Sec. 1. The carrier or party in possession of any of the p-operty herein art--- 
shall be liable for any loar thereof or damage thereto, exr > e r a' r.s • , -i v, , 
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iiiible for any loss thereof or damage -thereto or do; ay caused or the act of God. the* 
public enemy. Quarantine, the authority of law, or tne act or default of the shipper or 
owner, or for differences in the weights of grain, seed, or other commodities caused by 
natural shrinkage or discrepancies in elevator weights. For loss, damage, of delay caused 
hy ftps occurring after forty-eight hours (exclusive of legal holidays) after notice of the 
arrival of the property at destination or at port of export (if intended for export) lifts 
beeta duly sent or gmen. the carrier’s liability shall be that of warehousemen only. 
Except in case of negligence of the carrier or party in possession (and the burden to 
pwvt freedom from such negligence shall be on the carrier or party in possession), the 
carrier or party in possession shall not be liable for loss, damage, . or delay occurring 
while the. property is stopped and held in transit upon request of the shipper, owner, or 
party entitled to make such request; or resulting from a defect or vice in the property 
or from riots or strikes. When in accordance with general custom, on account of the 
nature of the property, or when at the request of the shipper the property is transported 
in open cars, the carrier or pa rty in possession. (er-.a-r* in cc. ro of loss >r damage by fire, 
in which case the liability shall be the same as though the property had been carried 
in closed cars) shall he liable only for negligence, and the burden to prove freedom 
from such negligence shall be on the carrier or pa rty in possession. 
Sec. 2. In issuing this bill of lading this company agrees to transport only over 
its own line, and except as otherwise provided by law acts only as agent with respect 
to the portion of the route beyond Its own line. 
No carrier shah be liable for loss, damage, ..'r. ioju y not occurring on its owa road 
or it* portion of the through route, nor after said property has. been delivered to the ' 
nest carrier, except as such liability is or may. be imposed by law, but nothing con- 
tained in this bill of lading shall bo deemed to exempt the initial carrier from any 
such liability so imposed. 
See. b. No carrier is bound to transport said property by any particular train or 
vessel, or in time for any particular market or otherwise than with reasonable dispatch, 
unless by specific agreement indorsed hereon. Every carrier shall have the right in 
case of physical necessity to forward said property by any railroad or rout)# between the 
point of shipment and the point of destination ; but if such diversion shad be from a 
rail to a water route the liability of the carrier shall toe tb« same as though to® entire 
carriage were by rail. 
The amount of any loss or damage for which any carrier is liable shall be computed 
on the basis of the value of the property (being the bona-fide invoice price, if any, to 
the consignee, including the freight charges, if prepaid) at the place and time of ship- 
ment under this bill of lading, unless a lower value has been represented in writing by 
the shipper or has been agreed upon or is determined by the classification or tariffs upon 
which the rate is based, in any of which events such lower value Khali be the maximum 
amount to govern such computation, whether or not such loss or damage occurs from 
negligence. 
Claims for loss, damage, or delay must be made in writing to the carrier at the 
point of delivery or at the point of origin within four months after delivery of the 
property, or, in case of failure to make delivery, then within four months after a 
reasonable time for delivery has elapsed. Unices claims are m made too carrier snail 
not be liable. 
An;, ca-art. or psrfv Tfrbl? on recount of loss c? or damage tc any of said, property 
shall have the full benefit of any insurance that n? Lave owr lav a oar or on 
account of said property, so far os this shall not avoid the policies or contra as of 
insurance. 
Sec. 4, All property shall be subject to necessary cooperage and baling at owner’s 
cost. Each carrier over whose route cotton is to be transported hereunder shall hart, 
tire privilege, at its own cost and risk, of compressing the same for greater com enience 
in handling or forwarding, and shall not be held responsible for deviation or Unavoidable 
delays in procuring such compression. Grain, in. bulk consigned to a point where there 
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not promptly unloaded) be there delivered and placed with other grate 
r; •*. 1 ■■■ ■ n a ••r- + to o wne.vshJ p, an. I if so delivered shall bf 
cu’affc: a 11,. . ele-a.p r c.u ; :.;e« in addition to all other charges hereunder. 
