476 10330 Oakhurst Sdng 16605 10781 Kirkwood 16673 11221 Clifton 16730 11938 Atlanta 17076 2384 State Farm 4788 2812 Browns 5397 3176 Haddocks 5825 3577 Tames 6396 4330 Roberts 6860 Macon 7898 ATHENS DIVISIONUNION POINT TO ATHENS 000 Stephens 1558 Arnoldsville 472 Hutchings 1888 Dunlap 679 Crawford 2207 Winterville 1248 Athens WASHINGTON BRANCHBARNETT TO WASHINGTON Barnett 1 000 Hillman 707 Little River Sharon 413 Ficklin V 971 Washington Union Point Woodville Bairdstown Maxeys 2635 3030 3207 3906 1151 1744 Social Circle Augusta Keysville Brushy Creek St Clair Gough MONROE RAILROAD 0G0 Gresham 505 Monroe 1010 GEORGIA FLORIDA RAILWAY AUGUSTA GA TO MADISON FLA 00 Vidette 407 Stevens Crossing 593 259 Rosier 449 Summertown 616 488 Blun 649 325 Lawsons Crosing 512 Modoc 681 367 Midville 563 Swainsboro 724 166 GEORGIA FLORIDA RAILWAYContinued AUGUSTA GA TO MADISON FLAContinued Wesley 803 Lombard 843 Colespur 895 Pendleton 920 Normantown 934 Billvan 900 Vidalia 1008 Petross 1067 Sharps Spur 1093 Alston 1118 Uvalda 1154 Charlotteville 1174 Brick Yard 1216 Orieo 1220 Halls Spur 1233 Hazlehurst 1290 Roper 1340 Goldsmith 1365 Brooker 1388 Denton 1411 Ellis 1441 Lehigh 1451 West Green 1489 Cfarelock 1524 Huffer 1540 Broxton Junction 1584 Douglas 1597 Vickers 1650 Bear Creek 1656 St Ilia 1672 Mora 1694 0Berry 1720 May H 1747 Towanda 1752 Willacooche 1770 Bannockburn 1816 Crenshaw s 1848 Weber 1874 Whites 1900 Delta 1929 Nashville 1944 Sneed i 1966 Allenville 2001 Luckie 2030 Ray City 2039 Barrett 2089 Seaford 2123 Bemiss 2146 Chapman 2176 Valdosta 2224 Wisenbaker 2241 Macville 2259 Dees 2279 Briggston 2303 High 2312 Clyatt ville 2327 Olympia 2358 Smith Fla 2377 Madison Fla 2504 MILLEN BRANCH Pendleton 00 Wade 193 Garfield 294 Penhoopee 08 Graymont 227 Thrift 337 Oak Park 40 Summitt 237 Butts 365 Kenfield 82 Hooks Crossing 267 Emmalane 395 Stillmore 124 Milieu 441 BROXTON BRANCH Douglas 00 Broxton 85 Sapps Still l54 Blystone 32 Cliatts 121 McLeans 173 Lotts 54 Pridgen 138 Dickevs Farm 183 MOULTRIESPARKS BRANCH Nashville 00 Sparks 122 Ellenton 220 Cottle 45 Whitehurst 145 Pineboro 270 Cheek 60 Nola 168 Normans 291 Massee 70 Burney Hill 180 Kihgwood 320 Barnesdale 82 Bayboro 208 Moultrie 342 ADEL BRANCH Sparks 00 Adel 22 GEORGIA COAST PIEDMONT RAILROAD Brunswick 000 Freedman 950 Broadfield 1320 Darien 1860 Ridge 2160 Inwood 2270 Meridian 2530 Hudson 2620 Valona 2760 Oak Hill 2880 Crescent 2980 Eulonia 3410 Warsaw 3980 Tibet 4780 Goosepond V 5140 Brewer 5390 Ludowici 5690 Gill 6020 Wefanie 6210 Roderick 6430 Donald 6680 Beard Creek 7140 Alton 7300 Glennville 7590 Kieklighter 7770 Lynn 7910 Mendes 8110 Bradleys 8290 Tootle 8550 Hughland 8710 Reidsville 9158 Collins 9840 167 GEORGIA FLORIDA ALABAMA RAILWAY Richland 000 Dixons 477 Kimbrough 667 Barges 1137 Troutman 1283 Gora 1590 Benevolence 1768 Wades 2014 Whites House 2314 Cuthbert 2749 Randolph 3551 Carnegie 3742 Moye 3956 Edison 4384 Turman 4830 Arlington 5377 Rowena 5790 124 Mile Post 5931 122 Mile Post 6151 Damascus 636 Warrens Mill 6632 Corea 6844 Colquitt 7249 Nicholas ville 7607 Babcock 7767 Eldorendo 8234 Ausmac 8541 Lynn 8714 W hites Mill 8934 West Bainbridge 9224 Bainbridge 9327 Bower 10115 Attapulgus 10553 Laingkat 10766 Florida State Line 10996 Tallahassee 13363 GEORGIA NORTHERN RAILWAY Boston 000 Spengler 302 4 Mile Post 48 Oaklawn 57 7 Mile Post 73 Barwick 906 Hollis 1008 Pavo 1303 Shelly 159 Ione 179 Autreyville 207 22 Mile Post 223 Mauzy 237 Moultrie 288 Blasingame 335 Schley 338 Sigsbee 372 Doerun 417 Ticknor 432 Pritchett 459 Bridgeboro 487 McPhaul 503 Gantt 517 Underwood 538 Nelms 560 Ramsey 570 Pecan City 593 Strom 616 Shackelford 655 Albany 678 GEORGIA SOUTHERN FLORIDA RAILWAY Macon 000 Maeon Yard 127 Sofkee 786 Avondale 1061 Elberta 1300 Wellston 1598 Bonaire 2129 Kathleen 2484 Tivola 2898 Grovania 3491 Elko 3839 Unadilla 4391 Pinehurst 4879 Findlay 5168 Vienna 5615 Richwood 5945 Cordele 6451 Wenona 6918 Arabi 7444 Sibley 7754 Dakota 7922 Macon 000 Valdosta 15163 Worth 8146 Ashbum 8477 Sycamore 8737 Inaha 9161 Cycloneta 9525 Chula 9813 Little Penn 10100 Tifton I10521 Eldorado 11191 Lenox 11806 Oserood 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 Colon 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 24412 Keens 24700 Plummer 25039 Kingsgrove 25425 Hoyt 25663 Grand Crossing 25817 Jacksonville Fla 26178 Melrose 16720 Palatka Fla 28600 168 GEORGIA SOUTHWESTERN GULF RAILROAD Cordele Milldale 000 638 Warwick Oakfield 1282 Chehaw 1753 Beloit 2437 2753 Raines Marshall 761 976 Starr Farm Philema 1928 Stocks 2071 Albany 2884 3573 GREENE COUNTY RAILROAD Apalachee 000 Embee 1000 Pannel 1685 Boat Wick 615 Gond TTnnfi 1280 Monroe 1969 HARTWELL RAILWAY Bowersville 000 Air Line 400 Hartwell 1010 HAWKINSVILLE FLORIDA SOUTHERN RAILWAY Hawkins ville 000 Felder 3354 Gorday 6791 Tippetts 336 Amboy 3639 Alfords 7041 Wallace 698 Worth 4233 Parkersville 5 7240 Millerville 900 Ashbum 4563 Livingston 7390 Finleyson 1185 Josella 4878 Bridgeboro 7625 Pineview 1300 Hobby 5101 Lester 8127 Pope City 1788 Coverdale 5280 Ragan 8353 McCall 2288 Terrell 5469 Greenough 8614 Pitts 5824 Duffee 7 8900 Bush 2886 Sylvester 6327 Adelaide 9J30 Double Run 3116 Camilla 9561 HAWKINSVILLE WESTERN RAILROAD Lawrenceville 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 376 LOUISVILLE NASHVILLE RAILROAD BETWEEN MARIETTA AND KNOXVILLE Marietta 000 Bannister 3303 Ellijay 6711 fElizabeth 195 Ball Ground 3524 Northcutt 7099 Oakhurst 373 Nelson 3873 White Path 7276 Blackwells 729 Tate 4148 Cherry Log 7530 Woodstock 1208 Jasper 4643 Lucius 7691 Toonigh 1587 Westbrook 4872 Blue Ridge 8245 Holly Springs 1803 Talking Rock 5279 Curtis 8791 TJniveter 2005 Carns Mill 5477 Kyle 9229 2365 Whitestone 5708 Etowah Tenn 14354 fKeithsburg 2905 Talona 5994 Knoxviile Tenn 20364 Bober 3253 Tioga 6116 169 LOUISVILLE NASHVILLE RAILROADContinued ATLANTA TO KNOXVILLE VIA CARTERSVILLE Atlanta 000 Cartersville 4764 Junta 4898 White 5678 Rydal 6064 Bolivar 6371 Blue Ridge 000 Mineral Bluff 469 Fairmount 6807 Ranger 7259 Oakman 7714 Coniston 8249 Ramhurst 8692 Chatsworth 9223 MURPHY BRANCH Sweet Gum 1158 Eton 9632 Crandall 9941 Fairy 10297 Cisco 10539 Etowah Term13650 Knoxville Tenn 19660 Murphy N C 2527 LOUISVILLE WADLEY RAILROAD Wadley Moxley 000 Aldreds 471 670 Louisville 1000 MACON BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY Sofkee 000 Dyas 2454 Tinley 215 Culloden 3092 Snelson 7217 Skipperton 380 Yatesville 3552 Harris 7537 Hardy 752 Upson 4165 Odessadale 8272 Lizella 1270 Blacks 4353 Mountville 8692 Montpelier 1744 Thomaston 4892 Robertson 9149 Moran 2018 Crest 5748 LaGrange 9687 Thunder 6175 MACON DUBLIN SAVANNAH RAILROAD Macon Swift Creek Dry Branch Winthrop Pikes Peak Fitzpatrick Ripley Jeffersonville 000 Gallemore 504 Danville 935 Allentown 1070 Montrose 1244 Haskins 1550 Dudley 1721 Shewmake 2285 Moores Dublin 2756 Catlin 3121 Minter 3295 Rockledge 3754 Orland 3990 Soperton 4244 Tarrytown 4527 Kibbee 4821 Vidalia 5350 5908 6306 6804 6976 7620 8079 8400 9226 MIDLAND RAILWAY Saxonia 000 River Road 2173 Portal 4692 Clifford 231 Leeland 2494 Aaron 51 92 Union 394 Browns Spur 2664 Milev 55 92 Willham 644 Mill Creek 2876 Garfield 5992 Pineora 835 Mikells Spur 3260 Canoochee 6492 Sheffield 1187 Statesboro 3492 Matlee 6992 Wilkins 1708 Colfax 3992 Stevens Crossing 7392 Foy Island 1313 Bland 4392 MILLTOWN AIR LINE RAILWAY Naylor Carters 000 Oldlot 400 170 500 Darsey Millt own 700 1000 MILSTEAD RAILWAY Conyers 00 Milstead 29 OCILLA PINEBLOOM VALDOSTA RAILROAD Gladys 000 Gaskins Farm 1200 Grays Mill 2100 Mobleys Spur 300 Metts Siding 1400 Leliaton 2200 Slaters Siding 400 Lowthers Still 16i2 Spring Head 2300 T ax 783 Willacoochee 1800 Shaws Still 2700 Gaskins Still 1087 Pinebloom 1900 1 OCILLA SOUTHERN RAILROAD NASHVILLE TO PERRY Nashville 000 Melvin 2540 Rochelle 6225 Fred 360 Ocilla 2856 Lacey 6568 3240 Pope City 6949 592 Dominey 3540 Hawkinsville 8737 Auvil 928 Fitzgerald 3382 Coates 9237 Alapaha 1280 Irwin 4470 Browndale 9537 Lucy Lake 1650 Abba 4766 Garnett 9837 Barrineau 1820 Van 5068 Grovania 10137 d ad ys 19 65 Salem 5270 Duncan 10537 5472 Perry 11037 Owensboro 5666 OCMULGEE VALLEY RAILWAY Lumber City 000 McLean Siding 860 Hattenville 1570 McRae Siding 400 Spiveys Switch 1050 Dopson s Mill 1760 Fisher Sicling 560 Harrison 1350 Jacksonville 2100 Rays Siding 720 Bland Station v 1450 PELHAM HAVANA RAILROAD Cairo T 000 Cranford 63 Maxwell Grady ville 32 Booth 82 Calvary Reno 105 125 153 ROME NORTHERN RAILROAD Rome k West Rome Yard Gammon 000 132 433 Brayton 675 Armuchee 931 Storys Mill Thomas 1076 Shackleton Crystal Springs 1334 Gore 1474 1702 1877 Sandersville SANDERSVILLE RAILROAD 000 Tennille 390 SAVANNAH HINESVILLE WESTERN RAILROAD Hinesville 000 Flemington 200 VIcXiitosh Martins 300 525 171 SAVANNAH NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY Savannah 000 Newington 8548 8954 Pipemaker 526 Eureka 4492 01d Church Newtonville 774 Sheppards 4734 Waynesboro 9622 Godleys 897 Hunters 4885 Elmore 10000 10450 Port Wentworth 1052 Whitehill 5093 LeRov Coldbrook 1072 Kitson 5381 St Clair 10844 Jarelds 1468 Waters 5500 Atwell 11225 Blandford 1606 Sylvania 5763 Zebenia Rahns 1771 Lewis 6224 Stellaville 11692 Dashers 2190 Baseom 12015 12428 Springfield 2444 Hilltonia 6802 Stapleton Spread Bethel 2865 Millhaven 7168 David 12797 Lorenzo 3061 Murry Hill 7552 Baston ville 13175 Shawnee 3368 Sardis 7801 Reese 13565 Ardmore 3587 Bargeron 8120 Warrenton 14129 Kildare Leola 3874 4119 Bill Davis 8209 Camak 14471 SAVANNAH SOUTHERN RAILWAY Lanier 00 Hayman 68 Willie 148 Norden 22 Letford 93 Duke 176 Bula 43 Strumbay 122 LETFORD TO SPIERS Letford 00 Spiers 37 SAVANNAH STATESBORO RAILWAY Cuyler 000 Hubert 1238 Rrnnlrlfvh 24 00 Blichton 418 Stilson 1615 Grimshaw 2640 Eldora 653 Areola 1940 Pretoria 28 34 01nev 853 Truckers 2100 Statesboro 3260 Ivanhoe 1059 SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY SAVANNAH TO SOUTH CAROLINA STATE LINE Savannah 000 Rincon 1910 Clyo 3250 Meinhard 1110 Stillwell 2490 Columbia S C 14170 Exley 1580 Berrys 2980 COLUMBUS TO ALBANY Columbus 000 Brooklyn 3230 Dawson 6550 Esquiline 520 Alstons 3700 Mercer 6770 fMasseys 800 Richland 3900 Sasser 7250 Ochillee 1100 Saville 4400 Stevens 7500 Hurley 1350 Kimbroughs 4500 Armena 7700 Durkins 1600 Weston 4810 Saline 7800 Cusseta 1850 Leveretts 5180 Palmyra 8250 fManta 2250 Chambliss 5410 Vasons 8400 Renfroe 2800 Parrott 5640 Albany 8800 Yoemans 6150 172 SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAYContinued 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 2860 Hull 7920 Howells Transfer 300 Lawrenceville 3450 Colbert 8410 Deerland 560 Daeula 4050 Comer 8960 Armour 670 Auburn 4510 Berkeley 9520 Mina 710 Carl 4620 Deadwylers 9820 Wallace Mill 910 Winder 5160 Oglesby 9970 Belt Junction 1110 Russels 5290 Ethridge 10290 North Decatur 1120 New Timothy 5620 Elberton 10730 Montreal 1530 Statham 5950 Middleton 11310 Tucker 1800 Bogart 6350 Pearl 11620 Lilburn 2360 Cleveland 6720 Heardment 11750 Luxomni 2520 McElroy 6880 Calhoun Falls S C 12410 Athens 7290 ATLANTA TO BIRMINGHAM Atlanta 000 Dallas 3045 Grady 5352 Howells 300 Alexander 3350 Cedartown 5945 Edna 826 Hnulin 3653 Akes 6419 Rice 1251 Divide 4082 Esom 6890 Floyd 1441 Rockmart 4664 Birmingham Ala Powder Springs 2012 Fish 5177 18th St 16598 Hiram 2484 ROCKMART TO CARTERSVILLE Rockmart 000 Taylorsville 899 Browns 1683 Aragon 403 McGinnis 1127 Ladds 1944 Portland 480 Stilesboro 1353 Cartersville 2282 Deatons 672 Shelman 1587 LOGANSVILLE LAWRENCEVILLB BRANCH Lawrenceville 000 Grayson 530 Logansville 1033 SAVANNAH TO FLORIDA STATE LINE Savannah 000 Anderson 910 Burroughs 1100 Ways 1520 Belfast 2020 Limerick 2380 Dorchester 2690 Riceboro 3150 Jones 3880 Brickstone 3990 Warsaw 4190 Towensend 4580 Cox 5220 Altamaha 5370 Everett 5850 Ford 6370 Thalman 6590 Bladen 6940 Hayner 7470 Glencoe 7690 Waverly 7980 White Oak 8360 Woodbine 8810 Colesburg 9120 Seals 9490 Kingsland 9990 Jacksonville Fla 13720 173 SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAYContinued GEORGIA AND ALABAMA Savannah 000 Vidalia 7984 Penia 16314 Williams 970 Higgston 8354 Cord eie 16814 17424 Watley 1200 McGreggor 8734 Coney Ottawa Meldrim 1250 1730 Ailey Mt Yernon 8984 9164 Daphne Flintside 17660 17860 Cuyler 1983 Ochwalkee 9464 Cobb 18054 Arden 2178 Glenwood 9644 DeSoto 18524 Ellabelle 2394 Stuckey 10074 Leslie 18654 Lanier 2680 Alamo 10354 Parkers 18860 Norden 2894 Erick 10724 Huntington 19124 Pembroke 3200 McRae 11320 Gatewood 19520 Reka 3527 Helena 11364 Americus 19864 Groveland 3923 Aults 11860 New Point 20330 Palaky 4140 Milan 12394 Salters 20760 Daisy 4471 Calvin 12860 Plains 20894 Claxton 4884 Rhine 13264 Wise 21430 Hagan 5064 Copeland 13500 Preston 21894 Bellville 5306 Abbeville 13904 Richland 22704 Manassas 5578 Kramer 14430 Randalls 23100 Collins 6115 Rochelle 14824 Lumpkin 23584 Danton 6345 Pitts 15334 15714 Louvale 24334 Ohoopee 6830 Seville Union 24754 Lyons 7464 Listonia 16060 Omaha 25454 Stacers 7564 Montgomery Ala 33760 SHEARWOOD RAILWAY 000 Alderman 800 Denmark 1300 300 Watersville 900 Harville 1400 500 Davis 1100 Nevils 1500 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 Yaley 977 Austell 183 Chambers 668 Hill City 1005 Powder Springs 231 Silver Creek 676 Carbodale 1039 Hiram 282 Lindale 690 Phelps 1079 Dallas 342 Atlanta Junction 708 Dalton 1129 McPherson 398 Rome 731 Waring 1181 Braswell 448 Forrestville 748 Yarnell 1221 Beattys Switch 472 Berwin 779 Cohutta 1263 Rockmart 512 Bauxite 793 Chattanooga 1530 ATLANTA TO BIRMINGHAM Atlanta Peyton 00 71 Lithia Springs Douglasville 208 Arlington Vineyard 504 531 560 603 Chattahoochee 79 Winston 320 Waco Oakdale 93 Villa Rica 381 West Niekajaek 123 Temple 443 Tallapoosa 481 Hoopers Tank Birmingham 636 Mableton Austell 151 183 Morgan 678 1673 Leeland Moore s Siding Brooklet 174 SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANYContinued ATLANTA TO FORT VALLEY Atlanta 00 Woolsey 307 Culloden Roseland 28 Lowry 342 Mussella Sawtell 38 Vaughn 366 Schoen 41 Zetella 398 Roberta Cornell 53 Williamson 442 Hammett Haasville 84 Zebulon 504 Gaillard Thames 110 Meansville 549 Rollo Riverdale 143 Vega 574 Allon Selina 160 Piedmont 603 McCarty Sand Pit Hillyer 168 Topeka Junction 644 Johnson Sand Pit Helmer 179 Blalock High Sage s Sand Pit Kenwood 190 tower Spur 658 Zenith Fayetteville 237 Rest Haven 664 Lee Pope Harps 269 Mathews Spur 670 Hartley Spur Ackert 292 Yates ville 704 Fort Valley Castlin Spur 746 757 823 873 884 931 943 95 95 96 96 96 98 99 102 105 COLUMBUS TO McDONOUGH Columbus 00 Shiloh 338 Jolly 671 Gentian 59 Pinedale 369 Reidsboro 684 Col Quarry Track 96 Nebula 376 Williamson 718 Flat Rock 103 Strannahan Spur 387 Rover 742 Midland 137 Warm Springs 420 Central Coal Spur 753 Ellerslie 182 Raleigh 462 Griffin 794 Ossahatchie 199 Woodbury 510 Towalaga 874 Byrds Spur 207 Molena 564 Luella 910 Waverly Hall 235 Neal 691 Greenwood 044 Oak Mountain 280 Concord 635 McDonough 979 ATLANTA TO SOUTH CAROLINA LINE Atlanta 00 Flowery Branch 438 Alto 738 Armour 59 Oakwood 475 Kitchens Siding 754 Crosskeys HI 107 Gainesville f32 76 6 Chamblee 134 New Holland 551 Cornelia 77 9 Doraville 147 White Sulphur 591 Mt Airy 79 8 Norcrss 194 Lula 656 Ayersville 866 Pittman 226 Bellton 666 Cnrratipe 901 Duluth 258 Yonah 699 Tooeoa 931 Suwanee 307 Sanitorium 722 Deercourt 984 Buford 371 ATLANTA TO BRUNSWICK Atlanta 00 Locust Grove 352 Virgin 822 Roseland 28 Jenkinsburg 401 Macon 87 2 Constitution 59 Jackson 455 Reids 968 Henrieo 77 Flovilla 505 Phillips 983 Conley 94 Cork 538 Bullard 1035 Ellenwood 126 Berner Rex 144 Juliette 1095 Stockbridge 185 Macon Stone Westlake 1136 Mahers Quarry 200 Supply Co Track 682 Ainslie 1161 Tunis 223 Dames Ferry 716 Newberry 1183 Flippen 240 Popes Ferry 740 McGriff 1202 McDonough 280 Holton 789 Coley 1222 od o N w q q lo o SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANYContinued ATLANTA TO BRUNSWICKContinued Cochran 1262 Lumber City 1816 Whaleys 2375 Empire 1319 Ocmulgee 1829 Odessa 2397 Dubois 1349 Hazlehurst 1889 Gardi 2414 Gresston 1365 Johnsonville 1940 Bennetts Still 2424 Eastman 1448 Graham 1952 Pendarvis 2446 Godwins ville 1499 Pine Grove 1985 Grangerville 2470 Chauneey 1546 Prentis 2016 Mount Pleasant 2516 Suomi 1559 Baxley 2048 Everett 2553 Aehord 1602 Wheaton 2087 Belle Vista 2578 Helena 1634 Surrency 2143 Hunters Spur 2600 McRae 1648 Brentwood 2192 Zuta 2613 Scotland 1698 Odum 2252 Walburg 2631 Towns 1748 Burnett 2263 Sterling 2654 Wilcox 1795 Nesbit 2301 Gignlatt 2686 Lowery s 1803 Jesup 2348 Brunswick 2745 TOCCOAELBERTON Toccoa 00 Lavonia 185 Harper 409 Hayes Crossing 47 Bowersville 240 Hard Cash 421 Eastanollee 72 Cannon 264 Dewey Rose 439 Avalon 111 Royston 308 Goss 464 Martin 121 Vanna 352 Elberton 506 Bowman 383 ATHENS BRANCH Athens 00 Commerce 184 Maysville 258 Center 73 Wilsons Church 209 Gillsville 317 Nicholson 115 Lula 390 CLEVELAND AND COHUTTA BRANCH Cleveland Term 00 Marble Switch 87 Red Clay 127 Blue Springs 58 Weatherly 109 Cohtitta 148 HAWKINSVILLE BRANCH Cochran 00 Mobley 53 Hawkinsville 103 ROSWELL BRANCH Chamblee 00 Dunwoody 53 Roswell 98 Morgan Junction 59 ATTALLA AND ROME Forrestville 00 Robinson 90 Early 183 West Rome 33 Oreburg 104 Gadsden Ala 560 Huffaker 61 Coosa 132 Attalla Ala 613 Mt Hope 160 BETWEEN ROME AND SELMA Rome 00 Vans Valley 131 Prior 220 Six Mile 53 Cave Spring 151 Etna 230 Cunningham 86 Hematite 195 Fearing 23 7 Yancey 106 Oremont 204 Selma Ala 1955 176 SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANYContinued VILLA RICA BRANCH Villa Rica 00 V C C Cos Mines 29 Adel Pine Valley Greggs Barney SOUTH GEORGIA RAILWAY 000 Mopien 1570 Quitman 400 Kennedy 1780 Roundtree 630 Studstill 1990 Baden 1080 Srain 21 OO 2760 2950 3220 Marchman 1380 Fodie 2250 Florida State Line 3740 STATENVILLE RAILWAY Statenville 000 Mercer 500 Bohannon 400 Touchton 700 Haylow 1400 SYLVANIA CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY Sylvania 00 Zeigler 55 Thomasboro 98 Waters 17 Woodcliff 78 Rocky Ford 145 TALBOTTON RAILROAD Talbotton 000 Paschal 663 TALLULAH FALLS RAILWAY Cornelia 000 Tallulah Park 1850 Bethel 327 Demorest 438 Tallulah Lodge 1977 Clayton 3471 Habersham 602 Tallulah Falls 2090 Mountain City Clarksville 731 Joy 2529 York Siding 3972 Hills 888 Lakemont 2631 Rabun Gap 4054 Annandale 1074 Wiley 2785 Dillard 4159 Hollywood 1298 Bovard 2980 Franklin N C 5720 Turnerville 1605 Tiger 3137 TENNESSEE ALABAMA GEORGIA RAILROAD Chattanooga 00 Kensington 219 Monlo Cravens 17 Archer 23 Chesterfield Alton Park 35 Estelle 242 Jamestown Woodburn Ga 63 Owl Hollow 248 Blanche Rock Creek 78 Marsh 273 Taff Flintstone 84 Hillsdale 281 Loop Moonsboro 92 Bronco 315 Congo Eagle Cliff 99 Sharpe 332 Little River Cenchat 111 McConnellsville 350 Benjamin Costello 127 Hawkins 357 Blue Pond High Point 142 Harrisburg 372 Bristow Kendrick 154 Teloga 396 Wilsonia Cooper Heights 183 Chelsea 427 Citlco Cassandra 200 Gadsden Ala UNION POINT WHITE PLAINS RAILROAD Union Point 000 Dolvins 446 Jerralls Crossing White Plains Jet 169 Siloam 649 White Plains 462 500 552 575 596 612 832 652 675 689 734 834 850 917 1165 1356 177 VALDOSTA MOULTRIE WESTERN RAILROAD Valdosta 000 Troup ville 620 Cates 870 Golden H00 Tillman 1270 Masons 1500 Morven 1730 Scruggs 2200 Joyce 2350 Simplon 2500 Berlin 2850 Troy 3040 Weldon 3330 Evelyn 3570 Georgia Nor Jctn 4000 Moultrie 4180 Wadley Creek Junction Greenway Blundale Bellwood Wadley Creek Junction Pinetucky Ennis WADLEY SOUTHERN RAILWAY WADLEY TO COLLINS 1980 Aline 2330 Corsica 2650 Cobbtown 2900 Jarrells 3308 Collins WADLEY TO ROCKLEDGE 000 Tom 1278 Adrian 080 Kite 1476 Rixville 600 Hodo 1700 Orianna 1051 Meeks 2053 Rockledge Odomville 2470 000 Swainsboro 080 Gary 455 McLeod 832 29 Mile Post 1417 Stillmore 3970 4065 4550 4950 5300 2738 2920 3300 3685 WAYCROSS SOUTHERN RAILROAD Hebardville 000 Lavinia 800 Moneta Waycross 200 Fredel 1000 Walker Grundv 500 Atwood 1200 Hopkins Olive 1500 1700 1800 2000 Waycross Durango Pine Valley India Crews WAYCROSS WESTERN RAILROAD 000 Kineva 1600 Dickerson 600 Hinson 1800 Duveton 900 Cogdell 2100 Sirmans 1000 Sandy Bottom 2300 New Grade 1300 Mexico 2500 Milltown Harley 2700 2900 3100 3775 4120 4450 WESTERN ATLANTIC RAILROAD Atlanta 000 Simpson Street 095 Howells 299 Bolton H 688 Gilmore 949 Vinings 1113 Smyrna 1498 Marietta 2043 Elizabeth 2178 Noonday 2615 Kennesaw 2864 Lena 3202 Acworth 3459 Hugo 3903 Allatoona 4007 Bartow 4820 Emerson 4301 Etowah 4597 Cartersville 4759 Junta 4808 Rogers 5089 Cass 5237 Bests 5542 Kingston 5867 Cement 6055 Halls 6363 Adairsville 6850 McDaniels 7471 Calhoun 7805 Resaca 8397 Tilton 9030 Dalton 9906 Rocky Face 10390 Tunnel Hill 10682 Catoosa 11301 Ringgold 11452 Graysville 12028 Chickamauga Tenn T 12602 Boyce 13202 Chattanooga 13680 178 WESTERN ATLANTIC RAILROAD ROME BRANCH Kingston 000 Eves 705 Brick Yard 1539 Wooleys 295 Dykes 1175 Rome 1800 Freeman 1238 WRIGHTSVILLE TENNILLE RAILROAD TenniUe 000 Manning 2551 Dexter 4826 fLindseys 382 Brewton 2786 Alcorns 5188 Teacdcks 582 Condor 32R3 Chester fwl Rf Harrison 945 Dublin 3fi27 Ynnlffirs RR 75 Donovan 1331 Southwestem June Roddy 6110 Wright sville 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 Dublin 000 Mayberry 850 Petway 1879 Southwestern June Rentz 1055 Plainfield 2057 tion 000 Cadwell 23 34 fCheeks Still 333 Batson 1751 Eastman 2854 fTingle 517 171 Rules and Orders of Commission RELATING TO TARIFFS and CLASSIFICATIONS GOVERNING EXPRESS COMPANIES RULE NO 1 Bates of Commission are maximum rates Duty to accept and transport shipments Routing shipments Tariffs changes in posting etc Aggregating weights All of the rates prescribed by the Commission are maximum rates and shall not be exceeded by any express company operating in the State of Georgia RULE NO 2 it shall be the duty of any express company operating in this State to accept for carriage any goods the transportation of which by said company is reasonably safe and practicable and to transport the same by the first train practicable Shipper must be requested to place his name and address on all packages of firstclass matter and in the event of his declination so to do charges must be prepaid A receipt of the form prescribed by the Commission must be given for all matter received Shippers must be requested to state nature of the shipment and declare the value thereof which value when given must be inserted in the receipt and marked on the package In the event shipper declines to declare the value tlie express company is to stamp or write in ink an the receipt Value asked but not given or words to that effect RULE NO 3 Whenever a shipper tenders to any express company a shipment for transportation between points within this State and gives such company routing instructions it shall be the duty of said express company to receive such shipments and forward according to instructions given provided there is such an established route and transfer points operated in connection therewith RULE NO 4 Each express company shall keep conspicuously posted at all of its stations offices and agencies in Georgia a copy of all publications showing the classification rates and rules fixed for express companies with such explanations as are necessary for a full understanding of the same When any change is made in such publication of rates rules or clarifications either by such company voluntarily or pursuant to an order of the Commission such company shall immediately furnish a copy of the 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 the 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 NO 5 Provided a lower charge is made thereby two or more packages forwarded by one shipper at the same time upon one receipt to one consignee at one local 182 t address must be charged for on the aggregate weight as if in one package provided however that when such shipments average less than 10 pounds per package charges shall be assessed on basis of 10 pounds for each package Example