252 APPENDIX. 



"Weight, Contents, Measure, Quantity, and Value unknown, and 

 not answerable for Leakage, Lighterage, Breakage, Corruption, Rust, 

 Torn Wrappers, Decay and Mortality, Coiitagion or Injury, and the 

 Wrong Delivery of Goods, caused by error or by insufficiency in 

 marks or numbers. The Goods to be taken from the Ship by the 

 Consignees immediately after arrival, or the same will be transhipped 

 into Lighters, landed on the Quays, or Warehouse, at the expense 

 and risk of the Owners of such Goods. If the discharging of the 

 Goods is detained by the Entry not being passed, the Agents of the 

 Steamer will have the power to enter them, for account and risk of 

 the Owners of such Goods. All Goods shipped on Deck, at Shippers' 

 risk. 



Dated in Leith, 189 For the Master, 



{Signed) 



Notice of Conditions of Shipment. 



The following conditions appear almost universal in bills, notices 

 and bills of lading of the various Shipping Companies in Edinburgh 

 and Glasgow, and may be taken as typical : — 



" Owners will not be responsible for loss or injury to horses, cattle, 

 or other live stock of any kind, and such must be accompanied by 

 some one in charge ; and freight paid before shipment. 



" Shippers ought to insure all Goods ""^^ Live Stock, covering the 

 following conditions, being the terms on which they are carried, viz. : — 



" The Owner, Charterers, or Agents shall not be deemed or held to 

 be common Carriers. They do not engage to ship the Goods in the 

 first or in any particular Steamer, or on the days of delivery to them, 

 or on any particular day, but may send them in any Steamer on any 

 day, and at any time, or may tranship them from one Steamer to 

 another. 



"Nor will they be accountable for the number of Live Stock 

 entered in the Manifest (such numbers being taken on the repre- 

 sentation of the shippers), nor for the correct selection of each 

 owner's respective stock on landing. Nor for inward condition, 

 leakage, breakage, contents or weights of packages, nor for incorrect 

 delivery of Goods from insufficiency of addresses. 



" The Steamers, pwner. Charterers, or Agents, are not liable for 

 any damage or loss that may occur to Goods, before or at Shipment, 

 during the passage, whether on deck or in the hold, or at landing, or 

 Avhile otherwise in their custody, from any of the following causes 

 howsoever arising, or from any consequence of said causes — viz., 

 losses of any kind by delay by the Steamers not sailing according to 



