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expense of the cargo. The steamer shall have the privilege of discharging into lighters at the 

 risk of cargo owners, in which case it is mutually understood and agreed that each lighter shall 

 be discharged within five (5) days after lighter is loaded. For each and every day's detention, 

 of lighter or lighters, demurrage shall be paid at the current rate of port for each lighter so 

 detained. 



Delirery.— Mail steamers and steamers operating on schedule sailings shall only be ordered 

 to discharge at their regular discharging port, and at New York shall not be ordered to the 

 Yonkers' refineries. 



Steamers not operating on regular schedule may be ordered to any one of the ports of New 

 York, New Orleans or Boston. 



No steamers shall be required to discharge at more than one berth or refinery at any port. 



Delivery of sugars at the Yonkers' refineries, with the additional hazards and expense, 

 shall be 2c. per 100 lbs. extra on the entire cargo. 



Assignment of Steamers. — For the sake of efficient operation, the assignment of 

 steamers shall be decided by the Transportation Committeee. 



Ins^^rance.— Sugar at all times (whether afloat in steamer, or on any lighters, or on shore, 

 on dock, at refinery, or in warehouse) shall be at the risk of the owners thereof. 



The Joint Committee on West Indies Transportation anticipates being able to handle- 

 promptly all sugars offered for shipment from Porto Rico and the Dominican Republic during 

 the month of January, 1918, and it is proposed that the balance shall be extended over a ten 

 (10) month period ending November 30, therfore commencing February 1, approximately ten 

 (10) per cent of the remainder of the estimated total production of each Centrale will be- 

 transported monthly. In the event that any Centrale fails to have ready for shipment such 

 proportion of its output, it is understood that said quantity will not be moved until the end 

 of the season unless tonnage is available for that purpose in the interim. 



SPECIAL CONDITIONS 

 SANTO DOMINGO 



Licenses. — Import licenses, when required, shall be procured by merchants before steamer 

 is ready to discharge, otherwise time lost to count as lay-days. 



Charier Party. — No charter party shall be employed, but it is understood that the terms- 

 and conditions of the uniform charter party and bill of lading, likewise the Porto Rican condi- 

 tions appended, shall be effective. 



Demurrage and Despatch. — Demurrage in loading and discharging on full cargo lots of 

 sugar on other than mail and regular schedule steamers shall be charged and paid on the 

 basis of forty-eight (48) cents per gross registered ton of vessel per day; and despatch 

 money shall be paid, if earned, at the rate of sixteen (16) cents per gross registered ton of vessel 

 per day to the party or parties responsible for the despatch. 



On mail steamers and steamers operating on schedule sailings, despatch money on loading, 

 if earned, shall be allowed at the rate of ten (10) cents per ton D. W. cargo capacity per day; 

 no demurrage shall be charged, but steamers reserve the right to sail without cargo, the shipper- 

 or shippers being liable for dead freight if cargo is not tendered in time to enable ship to load 

 and sail on schedule. Demurrage in discharging, if any, shall be charged and paid at the rate- 

 of 48c. per gross registered ton of vessel per day. 



PORTO RICO. 



Despatch in Porto Rico. — If lightered sugar is delivered alongside in time to enable- 

 steamer to load more than 5,000 bags of 312 lbs. each, or equivalent, per daylight working day, 

 despatch money shall be paid by steamer for all time saved (less time used in loading at 

 night) at the rate of ten (10) cents per ton D. W. cargo capacity per day. Sugar is to be de- 

 livered alongside as ordered by steamer, and in the event that such cargo is furnished by more- 

 than one Centrale any despatch money earned shall be paid to the shipper or shippers responsi- 

 ble for the despatch. 



Demurrage in Porto Rico. — No demurrage shall be charged on any steamers, but if shipper 

 fails to place alongside vessel the full quantity of his engagement in time to be loaded at the 

 rate of 5,000 bags of 312 lbs. each, or equivalent, per daylight working day, steamer to reserve- 