When the total weight of the several packages divided by the number of packages gives a quotient less than 10 charge on basis of 10 pounds for each package If the quotient so obtained is 10 or over charge on basis of total actual weight Shipments of different classes aggregating as above shall be charged for at the highest rate applicable to any article in the shipment RULE NO 6 Unless otherwise specially provided charges must be based upon the actual gross weight of each shipment at the time it is received for transportation When the volume of traffic is so large as to make it impossible to weigh each separate package without delaying the forwarding estimated weights may be used for shipments of articles of food provided they closely approximate the actual weight such estimated weights will be arrived at by weighing a number of packages of the same size and containing the same commodity the average weight to be adopted as the estimated weight RULE NO 7 The rates governed by this Classification are based upon a value of not exceeding 5000 on each shipment of 100 lbs or less and not exceeding 50 cents per pound actual weight on each shipment weighing more than 100 lbs and the liability of the express company is limited to the value above stated unless a greater value is declared at time of shipment and the declared value in excess of the value above specified is paid for or agreed to be paid for under the schedule of charges for excess value When the value declared by the shipper exceeds the value of 5000 on a shipment weighing 100 lbs or less or exceeds 50 cents per pound on a shipment weighing more than 100 lbs the charge therefor will be at the rate of 10 cents on each 10000 of such excess value or for any fraction of 10000 The amount of any C O D bill for collection from a consignee shall be considered a declaration of the value of the shipment unless a greater value is declared These rates apply only to shipments of merchandise jewelry and valuable papers RULE NO 8 In the event of nondelivery of a shipment arising out of loss or destruction of a shipment the express company shall immediately give written notice thereof to both consignee if known and the consignor if known In the event of nondelivery of a shipment by reason of consignees refusal to accept it written notice thereof must immediately be given to the consignor at destination Weights Valuation charges Duty to notify shippers and consigneees of delivery or nondelivery At points where delivery service is not maintained agent must at once give consignee notice of arrival either personally or by mail and the charges shown on the package Personal notice must be confirmed by mail RULE NO 9 Prompt return of 0 0 D collections It shall be the duty of the agent of the express company at delivering point to make return of all C 0 D collections to the consignor or agent at the point of origin within twentyfour hours after effecting delivery of such shipment and if such return is made to the agent at point of origin he in turn must make settlement with the consignor within twentyfour hours after the receipt thereof Sundays and legal holidays excepted RULE NO 10 Dangerous articles dynamite etc must be refused No express 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 accordance with the terms prescribed by the rules and regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commission governing the transportation of such articles RULE NO 4L Claims All just claims for nondelivery of shipments or loss or damage shall be paid or satisfactorily disposed of within 30 days after claim supported by proper papers is made therefor RULE NO 12 Closing express offices 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 NO 13 Free deliv ery limits It shall be the duty of express companies to have published a free delivery limit directory which shall show in alphabetical order all cities or towns in this State at which they do business the name of each office to be followed with a statement as to whether a Free Delivery Service is maintained at said office or not Where a free delivery service is maintained unless the publication shall circumscribe the delivery limits it shall be understood that the delivery limits comprehend the corporate limits of the place named provided that at such point where free delivery service is maintained no extra charge shall be made for door delivery within a radius of one mile from the office of such company provided further that the point of delivery is within the Corporate limits 1S4 At each point where delivery is made by local express companies beyond the established delivery limits a footnote must be shown reading substantially as follows NoteShipments delivered by local express companies to points outside of the defined delivery limits as shown herein will he subject to the additional charge of such local express companies The charge for this service is usuallycents per package but the company does not guarantee delivery at this rate which is subject to change w thout notice Prepayment of such charge may be made by consignor at point of origin subject to the collection from consignee of any deficit in the amount so prepaid This directory must be filed with the Commission and conform to the express tariff regulations of the Commission and copies posted at all express offices in this State RULE NO 14 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 haye remained on hand four hours during daylight after arriving at point of destination said notice to be 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 to do so 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 expnse of the shipper The shipper shall pay the going and return charges on shipments which are returned under this order together withthe telegraph tolls Express companies required to give notice of nondeliv ery of fresh fish shipments 185 GEORGIA EXPRESS RATES The Railroad Commission of Georgia has within the past three years revised or remodeled its entire structure of express rates rules regulations and classification applicable to Georgia intrastate traffic and as information to the shipping public as to the changes proposed which are now effective below is quoted in chronological order the various calls for conferences hearings and orders issued respecting the changes made in Georgia express rates rules regulations and classification Office of the RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA Atlanta March 10th 1914 File No 9462 Georgia Express Rates To Express Companies and the Shipping Public in Georgia By direction of the Railroad Commission 1 am sending you herewith copy of a proposed revision of Express Classification Rates Rules etc applicable to Georgia intrastate express traffic The Commission has felt for some time that its present classification rates rules etc were in many respects obsolete incomplete discriminatory and inadequate in their application to express traffic conditions of today For the past two years it has been engaged in an extensive investigation and study of the entire subject and the proposed revision embodies the results and tentative conclusions following this investigation The proposed revision contemplates harmonization and adoption of our classification and rates to traffic conditions as they exist today and the simplification and making more intelligible to carriers and shippers the rules under which they are applicable In the practical working out of this plan there have been necessary rate increases and decreases which taken altogether fairly compensate each other The commission has designated Tuesday April 14th 1914 at its office in the State Capitol at Atlanta Ga at 10 oclock a m as the time and place when it invites all carriers and parties interested in the matter to submit their views upon the proposed revision verbally or in writing Criticisms and suggestions are desired and urged The rate compilations in the attached proposed tariff are selfexplanatory Under the present plan of constructing express rates in Georgia the railroad company is the transportation unit and provision is made that where express shipments handled by one express company are transported over more than one 186 railroad additional charges shall be allowed Under the proposed method the express company is the transportation unit and rates are fixed for each express company regardless of the number of roads necessary for shipments to be transported over in order to reach destination It is to be noted that onlj three tariffs are provided Tariff A Tariff B and Tariff D Tariff A represents merchandise shipments Tariff B represents food drink etc Tariff D the per ounce rate fixed for small packages Tariff B rates are seventyfive per cent of Tariff A rates and bears the same fixed relationship to Tariff A rates as prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission in its recent general express order Tariff E carried in our present schedules has been eliminated from the revised Tariff for the reason that it applies only on dressed poultry fresh fish butter and sausage these commodities are properly ratable as food and as will be noted from the attached are to be transported under Tariff B rates the same as prescribed for all other food articles Sectional rates established for the benefit of manufacturers and large dealers are discontinued such tariff regulation and rules are apparently discriminatory and there does not appear to exist any good reason for their continuance The rates proposed represent on Tariffs A and B under the graduate table 1162 advances averaging 48 cents per package while the reductions number 3330 average 119 cents per package The Commission trusts that you will give earnest consideration to the proposed tariffs and advise it either in writing or by appearance on the date mentioned of such suggestions and criticisms as you might have to make with reference to the same Yours very truly J P Webster Rate Expert Office of the RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA Atlanta June 9 1914 File No 9462 In Re Revision of Express Rates in Georgia Whereas under date of April 14th 1914 the Railroad Commission of Georgia heard from interested shippers and exprss companies with reference to a proposed revision of express rates on Georgia traffic and Whereas at said hearing the express companies represented to the Commission that they were willing to establish on Georgia intrastate express business the same rules practices and rates with certain modifications as to subblock rates as has been prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission to apply on interstate traffic and Whereas the Railroad Commission of Georgia having closely followed and studied the result of the Interstate Commerce Commissions investigation and order which said order makes material departures from the old method of constructing and stating express rates and 187 Whereas various State Commissions have adopted the plan and method ordered into effect by the Interstate Commerce Commission on interstate traffic and Whereas uniformity is much to he desired if possible to obtain without putting an unjust burden upon the Georgia shippers and Whereas a uniform plan of stating rates will be highly beneficial to express shippers and Whereas the proposed modified form contemplates material reductions on food articles moving between Georgia points especially native products it is Ordered That all express companies operating in Georgia make effective in this State Official Classification No 22 I C C Al issued January 1st 1914 effective February 1st 1914 together with supplement No 3 thereto further that the rules and regulations therein contained covering the transportation of express shipments be made applicable to Georgia intrastate express shipments and in addition thereto or exception therefrom make effective the following rules governing Georgia intrastate express traffic Bates of Commission are Maximum Rates The scale of rates herein fixed are the maximum rates and will apply to all express companies doing business in the State of Georgia and shall not be exceeded by any express company Duty to Accept and Transport Shipments It shall be the duty of any express company to accept for carriage any goods the transportation of which by such company is reasonably safe and practicable and to transport the same by the first train practicable Tariffs Changes in Posting Etc Each express company shall keep conspicuously posted at all of its stations offices and agencies in Georgia a copy of all publications showing the classification rates and rules fixed for express companies with such explanations as are necessary for a full understanding of the same When any change is made in such publications of rates rules or classifications either by such company voluntarily or pursuant to an order of the Commission such company shall immediately furnish a copy of the 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 Free Delivery Limits It shall be the duty of express companies to have published a free delivery limit directory which shall show in alphabetical order all cities or towns in this State at which they do business the name of each office to be followed with 188 a statement as to whether a Free Delivery Service is maintained at said office or not Where a free delivery service is maintained unless the publication shall circumscribe the delivery limits it shall be understood that the delivery limits comprehend the corporate limits of the place named provided that at such point where free delivery service is maintained no extra charge shall be made for door delivery within a radius of one mile from the office of such company provided further that the point of delivery is within the corporate limits At each point where delivery is made by local express companies beyond the established delivery limits a footnote must be shown reading substantially as follows NoteShipments delivered by local express companies to points outside of the defined delivery limits as shown herein will be subject to the additional charge of such local express companies The charge for this service is usually cents per package but the company does not guarantee delivery at this rate which is subject to change without notice Prepayment of such charge may be made by consignor at point of origin subject to the collection from consignee of any deficit in the amount so prepaid This directory must be filed with the Commission and conform to the express tariff regulations of the Commission and copies posted at all express offices in this State Duty to Notify Shippers of NonDelivery of Shipments Where a consignee shall give to the express company notice of his refusal to accept a shipment whether C O D or otherwise properly tendered in pursuance of the billlading the express company shall within twentyfour 24 hours notify consignor if known of such refusal Prompt Return of C O D Collections It shall be the duty of the agent of the Express Company at delivering point to make return of all C O D collections to the consignor or agent at the point of origin within twentyfour 24 hours after effecting delivery of such shipment and if such return is made to the agent at point of origin he in turn must make settlement with the consignor within twentyfour 24 hours after the receipt thereof Sundays and legal holidays excepted Claims All just claims for nondelivery of shipments or loss or damage shall be paid or satisfactorily disposed of within 30 days after claim supported by proper papers is made therefor Dangerous Articles Dynamite Etc Must be Refused No express 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 accordance with the terms prescribed by the rules and regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commission governing the transportation of such articles 189 Closing Express Offices jyo 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 Express Companies required to give notice of nondelivery of Fresh Fish Shipments 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 be 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 to do so 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 Ordered further That all express companies operating in this state make effective the Interstate Commerce Commissions scale of first and secondclass express rates with modifications of the Interstate Commerce Commission block into sixteen 16 subblocks with rates on firstclass in each subblock to be not in excess of 50 cents per hundred pounds and other modifications in rates as contemplated in the modified subblock plan submitted by the express companies and hereby approved by the Railroad Commission of Georgia with the following exceptions as to commodities Milk The present rules and rates applicable on milk shipments in caps to be continued 100 Apples Beans Beets Berries Berry Plants Cabbage Cantaloupes CocaCola Corngreen on ear Clams in shell Cucumbers Fish see note net weight minimum as follows Standard boxes 100 lbs Standard Flour Barrel 150 lbs Standard Sugar Barrel 200 lbs Ginger Ale Mineral Water Oysters in shell Onions Peaches Peas Pears Peptolac Potatoes Pop Soda Water and similar aerated or carbonated beverages Tomatoes Turnips Vegetable Plants Note Fish Th Commission from its investigation into the proposed fish rates and from the evidence submitted at the hearing is not satisfied that the rates herein established on fish are exactly fair to both the shipper and the express companies or that the same are too high or too low but in order to determine specifically and correctly as to this particular item hereby orders the Southern Express Company to keep separate and apart from its other transactions in accounting for a period of one year such data as will enable the Commission to make such further changes as might be necessary at that time provided the information furnished indicates that some further change is necessary The information desired furnished by the Express Company is the number of shipments the number of packages the amount of revenue received the amount paid transportation companies for haulage privileges the number and amount of claims filed the number and amount of claims paid and such other detailed data as will enable the Commission to determine whafe the expenses of other operations are in connection with the movement of this particular traffic Ordered further That all express companies operating in this state be and they are hereby notified authorized and required to make the above rates rules classification etc effective August 1st 1914 and no advance in rates or change in rule or classification etc which has the effect of withdrawing any privilege or facility granted hereby shall be made without the express authorization and approval of the Railroad Commission of Georgia Ordered further That within thirty days from the date hereof all express companies operating in this state are commanded and required to file with this Commission a full and complete set of the tariffs applying from each block and subblock in the Slate of Georgia with the classification applicable thereto and all of the tariffs containing the rules regulations and rates constructed in conformity with the foregoing order Ordered further That effective August 1st 1914 all rules rates and regulations in conflict with the above shall be and the same are hereby repealed By order of the Commission Campbell Wallace C M Candler Secretary Chairman Express Rates on these commodities to he constructed on basis of sixty 60 Per cent of the FirstClass Express Rates 191 Office of the RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA Atlanta August 12 1914 File 9462 In Re Revision of Express Rates in Georgia Whereas under date of July 31 1914 the Railroad Commission of Georgia issued the following order Whereas under date of June 9 1914 the Railroad Commission of Georgia adopted an order in reference to a revision of express rates on traffic moving within the State of Georgia in which it was among other things ordered as follows towit Ordered further That all express companies operating in this State be and they ar hereby notified authorized and required to make the above rates rules classification etc effective August 1 1914 and no advance in rates or change in rule or classification etc which has the effect of withdrawing any privilege or facility granted hereby shall be made without the express authorization and approval of the Railroad Commission of Georgia Ordered further That within thirty days from the date hereof all express companies operating in this State are commanded and required to file with this Commission a full and complete set of tariffs applying from each block and subblock in the state of Georgia with the classification applicable thereto and all of the tariffs containing the rules regulations and rates construed in conformity with the foregoing order Ordered further That effective August 1 1914 all rules rates and regulations in conflict with the above shall be and the same are hereby repealed And whereas the Southern Express Company has filed with the Commission a tariff of rates purporting to be in accordance with said order of the Commission to be effective August 1 1914 and Whereas a superficial examination of said tariffs by the Rate Expert of the Commission indicates that there are carried within the same rates not constructed in accordance with the said order of the Commission and therefore necessitating further examination and study of the same it is now Ordered That the said tariffs filed by the Southern Express Company described as Georgia Railroad Commission 1 to 32 inclusive and proposed to be effective August 1 1914 be and the same are hereby disapproved Ordered further That the present schedules of rates of the Southern Express Company now in effect in this state on intrastate traffic and all express rules and regulations now in effect in this state be and the same shall remain and continue in force and effect until the further order of this Commission And whereas since the promulgation of said order dated July 31 1914 the Commission has given further examination and consideration to the intrastate tariffs filed by the xpress companies and suspended by this order and Whereas there appears to have been a misunderstanding on the part of the compilers as to some of the bases for constructing express rates under the original order of June 9 1914 and some other errors in the tariff as filed it is now 192 Ordered That new tariffs be filed under said order of June 9 1914 to become effective on or before September 15 1914 said order being amended so that the subblock basis of rates on intrastate traffic shall be as follows 1 Subblock haul Scale 0 or 50c per 100 lbs 2 0 50c per 100 lbs O o 1 55c per 100 lbs 4 2 60c per 100 lbs 5 5 75c per 100 lbs 8 Inc 7 85c per 100 lbs 15 66 11 105c per 100 lbs The subblock area to extend over each main block that may touch on any side or corner a main block or origin The effect to be that each subblock area is to cover 9 main blocks i e the main block of origin and the 8 main blocks surrounding the main block of origin Ordered further That in the construction of main block rates in no case sb ill the rates show a progression in excess of that affecting one main block rere further That in constructing rates between two points transportation between which is circuituous occasioned by point of origin and point of destination being located on parallel lines of railroad with no connecting cross country lines the subblock rates between the point of origin and point of destination shall be not less than the rates to any intermediate subblock passed through in transit Ordered further That the following points in Georgia shall be relocated in subblocks as follows Auburn Ga I Present Block Location Subblock