DEMUEEAGE IISTFOEMATION FOR FARMERS. 7 



for reconsigning, for suiTeuder of bill of lading or payment of freight 

 chai'ges when cars are for delivery to or forwarding by a connecting 

 line, for inspection and grading in transit, for completion of load or 

 for partial unloading in transit, and for customs entry and govern- 

 ment inspection of shipments in bond. Cars containing freight for 

 transshipment by water wiU be allowed such time as the individual 

 tariffs of the roads interested permit. 



COMPUTING TEME. 



Rule 3 excludes Sundays and holidays in the computation of time 

 and provides that the following Monday shall be excluded when a 

 holiday falls on Sunday. Free time begins to run from the first 7 

 a. m. after empty cars are placed for loading, after notice of arrival of 

 cars held for orders, after placement and notice of arrival of cars for 

 unloading on public-delivery tracks, and after actual or constructive 

 placement of cars for unloading on other than public-delivery tracks. 

 On loaded cars for industrial plants performing their own switching 

 service, time is computed fi"om the first 7 a. m. after actual or con- 

 structive placement on the interchange track until their return thereto 

 by the industry. The underlying idea is that time shall be computed 

 from the first 7 a. m. after placement and notice. 



NOTIFICATION. 



Rule 4 provides that notice shall be given the consignee within 24 

 hours after the arrival of cars. Notice shall be in writing or as other- 

 wise agreed upon between the carrier and consignee, and shall include 

 such information as point of shpiment, car number and initials, con- 

 tents, and, if shipment has been transferred en route, number and 

 initials of the original car. Delivery of cars on private tracks or 

 industrial interchange tracks constitutes notification to consignees 

 taking delivery on such tracks. 



PLACING CARS FOR UNLOADING. 



Rule 5 defines "constructive placement" and its enforcement 

 breaks up the discrimination formerly practiced in favor of industries 

 doing their own switching and of those consignees who sought delay 

 and more time by ordering cars to tracks that they knew were occu- 

 pied. Cars for industries doing their own switching will be consid- 

 ered as delivered, and the free time will begin to run when they are 

 tend(!red the industry and written notice soi-ved to that efi'ect, oven 

 thf)Ugh the industry may refuse or fail or be unable to remove them 

 from the interchange track. The former practice of free time begin- 

 ning to mn only after th(i inchistry has announced its readiness to 

 receive the cars is abolished. \Vlien, from causes beyond the car- 

 rier's cfMitrol, furs can not b(^ pl.'icod on tracks <l(»,Hignat(ul by CAni- 

 signecs they will b(; placed on the lu^ircsl m vnilnhlc. I ruck and written 

 notice served to that efFect. 



