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TERMS AND 
!L The provisions ol the receipt shall inure to the benefit of and be 
binding upon the consignor, the consignee and all carriers handling this 
shipment, and shall apply to. any reconsignment or return thereof. 
2» The rate charged for carrying said property is dependent upon the 
actual value of the property which must be specifically stated in writing by 
the shipper, and applies only upon property of an actual value not exceeding 
fifty dollars for any shipment of one hundred pounds or less, or not exceed- 
ing fifty cents per pound, actual weight, for any shipment in excess of one 
hundred pounds. If the actual value is greater than fifty dollars for any 
shipment "of one hundred pounds or less, or exceeds fifty cents per pound, 
actual weight, for any shipment in excess of one hundred pounds, such actual 
value must be specifically stated in writing by the shipper, and excess charges 
for such greater value must be paid therefor in accordance with the lawfully 
published tariffs of the company, 
3. Said property is accepted as merchandise only, and the Company shall 
not be liable* for the loss of money, bullion, bonds, coupons, jewelry, precious 
stones, valuable papers or other matter of extraordinary value, unless such 
articles are enumerated in the receipt, as the Company does not transport such 
articles except through its money department. 
4. Unless caused by its owa negligence or that of its agents the Company 
shall not be liable for : 
e. Difference in weight or quantity caused by shrinkage, leakage or 
evaporation. 
b. The death, ^ injury or escape of live freight. 
5. Unless caused in whole or in part by its own negligence or that of its 
agents, the Company shall not be liable for loss, damage or delay caused by: 
a. The act or default of the shipper or owner. 
b. The nature of tlie property, or defect or inherent vice therein. 
C. Improper or insufficient^ packing, securing or addressing. 
d« The Act of God, public enemies, authority of law, quarantine, 
riots, strikes, perils of navigation, the hazards or dangers inci- 
dent to a state of war, or occurrence in Customs warehouse. 
e. The examination by, or partial delivery to, the consignee of 
C. O. D. shipments. 
1 , Delivery under instructions of consignor or consignee at stations 
v/here there is no agent of the Company after suck shipments 
have been left at such stations. 
6* Packages containing fragile articles or articles consisting wholly or in 
part of glass must be so marked and be packed so as to insure safe trans- 
portation by express with ordinary care. 
CONDITIONS 
7. If no express company kas an agency at the point of destination, said 
property may be carried to the agency nearest or most convenient thereto 
and the consignee notified. 
8. 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 
and suits must be instituted within two years after delivery, or, in case of 
failure to deliver after a reasonable time for delivery has elapsed. 
Unless claims are so made and suits so brought the carrier shall 
not be liable. 
0. If any C. O. p. is not paid within thirty days after notice of non* 
delivery has been mailed to the shipper, the Company may, at its option, 
return the property to the consignor and collect the charges for transportation 
both ways. 
10. ^The Company shall not be required to make free delivery at points 
where^ it maintains no free delivery service nor at any point beyond its 
established and published delivery limits. 
Special addltioMal proTlsions as to sliipiaei&ts forwarded frost 
tke United States to places in Foreign Countries. 
11. If the destination specified in this receipt is in a foreign country, 
the property covered hereby shall, as to transit over ocean routes and by 
their foreign connections to such^ destination, be subject to all the terms 
and conditions of the receipts or bills of lading of ocean carriers as accepted 
by the Company for the shipment, and of foreign carrier participating in the 
transportation and as to such transit is accepted for transportation and 
delivery subject to the acts, ladings, laws, regulations and customs of oversea 
and foreign carriers, custodians and governments, their employes and agents. 
12. The Company shall not be liable ^ for any loss, damage or delay to 
said shipments over ocean routes and their foreign connections, the destina- 
tion^ of which is in a foreign country, occurring outside the boundaries of 
the United States which may be occasioned by any such acts, ladings, laws, 
regulations or customs. 
13. It is hereby agreed that the property destined to such foreign 
countries, and assessable with foreign, governmental or customs duties, taxes 
or charges, may be stopped in transit at foreign ports, frontiers or depositories, 
and there held pending examination, assessments and payments, and such 
duties and charges, when advanced by the Company, shall have become a 
lien on the property. 