Proposed Location Block Subblock Carl Ga J 1542 N 1642 A Clito Ga 1744 K 1744 I Douglasville Ga Helen Ga 1 1641 F 1641 B North Helen Ga j 1542 A 1542 E Roswell Station Ga 1541 P 1641 C Washington Ga 1643 A 1643 E Waynesboro Ga 1643 Q 1644 N Perry Ga 1742 K 1742 I Ordered further That the present mileage rates on milk and cream and cream empties returned and also the present mileage rates on mineral water and mineral water empties returned shall be continued Ordered further That effective September 15 1914all rules rates and regulations in conflict with the above shall be and the same arq hereby repealed By order of the Commission Campbell Wallace C M Candleb Secretary Chairman 19 Office of the RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA Atlanta January 11 1916 File 9462 In Re Revision in Georgia Express Rates Whereas practically all Southern States have adopted the modified graduate and g Wm Whereas uniformity is much to he desired if possible to obtain without putting an unjust burden upon the Georgia express shippers it is now Ordered That the Southern Express Company be authorized to make effective February 1st 1916 on Georgia intrastate traffic said Interstate Commerce Commission modified graduate scale of 1st and 2nd class rates respectively with modifications and exceptions to commodity lists as provided in the orders ot the Railroad Commission of Georgia dated July 31st and August 12th 1914 Ordered further That the following list of commodities be added to the group taking sixty per cent of first class rate A sparagus Cauliflower Lettuce Okra Parslev Pepper nrapefruit Kumquats Lemons applicable per hundred pounds and I imes Parsnips Radishes Melons NOS boxed or crated Squash Oranges Pineapples Tangerines By order of the Commission Campbell Wallace Secretary C M Candler Chairman RULES GOVERNING APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF STOCK AND BOND ISSUES RULE 1 All applications shall be by written petition verified by the president or other officer of the corporation or other competent evidence setting forth the information hereinafter required RULE 2 All applications for the issue of stocks bonds or notes as contemplated in the Act approved August 22 1907 by any railroad company shall state the termini and route of the same shall set out the actual length of the main line of said railroad the double tracking if any the a pproximate length of its sidetracks the gauge of the tracks the maximum grade the maximum degree of curvature the width of right of way the cost of right of way a description of terminals grounds outside of the right of way and cost and value of same a description of station grounds at points between terminals outside of the right of way and the cost of same the weight of the rail a schedule of equipment both motive power and cars f every description and the cost of same a description of repair and machine shops and also a statement or bst attainable estimate of the number of cubic yards of excavation and embankment in the construction of its roadbed Said petition shall also give a general description of its station buildings bridges and other structures In cases of applications by or in behalf of a railway company whose line is not already built but contemplated and in cases of applications by or in behalf of railway company whose line is at the time partly constructed or is to be extended then description and explanations are to be set out mutatis mutandis and as nearly so as practicable to the same effect and intent as hereinabove provided touching existing roads RULE 3 Said petition whether by railroad company or any other applicant shall also contain in addition to full description of its property a sworn statement in detail of the financial condition of the company giving the amount and kinds of the capital stock bonds and other obligations outstanding the consideration on which the same were issued clearly and fully stated the rate and amount of dividends declared thereon and all other items of outstanding indebtedness and as to all whether and how secured and if secured by mortgage or pledge a copy of the instrument shall be annexed to the petition and said petition shall also contain a statement of the amount of any of its stock held by other corporations and the names of and the amount held by each and all facts needed to show 195 Application must be sworn to What applications must show Applications by roads not built Financial statement Information need not be repeated Tabulated statement of desired issues Use of proceeds from desired issues Property to be acquired How service is to be improved Copies of all contracts to be filed that the capitalization and proposed capitalization of said company is lawful and legitimate and does not violate either the laws or the Constitution of this State or the United States In case the petitioning corporation or party shall have already or previously made and filed a report to this Commission showing its capitalization and financial condition in compliance with the standing order on that subject the matter thus already reported need not be again repeated in the application but may be made part thereof by appropriate form of reference with any new facts or data added to bring the recital down to date RULE 4 Said petition shall contain a statement of the amount and kind of stock which the corporation desires to issue and a tabulated statement of bonds or notes which the corporation desires to issue the terms and rate of interest and whether and how to be secured and if to be secured by a mortgage or pledge a copy of the same shall be attached RULE 5 Said petition shall contain a statement of the use to which the capital to be secured by the issue of such stock bonds or notes is to be put with a definite statement of how much is to be used for the acquisition of property how much for the construction and equipment of power plants how much for car sheds and the completion extension or improvement of its facilities or properties how much for the improvement and maintenance of its service how much for the discharge or lawful refund of its obligations or for lawful corporate purposes falling within the spirit of section 8 of the Act approved August 22 1907 RULE 6 Said petition shall contain a statement in detail of the property which is to be acquired with its value a detailed description of the construction completion extension or improvement of its facilities set forth in such a manner that an estimate may be made of its cost a statement of the character of the improvement of its service proposed and the reasons why the service should be maintained from its capital if it is proposed to discharge or refund its obligations a statement of the nature and description of its obligations including their par value and the amount for which they were actually sold and the application of the proceeds arising from such sale RULE 7 Said petition shall contain a statement showing whether any contracts have been made for the acquisition of such property or for such construction completion extension or improvement of its facilities or for the disposition of any of its stocks bonds or notes which it is proposed to issue and if any such contracts have been made copies thereof must be attached to the petition as well asa statement showing how much money or other thing of value has been received by the corporation under such contract 190 t RULE 8 Said petition shall contain a statement showing whether any of the outstanding stock or bonds or notes as contemplated in the Act of August 22 1907 have been issued or used in capitalizing any franchise or any right to own operate or enjoy any franchise or any contract for consolidation or lease or for services rendered or to be rendered or a bonus to any person or persons natural or artificial and if so shall state the amount and character thereof and the franchise right contract or lease services or bonus so capitalized RULE 9 If the stock is to be issued by a new corporation to be formed by a merger or consolidation of two or more other corporations the petition shall contain a complete description of the properties to be consolidated and a complete statement of the financial condition of the corporations so consolidated of the kind set out herein in Rule No 3 RULE 10 Attached to said petition must be a certified copy of the charter if granted by the legislature or accurate citations to volume and page if to be found in the published laws or a copy of the petition filed with the Secretary of State or any court and a certificate of incorporation issued by the Secretary of State or court if incorporated under a general law duly certified copies of all certificates statements or records which modify change or extend the purposes or powers of such corporation RULE 11 Said Petition shall set out in detail all acts done by said corporation in obe ra Ceto the laws of the State applicable to such desired issue or increase ol menfortheSla f fUlly afflrmatiy show that all require ments of the laws of Georgia have been fully complied with RULE 12 carmLPn0njT f and Mentalities proposed foi carrying into effect with safety to the petitioners and the public the purDoo stated and for complying with all conditions Imposed by law or by the Commis sion and expressing the readiness of petitioners to mate report of actings and doings under the same as the Commission may require RULE 13 inhreCeiPt Ptthi Petiti0n the Commission shall fix a time and place for hear g thereon and shall give to the applicant not less than ten days notice thereof tionT nally or by mail tbe aPPlicant shall publish a notice of the applbf as the r anlPlaCe f the hearlng in Such newspapers and at sLh es as the Commission shall direct The Commission may prescribe the terms and contents of such publication The Commission may at the requLt of the app fn awn matl0n prescribe a shorter notice for such hearing and modify ts directions for publication accordingly At the hearimy y produce such witnesses and furnish h Capitalizing franchises etc Consolidation or merger Reference where chartered by general law Law must be complied with Petitioners to make further report Hearings before Commission Notice of Hearing Applicant to produce witnesses tracts as the Commission shall at any time before final decision on the application require and must establish to the satisfaction of the Commission that the proposed issue of stocks bonds notes or other evidence of indebtedness is for the benefit of the public service and is otherwise lawful RULE 14 All proceeds must be used for purposes approved On the conclusion of the hearing or so soon thereafter as circumstances permit the Commission will make up its opinion and frame its order upon the facts appearing in each instance and the law applicable thereto Each application will be kept open and further order may be made from time to time as may be needful for the security and protection of all concerned and for a due compliance with law and the orders of this Commission All bonds and stocks when authorized by the Commission and the proceeds of the same must be used for the purpose or purposes authorized and for none other under pain of the penalties in such case provided by law 198 RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE BOARD AS TO DUTIES OF COMMISSIONERS AND EMPLOYEES RULE 1 The regular public meetings of the Commission shall begin on the second and fourth Tuesdays in each month at ten oclock A M and there shall be such other meetings as may be called by the Chairman on his own motion or on request of any two membersand of which meetings due notice shall be given The order in which the Commission will assign cases for hearing will be as follows All requests for assignment of cases filed in the office prior to the second Tuesday in the month will be acted on and the cases assigned for hearing at the meeting of the Commission to be held on the fourth Tuesday or some subsequent date All requests for assignment of cases received subsequent to the second Tuesday in the month and prior to the fourth Tuesday in the same month will be acted on and the castes assigned for hearing at the meeting of the Commission to be held on the second Tuesday in the following month or some subsequent date RULE 2 It shall be the duty of the Chairman to preside at all meetings of the Board to preserve strict order to procure at all times the correct meaning and sense of the Board to conduct the business of the Cdmmission when in session under the parliamentary rules adopted by the Board as set forth in Rule No 10 The Chairman shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Board shall conduct its correspondence attend at the office of the Board as required by law see that all orders and rules of the Board are duly carried into effect and that 11 officers and employes perform their duties as required by said orders and rules and as required by law The Chairman is authorized to issue at any time orders setting down causes or pending matters for a hearing to issue in the name of the Commission process and notice to persons or corporations to be affected by proceedings before the Commission to issue orders requiring the production of books writings and documents to be used upon hearings investigations or business befpre the Commission to issue any and all such other orders of an interlocutory character as may be necessary or proper for preparing and expediting hearings before the Commission The Chairman will report to the Board so far as needful and reasonable what has been done during intervals between meetings and also any new matters or questions with his recommendations touching the same but reserving for action of the body all new matters and cases Duties of Chairman 199 Vice Chairman Duties of Rate Expert Commission ers to reserve opinions until executive session Standing Committees RULE 3 There shall be a ViceChairman who shall act in the absence or inability of the Chairman RULE 4 It shall be the duty of the Rate Expert to keep himself fully informed touching rate conditions and rate problems as existing and as new conditions arise or changes occur or are proposed from time to time and to keep or cause to be kept a file or files as complete and up to date as is practicable of all rates and rate sheets arranged in best and easiest form for correct and ready reference and to submit all needful views and recommendations on such conditions and problems or questions as may be referred to him from time to time or on his own suggestion as may be in his judgment needful for the public interest or for the interest of parties concerned It shall be his duty to furnish to the Commission expert information and advice on all matters brought before it involving rates and to attend for that purpose all the hearings where any question of rates is or may be involved He shall perform such other duties touching general or special work of the Commission whether pertaining to his own or any other department as may be required by the Commission or by law The assistant in his department shall be under his direction for the due performance of his duties as such subject to the direction of the Commission RULE 5 Every member of the Board will in all cases reserve his opinion and in no way commit himself iii advance touching the merits of any matter or question to be passed upon by the Board or that should be dealt with by it until the facts and evidence is all submitted and the Board considers the same in executive session In all matters which relate to the making of rates and which may become the subject of litigation no member shall make any statement after such matter has been decided by the Board which may be or is liable to be treated as an admission prejudicial to the action of the Board In all cases and on all questions any member may file his dissenting opinion when in the minority or his reasons and grounds for his opinion when in the majority RULE 6 There shall be the following standing committees appointed by the Chairman consisting of two members each but the Chairman shall be an exofficio member of all both standing and special committees namely 1 Committee on Minutes 2 Committee on Auditing and Accounts 3 Committee on Bond and Stock Issues 4 Committee on Loss Damage and Demurrage 5 Committee on Tracks Sidings and Depots 6 Committee on Train Schedules and Train Service 7 Committee on Passenger and Freight Rates Together with such special committees as the Board may from time to time direct 200 RULE 7 It shallbe the duty of the Secretary to record all proceedings of the Board in the book of minutes He shall be the custodian of all the books and papers of the Board and shall systematically care for and preserve the same for ready reference and the correct transaction of the Boards business He shall see to the correspondence of the Board under direction of the Chairman and of the Board as by these rules provided He shall nominate all employees in his department for ratification by the Board and shall have control of them in the performance of their duties under these rules and shall see that the office is systematically and neatly kept and open for business during business hours namely from eightthirty A M to one oclock P M and from two oclock P M to five oclock P M each day except Sundays and legal holidays and on Saturdays from eightthirty A M to twelve oclock noon He shall have charge of the expenditure of the funds provided for the expenses of the Board and its employees under direction of the Board and shall keep an accurate account of the same submitting such accounts with proper vouchers to the Auditing Committee or as may be called for by the Chairman or by the Board or by said committee from time to time RULE 8 A majority of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business RULE 9 When any action of the Board is to be promulgated or published the same shall be recited as By the Board and shall be authenticated by the official signature of the Chairman and the Secretary When any matter is published by a member or officer of the Board the same is his individual act or declaration and not the act of the Board unless recited on its face that the Board has so ordered or decided RULE 10 At every regular meeting of the Board the following shall be the order of business unless otherwise ordered by a majority of the members present in each instance 1 Noting absentees and ascertaining quorum present 2 Corrections and approval of the Minutes 3 Special orders 4 Report of Committee on Auditing and Accounts 5 Reports of Standing Committees in their order 6 Report of special committees 7 Recommendations by the Chairman 8 Petitions and communications 9 Unfinished business 10 New business 11 Adjournment Duties of Secretary Office hours Quorum Official Orders Order of business 201 Parliamentary rules RULE 11 The rules governing the Senate of the State of Georgia for the time being where applicable are the rules for the government of this Board in its deliberations RULE 12 Rules may be altered These rules and regulations may be altered or amended at any time by a vote of a majority of the Board provided notice of proposed alteration or amendment shall have been given at the last preceding regular meeting of the Board Or the same may be altered or amended at any regular meeting of a full Board by unanimous vote without any previous notice Matters not covered by rules RULE 13 In all matters not specifically mentioned or provided for in the foregoing rules action may be hd as under established usage and the law the Board may order according to the facts and the necessities of the case in each instance Attorney to Commission RULE 14 The Attorney to the Railroad Commission shall have charge of all litigation to which the Board may be a party or in which the Commission is concerned acting or being associated with the Attorneygeneral in special cases or matters provided by law Said Attorney shall be the legal advisor and counsel of the Commission in all matters of special legal knowledge or skill when called on or needed for the correct conduct of the business of the Commission 202 OPINIONS OF SPECIAL ATTORNEY JAMES K HINES Special Attorney PLATFORM DELIVERIES OF L C L FREIGHT DUTY OF CARRIER TO MAKE TAIL BOARD DELIVERIES FROM PLATFORM OF DEPOT Supplementary Opinion April 17 1916 File 9697 Railroad Commission of Georgia Atlanta Ga Gentlemen I have your letter of the 10th instant enclosing the correspondence in the above file and you wish my opinion on the question therein raised Question Is the Southern Railway Company under legal obligation to deliver to consignees freight in less than carload lots on its depot platform at Flovilla Ga Opinion Custom and contract play an important part in this matter and control Delivery must be at the specific place named in the contract of shipment if the bill of lading designates the place of delivery 1 Michies Carriers Sec 850 In the absence of contract goods must be delivered by the carriers at the usual place of delivery at the point of destination Mo etc R Co vs Pullen 90 Ark 182 Erie etc R Co vs Wanaque L Co 75 N J L 878 Crawford vs Clark 15 111 561 Russell Grain Co vs Wabash R Co 114 Mo App 488 Atlantic Nav Co vs Johnson 27 N Y Superior Ct 475 Klass Comm Co vs Wabash R Co 84 Mo App 164 Loeb vs Wabash R Co Mo App 85 S W 118 Cohn vs Michigan C R Co 71 111 96 Farmers etc Bank vs Champlain Transp Co 23 Vt 186 St L etc R Co vs Rose 20 111 App 340 Gaff vs Bloomer 9 Pa St 114 6 Cyc 467 Carriers by rail usually deliver at their warehouses Richardson vs Goddard 23 How U S 2845 16 L Ed 412 416 In the absence of contract or usage to the contrary the carrier must deliver goods at a safe place accessible to the consignee Benbow vs North Carolina R Co 61 N C 426 98 Am Dec 76 Russell Grain Co vs Wabash R Co 114 Mo App 488 Brooks Mfg Co vs Southern R Co 152 A C 665 1 Michies Carriers Secs 849 853 203 There need not be an actual or manual tradition of the goods into the possession of the consignee Richardson vs Goddard 464 TJ S 2845 16 Led 412 Owing to the usual amenities existing between carriers and consignees the exact point in this controversy has not been passed upon by the courts so far as I have been able to discover The nearest approach to it is a case in which it is held that the carrier may require the consignee to receive freight on the platform of its depot Donovan vs Texas etc R Co 64 Tex 519 Vice versa on the principle that what is sauce for the goose ought to be sauce for the gander it might be said that the consignee can require the carrier to deliver package freight on the platform of its depot but I am not prepared to go so far In the absence of contract or clear custom to the contrary when the carriey deposits its freight in its warehouse in a place accessible to the consignee the delivery is sufficient I return herein the papers in this file Yours truly James K Hines Special Attorney CLAIMS LIABILITY OF EXPRESS COMPANY FOR DEATH OF LIVE STOCK IN TRANSIT June 27 1916 File 12805 Hon C M Candler Chairman Atlanta Ga My Dear Sir Your letter of the 24th inst enclosing copy of letter of Mr Milton P Jarnigan Animal Husbandman of the State College of Agriculture is just at hand It appears that Jarnigan sold two Tamworth pigs to Mr E E Ritter of Cope S C and shipped them by express They were examined by a Veterinarian immediately before shipment and were found in good health When these pigs arrived at destination one of them was dead There was no special contract limiting th liability of the express company Question Is the Express Company liable for the death of this Tamworth pig Ordinarily no excuse will avail the carrier for the loss of goods or its failure to deliver the same in good condition but the act of God or the public enemies of the State Civil