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CARRYING HORSES. 



Company to 

 furnish par- 

 ticulars of 

 char ores. 



Regulation of 

 Eailwaj-sAct, 

 1871. 



damage wliicli may arise during the carriage of sucli 

 animals, &c. by sea, from the act of Grod, the king's enemies, 

 fire, accidents from machinery, boilers and steam, and all 

 and every other dangers and accidents of the seas, rivers 

 and navigations, of whatever nature and kind soever, shall, 

 if published in a conspicuous manner in the office where 

 such through booking is effected, and if printed in a 

 legible manner on the receipt or freight note which the 

 Company gives for such animals, &c., be valid as part of 

 the contract between the consignor of such animals, &c. and 

 the Company, in the same manner as if the Company had 

 signed and delivered to the consignor a bill of lading 

 containing such Condition. For the purpose of this section, 

 the word "Company" includes the owners, lessees or 

 managers of any canal or other inland navigation. 



Section 16 of the same Act contains provisions for securing 

 equality of treatment in respect of tolls where a railway 

 company is authorized to work steam vessels in connection 

 with their lines ; and also provides that "the provisions of 

 the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854," so far as the 

 same are applicable, shall extend to the steam vessels and 

 to the traffic carried on thereby. 



By section 17, "where any charge shall have been made 

 by a Company in respect of the conveyance of goods over 

 their railway, on application in writing within one week 

 after payment of the said charge made to the secretary of 

 the Company by the person by whom or on whose account 

 the same has been paid, the Company shall within fourteen 

 days render an account to the person so applying for the 

 same, distinguishing how much of the said charge is for 

 the conveyance of the said goods on the railway, including 

 therein tolls for the use of the railway, for the use 

 of carriages, and for locomotive power, and how much 

 of such charge is for loading and unloading, covering, 

 collection, delivery, and for other expenses : but without 

 particularizing the several items of which the last-mentioned 

 portion of the charge may consist." 



By section 18, " where two railways are worked by one 

 Company, then, in the calculation of tolls and charges for 

 any distances in respect of traffic (whether passengers, 

 animals, goods, carriages or vehicles) conveyed on both 

 railways, the distances traversed shall be reckoned con- 

 tinuously on such railways, as if they were one railway." 



The ilegulation of Railways Act, 1871 (^34 & 35 Vict. 

 c. 78), section 12, enacts that " where a Railway Company 