Sec. 5. Pt ope rty not repnored by the party entitled to receive- - It- within -- forty-elf M- 
hours (exclusive of legal holidays i after notice of its arrival has been duly sent or given 
may be 'kept in car, depot, or place of delivery of the carrier, or warehouse, 1 subject to ft. 
reasonable charge for storage and to carriers responsibility as warehouseman only, or 
may he, at the option of the carrier, removed to and stored in a public or licensed 
warehouse at tin cost of the owner and there held at the owner’s risk and without lia- 
bility on the part of the carrier, and subject to a lisa for all freight and. other lawful 
charges, including a reasonable charge for storage. 
The carrier may make a reasonably charge for the detention of any vessel or car, 
or for the u;;e of tracks after the car has been held forty-eight hours (exclusive of 
legal holidays), for loading or unloading, and may add such charge to all other charges 
nereunder and hold such property subject to a lion therefor. Nothing in this section 
shall be construed as lessening the time allowed by tew or m setting aside any local 
nil® affecting car service or storage. 
Property de rained to car taken from a station, wharf, or landing fct which there Is 
no regularly appointed agent rtva.II be entirely at risk of owner .after, uploaded from 
cars or vessels m until k-artrt into cars or vessels, and when -received from or delivered 
on private or other sidings, wharves, or landings shall b© at owner's risk until the can 
w© attached to and after they are detached from trains. 
irtc. $. No -aa titer will re • -y or be liable in any way for any documents, specie, 
or for any articles of extra-ami .try value not specifically rated in the published das&i- 
J-QkUm m tavii. •>, n ai,.A apstetai 'agreement to do so ax*d a sUpuiated v-dui of the 
articles are indorsed hereon. 
1 Sec. 7. Every party, whether principal or agent, shipping explosive or dangerous 
goods, wither.: previous full written disclosure to the carrier of their nature, shall be 
Labia for all leas or damage caused thereby, .and such goods may bo warehoused at 
owner's risk and expense or destroyed without compensation. 
Sec. 8. Tne owner or consigned shall pay the freight and all other lawful charges 
accruing on said property, and, if required, shall pay the same before delivery. If upon 
Inspection it .is ascertained that the articles skipped arc aot those described in this 
bill of lading, the freight charges* »u.i be paid upon th® articles actually (dripped. 
R B ec. 9. Except in case of diversion from rail to water routs, which is provided 
for in section 3 hereof, if all or any part of said property is carried by water over any 
part of said route, stick water carriage shall be performed subject to the liabilities, 
limitations, and exemptions provided by statute and to to© conditions contained in this 
bill of lading not inconsistent with such statutes or this section, . and subject also to 
the condition that no carrier or party in possession shall be liable * for any loss or 
damage resulting- from the perils of the lakes, sea. Or other waters; or from, explosion, 
bursting of boilers, breakage of shafts, or say latent defect in hull, machinery, or ap- 
purtenances; or from collision, stranding or other accidents of navigation, or from pro- 
longation of toe voyage. And any ve&el carrying any or all of the property herein de- 
scribed shall have too liberty to call at intermediate ports, to tow and be towed, and 
assist vessels in distress, and to deviate for tha purpose of caving life or property. 
The term "water carriage" ia this- section shall not be construed as including 
lighterage across rivers or in Jake or ether hurl 
shall be governed by the other sections of this 
If the property is being carried under a 
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Bee. 10.. Any alteration, addition or erasure in this bill of lading which shall b® 
mad*-- .without an indorsement '.hereof hereon, signed by the agent of th# carrier issuing 
this bill oi lading, thall be without effieefc, end iMa bill of lading skaU fe® enforceable 
according to its original tenor. 