Code Sec 2712 But in the favor of the carrier of live stock certain exceptions have grown up in his favor exempting him from liability for loss or injury caused by the nature and propensity of these animals Among these exceptions are the natural death of animals injuries from the vicious and uncontrollable nature of live stock and similar instances These stand upon the same footing as the act of God or the act of the public enemies of the State and excuse the carrier 204 Georgia Railroad vs Spears 66 Ga 485 Cooper vs R G R Co 110 Ga 659 So in this case the express company would in the absence of a contract limiting its liability be liable for the loss of this pig unless its death resulted from natural causes and the burden is upon the company to show that it died from such a cause Cooper vs R G R Co 110 Ga 6593 Yours truly James K Hines Special Attorney CAPITALIZATION AND RATES AUTHORITY OF COMMISSION TO AUTHORIZE INCREASE IN RATES IN ORDER TO PROVIDE A SINKING FUND FOR THE PURCHASE OF AN ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY BY THE CITY GRANTING THE FRANCHISE June 29th 1916 File No 12706 Railkoad Commission of Geobgia Atlanta Ga Gentlemen In re Application of Americus Public Service Company Has the Commission the power to fix a schedule of rates for this company sufficient to pay a reasonable return upon the capital invested by this company in its plant at Americus and in addition to provide a sinking fund for the return of this capital to the investors at the end of twenty years at which time the property and plant of this company are to become the property of the city of Americus under an arrangement to this effect in the ordinance of said city granting to said company franchises to erect and operate its plant in Americus The Commission is clothed with power to determine what are just and reasonable rates and charges to be exacted by this company from its patrons for light power and gas Civil Code Secs 2630 and 2662 For what purposes can the owners of property devoted to the public use levy and collect rates and charges from its patrons Can they be authorized by the Commission to collect rates which yield a just and reasonable return upon the capital invested and at the same time return the capital so invested Some courts hold that rates can reasonably be fixed high enough to provide a sinking fund for the retirement of bonds Brymer vs Butler Water Co 179 Pa St 231 But the better opinion seems to be that rates cannot be fixed high enough to pay back to investors their principal What the law secures is a fair return on the capital invested and not the return of the capital Houston Texas Central R Co vs Storey 149 Fed 499 San Diego Water Co vs San Diego 118 Cal 556 Railroad Rate Regulation 2nd Ed Sec 368 So in this case I am of the opinion that the Commission is without authority 205 to fix rates sufficient to enable the investors in this plant to get back in addition to a fair return thereon the capital so invested even though this plant and property are to belong to the city of Americus when the capital is so paid back What would be the true rule in the use of a plant owned by a municipality is not now for decision See Preston vs Detroit Water Commission 117 Mich 589 Yours very truly Signed ames K Hines Special Attorney SWITCHING DUTY OF CARRIER TO FURNISH EQUIPMENT FOR SWITCHING CAftS FROM ONE INDUSTRIAL TRACK TO ANOTHER INDUSTRIAL TRACK LOCATED ON ANOTHER LINE WHERE BOTH OF SAID TRACKS ARE WITHIN A GIVEN CITY Jul 18 1916 Railkoad Commission of Geokgia Atlanta Ga Gentlemen Your letter of May the 17th enclosing the correspondence in File 12733 came duly to hand From this correspondence it appears that the AugustaSavannah Navigation Company operates a line of boats on the Savannah River between Augusta and Savannah and handles traffic between Augusta and Savannah between Atlanta and Eastern Cities and between Augusta and interior Eastern points No railroad track leads to the wharf of the Augusta Navigation Co at Augusta The Terminal Company proposes to build a track to said wharf will agree to switch cars between this wharf and industries on its line and between this wharf and its points of intersection with other lines will agree to furnish equipment at said wharf for loading freight which reaches Augusta via the river for points on its rails or beyond will also agree to furnish shippers on its lines with equipment for transporting freight to this wharf but will not agree to furnish equipment for an outbound shipment from an industry on another line Can a shipper having an industry on his private side track on the Southern Railway in Augusta and who wishes to ship to Savannah via the river route force the Southern Railway to place cars on said side track to be there loaded and transported to the line of the Terminal Co to be transported by the latter company and delivered at this wharf The Commission has general supervision of all common carriers including railroads and is authorized to require all common carriers 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 Civil Code Sec 2663 These are broad and large powers Wadley So Ry Co vs State 137 Ga 497 Railroad Commission vs L N R Co 140 Ga 820 Under these powers you have authority and power to require the Southern 206 Railway Co to establish and maintain this service if it is reasonable and just It has been suggested that the business of common carriers is transportation and that it is this business alone which the State can regulate Advocates of this doctrine contend that switching movements drayage movements interterminal movements and movements which require railroad companies to throw open their valuable terminals to other roads are not transportation mbvements and to require such companies to perform such services transcend the powers of the State and amounts to the taking of their property without due process of law In the Detroit Switching Case the Supreme Court of the United States held that railroad companies can be compelled to receive cars from another carrier at a junction point or physical connection with such carrier within the limits of Detroit for transportation to the team tracks of the companies and that such companies could be compelled to allow the use of their team tracks for cars to be hauled from their team tracks to a junction point or physical connection with another carrier within such limits and be required to haul such cars in either of the above movements or between industrial sidings Grand Trunk Railway vs Michigan Ry Commission 231 U S 457 464 In this case the Supreme Court of the United States does lay stress upon the peculiar situation in Detroit and upon the volume and distance of the movements involved in that situation The Court uses this language Is there a distinct and sufficient movement between places which the companies can be required to perform or which to put it another way constitutes transportation and therefore such as the companies were created to perform That cars may be delivered or received is but an incident The Statute therefore is a regulation of the business of appellants not an appropriation of their terminal facilities for the use and benefit of other roads From this it would seem that a movement must be a transportation movement to permit of its regulation I do not concede this but accepting it to be the true doctrine I do not think the case in hand is a similar one The movement from the plant on the Southern Railway to the line of the Terminal Company and over the line of the latter company to the wharf of the steamship company is transportation and is subject to regulation This is not giving to one railroad company the costly terminals of another road and is not making the former do the switching of the latter upon simply paying for the service of carriage I am of the opinion that connecting railroads can be required to do switching and interterminal service for patrons on their respective lines for reasonable compensation and that this is not taking their property On the contrary this is only regulating it This is not the same thing as requiring one railroad to throw its costly terminals open to another railroad upon simply paying for the service of carriage and does not come within the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States in Louisville etc R R Co vs Stockyards Co 212 U S 132 The Commission has already prescribed charges for the transportation of loaded cars in interterminal service except to and from team tracks of connecting carriers 207 Freight Rule 23 A So I am of the opinion that the Commission has the power and authority to require the Southern Railway Company to perform this service for the owners of industrial plants along its line Yours truly James K Hines Special Attorney SIDE TRACK FACILITIES FAILURE OF CARRIERS TO PLACE FOR DELIVERY ON INDUSTRIAL TRACKS SHIPMENTS CONSIGNED TO PARTIES OTHER THAN OWNERS OF SAID INDUSTRIAL TRACKS July 20 1916 File 12795 Railroad Commission of Geobgia Atlanta Ga Gentlemen I have your letter of the 14th inst enclosing the papers in the above file From the correspondence in this case it appears that the Rome Sand Gravel Co shipped two carloads of sand from Rome Ga to the Pike Bros Lumber Co Cedartown Ga These cars were consigned to Pike Bros Lumber Co care of the Cedartown Ice Co which latter company is located upon ah industrial track of the Seaboard Airline Railway This industrial track belongs to the Seaboard Airline Railway and it does not appear that the Cedartown Ice Co has the exclusive use of this track If it did so appear the Cedartown Ice Co gave its consent to the delivery to the consignee of these cars on said track at its plant The Central of Georgia Railway Co transported these cars of sand to Cedartown hnd tendered them to the Seaboard Airline Railway for delivery to the consignee at the plant of the Cedartown Ice Co on this industrial track The Seaboard Airline Railway Co refused to receive these cars and deliver them to the consignee on this industrial track The Seaboard Airline Railway bases its refusal to deliver these cars to the consignee on this industrial track upon the grounds first that these two cars of sand did not belong to the Cedartown Ice Co second that it is not the duty of this company to place on private sidings cars reaching it via other lines unless such cars are consigned to consignees to whom these sidings are assigned and third because Traffic Manager Airy of the C of G Railway advised that had the situation been reversed the C of G Railway would not have received and delivered these cars I do not think that these excuses are good The fact that the Cedartown Ice Co did not own this property would not justify this company in refusing to receive and deliver these cars The fact that this industrial track had been assigned to the Cedartown Ice Co did not justify this company in rejecting this shipment especially as this company consented to its delivery on this track Besides the consignment of this shipment to the care of the Cedartown Ice Co was in effect a consignment to that company pany By the common law goods are to be delivered at the usual place for making such delivery unless the specific place is named in the contract of shipment 1 MichiesCarriers Sec 850 But this matter is subject to regulation by the State By statute in this State the Railroad Commission is vested with full power to make and enforce all such reasonable rules regulations and orders as may be necessary to compel the several railroad companies in this state to promptly receive forward and deliver at destination all freight which is tendered or received by it for transportation Civil Code Sec 2634 Under this statute the Commission can make and enforce reasonable rules and regulatipns fixing the time place and manner of delivery of goods by the railroads of this State and can likewise make such rules regulating the receipt and delivery by connecting carriers of goods passing from one to the other In pursuance of this power the Commission made Demurrage Rule 13 In my opinion the Seaboard Airline Railway violated this rule of the Commission in refusing this shipment under the facts of this case This is true notwithstanding the advice of Traffic Manager Airy of the C of G R Co I return herein the file in this cas Yours truly James K Hines Special Attorney TRANSPORTATION DUTY OF CARRIERS TO PRESCRIBE RULES WITH REFERENCE TO THE PHYSICAL OPERATION OF TRAINS HAYING DUE REGARD TO THE SAFETY OF THE TRAVELING PUBLIC July 21st 1916 File 12845 Hon C M Candler Chairman Railroad Commission of Georgia Atlanta Ga My Dear Sir I have your letter of the 19th instant enclosing letter of Mr P C Waters Chairman B of L E In this letter of Mr Waters he requests the Commission to give the railroad engineers of the S A L Railway a hearing in order that they may establish the fact that the observance of Rule Q in General Instructions printed on the time table of this company renders hazardous the operations of the trains of this company The writer asserts that by giving a hearing the engineers can show that the observance of this rule is dangerous both to the employees of this company and to the public Has the Commission jurisdiction of this complaint The Commission has genera supervision of railrdads in this State TheCommission is given authority to examine into the affairs of such companies and corporations and to keep informed as to their general condition and the manner in which their lines are managed conducted and operated not only with respect to the adequacy security and accommodation afforded by their services 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 Civil Code Section 2663 209 By this section of the Gode the Commission is given authority to examine into the affairs of railroad companies in order to be informed as to the manner in which their lines are operated with respect to the security afforded by their service to the public and their employees When complaint is made that a railroad company is operated in such a manner as to endanger the lives of its employees I think the Commission has jurisdiction to investigate such complaint and find out whether it is well founded or not If the investigation discloses the fact that such operation of the trains of a railroad company does unreasonably and unduly endanger the lives of its employees or thepublic then the Commission has authority to order a change in the manner of its operation In such investigation the Commission cannot invade the province of the general manager of such railroad If there is a reasonable difference of opinion as to whether danger results from the manner in which the lines of a railway are operated then the opinion of the general manager should not be set aside In other words the Commission would not be authorized to substitut its opinion for that of the general manager unless it is made to appear that the manner in which the lines of this road are operated is unduly hazardous to its employees If the manner of operation adopted by the General Manager is reasonably safe then the Commission cannot substitute a different manner of operation When however a complaint is filed that the operation of a railroad is dangerous to its employees or the public then in my opinion the Commission has jurisdiction thereof and can have a hearing for the purpose of determining whether such complaint is well founded or not I return herein the papers in this file Yours truly James K Hines Special Attorney INTERSTATE SHIPMENTS APPLICABILITY OF STORAGE AND DEMURRAGE RULES OF RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA TO SHIPMENTS OF LUMBER MOVING TO SAVANNAH HELD THERE AND LATER EXPORTED OR RESHIPPED TO OTHER DESTINATIONS Supplementary Opinion August 1st 1916 File 12856 Railroad Commission of Georgia Atlanta Ga Gentlemen I have your letter of the 30th ult enclosing copy of letter of G M Williams Co in the above file It appears that G M Williams Co receive by rail cars of lumber consigned to them locally at Savannah and they then order them placed by the railroads at the wharves of the Ocean Steamship Co for shipment to Boston or New York The railroads contend that when such orders are given such shipments immediately become interstate shipments and subject to the act to regulate commerce and the rules of the Interstate Commerce Commission and are not subject to demurrage rules of this Commission 210 If these shipments were intended originally to move in interstate commerce then they would not be subject to the jurisdiction of this Commission and its The essential nature of the movement and not the form of the bill of lading determines the character of the commerce involved And generally when this interstate character has been acquired it continues at least until it reaches the point where the parties originally intended that the movement should finally end So P Terminal Co vs Interstate Commerce Commission 219 U S 498 527 Ohio R Commission vs Worthington 225 U 8 no Texas N O Railroad vs Sabine Tran Co 227 U S Ill 126 La R Commission vs T P Railway 229 U S 336 341 But whether originally impressed with the character ofan interstate shipment or not when Williams Co order these cars of lumber delivered by the railroads to the Ocean Steamship Go for shipment to New York or Boston they then become shipments in interstate commerce and subject to the rules of the interstate Commerce Commission These gentlemen further complain that the Ocean Steamship Co will not accept these shipments from them as fast as they offer them and fail to make provision to receive and hold these shipments of lumber to be forwarded as soon as the steamship company can do so These gentlemen wish relief at the hands of this Commission against this state of affairs Of this complaint this Commission is without jurisdiction They can only see this relief at the hands of the Interstate Commerce Commission or the Congress of the United States Yours truly James K Hines Special Attorney PLATFORM DELIVERIES DUTY OF CARRIER TO MAKE TAIL BOARD DELIVERIES FROM PLATFORM OF INTRASTATE AND INTERSTATE SHIPMENTS October 6 1916 Fil 9697 Hon C M Candler Chairman Atlanta Ga Dear Sir Your letter of August 19th last enclosing the papers in the above file came duly to hand From these papers it appears that the Southern Railroad Company makes deliveries of intrastate shipments to consignees on its platform at Flovilla but declines to deliver interstate shipments in this manner I note that you wish my opinion upon the question whether the Railroad Commission of Georgia has jurisdiction over deliveries of interstate shipments and can regulate the methods thereof The Act to Regulate Commerce defines transportation as including All services in connection with the receiving delivery elevation transfer in transit ventilation refrigeration or icing storage and handling of property transported 211 These statutory provisions manifest the intent of Congress that the obliga tion of the carrier with respect to the services within the purview of the statute shall be governed by uniform rule in place of the diverse requirements of State legislation and decisions Southern Railway Co vs Prescott 240 U S 632639 When Congress exercises its authority to regulate the power of the State is at an end Adams Express Co vs Croninger 266 U S 491 When Congress has exercised its paramount legislative authority over a particular subject of interstate Commerce State laws upon the same subject are superceded M K T R Co vs Harris 234 U S 412 Congress having by the Act to Regulate Commerce undertaken to regulate interstate transportation which includes the delivery of interstate shipments the Railroad Commission of Georgia has no authority or power to regulate the methods of delivery of interstate shipments by carriers I return herein the papers in this file Yours very truly James K Hines Special Attorney INTERSTATE SHIPMENTS LIABILITY OF CARRIER UNDER COMMISSION FREIGHT RULE NO 33 WHERE INTRASTATE SHIPMENTS ARE HANDLED VIA AN INTERSTATE ROUTE November 2 1916 Your File No 12603 Railroad Commission of Georgia Atlanta Ga Gentlemen The letter of your Rate Expert of August 25th enclosing the papers in the above file came duly to hand It appears from the papers in this file that a shipment of shingles was made by the Ladson Lumber Co from Weber Ga to Rockmart Ga Weber Ga is on the Georgia Florida R R and that company was the initial carrier The shipment moved without routing instructions from the consignor It moved interstate There was a reasonable and practical route by which said shipment could have moved at a lower freight rate By reason of the shipment moving over the interstate route the freight charges were higher than over the intrastate The shipper makes claim for the difference between the charges by the interstate route and those by the intrastate route The carrier declines to pay this difference You wish my opinion upon this question towit Is the carrier responsible for the actual movement liable to the shipper for this difference in charges when the shipment moved over the interstate route In other words is the carrier compelled to collect the tariff rates over the interstate route Can the carrier refund this difference without special permission or order from the Interstate Commission By General Freight Ruling No 33 of this Commission shippers can give rout 212 ing instructions and it then becomes the duty of the carrier to forward according to such instructions 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 By this rule the Commission has given routing instipctions for all shipments where shippers neglect to give such instructions and carriers are bound to obey this rule of the Commission For a violation of it the carrier responsible therefor must make reparation In this case the carrier takes the position that they cannot make reparation because they are compelled to Collect the charges applicable to the interstate movement and they rely upon Conference Ruling No 140 of the Interstate Commerce Commission This ruling applies in the absence of routing instructions by the shipper In cases where no statute or rule of the Commission prescribes the routing and the shipper neglects to give routing instructions this Conference Ruling applies and is binding In the absence of special through routing by the shipper it is the duty of the agent of the carrier in cases of interstate shipments to route shipment via the cheapest reasonable route known to him and if a carriers agent misroutes a shipment and thus causes extra expense to the shipper over and above the lawful rate via another route of the class designated by the shipper over which said agent had applicable rates which he could lawfully use and responsibility for agents error is admitted by the carrier such carrier may adjust the overcharge so caused by refunding to shipper the difference between the lawful charges via the route over which shipment moved and what would have been the lawful charges on the same shipment at the time via the cheaper and available route of the class designated which could have been lawfully used I C C Conference Ruling No 214 The carriers in this case seem to admit the misrouting but decline to pay the difference because of the I C C Conference Ruling No 140 They seem to blow both hot and cold At one time they agree to refund and then decline In my opinion a carrier responsible for this misrouting is liable to the shipper For failure to comply with Freight Rule No 33 the carrier responsible is subject in my opinion to the penalty prescribed by Section 2687 of the Code of this State If after due notice and hearing the Commission finds that one of these carriers is responsible for this misrouting and passes an order requiring the carrier to refund this overcharge then the carrier would be liable to the shipper for such overcharge and in case of recovery if the jury should find that such act 213 was willful the jury may fix a reasonable counsels fee which fee shall be taxed as part of the costs Civil Code Sec 2666 I return herein the papers in this file Yours truly James K Hines Special Attorney BILLSLADING LIABILITY OF CARRIER ON BILLSLADING WITH REFERENCE TO O R OR C R RATING ACCORDING TO THE TERMS OF THE BILLLADING November 2nd 1916 Your File No 12916 Railroad Commission Georgia Atlanta Ga Gentlemen The letter of your Rate Expert of the 8th ult enclosing the papers in the above file came duly to hand I note that you desire my opinion upon the question of the character of liability assumed by the carrier under the Bill of Lading enclosed with these papers There is no stipulation in this Bill of Lading that the goods therein embraced are to be carried at the owners risk In the absence of such stipulation the carrier assumes the risk of transportation Below the signatures of the shipper and the carriers agent on this Bill of Lading there is this printed memorandum NoteUnless this Bill of Lading is signed by the shipper this shipment will be carried at the carriers liability limited only as provided by law but subject to the terms and conditions of this Bill of Lading in so far as they are not inconsistent with the common carriers liability This note carries the negative pregnant that if this Bill of Lading is signed by the shipper the shipment will not be carried at the carriers liability but at the owners risk The question then in this case is Does this note constitute a part of the Bill of Lading This Bill of Lading contains the provision That every service to be performed hereunder shall be subject to all conditions whether printed or written herein contained including conditions on back hereof and which are agreed to by the shipper and accepted for himself and his assigns This Bill of Lading likewise contains this provision Receive carry and deliver the articles described above subject to the conditions on the face and back hereof all of which are agreed to The above note while not in the body of this Bill of Lading is on the face thereof that is on the same sheet on which this Bill of Lading is printed or written Does the language On the face hereof mean only what is printed or written above the signatures thereto or does it embrace all that is written on the face of the sheet of paper on which this Bill of Lading is written and printed I am inclined to the opinion that all conditions on the face of this Bill of Lading whether above or below the signatures under the above stipula 214 tion is a part of this Bill of Lading and that these goods moved at the owners risk inasmuch as this Bill of Lading is signed by the shipper In other words I am of the opinion that the above note forms a part of this Bill of Lading under and by virtue of the stipulation hereinbefore referred to but whether this is true or not if the shipper assented to this note then it became a part of this Bill of Lading and governs the contract of the carrier Where there is a notation or memorandum on the margin of the Bill of Lading at its execution touching the manner of transportation it may be regarded as part of the contract if the shipper assents to such notation but all marginal notes placed on a Bill of Lading by the shipper is no part of the bill 1st Michies Carriers Sec 419 Lawrence vs McGregor O Wright 193 Yesbib vs Macon etc R Co 11 Ga App 298 U S vs Kimball 13 Wallace Rp 636 From this letter it appears that the railroad proposes to apply the Car Service Rules applicable to interstate shipments to lumber which this Company is having shipped to Savannah from various Georgia points and which in turn is shipped by this Company to New York and Boston via the Ocean Steamship Company both movements being entirely distinct and taking the two local rates This Company wishes to know if this holding of the Railroads is correct and I note that you wish my opinion upon its correctness Is this movement of lumber an intrastate or interstate movement If it is an interstate movement the position of the Railroads is correct If this lumber moves intrastate from points in Georgia to Savannah then this holding of the Railroads is incorrect So in this case if the shipper assented to this note it is a part of the Bill of Lading and the goods moved at the owners risk I return herein the papers in this file Yours truly James K Hines Special Attorney INTERSTATE SHIPMENTS APPLICABILITY OF STORAGE AND DEMURRAGE RULES OF RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA TO SHIPMENTS OF LUMBER MOVING TO SAVANNAH HELD THERE AND LATER EXPORTED OR RESHIPPED TO OTHER DESTINATIONS December 14th 1916 File 1305p Railboad Commission of Geobgia Atlanta Ga Gentlemen The letter of your Rate Expert of the 13th inst enclosing copy of letter of the Alfred R Sax Lumber Company is at hand In determining whether commerce is interstate or intrastate regard must be had to its essential character mere bills of lading are not determinative If the actual movement is interstate the power of Congress attaches to it and the pro 215 vision of the Act to Regulate Commerce applies and the rulesand regulations of the interstate commission prevail Rearick vs Pennsylvania 203 U S 507 512 So Pac Terminal Co vs Interstate Commerce Commission 209 U S 498 526 527 Ohio R R Commission vs Worthington 225 U S 101 108 110 Savage vs Jones 225 TJ S 501 522 Texas N O R R vs Sabine Tram Co 227 S Ill 127 La R R Commission vs Texas Pac Ry 229 U S 336 111 Central R R vs La R R Commission 236 TJ S 157 163 Pa R R vs Clark Coal Company 238 U S 456 465 466 In Texas N O R R Company vs Sabine Tram Company 227 U S Ill 127 the Powell Company bought lumber for export to different ports in Europe through ports in Sabine and Port Arthur both in the State of Texas In fulfilling its export contracts it purchased of the Sabine Tram Company a large amount of lumber which according to sellers option was delivered f o b cars at Sabine Texas There was separate bills of lading for delivery at Sabine to Sabine Tram Company Upon arrival at Sabine the lumber was carried a short distance beyond the station to the dock where it was unloaded from cars into water of th slip ready for loading upon ships The Sabine Tram Company had no connection with the further carriage of this lumber The Railroad Company Collected over protest the rates fixed by tariffs filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Sabine Tram Company brought suit to recover the difference between the amount thus paid and the amount which would have been payable at the rate fixed by the State Commission The Supreme Court of the United States held that the rate fixed by the Interstate Commerce Commission was applicable as the lumber was destined for export and that as the movement was one actually in the course of transportation to a foreign destination the form of the billing to Sabine and the transactions there were not determinative This case in all its features is very similar to that outlined in the letter of the Alfred R Sax Lumber Company This Company buys lumber at various points in Georgia and has it shipped to Savannah and in turn reships it to New York and Boston via the Ocean Steamship Company The lumber is not unloaded from the cars on which it arrives in Savannah but is switched in the same cars to the wharf of the Ocean Steamship Company From this state of facts it appears that this lumber is shipped from points of origin to Savannah for the purpose of export and for an interstate movement If when delivered to the carrier originally it was intended that it should move in foreign or interstate commerce then it is an interstate movement and not an intrastate movement although it moves under local bills of lading from points of origin to Savannah and under separate bills of lading from Savannah to points of destination I do not overlook the statement in this letter that both movements that is from points of origin to Savannah andvfrom Savannah to point of destination are entirely distinct and the shipments take two local rates Under the facts set out in thisletter these movements are not entirely distinct If these movements were intended to end at Savannah with no intention on the part of this Corn 216 pany to have it move in interstate commerce and this Company should afterwards ship this lumber by the Ocean Steamship Company to New York and Boston this would constitute two distinct movements but if when this lumber starts from points of origin it is intended for export to New York and Boston the lumber not being unloaded at the delivery tracks of the carrier in Savannah but is intended to be moved by the carrier in the cars in which it arrives to the wharf of the Ocean Steamship Company it is in all essential features an interstate movement under the above decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States In my opinion the railroads correctly apply the Car Service Rules of the Interstate Commerce Commission to these shipments Yours very truly James K Hines Special Attorney MUNICIPAL CONTRACTS AUTHORITY OF COMMISSION OYER RATES OF A MUNICIPAL PLANT WHERE SUCH MUNICIPAL PLANT SERVES PATRONS OTHER THAN IN CITY OWNING SUCH PLANT December 16th 1916 File 13050 Hon C M Candles Chairman Atlanta Ga My Dear Sir Your letter of the 15th inst enclosing copy of letter from Mr H M Franklin in reference to light rates charged by the City of Sandersville to the citizens of Tennille came duly to hand Under its charter the City of Sandersville has power and authority to establish a system of electric lights in said City for the purpose of supplying its inhabitants as well as consumers generally Georgia Laws 1902 Pages 578 588 Has the Commission jurisdiction over rates charged by the City of Sandersville to customers other than the inhabitants of the City of Sandersville I have heretofore held that the Commission did not have jurisdiction over municipal light plants furnishing electric lights and power to the inhabitants of the municipality operating such plants 37 Annual Report Page 115 I adhere to this opinion but limit it to municipalities owning such plants and furnishing light and power tothose dwelling within its limits When a municipality undertakes to furnish light and power to consumers not residing within their territorial limits they exercise extramunicipal functions When municipalities own and operate lighting plants and furnish light and power to their own inhabitants it is in fact the people of such municipalities providing light and power for themselves and the inhabitants of such a city can control and regulate such plants and the prices charged to them for light and power through their municipal governments When however such municipal plant undertakes to furnish those beyond their limits the latter have no control of such plants and the rates charged to them When municipalities engage in furnishing light and power to customers outside of their limits they cease to perform public and governmental functions and 217 place themselves upon the same plane as other persons furnishing light and power to the public and when they do so are in my opinion subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission I return herein the papers in this file Yours very truly James K Hines Special Attorney BILLSLADING REQUIREMENTS AS TO ISSUANCE OF THROUGH BILLSLADING ALSO THE DUTY OF SWITCHING LINE TO ISSUE BILLSLADING FOR SHIPMENTSGOING TO POINTS LOCATED ON ANOTHER LINE December 22nd 1916 File 13072 Railroad Commission of Georgia Atlanta Ga Gentlemen The letter of your Rate Expert of the 20th inst enclosing the papers in the above file came duly to hand I note that you wish my opinion upon this question Can the Railroad Commission of this State lawfully promulgate a rule requiring a carrier on whose industrial tracks a car is loaded with goods to be switched by such carrier to a connecting railroad for transportation to issue to the shipper a through bill of lading for transportation of such shipment to the point of destination The Commission is 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 of this State to promptly receive receipt for forward and deliver to destination all freight of every character which may be tendered or received by them for transportation Civil Code Sec 2634 The Commission is authorized 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 Civil Code Sec 2663 These are very broad powers Wadley Sou R R Co vs The State 137536 The Commission shall have power and authority to prescribe rules and penalties covering and requiring the prompt carriage and delivery of freight and shall also be authorized to prescribe rules and penalties for the transfer of cars through yards of connecting roads Civil Code Sec 2664 Furthermore the Commission has general supervision of all common carriers and railroads Civil Code Sec 2663 It is difficult to make a specific enumeration of all such powers as the legislature may intend to confer upon Railroad Commissions for the regulation of common carriers in the interest of the public welfare this renders it necessary to 218 confer some powers in general terms The granting of general powers is intended to confer other powers than those specifically enumerated R R Commission vs L N R R Co 140822 The State vs Atl Coast Ine R Co 61 Fla 799 Under these broad powers which have Been conferred upon the Railroad Commission of this State by statute I am of the opinion that the Commission has the power and authority to require a carrier on whose industrial tracks a car loaded with goods to be switched by such carrier to a connecting carrier for transportation to issue a through bill of lading for the transportation of such car to its point of destination if the above provisions of our Statute law do not conflict with the Constitution of the United States and of this State and if sue ruling would be not arbitrary and unreasonable The public power to regulate railroads and the private right of ownership of such property coexist and the one does not destroy the other Where the pov er to regulate is so arbitrarily exercised as to infringe the rights of ownership the exertion is void as being reputnant to the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States and to the dueprocess clause of the State Constitution R R Commission vs L N R Co 140817 831 Would such an order be arbitrary and unreasonable In view of the customary interchange of loaded cars between connecting railroads and the almost universal practice of having cars loaded on the industrial tracks of one railroad switched to connecting roads for transportation I do not believe such a rule would be unreasonable and arbitrary It furnishes a facility of great convenience to the shipping and commercial public and does not impose upon the initial carrier any very onerous burdens Are the above provisions of our Statute conferring upon the Commission the power to make such a rule unconstitutional and void I appreciate the gravity of this question By the common law a Railroad Company is not compelled to make a contract to forward goods beyond its own line though if it should make such a contract and fail to carry it out it would be liable for damages Coles Simkins Co vs Central R R etc 86251 State vs W T R Co 104437 Wadley R R Co vs State 137507 Keithley vs Lusk 190 Mo App 458 In the ease of Coles Simkins Co vs The Central Railroad Company Justice Simmons declared that speaking for myself I doubt very much the power of the legislature to enact a law compelling a railroad to make a contract for a through bill of lading beyond its terminus In the State vs Wrightsville Tennille Railroad Company it was held that there is no law that confers upon the Railroad Commission of this State the power to compel a Railroad Company to make a contract for the shipment of goods beyond the terminus of its own line or to issue a through bill of lading binding such Company so to do In that case no question is raised as the constitutionality of such a law The Carmack amendment to the Interstate Commerce Act provides as follows That any common carrier Railroad or transportation company receiving property for transportation from a point in one Stateto a point in another State shall issue a receipt or a bill of lading therefor and shall be liable to the lawful owner 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 thereby imposed N 34 Statute at Large 584 595 This Act came before the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Atlantic Coast Line R Co vs Riverside Mills 219 U S 187 and that Court in the headnote of the decision in that case used this language Quaere and not decided whether a carrier can be compelled to accept goods for transportation beyond its own lines or be required to make a through or joint rate over independent lines Under the Carmack amendment whenever the carrier voluntarily accepts goods for shipment to a point on another line in another State it is conclusively treated as having made a through contract Atlantic Coast Line vs Riverside Mills 219 U S 186 Galveston H S Af Ry vs Wallace 223 U S 481 N W Ry vs Dixie Tob Co 228 U S 593 Stipulations in a bill of lading for interstate shipment that no carrier shall be liable for damages not occurring on its portion of the through route are void and the initial carrier is liable whether the through route connections are designated by it or by the shipper N W Ry Co vs Dixie Tob Co 228 U S 593 As a common carrier is not at liberty to decline shipments of lawful merchandise but must accept them M P Ry Co vs Tucker 233 U S 340 inasmuch as such carrier must issue under the Carmack amendment a through bill of lading for such freight inasmuch as the initial carrier cannot stipulate for exemption from liabilty for loss or damages not occurring on its own lines N W Ry Co vs Dixie Tob Co 228 U S 593 and inasmuch as the initial carrier is made liable for such loss and damages not occurring on its own lines it follows that the effect of the Carmack amendment is to require the initial carrier in interstate commerce to issue through bills of lading and make them liable for loss and damages not occurring on their own lines The Carmack amendment has been held in the above decision to be constitutional If Congress has the power to compel interstate carriers to issue through bills of lading for interstate shipments it necessarily follows that the State of Georgia has authority to enact legislation requiring intrastate carriers to issue through bills of lading for intrastate shipments Atlantic Coast Line Ry vs Glenn 239 U S 388 392 In this latter case in speaking of the decision in the case of th eAtlantic Coast Line vs Riverside Mills 219 U S 186 Chief Justice White says It is true that that case involved the power of Congress over interstate commerce while this concerns the power of a State over intrastate commerce but the reasoning by which the conclusion as to the existence of the power was sustained in that case compels a like conclusion with reference to the power of a State over commerce wholly within its borders In other words Congress can compel the issuing of a through bill of lading for an interstate shipment and the State of Georgia can pass a law requiring a carrier to issue a through bill of lading for intrastate shipment While the question is not free from doubt I am of the opinion that under our Statute the Railroad Commission of Georgia can require a Railroad Company when it receives freight on its industrial tracks to be switched to connecting carriers for transportation to issue to the shipper a through bill of lading to its point of destination You further wish my opinion oh the question Where a car is loaded on a side or industrial track of the W A Railroad in Atlanta to be switched and delivered by that carrier to the Southern Railway at its exchange track in Atlanta to be transported by the latter Company to Waco Georgia how much time have these carriers in which to perform this service without becoming liable to the shipper or consignee for demurrage The W A had twentyfour hours after issuing its receipt for this car m which to deliver it to the Southern Railway Storage Rule 13 Then it became the duty of the Southern Railway Company after receiving this car at its exchange track to carry the same forvrd at the rate of fifty miles per day of twentyfour hours computed from seven oclock A M of the day following the receipt of this car Storage Rule 10 So the W A Railroad had one day of twentyfour hours in which to deliver this car to the Southern Railway The Southern Railway Company might or or might not have a day of twentyfour hours in which to begin the transportation of a car so received from the W A Railroad For instance if the W A Railroad delivered a car to the Southern Railway Company at six P M of one day the Southern Railway Company would have to carry it forward at the rate of fifty miles per day of twentyfour hours computed from seven A M of the following day In every case the time of the switching carrier begins to run from the receipt of the car to be switched and the time of the transportation carrier begins to run from seven A M of the day following the receipt of such car I return herein the papers in this file Wishing the Commission and its staff a Merry Christmas I am Yours very truly James K Hines Special Attorney1 CAPITALIZATION ISSUANCE OF NONINTEREST BEARING NOTES IN PAYMENT OF DEFERRED DIVIDEND February 10th 1917 Railroad Commission oe Georgia Atlanta Ga Gentlemen In re Issuing of notes by the Georgia Railway Power Company to pay dividend on its preferred stock 221 This Company has declared a dividend upon its preferred stock three 3 per cent of which has been paid in cash and remainder is to be paid in instalments running through a period of seven years It proposes to issue noninterest bearing notes for these deferred payments of this dividend and has applied to the Railroad Commission of Georgia for authority to issue these notes Question Has the Railroad Commission of Georgia power and authority to authorize the issuing of these notes for this purpose and under the facts of this case ought such authority be granted if the Commission has authority and power to do so Corporations subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission can only issue stocks bonds notes or other evidences of debt payable more than twelve months after date thereof except upon the approval of the Commission and then only when necessary and for such amount as may be reasonably required for the acquisition of property for the construction and equipment of power plants carsheds and for 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 and for lawful corporate purposes falling within the spirit of this provision Civil Code Sec 2665 If the Commission has authority to approve these obligations it must be found in its power to authorize he issuing of notes for the discharge or lawful refunding of its obligations or for lawful corporate purposes falling within the spirit of this provision of this section A dividend when declared is a common debt due each shareholder in proportion to number of his shares for which he may maintain an ordinary action at law 10 Cyc 546 566 Wheeler vs Northwestern Sleigh Co 39 Fed 347 So if this dividend was properly declared by the directors of this Company it became an obligation of this Company and under tins section of the Code the Commission has power to authorize this Company to issue its notes therefor when this is necessary and for such amount as may be reasonably required for this purpose In my opinion the Commission is not bound by the declaration of this dividend by the directors of this Company but has the right to determine whether its declaration was proper or not Preferred stock holders can have no dividends on their stock unless there are net earnings Those net earnings are what is left after payihg current expenses and interest on debts and everything else which the stockholders preferred and common as a body corporate are liable to pay Warren vs King 108 U S 389 398 The directors of a corporation have the power to devote the profits of any given year to improving of the property to the exclusion of any dividend to the preferred stock holders New York Lake Erie W R Co vs Nickals 119 U S 296 311 30 Le ed 363 St John vs Erie R Co 89 U S 136 147 If this Company invested its earnings in improving and in additions to its property and such investments left of net earnings from which dividends on its 222 preferred stock could be paid then a declaration of dividends by this Company would be illegal There can be no dividends on preferred stock unless there are net earnings in the sense above decided Assuming that this dividend was properly declared then the same became a debt or obligation of this Company and if necessary for the discharge thereof the Commission could authorize the issuing of notes therefor by this Company The power of the Commission to authorize the issuing of notes is not unlimited It can only authorize the issuing of notes for the purpose named in the Act of 1907 it cannot authorize tie issuing of notes or other evidences of debt for any other purposes There is another limitation upon the power of the Commission It can only authorize the issuing of notes or other evidences of debt when the same is necessary and for such amount as may be reasonably required and then only for one of the purposes for which the Commission is empowered to give its sanction to the issuing of such notes If there is no necessity for the issuing of such notes then the Commission is without power to authorize their issuance If this Company has sufficient net earnings after paying expenses of operation including taxes interest on its bonded debt and the reservation of sufficient working capital to insure the operation of its properties and the discharge of its duties to the public then in my opionion the Commission is without power to authorize the issuing of these notes This dividend should be paid from such net earnings Besides it is a question of doubtful propriety whether a Company should be allowed to declare a dividend and spread the payment thereof over a number of years in the future On its face it smacks of the lack of sufficient net earnings to pay such dividend or of the misapplication of funds properly applicable to the payment thereof Yours truly James K Hines Special Attorney CAR SUPPLY LIABILITY OF CARRIER FOR DAMAGES ARISING FROM FAILURE TO FURNISH EQUIPMENT WHEN ORDERED ACCOUNT NOT HAYING PROVIDED ITSELF WITH SUFFICIENT EQUIPMENT February 16 1917 File 13157 Hon C M Candles Chairman Railroad Commission of Georgia Atlanta Ga My Dear Sir I have your letter of the 15th instant and note that you wish my opinion upon this question Can a Railroad Company in this State engaged in the transportation of freight as a common carrier excuse its failure to furnish sufficient cars by showing that while it did not own any equipment or sufficient equipment it expected to borrow or hire the same from its connections By the common law the common carrier holding himself out to the public as such is bound to receive all goods offered that he is able and accustomed to carry Civil Code Sec 2729 I am inclined to the opinion that this duty has been increased by the Sneed Act and by Storage Rule No 10 of the Commission 223 The Sneed Act empowers the Commission to require the several Railroad Companies in this State to promptly receive and forward all freight of every character which may be tendered to them for transportation Civil Code Sec 2634 Storage Rule No 10 is based upon this Act and would seem to require the Railroad Companies in this State to receive and forward all freight tendered to them for transportation A Railroad Company is under a duty to provide sufficient cars for transporting without unreasonable delay the usual and ordinal quantity of freight offered to it or which might be ordinarily expected in its business It is the duty of a Railroad Company as a common carrier to provide ears sufficient to transport goods offered in the usual and ordinary course of business It is not bound to anticipate and prepare for an exceptional and extraordinary press of business Southern Ry Co vs Moore 133 Ga 806 813 Southern Ry Co vs Atlanta Sand S Co 135 Ga 35 54 Wadley So Ry Co vs Kent Downs 145 Ga 689 Where a Railroad Company fails to provide cars sufficient to transport goods offered in the usual and ordinary course of business such a company can not justify its failure to comply with this duty by showing that it expected to get cars from its connections and that they refused to let it have such cars Such excuse is wholly wihout merit As well might a naked pedestrian when arrested for public indecency in walking down Whitehall in a nude state justify himself by showing that he had not provided himself with clothing because he had expected to get clothes from his neighbor who had refused to let him have them Wadley So Ry Co vs Kent Downs 145 Ga 689 Yours truly James K Hines Special Attorney CLAIMS LIABILITY OF EXPRESS COMPANY FOR DAMAGES OCCURRING ACCOUNT OF TRAIN FAILURES ALS0 DAMAGES ARISING ACCOUNT WEATHER CONDITIONS March 2nd 1917 File 13113 Railroad Commission of Georgia Atlanta Ga Gentlemen The letter of Chairman Candler of January 29th ult enclosing the papers in the above file came duly to hand I note you wish my opinion upon two questions The first is Is an express company liable for losses of fish oysters and other perishable freight when such losses are occasioned by train accidents or delays not under the control of the express company An express company is a common carrier and when itreceives such freight for transportation no excuse will avail it for failure tocarryand deliver such freight or for its loss unless it was occasioned by the act of God or the public 224 enemies of the State in the case of live stock the viciousness of the animals in the case of perishable articles the natural deterioration of the object carried or an inherent vice in the goods or a special contract made with the shipper or some statute or the negligence of the shipper Civil Code Sec 2712 Ga R Co vs Spears 66 Ga 485 Forrester vs Ga R Co 92 Ga 699 Boaz vs Central R Co 87 Ga 463 L N R Co vs Warfield 129 Ga 473 477 If the train accidents or delays which result in loss of such perishable freight are not caused by the act of God or the public enemies of the State and if such loss does not fall within any of the exceptions stated above then the express company is liable By the act of God is meant any accident produced by physical causes which are irresistible such as lightning storms perils of the sea earthquakes inundations sudden death or illness Even then if the goods committed to the carrier are lost by its neglect the carrier is still liable Fish vs Chapman Ross 2 Ga 349 357 The railroad companies which the express company employs in its transportation are the agents of such company and the express company cannot avail itself of the failure of the railroad companies to transport freight committed to the express company for transportation unless it can show that the loss of such freight falls within some of the classes of excuses above enumerated Your second question is as follow Is the Southern Express Company liable for the loss of a shipment of perishable goods received at Savannah late Saturday night destined to Albany Georgia via Thomasville Georgia when the express company maintains no express service between Thomasville and Albany on Sunday so that such shipment was kept at Thomasville all day Sunday and was forwarded Monday morning from Thomasville to Albany reaching its destination in a spoiled condition due to the detention of such shipment over Sunday at Thomasville Where an express company receives perishable freight which cannot be delivered in a reasonable time due to the fact that the company has no Sunday service over one of the connecting railroads over which the freight must move and the company fails to notify the shipper of this fact before the shipment is received the carrier will be liable for damages caused by such delay 1st Michie Carrier Sec 914 Page 624 Mo etc R Co vs Star Grain Co 110 Tex 542 Joynes vs Pa R Co 235 Pa 232 The failure of the express company to notify the shipper that perishable freight such as fish and oysters would have to lie over at Thomasville all day Sunday which delaywould result in the loss of such freight makes the express company liable for such loss The carrier is required to use proper care for the protection and preservation of the property which it receives to transport 1st Michie Carrier Page 786 Sec 1019 Under Express Rule No 14 the carrier is not required to reice such shipments 225 in order to preserve them unless so directed by the shipper but at the common law if ordinary care required such reicing then it would be the duty of the express company to reice such shipments in order to preserve them 1st Mitchie Carrier Page 786 This duty however does not rest upon the carrier under the above rule in the absence of directions by the shipper to ice So I am of the opinion that the express company cannot excuse its failure for the loss of perishable goods committed to it for transportation by merely showing that the delay was caused by train accidents or delays over which it had no control The rail carriers are the mere agents of the express company To excuse the express company it must be shown that the delays occurring on the rail carriers fall within some of the classes of excuse which will justify the failure of the railroads to transport shipments In other words the express company must bring itself within some of the classes of excuse which have been referred to above I am further of the opinion that if perishable articles such as fish and oysters cannot be carried by an express company within a reasonable time due to the fact of lack of services on one of the connecting carriers over which such freight is to pass and the express company fails to notify a shipper of such lack of services and in consequence of delay due thereto such perishable goods become a loss to the shipper on this account the express company would be liable for such losses I return herein the papers in this file Yours very truly James K Hines Special Attorney CONTRACTS AUTHORITY OF THE RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA TO SET ASIDE CONTRACTS FOR LIGHT AND POWER EXECUTED BY A MUNICIPALITY WITH AN ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY April 7 1917 Railroad Commission of Georgia Atlanta Ga Gentlemen Albany Power Company vs City of Albany In 1904 a contract was entered into between the Albany Power Company and the City of Albany for electric current to be furnished through a series of years Under Civil Code Sections 463 et seq the adoption of this contract was submitted to the qualified voters of the City of Albany and was authorized by a twothird vote of such voters The Albany Power Company now applies to the Railroad Commission of Georgia for authority to increase its rates for furnishing electric current to the City of Albany and you wish my opinion on this question Can the Commission upon the application of the Albany Power Company grant this company authority to increase these rates and thus impair its contract with the City of Albany Only the legislature of a State or a municipality specially authorized thereto bv the legislature can surrender by contract a governmental power such as fixing rates Home Tel Tel Co vs Los Angeles 211 TJ S 265 155 Fed 554 Whether an inviolable contract for rates exists must be determined in each case on the particular facts involved and slight differences may turn the balance A power given by the State to one of its municipalities to fix and determine rates does not authorize that municipality to abandon the power and to irrevo v cably establish rates for the entire period of a franchise Where the power to fix rates is given this is ample authority to exercise the governmental power of regulating charges but is no authority to enter into a contract to abandon the governmental power itself Home Tel Tel Co vs Los Angeles 211 TJ S 265 174 From an examination somewhat hurried of the charter of the City of Albany I do not find that the legislature of this State has specially authorized the City of Albany to surrender by contract this governmental power of fixing rates This power is not expressly given to the City of Albany and I do not think that it exists by necessary implica tion For the very reason that such a contract has the effect of extinguishing pro tanto an undoubted power of government both its existence and the authority to make it most clearly and unmistakably appear and all doubts must be resolved in favor of the existence of the power Providence Bank vs Billings 4 Pet 544 Railroad Commission Cass 116 U S 665 Vicksburg etc R R Co vs Dennis 116 T S 665 Freeport Water Co ys Freeport City 180 U S 587 599 Stanislaus County vs San Joaquin etc Co 192 U S 201 210 Metropolitan St Ry Co vs N Y 199 U S 1 Home Tel Tel Co vs Los Angeles 205 U S 273 I do not find that the legislature of Georgia has clearly and unmistakably given to the City of Albany the power to contract with the Albany Power Company for the surrender of this governmental power of regulating rates When this contract was entered into between the City of Albany and the Albany Power Company this power to regulate the rates of the power company became in effect a part of and has the same force and effect as if it were written into the contract A State legislature or congress within their respective jurisdictions has power to regulate public service corporations and this power is not destroyed because such regulations may to some extent affect the power to contract or existing contracts City of Dawson vs Dawson Tel Co 137 Ga 62 R R Commission vs L N Co 140 Ga 817 Union Dry Goods Co vs Ga Pub Service Corporation 142 Ga 841 848 Manigualt vs Springs 199 U S 473 Armour Packing Co vs U S 209 U S 56 L N R Co vs Mottley 219 U S 467 So if the rates fixed by this contract between the City of Albany and the Albany Power Company are unjust afid unreasonable this Commission has the 227 power notwithstanding this contract to fix reasonable and jut rates for the electric current to be furnished by the power company to the City This is a matter in which the general public are interested Certainly the other patrons of the power company have a vital interest in this matter If the rates charged by the power company to the City of Albany are unreasonably low then its other patrons who pay reasonable and just rates would have 4o bear the burden of the unjust rates charged to the City of Albany In other words the public who patronize the power company are entitled to have all the patrons of the power company to pay reasonable and just rates so that the burden shall fall equally and alike upon all Yours truly James K Hines Special Attorney 228 OPINIONS OF THE COMMISSION As of general interest to the public and because the same contain enunciation of a number of important principles in the regulation of public utilities by the Commission there is included herein opinions rendered by the Commission during the past year in three cases The facts and history of each case are set out in the opinions December 23rd 1916 File No 12706 IN RE APPLICATION OF AMERICUS PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY FOR REVISION AND INCREASE IN ITS RATES FOR ELECTRIC CURRENT FOR LIGHTING AND POWER PURPOSES AND OF ITS RATES FOR GAS FOR ILLUMINATING AND FUEL PURPOSES By Candler Chairman The Americus Public Service Company owns and operates in Americus an electric light and power plant and a gas plant with outstanding capitalization of 225000 of capital stockand 22500000 of mortgage bonds making a total of 22725000 In May 1916 the Company applied to the Commission for authority to increase its lighting rates from a scale beginning at 9c per K W H to a scale beginning at 12c per K W H and its power rates from a scale running from lic per K W H to 6c per K W H to a scale running from 2c per K W H to 8c per K W H It also prayed that it be allowed to revise its scale of gas prices so as to reduce the price of gas for fuel purposes from 150 per thousand feet to 140 and to increase the price of gas for illuminatio nfrom 125 to 140 per thousand feet In support of this petition it was represented that under the terms of its franchise grant from the City of Americus the Company was obligated to set aside out of earnings an annual sinking fund equal to 5 of its outstanding bonded indebtedness for a period of twenty years at the end of which period the entire bonded indebtedness representing practically the entire invested capital would be paid and the plants wer to become the property of the city It was contended that under th rates then in effect the earnings of the Company were not sufficient to pay operating expenses interest on bonds taxes to provide a proper depreciation fund and the annual sinking fund contemplated in the franchise grant The Commission was satisfied that this contention was true However the Commission was further of the opinion that under the law it was not authorized to prescribe such going rates as wer necessary to retire the capitalization of a privately owned utility and bring about municipal ownership in such an indirect manner that is by assessments on such of the public only as 229 were patrons of the utility for the supposed benefit of all of the public and without any popular expression of the public on the subject The petition was accordingly denied On October 31st last the Company filed its second petition with the Commission asking for authority to increase its electric light rates from a basis of 9c per K W H to 10c and its power rates from a basis of 6c per K W H to 7c with aminimum rate of 2c instead of lc per K W H and to charge 140 per thousand feet for gas for both fuel and illuminating purposes contending that under its gas and electric rates then in effect its earnings were not sufficient to pay operating expenses fixed charges and taxes and to provide an adequate depreciation fund which was necessary if the property was to be maintained in such manner as to render efficient service Tljis petition has been carefully considered by the Commission It has had an audit made of the business of the Company from its organization to April 30 1916 and an appraisal made of its properties use and useful in serving the public by competent engineers in 1912 has been brought down to date The Commission has also had its Rate Expert make an examination of the plants and a careful analysis and study of the financial operations of the Company from its organization to date From its study of the record thus made up the Commission is satisfied that the rates now in effect are not such as with economical management will allow the company to meet operating expenses and taxes provide a reasonable and necessary annual depreciation fund and pay a reasonable return upon the fair value of the property used and useful in the public service including an adequate working capital and that there should be allowed some increases in the rates now in effect In reaching this conclusion we have not taken into consideration the franchise provisions as to the retirement of the capitalization of the Company practically included in the bonds and the acquisition of the plant by the city at the end of a twentyyear period If the people of Americus desire to own this plant its acquisition should be made through taxation or by city bonds after the qualified voters have been allowed a voice in the matter as provided by law The Commission is of the opinion that the following scale of rates for electric current and for gas are reasonable and just and will provide a reasonable return upon the fair value of the properties now devoted to the public use towit SCHEDULE OF RATES FOR COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENCE LIGHTING SERVICE For the first For the next For the next For the next For the next For all over 100 KWH10c per KWH 100 KWH9c per KWH 100 KWH8c per KWH 100 KWH7c per KWH 100 KWH6c per KWH 500 KWH5c per KWH Minimum charge per month 100 230 SCHEDULE OF RATES FOR COMMERCIAL POWER SERVICE For the first 100 KWH 7c per KWH For the next 200 KWH 6c per KWH For the next 200 KWH 5c per KWH For the next 500 KWH 3c per KWH For the next 1000 KWH 2c per KWH For all over 2000 KWHlc per KWH Minimum charge per month 100 for 2 H P or less connected over 2 H P 50c per H P connected SCHEDULE OF RATES FOR ILLUMINATING AND FUEL GAS Per thousand cubic feet140 Minimum charge per month 100 An order will be issued prescribing these rates effective January 1st 1917 Atlanta February 28 1917 File 10167 IN RE APPLICATION OF GEORGIA RAILWAY POWER COMPANY FOR APPROVAL OF THE ISSUANCE OF 42000000 PAR VALUE OF NONINTEREST BEARING DIVIDEND SCRIP CERTIFICATES ON ITS FIRST PREFERRED CUMULATIVE SIX PER CENT CAPITAL STOCK The above entitled matter having been duly heard and the Commission having made such investigation and examined such witnesses books papers and documents as it deemed advisable and necessary and the entire record having been duly considered it is Ordered That the petition for the approval of the issuance of the certificates as described therein for the reasons set forth in the opinion of the Commission this day adopted and made a part of this order be and the same is hereby denied By order of the Commission Albert Collier C M Candler Secretary Chairman Atlanta February 28 1917 File 10167 IN RE APPLICATION OF GEORGIA RAILWAY POWER COMPANY FOR APPROVAL OF THE ISSUANCE OF NONINTEREST BEARING DIVIDEND SCRIP CERTIFICATES ON FIRST PREFERRED CAPITAL STOCK By Candler Chairman On December 28 1916 the Board of Directors of the Georgia Railway Power Company declared a dividend of twentyfour per cent upon 200000000 of authorized and outstanding first preferred cumulative six per cent capital stock out of claimed surplus earnings for the four years ending December 31 1916 payable on January 15 1917 to the registered holders of record on January 5 1916 as follojvs Three 3 per cent in cash January 15 1917 and twentyone 21 in noninterest bearing scrip payable one and onehalf 1 per cent or 3000000 July 1 1917 and a like percentage and sum every six months thereafter until July 1 1924 The total issue of scrip will be 42000000 The Company has applied to this Commission for its approval of the issuance of these obligations payable more than twelve months after the date thereof The charter of the Company authorized and this Commission has heretofore approved the issuance among other securities Two Million 200000000 Dollars par value six per cent cumulative first preferred capital stock the said first preferred stock is to be paid each year six per cent dividends annually before any other stock receives any dividends deficiencies in preceding years to be made good out of profits in succeeding years before the other stock receives any dividends It is to be paid no further dividends The bylaws of the Company provide the holders of the first preferred capital stock shall be entitled to receive when and as declared from the surplus or net profits of the Company yearly dividends of 6 per annum and no more payable quarterly or semiannually on dates to be fixed by the Board of Directors The dividend on the first preferred capital stock shall be cumulative and shall be payable before any dividends od the second preferred or common stock shall be paid or set apart so that if in any year dividends shall not have been paid thereon the deficiency shall be payable before any dividends shall be paid upon or set apart for the second preferred or common stock The Company claims That the net earnings or profit of the Company in each year of the said period 191319141915 and 1916 have been sufficient to declare and pay the said dividend but that the said net earnings or profits have been applied toward construction costs of the Company in acquiring property for the growth and development of its business in the territory served by it It claims that on October 31 1916 there was an accrued balance to profit and loss surplus of this Company of 215182137 representing the balance of net earnings or profit from the operations of the company from its organization namely March 18 1912 to and including October 31 1916 that this surplus has not been built up by any revaluation of property or securities of the company representing any enhancement that there might be in such property or securities but is the balance of the net earnings left after paying from gross earnings and expenses fixed charges and other necessary deductions that the said surplus represents the sum from which dividends on the first preferred stock are proper to be declared but instead of so declaring the same the sum has been invested in additions to the property and plant of the company Subsequent to the filing of the petition a statement of the surplus of the company has been made as of November 30 1916 claiming it to be 224169065 as against 215182137 on October 31 1916 The Commission has been furnished with statements showing the revenue and expenses of the company for the years during which this book surplus has been accumulated as aso detailed statements showing the acquisition and construction capital account in which it has been invested Dividends can rightfully te paid only out of profits profits ar measured by the amouut of net earnings and net earnings are what remains after paying operating expenses maintenance of property and fixed charges An examination of the statements of the company setting up its surplus or profit account indicates clearly that at least two important exceptions thereto should be taken 1 Included among the book assets of the company as of November 30 1916 under Suspense Accounts are three items aggregating 27972231 representing unextinguished balances of discounts and expenses in the sale of bonds at less than par These items are to be extinguished during the life of the bonds by annual charges rainst them to be taken out of earnings Since November 30th our understanding is that there has been additional sales of bonds of both the Railway Power Company and the Railway Electric Company issued against constructions and acquisitions prior to October 31 1916 upon which there are discounts of approximately 9500000 which must be extinguished in the same way It does not appear to us that mere book assets as indicated above can be properly included in a divisable surplus 2 There is not included among the liabilities of the company any charge or provision for depreciation of the properties of either the Railway Power Company or the leased properties of the Railway Electric Company There can be no question but that in such properties as these there is annually material depreciation as well as obsolescence There is no question anywhere but that it is the necessitous duty of a public utility to make actual and reasonable provision against depreciation The public has a right to demand such provision in the interest of efficient and permanent service Every just and reasonable rate prescribed by this Commission contemplates such provision out of the earnings thereunder Ordinary maintenance and repairs do not and cannot take care of depreciation and obsolescence No utility can year after year pay out every dollar of its earnings above operating expenses and fixed charges without facing disaster when the life of its plant has been spent and no accumulation or provision has been made against exhaustion decay or outofdateness The properties of the Railway Power Company are as a whole comparatively new and uptodate but new discoveries and new applications in hydroelectric developments are frequent and may be revolutionary at any time This is also true as to the entire field of electricity and its uses Much of the property of the Railway Electric Compnay under lease to the Railway Power Company for 999 years notwithstanding high degree of maintenance in the past has been in use for many years and must already have suffered considerable depreciation and obsolescence We cannot undertake to say what sum should have been charged against the claimed surplus in the present case as no evidence has been submitted on this subject We are satisfied however that a depreciation charge or reserve should have been set up against the claimed surplus 233 We have thought that these two criticisms of the book surplus of the Company ought to be noted This Commission recognizes the principle that the declaration of a dividend is a matter belonging in the first instance to the directors of a corporation to determine with reference to the condition of the companys property and affairs In a case of this character where the terms of the declaration of the dividend result in the creation of an obligation of the company maturing after twelve months from its date the Commission is not bound by the declaration by the directors but in the interest of the public served in the future by the corporation has the right to determine whether its declaration and the terms upon which to be paid are proper or not The preferred stockholders can have no dividend on their stock unless there are in fact net earnings Assuming that there are net earnings the directors of the company have the discretion and power to use the profits of any given year in the improvement of the companys property to the exclusion of any dividend The Company claims in the application under consideration that it has actually invested the net earnings or profits of the past four years in the acquisir tion and improvement of company property Out of these same net earnings or profits the directors have declared a dividend If in the interest of the Company or its affairs as a whole the directors refrained during given years from distributing the earnings but instead added them to the invested capital of the company are they now available for distribution to individual stockholders The very term dividend means division and distribution When profits or net earnings are actually invested in permanent improvements or additions do they not lose their identity as divisible earnings and become in fact and in law fixed surplus capital subject only to reconversion into cash or liquid assets or if desirable to be evidenced as to ownership by additional capital shares distributed as a stock dividend The usual dividend takes the cash or property of a corporation divides it and transfers ownership to the individual stockholder thereby affecting in a degree every creditor of the corporation A stock dividend does not withdraw or take from the corporation any part of its assets nor affect any of its creditors The dividend to preferred stockholders in the present case cannot be out of earnings or profits in the past because they have been actually invested It is to be paid out of earnings or profits not yet made It is not a distribution of earnings in hand it is a pledge of earnings in the future it is a pledge extending seven years into the future Its payment deferred so long and without interest does not mean to the preferred stcokholders what the usual dividend declaration implies a present return for the use of capital Not until July 1924 is the last installment of these dividends promised payment and that without interest in the meantime And yet doubtless not contemplated or at all in the thoughts of the company it is possible for the corn 234 pany should earnings warrant to begin next year or the next or three or four years hence the payment of cash dividends to the second preferred or common stockholders while first preferred stockholders would still be holding their dividend script and awaiting maturity We cannot escape the conviction that dividends ought not to be declared when there are no net earnings available for the prompt payment that a dividend ought not to be allowed to become a long term obligation particularly ofa public utiMty owing services to the public the adequate and efficient discharge of which might be seriously affected or rendered impossible at some time by an accumulation of deferred debts of this character We doubt the policy and question the propriety of assenting to the spread pf payment of a dividend over a number of years in the future The power of the Commission to approve the issuance of notes or debentures is not unlimited It can only approve the issuing of notes or other evidences of debt when necessary and for such amounts as may be reasonably required for the acquisition of property the construction and equipment of power plants car sheds 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 awful refunding its obligations or for lawful corporate purposes falling within the spirit of this provision If this company has sufficient net earnings after providing for operating expenses taxes fixed charges proper maintenance and sufficient depreciation reserve and working capital to insure the operation of its properties and the discharge of its duties to the public it has the right and its directors the power to pay dividends out of such earnings There can be under such conditions no necessity for the giving of the scrip obligations under discussion and the Commission is without power to authorize their issuance If there are no net earnings in the sense we have used the term there can lawfully be no dividends and of course no lawful obligations to pay such at a future date The Commission hesitates to give its approval to a plan of financing which converts corporate profits into long term corporate debts It hesitates to sanction the declaration of a corporate dividend seven years in advance of its final payment Under all the facts in the case the Commission feels constrained to withhold its approval of the issuance of the obligation described in the application RAILROAD MILEAGE IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA JUNE 30TH 1916 IN MILES AND DECIMAL FRACTIONS NAME TOTAL MILEAGE Single Double Track Track Miles of Track Yard Tracks and Sidings Alabama Great Southern Railroad Atlanta West Point Railroad Atlanta Birmingham Atlantic Railway Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Atlantic Waycross Northern Railway Augusta Summerville Railroad Augusta Belt Railway Augusta Southern Railway Bowdon Railway Central of Georgia Railway Charleston Western Carolina Railway East Georgia Railwayj Elberton Eastern Railroad Flint River Northeastern Railroad Flovilla Indian Springs Railway Gainesville Northwestern RailroadI Gainesville Midland Railway Georgia Florida Railway Georgia Coast Piedmont Railroad Georgia Florida Alabama Railway Georgia Northern Railway Georgia Southern Florida Railwayj Georgia Southwestern Gulf Railway Greene County Railroad Georgia Railroad Hartwell Railway Hawkinsville Florida Southern Railway Lawrenceville Branch Railroad Lexington Terminal Railroad Louisville Nashville Railroad Louisville Wadley Railroadj Macon Birmingham Railroad Macon Dublin Savannah RailroadIj Midland Railway I Milltown Air Line Railway Milstead Railway Monroe Railroad Nashville Chattanooga St Louis Railway Ocilla Pinebloom Valdosta Railroad Ocilla Southern Railroad Ocumulgee Valley Railway j Pelham Havana Railroad Rome Northern Railroad Sandersville Railroad J Savannah Hinesville Western Railroadj Savannah Northwestern Railroad Savannah Southern Railway Savannah Statesboro Railroad Seaboard Air Line Railway Shearwood Railway i 2429 210 452 9086 208 3133 48363 155 14363 71679 895 21498 1075 25 225 116 371 593 8251 859 1200 100 133099 910 52034 2021 2030 3750 200 2200 08 2333 240 262 3500 326 7200 950 30660 4001 9840 550 10783 1365 678I 886 23925 8700 36001 455 1969 184 301591 718 12834 9601 50 9231 j 1565 961 j 37 3301 19 165511 4254 1000 j 139 9687 j 758 9226 j 2779 73921 420 10001 25 2901 60 101 R j 246 142251 9611 9322 27001 1 10 110371 j 697 1800 j 150 1930 1 100 1760 140 390 i 1 207 5251 j 75 11167 i j 1539 21601 1 100 3260 1 215 748801 j 20123 1500 j 75 237 RAILROAD MILEAGE IN THE STATE OF GEOEGIA JUNE 30th 1916 IN MILES AND DECIMAL FRACTIONS NAME Southern Railwayi South Georgia Railway Statenville Railroad Sylvania Central Railroadj Talbotton Railroad Tallulah Falls Railwayr Tennessee Alabama Georgia Railroad Tifton Terminal Company Union Point White Plains Railroad Valdosta Moultrie Western Railroad Wadley Southern Railway Waycross Southern Railroad Waycross Western Railroad Western Railway of Alabama Wrightsville Tennille Railroad Washington Lincolnton Railroad TOTAL MILEAGE Single Track Double Track Miles of Track Yard Tracks and Sidings 91306 3740 1400 1500 663 4314 4265 1205 4180 9000 2169 4450 17 10282 1053 7515 32266 350 25 200 34 411 568 300 63 200 703 121 225 87 1761 Totals 1 738879 115721 206371 238 Statement of Stock and Bond Issues and Other Securities Approved by the Commission During the Year Ending December 311916 Name of Corporation Atlanta Birmingham Atlantic Railway Co Atlanta Charlotte Air Line Railway Rome Railway Light Company Rome Railway Light Company Georgia Railway Power Company Georgia Railway Electric Company MaconAtlantic Navigation Company Consumexs Gas Coke Company Consumers Gas Coke Company Columbus Railroad Company Mutual Light Water Company Savannah River Terminal Company Savannah Atlanta Railwayjj Chattahoochee Valley Railroad Fairburn Atlanta Railway Electric Company Consolidated Telephone Telegraph Company Savannah Northwestern Railway Midland Railway Amount of Amount of Date of Bond Approved Stock Approved Approval 520000000 Jan 11 1916 700000000 Mar 15 1916 10000000 Mar 29 1916 85000000 Mar 29 1916 12400000 Mar 29 1916 23100000 Mar 29 1916 20000000 May 23 1916 5000000 June 14 1916 110000D0 June 14 1916 3154000 July 25 1916 6225000 July 26 1916 10000000 Aug 16 1916 25000000 Aug 16 1916 12000000 Sept 5 1916 4200000 Dec 12 1916 3000000 Mortgage notes April 25 1916 119640000 Time notes July 25 1916 3155256 Equipment notes July 25 1916 Statement of Financial Operations of Railroads for the Year Knded June 30th 1916 Alabama Great Southern R R Atlanta West Point R R Atlanta Birmingham Atlantic Ry Atlantic Coast Line R R Atlantic Waycross Northern R R Augusta Belt Ry 1 Augusta Southern R R Bowdon Railway Central of Georgia Ry Charleston W Carolina R R Chattahoochee Valley R R East Georgia Ry Elberton Eastern R R Flint River Northeastern R R Flovilla Indian Springs R R Gainesville Northwestern R R Gainesville Midland Ry Georgia Florida Ry Georgia Coast Piedmont R R Georgia Florida Alabama R R Georgia Northern RyB Georgia R R Georgia Southern Florida Ry Georgia Southwestern Gulf Ry Greene County R R Hartwell Railway Hawkinsvilfe Fla Southern R R Lawreneeville Branch R R Lexington Terminal R R Louisville Nashville R R Louisville Wadley R R Macon Birmingham R R MaconDublin Savannah R R Gross Earnings Operating Expenses Net Earnings Deficits Gross Earnings Per Mile Operating Expenses Per Mile Net Earnings Per Mile Percentage of Operating Expenses to Gross Earning s 45131213 30091063 15040150 1858386 1238825 619561 6667 136728475 99483423 37245052 1467201 1067533 399668 7276 236689384 191813584 44875754 487939 395427 92512 8104 567977291 375987687 191989604 780456 516644 263812 6620 848994 751682 97312 1 78976 I 699231 905 8853 2420678 2153955 266723 62474 580581 71893 8898 17341740 12788057 4553683 209113 154203 54910 7374 2425331 994881231 2831237 663704619 331176612 1 405906 I 2021111 2359361 7421881 4951281 247060 1 11673 6671 16866665 11034343 5832322 772991 1 505699 267292 6542 209880 116780 93100 4197601 233560 j 186200 5500 2431992 2404038 4191630 2256832 147206 1759638 66487 109474 I L19Q71 102537 7937 1J970 9304 5172020 2539407 2632613 1 224480 I 1102171 114263 4910 349776 319026 30750 133502 121761 11741 9400 5785124 5618535 166589 1563551 151852 4503 9712 19593923 13564582 6029341 2647831 183305 81478 6957 72066328 67383878 4682450 215445 I 201446 13999 9350 12626896 10135464 2491432 128322 1 103002 25310 8020 38861838 25751568 13110270 1 357975 1 2372101 120765 6628 22361899 133997161 8962183 1 3299191 1976941 132225 5992 309786501 224293038 85493463 1 1009077 1 7305961 278481 7240 196812386 1364541191 60358267 818857 1 567731 2511261 6933 10562955 75853941 2977561 1 301798 1 2167251 85073 7181 2133973 20099601 124013 1 i 108378 1020801 6298 9400 2367375 1872682 494693 2343941 1854141 489801 7910 12396666 109595091 14371571 128810 1 113877 14933 8840 979417 917430 619871 101916 954661 64501 9367 480535 652346 1 171811 1456171 197681 L 13575 2038166351 1330346361 707819991 1 780129 1 5092041 270925 6527 19434741 1870308 73166 1 1943471 1870301 73171 9624 14845062 1 13270521 1 1574541 L 141381 1263861 149951 8939 46905402 322475491 14657853 508405 3495301 158875 6875 Statement of Financial Operations of Railroads for the Year Ending June 30th 1916 Midland Railway Milltown Air Line Ry Milstead R R Monroe R R Nashville Chatta St Louis Ry Ocmulgee Valley R Ri Ocilla Pinebloom Valdosta R R Ocilla Southern R R Pelham Havana R R Rome Northern R R Sandersville R R Savannah Hinesville Western R R Savannah Northwestern R R Savannah Southern R R Savannah Statesboro R R Seaboard Air Line Ry Sherwood R R South Georgia Ry Southern Railway Statenville R RS Sylvania Central R R J Talbotton R R Tallulah Falls Ry Tenn Ala Georgia R R Tifton Terminal Co Union Point White Plains R R Valdosta Moultrie Sc Western R R Wadley Southern R R Waycross Southern R R Waycross Western R R Wrightsville Tennille R R Totals Western Atlantic R R Gross Earnings Operating Expenses Net Earnings Deficits Gross Earnings Per Mile Operating Expenses Per Mile Net Earnings Per Mile 5766260 3216852 2549408 87367 48740 38627 1803113 1193730 609383 180311 119373 60938 831792 662809 168983 237654 189374 48280 2597328 3437010 839682 256400 339291 278162249 182871089 95291160 1955446 1285561 669885 278643 215141 63509 15480 11952 3528 1340990 1146377 194613 49666 42458 7208 13145233 12941390 203843 124011 122088 1923 2196000 16 024 71 593529 I 115578 84338 31240 2026303 1998410 27893 106454 105180 1468 1861156 1750482 110674 465289 437620 27669 375983 568954 192971 71616 108373 19279733 20881298 1601565 177530 192277 2045172 1565384 479788 94685 72471 22214 6094140 5340200 753940 184670 161823 22847 522927468 356866214 166061254 699288 477222 222066 1172372 1157974 14398 78158 77198 960 13827972 10131773 3686199 358329 262548 95781 039576639 657463087 282113552 888094 621438 266656 1083709 1108157 24448 77407 79154 1383604 1316871 66733 94444 89888 4555 1412977 1370476 42501 213118 208216 6410 9956817 8058418 1898399 228892 185251 43641 4584533 5885573 1301040 105416 135332 376035 3881721 12137 125345 129391 1380121 1847095 466974 114533 153278 j 6897528 5602361 1295167 164227 133390 30837 9637064 10236340 599276 108599 115352 I 4958396 5168862 210466 247919 2584531 4694335 3060317 1634018 105491 j 68772 36719 j 26433896 22914933 3518963 255153 i 221187 33966 4894312612 3433052780 1468845746 7585914 221180161 169392631 55413771 297997872 205925735 92072137 21780281 1505085 6729431 Percentage of Operating Expenses to Gross Earnings 5456 6620 7968 13233 6574 7700 8541 9840 7300 9850 9405 15132 10830 7790 8762 6824 9700 7327 6998 10225 9517 9600 8093 12837 10317 13381 8122 10622 10424 6533 8668 7008 6910 243 Statement of Financial Operations of Terminal Companies in Georgia for Year Ended June 30 1916 Gross Earnings Operating Expenses Net Earnings Deficits Atlanta Terminal Company Augusta Summerville Railroad Company Augusta Union Station Company Georgia Midland Terminal Company Savannah Union Station Company 6537560 441407 724923 271996 7511949 13140985 1006012 2346117 17355 6661499 254641 850450 6603425 564605 1621194 Totals 15487835 23171968 1105091 8789324 Statement of Financial Operations of Railroads for the Year Ended December 31 st 1916 Revenues from Operations Revenues from Other Sources Total Revenue Operatine Expenses Rentals and Hire of Equipment Taxes Total Expenses Net Income over Taxes Operatine Expenses and Rentals Per cent of Operatine Ex pense to Total Revenue Total Revenue Per Mile of Road Operatine Expenses and Taxes Per Mile of Road Net Income Per Mile of Road Ala Great Southern R R Atlanta West Point R R Atlanta Birmingham Atlantic xiy Atlantic Coast Line R R Atlantic Waycross Northern R R Augusta Belt Ry Augusta Southern Ry Bowdon Ry Central of Georgia Ry Charleston Western Carolina Ry Chattahoochee Valley Ry East Georgia Ry Elherton Eastern R R Flint River Northeastern R R Florida Indian Springs R R Gainesville Northwestern R R Gainesville Midland R R Georgia Florida Ry Georgia Coast Piedmont R R Georgia Florida Alabama R R Georgia Northrn Ry Georgia R R Georgia Southern Florida Ry Georgia Southwestern Gulf R R Greene County R R Hartwell R R Hawkinsville Florida Southern R R t awrenceviile Branch R R Lexington Terminal R R Louisville Nashville R RI Louisville Wadley R R Macon Birmingham R Rj Macon Dublin Savannah R R Midland Railway Milltown Air Line Ryj Milstead R R Monroe R R Nashville Chatta St Louis Ry Ocmulgee Valley R R Ocilla Pinebloom Valdosta R R Ocilla Southern R R Pelham Havana R R Rome Northern R R Sandersville R R Savannah Hinesville Western R R Savannah Northwestern R R Savannah Southern R R Savannah Statesboro R R Seaboard Air Line Ry Shearwood R R South Georgia Ry Southern Ry Staten ville R R Sylvania Central R R Talbotton R Ri Tallulah Falls Ry Tennessee Alabama Georgia R R Tifton Terminal CoJ Union Point White Plains R R Valdosta Moultrie Western R R Wadley Southern R R Waycross Western R R Waycross Southern R R Wrightsville Tennille R R Washington Lincolnton R R Totals Western Atlantic R R Records destroyed by fire No report i 497025281 4299934 52202562 30389103 5122792 1824108 37336003 14866559 6344 1972121 1326192 645929 138836673 8135489 146972162 103482486 8658379 112140865 34831297 7041 1577124 1203357 369661 2592861371 259286137 200392803 12664798 213057601 46228536 7729 404869 312909 91960 621882552 621882552 401090289 26430771 427521060 194361492 6447 852571 586111 266460 8895541 889554 793097 87660 880757 8797 8915 82749 81930 81S 2747347 354316 3101663 2066335 541920 136664 2744919 356744 7521 730677 585904 144773 18183095 18183095 14606301 500752 767654 15874707 2308388 8033 219258 185385 33873 2308409 5000 2313409 2219781 63540 2283321 30088 9595 192784 190277 2507 1095115310 1095115310 691279031 48485383 102672879 745466527 349648783 6312 817683 556613 261070 18307104 18307104 11835698 826766 12662464 5644640 6465 839006 580315 258691 458389 458389 296002 30935 326937 131452 6400 458389 326937 191452 2752314 2752314 3754624 112997 3867621 13600 77530 108947 2600395 2600395 2272925 132649 2405574 194821 8740 118200 109344 8856 5300830 38924 5339754 2546650 219975 2766625 2573129 4800 230471 120288 119747 349776 349776 303371 15655 319026 30750 9400 133502 121761 11741 6389031 6389031 6071262 67500 182700 6321462 67569 9501 172677 169026 8588 20511012 286680 20797692 15075431 1905739 639691 17620861 3176831 7248 281050 212366 68683 78119269 1056196 79175465 68623415 2520427 3842383 74986225 4189240 8667 236698 216639 20059 15052236 15052236 12030595 991707 775255 13797557 1254679 8434 152700 130100 22600 39954892 320902 40275794 27567470 1664000 29231470 11044324 6844 371000 269264 101736 23521694 165506 23687200 14521980 992567 15514547 8172653 6170 347030 228910 13277S 343306917 20003485 363310402 234195608 63521916 6221238 303938762 59371640 6821 1118263 783116 335147 245341069 9538564 224879633 143945352 3206280 9778009 156929641 67949992 6684 895948 640448 255500 11524200 139100 11663300 8381200 772000 484600 9637800 2025500 7186 324000 246300 77700 2129900 109300 2239200 2105300 101500 106600 2313400 9357 113700 112300 1400 2472726 2472726 1965835 114822 67798 2148455 324271 7950 244824 201349 43475 14668766 14668766 12454511 584169 766607 13805287 863479 8490 152419 137638 14781 1005041 1005041 859713 188874 39235 1087822 8554 1004583 93543 11040 552952 500 553452 758566 424302 16217 1199085 13718 147062 206059 213913482 4469364 218382846 136848208 15783928 5403421 158035557 55877925 6266 835883 544483 291400 2218041 82411 2300452 1557354 82364 92061 1731779 568673 7021 234740 168270 58028 16476252 16476252 13385535 726569 660351 14772455 1703797 8124 156917 133801 23116 49065479 399060 49464539 33367916 3093990 2136746 38598652 10865887 6800 531818 384865 146953 7459129 7459129 4399766 126786 360000 4886552 2572577 5898 103460 66108 42491 1932775 1932775 1239769 71450 90000 1401219 531556 6414 193277 132977 60300 834797 834797 674879 37295 712174 121923 80 90 2876 19 245577 42042 2923653 37727 2961380 3728036 1073888 175197 4977121 12751 288613 385314 294754394 9132079 303886473 185532305 37371549 1180057 224083911 79802562 6105 2136749 1312842 840488 321860 321860 251915 251915 70160 8130 17881 13955 3897 1825279 20052 1845331 1247790 168620 38992 1455402 389929 6762 6346 47659 20687 13052860 195722 13248582 14288918 1244312 540650 16073880 10710 120441 134814 2544043 377499 2921542 1901908 147975 2049883 871659 6500 153760 107887 45876 2103913 2103913 2164002 223430 2387432 11347 110700 125600 1968249 1968249 1784026 45367 1829393 138856 9060 492062 457325 34714 353861 353861 663001 37000 700001 19781 67402 133333 23379521 1385479 24765000 23484885 1435463 960000 25880348 9483 210408 207688 2720 1447514 511960 1959474 900292 151894 1052186 907288 4594 90716 48712 42004 5948894 114354 6063248 4502763 415030 4917793 1145455 7426 183734 1490241 34710 561320822 23010475 584331297 397222402 12086433 23916550 433225385 151105912 6798 781192 563020 218172 1446036 41066 1487102 1218444 6500 25475 r 1250419 236683 9200 96402 82928 17477 14367645 79086 14446731 9005427 713862 492944 10212233 4234498 6260 388315 256713 131602 1031515312 1031515312 696793541 22290882 37990944 757075367 274439945 1 6755 975087 695155 279932 1200045 1200045 1166393 S8179 1254572 9720 85717 89612 2817204 2817204 2121742 213829 115046 2450617 366587 1 7533 192232 151111 25023 1635851 1635851 1392288 58745 1451033 1 184818 1 8500 246734 218858 27876 10904773 10904773 8465715 354041 429402 9249158 1655615 1 7763 250684 204485 46199 6728947 124634 6853581 8664656 798874 598753 10062283 1 12642 160695 217196 434847 434847 424728 424728 10119 j 9750 144949 141576 3373 1478100 2500 1480600 1974448 524703 52259 2551410 j 13358 108364 148585 66718OO 250800 6922600 6427070 313434 6740504 182096 9633 164824 160488 4336 10866860 24295 10891155 9811108 4443501 781460 15036069 9029 122731 119334 3397 4465258 101828 4567086 5053036 234320 187761 5475117 1 11064 262039 29048607 392204 1 29440811 23445410 265530 1864474 25575414 3865397 1 7964 284177 244304 39873 48582 485825 438943 438943 46882 1 9040 37371 33765 3606 5319382140 852064911 5404588637 36214333531 232161477 211347831 4064942661 1401552453 70761 24192888 18432731 5991317 3160397321 114638341 327503566 209323162 42245848 4762532 256331542 711720241 63921 23931981 1564840 898640 Statement of Financial Operations of Terminal Companies in Georgia for Year Ended December 311916 Gross Earnings Operating Expenses Net Earnings Deficits Atlanta Terminal Company Augusta Summerville Railroad Company Augusta Union Station Company Georgia Midland Terminal Company Savannah Union Station Company 6913769 481890 713943 272796 8139567 14200205 961366 2377655 6853 7233527 265943 906040 7286436 479476 1663712 Totals 16521965 24779606 1171983 9429624 245 Statement of Financial Operations of Telegraph Companies and Express Companies in Georgia for the Year Ended June 30 1916 Postal TelegraphCable Company Western Union Telegraph Company Southern Express Company Gross Earnings Operating Expenses Net Earnings Deficits 22207171 94934971 230477067 23168681 80906569 222142482 961510 14028402 8334585 1 347619209 326217732 22362987 961510 Totals 246 Statement of Financial Operations of Telegraph Companies and Express Companies in Georgia for the Year Ended December 31 1916 Gross Earnings Operating Expenses Net Earnings Deficits Postal TelegraphCable Company Western Union Telegraph Company Southern Express Company 23111550 106847240 245417312 23593738 108648583 236977680 8439632 482181 1801343 Totals 375376102 369220001 8439632 2283531 247 Statement of Financial Operations of Cotton Compress Companies in Georgia for Year Ended August 31 1916 Gross Earnings Operating Expenses Net Earnings Deficits Atlantic Compress Company Cutbbert Compress Warehouse Company Georgia Warehouse Compress Company to Hawkinsville Compress Company Montezuma Compress Company Moultrie Compress Company Riverside Compress Company r Rome Cotton Cempress Company Toccoa Compress Company Union Warehouse Compress Company r Yidalia Compress Power Company Eastman Compress Company 56618894 2254871 3290811 1575731 1674925 2114653 715237 1602244 1029291 5666476 1044112 710119 36410785 1784973 1786643 108020 1392959 1048241 381295 1149476 876957 3322654 1 823760 555821 20208109 469898 1504168 467711 281966 1066412 333942 452768 152334 2343822 220352 154298 78297364 50641584 27655780 Figures cover operations September 1 1915 to November 3 1915 Plant destroyed by fire and not in operation 248 Statement of Financial Operations of Telephone Companies irr Georgia for the Year Ended December 31 1916 Ash burn Telephone Company Atlanta Telephone Telegraph Company Blakeley Telephone Company Blue Ridge Telephone Company Bowen Telephone Company Bowman Telephone Company Brooklet Telephone Company Broxton Telephone Company Buena Vista Telephone Company Byron Rural Telephone Company Cairo Telephone Company Canton Telephone Companyj City Telephone Company Coleman Telephone Company Consolidated Telephone Telegraph Company Dalton Telephone Company Danielsville Comer Telephone Company Darien Telephone Company Dawson Telephone Company Dexter Telephone Company Dogwood Telephone Company Donaldsonville Telephone Company Douglas Telephone Company Duluth Telephone Telegraph Company Effingham Telephone Telegraph Company Ellayille Telephone Company Ellijay Telephone Company Farmers Telephone Company Free State Telephone Company Fruit Belt Telephone Company Gainesboro Telephone Telegraph Company Gay Telephone Company Gross Earnings Operating Expenses Net Earning8 617550 500470 117080 16444063 10012018 6432045 592607 439742 152865 184730 129908 54822 4261920 2842843 1419077 299400 260000 39400 134510 118540 15970 2400001 225000 15000 430000 282200 147800 156000 114000 42000 784168 770393 13775 576590 522680 53910 529146 439146 90000 75000 63000 12000 3767286 2703195 1064091 1683051 1383919 299132 792764 558100 234664 130000 84400 45600 1603187 1247188 355999 240000 128000 112000 17000 15600 1400 240000 206000 34000 920336 852164 68172 128707 47500 81207 184983 153300 31683 330000 246000 840001 75000 55600 19400 430000 312849 117151 107126 980471 9079 j 1 1005830 1006381 7502764j 3886447 3616317 156520 144850 11670 249 Statement of Financial Operations of Telephone Companies in Georgia for the Year Ended December 31 1916Continued Gross Earnings Operating Expenses Net Earnings Girard Telephone Company 310355 146900 163455 Glennville Telephone Company 240000 160000 80000 Hahira Public Service Company 444696 287500 157196 Hampton Telephone Company 81207 37236 44466 Harlem Telephone Company 198000 141000 57000 Harmony Grove Telephone Company 1965834 1452766 513068 Hart County Telephone Company 628302 487727 140575 Hawkinsville Telephone Company 752997 533260 219737 Hepzibah Telephone Company 87127 68847 18280 Houston Telephone Company 253520 185175 68345 Jasper Telephone Company 7000 39000 39000 Kite Telephone Company 55154 41000 14154 LeslieDeSota Telephone Company 355800 319000 39800 Ludowici Telephone Company 167314 129900 37414 Manchester Telephone Company 453000 350000 103000 Mansfield Telephone Company 102000 73000 29000 Marshallville Telephone Company 291300 273000 18300 Meigs Telephone Company 293607 228254 65353 Midville Telephone Company 167913 96194 71719 Milledgeville Telephone Company 1324136 1019883 304253 Milltown Telephone Company 125147 118778 6369 Monroe Telephone Company 1060040 57121 488824 Montezuma Telephone Company 576900 420545 156355 McRaeHelena Telephone Company 1915456 1290612 624844 Murray County Telephone Company 240000 152500 87500 Mutual Telephone Telegraph Company 458468 453068 5400 Nashville Telephone Company 542569 441485 101084 Newborn Telephone Company 140610 125900 14710 Nichols Telephone Company 219998 155562 64436 North Georgia Telephone Telegraph Company 779550 496880 282670 Plains Telephone Company 306125 249880 56245 Quitman Telephone Company 1507359 1088000 419359 Deficit 250 Statement of Financial Operations of Telephone Companies in Georgia for the Year Ended December 31 1916Continued KaDun lelephone Telegraph Company Reynolds Telephone Company Riverdale Telephone Company Roberta Telephone Company Satilla Telephone Company Screven Telephone Company Southern Bell Telephone Telegraph Company Southern Telephone Company Standard Telephone Company Statesboro Telephone Company Stephens County Telephone Company Stewart Telephone Company Summerville Telephone Company Tattnall Telephone Company Thomaston Telephone Company Unadilla Telephone Company Union Point Telephone Company Union Telephone Company Union Telephone Electric Company Vienna Telephone Company Walker County Telephone Company Washington Telephone Company West Point Telephone Electric Company Wilkes Telephone Electric Company I Willacoochee Telephone Company 1614001 279500 30000 185000 235686 907724 322516731 1865798 541327 1606173 480075 25677 521503 150000 523679 284515 192000 90000 619762 7400001 2097741 831697 1411415 J 120000 468883 3957645361 Operating Expenses Net Earnings Deficit 87600 73800 270000 9500 27600 2400 128000 57000 195379 40307 677700 230024 155698448 166818283 1826195 39603 513364 26963 1014150 592023 380020 100055 21964 3713 514832 6671 95000 55000 429000 94679 226605 57910 41000 151000 80000 100001 612639 71231 562600 1774001 1379211 71853 6716971 1600001 1026279 385136 80000 400001 335775 123108 207148316 1886167711 551 Statement of Financial Operations of Street Railroad Gas and Electric Light Companies in Georgia for the Year Ended December 31 1916 ISO Ol Albany Power and Manufacturing Company Albany Transit Company Americus Public Service Company Athens Gas Light Fuel Company Athens Railway Electric Company Atlanta Gas Light Company Atlanta Northern Railway AugustaAiken Railway Electric Company Carrollton Electric Company Central Georgia Power Company Chattanooga Railway Electric Company City Suburban Railway Company Clarksville Railway Company Columbus Power Company Columbus Railroad Company Cordele Electric Company Covington Oxford Street Railway Company Dallas Light Power Water Company Darien Manufacturing Company Eastman Light Ice Company Fairburn Atlanta Railway Electric Company Franklin Light Power Company Gainesville Railway Power Company Gas Light Company of Augusta Gas Light Compahy of Columbus Georgia Public Service Corporation Georgia Railway Power Company Griffin Gas Ice Cold Storage Co Harmony Grove Mills Electric Light Department Gross Earnings Operating Expenses Net Earnings Deficits 5029663 2681236 2348427 1883769 1496369 387400 6419565 4535697 1883868 3404739 2344705 1060034 23265187 8236595 15028592 89141098 42451191 46689907 12620749 9827536 2793213 65547604 27065357 34882247 2203265 1466271 736994 40663556 8515812 32147744 1252135 1444636 192501 2593396 1909801 683595 72615 87065 14450 53661385 12161057 41500328 36499438 21741316 14758122 2806999 1897366 909633 958406 945899 12507 420000 160000 260000 538853 432474 106379 1930820 1470272 460548 2139580 1918739 220841 1579717 1304539 275178 1687362 784485 902877 13138804 8126604 5012200 5342841 4159200 1183641 6603987 3807774 2796213 619343253 288558844 330784409 957014 535440 421574 1029420 431564 597856 252 Statement of Financial Operations of Street Railroads Gas and Electric Light Companies in Georgia for the Year Ended December 31 1916Continued Macon Gas Company Macon Railway Light Company Montezuma Light Power Company Mutual Light Water Company Oconee River Mills Electric Light Department Panola Light Power Company Putnam Mills Power Company Rome Municipal Gas Company Rome Railway Light Companyi Savannah Electric Company Savannah Gas Company Savannah Lighting Company Senoia Electric Light Power Company Suburban Gas Electric Company1 Tifton Ice Power Company Toccoa Falls Light Power Company Towaliga Palls Power Company Valdosta Gas Company Valdosta Lighting Company Valdosta Street Railway Company Villa Rica Electric Light Power Company Ware County Light Power Company Waycross Street Suburban Railway Company Wofford Shoals Light Power Company Totals Gross Earnings Operating Expenses Net Earnings Deficit 13461453 8094803 5366650 49671674 29529159 20142515 840097 638736 201361 8915518 5718236 3197282 3829939 1525321 2304618 1520423 1211307 309116 918026 538344 379682 2829024 2499003 330021 18979059 10632400 8346659 82609367 49432939 33176428 26262712 15506929 10755783 15671108 14452674 1218434 200000 184000 16000 3815417 1992822 1822595 2136063 1151667 984396 578077 422211 155866 4597066 2398788 2198278 2017335 1476727 540608 12097042 7859516 4237526 951093 979461 28368 446443 367768 78675 15411033 15233565 177468 1326098 1692390 366292 666417 417819 248598 1272485704 634454429 638632886 601611 253 Summary of Financial Operations of Corporations Subject to the Jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission of Georgia for Fiscal Year as Indicated Gross Earnings Operating Expenses Net Earnings Deficit Railroad Companies Year ended June 30 1916 5192310484 3638978515 15609178831 7585914 Terminal Companies Year ended June 30 19161 15487835 23171968 1105091 1 1 8789324 Telegraph and Express Companies Year ended June 30 1916 214913877 2017314701 14143917 I 961510 78297364 506415841 276557801 Year ended August 31 1916 1 1 Street Railroad Power Gas and Electric Light CompaniesYear ended December 31 1916 1272485704 634454429 638632886 1 1 601611 Telephone Companies Year ended December 31 1916 395764536 2071483161 188616771 1 1 551 Totals 7169259800 1 1 47561262821 2431072328 17938910 254 Summary of Financial Operations of Railroads in Georgia for Each Year Since 1895 e Railroad Gross Earnings Operating Net Percentage Operating Mileage in Georgia Expenses Earnings Expenses to Gross Earnings 1895 524052 1693014696 1239773060 453241636 1896 529141 1845846795 1318833628 527013167 1897 537482 1830505182 1267270276 563234906 1898 547526 1904698395 1349467794 555230601 1899 553186 2108731036 1479071885 629659151 1900 561488 2221185006 1542133063 679051943 1901 581680 2324622552 1638365223 686257319 1902 603532 2495276887 1763801423 731475464 1903 604686 3041382375 2143443681 904249941 1904 622931 3074201550 2177492537 902664400 1905 642446 3323289112 2330367051 1001607415 1906 646756 3710655517 2683370459 1035949011 1907 670444 4072787745 3205275087 872599754 1908 682853 3851670665 2996998572 857192654 1909 699283 3950609983 2839181746 1114496900 1910 705554 4417166814 3036765763 1383334029 1911 713803 4726245927 3298067428 1435395419 1912 716636 5081355022 3665196256 1419521254 1913 729578 5155958306 3885423023 1275226070 1914 732572 5307995177 3955589157 1355580383 1915 729572 4529769741 3468353724 1080292021 1916 738879 5192310484 36389785151 1560917883 7320 7140 6920 7080 7014 6943 7048 7068 7047 7083 7050 7204 7869 7780 7187 6875 6978 7213 7536 7452 7637 7008 Statement of Accidents Occurring on Steam Railroads m Georgia for the Year Ended December 31 1916 Passengers Employees Other Persons 15 24 53 31 105 3 24 16 6 Alabama Great Southern Railroad Go Atlanta West Point Railroad Company 1 Atlanta Birmingham Atlantic Ry Co Atlantic Coast Bine Railroad Company Atlantic Waycross Northern R R Co Augusta Belt Railway Company Augusta Southern Railroad Companyj1 Bowdon Railway Companyo or Central of Georgia Railway Company i Charleston Western Carolina Ry Co Elberton Eastern Railway Company Flint River Northeastern Railroad Co Flovilla Indian Springs Railway Gainesville Midland Railway Gainesville Northwestern Railroad Co Georgia Railroad Georgia Florida Railway Georgia Cohst Piedmont Railroad CoGeorgia Florida Alabama Railway Co Georgia Northern Railway Company Georgia Southern Florida Railway CoGeorgia Southwestern Gulf Railroad Co Greene County Railroad Company Hartwell Railway Company Hawkinsville Florida Southern Ry CoLawrenceville Branch Railroad Company Lexington Terminal Railroad Company Louisville Nashville Railroad Company 1 00 Louisville Wadley Railroad Company1 o Macon Birmingham Railway Company Macon Dublin Savannah Railroad Co1Jj Midland Railwayr1J fj j Milltown Air Line Railway Co1jjj Milstead Railroad11 Monroe Railroad Company Nashville Chattanooga St Louis Ry 6 Ocilla Southern Railroad Co 1 6 4 14 123 21 Ocmulgee Valley Railway Co J Pelham Havana Railroad Co Rome Northern Railroad Co Sandersville Railroad Company1 Savannah Hinesville Western R R Co1 Savannah Northwestern RailwayT Savannh Southern Railway Savannah Statesboro Railway Co1j Seaboard Air Line Railway1 Shearwood Railway Company1 Chattahoochee Valley Railway East Georgia RailwayI 22 14 3 4 10 10 2 61 11 20 255 Statement of Accidents Occuring on Steam Railroads in Georgia for the Year Ended December 31 1916Cont Passengers Employees Other Persons 9 i M p P r 9 2 9 M p P H3 2 rO 9 Ocilla Pinebloom and Valdosta Railroad Southern Railway Company 9 7 148 2 South Georgia Railway Co 2 Statenville Railroad Company Talhotton Railroad Tallulah Falls Railway Co 5 Tennessee Alabama Georgia Railroad Co Tifton Terminal Co Union Point White Plains Railroad Co 1 Valdosta Moultrie Western Railroad Co 1 Wadley Southern Railway Co 1 1 1 Waycross Southern Railroad Co 2 1 Waycross Western Railroad Co Wrishtsville Tennille Railroad Co 26 Washington Lineolnton R R 1 Totals 2 113 30 741 70 130 Statement of Accidents Occurring on Street Railways Electric Lines in Georgia for the Year Ended December 31 1916 Albany Transit Company 1 1 Athens Railway Electric Company 1 Atlanta Northern Railway Comnanv i 6 4 AugustaAiken Railway Electric Corp 1 44 7 22 City Suburban Railway Comnanv 3 1 1 Columbus Railroad Company j Gainesville Railway Power Comnanv i Georgia Railway Power Company 1 480 44 5 130 9 Macon Railway Lisrht Comnanv 162 12 Rome Railway Light Comnanv 1 8 1 Savannah Electric Company 3 241 1 27 1 97 Waycross Street Suburban Railway Co Fairburn Atlanta Rv Elec Co i Chattanooga Railway Light Company 2 Covington Oxford Street Railway Co Total 5 950 1 01 7 272 256 SUBJECT INDEX Acts of General Assembly viz Page Act of 1879 Creating Commission 19 Act of 1890 Appeal to Interstate Commerce Commission24 Act of 1891 Power to Bring Suit 25 Act of 1891 Inspection of Railroads 26 Act of 1891 Requiring Common Carriers to Trace Freight Etc44 Act of 1891 Storage Charges 27 Act of 1891 Express and Telegraph Companies 28 Act of 1891 To Prevent Unjust Discrimination Between Railroads 43 Act of 1901 Cars for White and Colored Passengers29 Act of 1905 Prompt Receipt and Delivery of Freight 30 Act of 1906 Liability to Property in Transportationj31 Act of 1906 Election of Railroad Commissioners32 Act of 1906 Station Accommodations at Night 32 Act of 1906 Cars for Peaches Cantaloupes Etc 40 Act of 1906 Railroads Must Pay Claims Within 60 Days31 Act of 1907 Increasing Membership and Powers of Commission33 Act of 1908 Physical Connection Between Railroads in Incorporated Towns 11 Act of1909 Permitting Free Passes on Street Railroads to Policemen42 Act of 1909 Permitting Common Carriers to Grant Passes to Former Employees jm42 Accidents Statement of Railroads O r r Street Railroads J256 Accommodations in Railroad Stations at Night Law 32 Amendments to Classifications See Circulars i98 Baggage Excess Rates for 49 Bond and Stock Issues Rules Governing Application for195 Bond Issues Authorized by Commission Statement of 239 Cars for Peaches and Cantaloupes Law 49 Circulars Changes in Rules Classification Etc98 Claims Law Requiring Payment of 34 Classification Amendments to See Circulars 98 Classification of Freights Railroad Companies107 ClassificationGeneral Revision 9 Classification of Freights Express Companies 186 Classified List of Railroads Freight102 Classified List of Railroads PassengerI101 Commissioners Election of Law32 Commissioners pflice Rules Governing Duties of 199 Comparative Statement by Years of Railroad Earnings254 Constitution Extracts fromA3 257 Page Corporations Summary of Financial Operations 53 Cotton Sea Island Special Rates on 07 Demurrage Charges Law Governing Demurrage Rules Governing Collection of 70 Depots Rules Governing Petitions for 76 Directions for Computing Ratesf 106 Distance Tables Duties of Commissioners Office Rules Governing100 Earnings pf Compress Companies Earnings of Electric Light Companies t 245246 Earnings of Express Companies Earnings of Gas Companies r Earnings of Railroad Companies Earnings of Street Railroad Companies Earnings of Telegraph Companiesa 245 Earnings of Telephone Companies n ooaa Earnings of Terminal Companies Election of Commissioners Law I Employees of Commission Rules Governing Duties of Estimated Weights Rules Governing Excess Baggage Rates Expense Bills What They Must Show Rule No 2 Expenses of Railroads Operating 1Rft Express Classification of Freight Express Companies Jurisdiction of Commission Over Law Express Rules 7 Express Tariffs o40 Financial Statements Flag Stations Shipments to Freight Rule No 15 54 Freight Rules io4105 Freights Standard Tariff Freight Tariff Classes i O General Orders 45 General Rules Grade Crossings Abolition of2fi Inspection of Railroads Lawr Interstate Commerce Commission Duty of Commission to Appeal to Law Joint Rates Freight Rule No 27 Law See Acts of General Assemblym q Letter Transmitting Report to Governor Limestone Special Rates on Mileage of Railroads in Georgia Mixed Shipments See Freight Rule No 30 Opinions of the Commissiont Opinions of Special Attorney to Commission 258 Page Orders General78 Passenger Rules49 Passenger Tariff Classification of Railroads101 Railroads y Freight Tariff Classification 102 Passenger Tariff Classification 101 Railroad Laws Extracts from14 Rates Direction for Computing106 Rates General Revision g Rebates See General Rule No 245 Recommendations 9 Report Letter Transmitting 3 Routing Shipments See Freight Rule No 3369 Rules of Commission viz Freight Rules1 54 General Rules 45 Passenger Rules 49 Governing Applications to Issue Stocks and Bonds195 Governing Collection of Storage Charges70 Governing Commissioners and Employees 199 Governing Erection and Location of Depots Stations Etc76 Governing Express Companies 181 Governing Telegraph Companies 77 Safety of Railroad Tracks Cars Etc Law 26 Separate Accommodations for Races Law 29 Special Attorney to Commission Opinions of203 Stations Agency 158 Stations NonAgency 158 Standard Tariff 104105 Station Accommodations at Night Law 32 Stock and Bond Issues Authorized by Commission Statement of239 Stock and Bond Issues Rules Governing Applications for195 Storage Charges Law Governing 27 Storage Charges Rules Governing 70 Stoves Special Rates on93 Tariff Rules Governing Issuance of 91 Tariff Standard104105 Telegraph Companies Jurisdiction of Commission Over Law28 Telegraph Companies Rules Governing77 259 GrA O fit Hit