STIPULATIONS AND CONDITIONS REFERRED TO ON FACE HEREOF AND 
ALL OF WHICH ARE AGREED TO BY SHIPPER. 
1. Carrier and the master of vessel shall have, and each is hereby given, 
an option to carry any or all said bulk freight and/or packages on deck, salve 
persons and property, sail without pilot, tow and assist vessels, lighter, surf, 
trans-ship, land and re-ship any or all of said bulk freight and/or packages; 
also an option to deviate and for any purpose and in any orclei or sequence sail 
to and stop and stay at any and all ports and places whether the same be in or 
out of any route toward said port of delivery and to there, at any such port or 
place, stop and deliver and/or receive passengers and mails, and/or freight for 
delivery either on her then or other or return voyage; and also an option to carry 
all or any of said bulk freight and/or packages beyond and/or away from said 
port of delivery to any other port or place and thence to said port of delivery. 
2. Carrier shall not be liable for any loss, of, or damage to, any of said 
merchandise resulting from Acts of God, perils of the sea or other waters, surf, 
war, enemies, pirates, thieves, pilferage, arrest or restraint of rulers or people, 
acts or takings or claims or restraint of government or municipal or de facto 
ofhcers, whether acting with or without lawful authority, legal process, attach¬ 
ments, causes beyond its control, quarantine and sanitary measures, barratry of 
master or crew, rising of passengers, claims of third parties, detention or acci¬ 
dental delay, riots, strikes, lockouts, stoppages of labor, stoppages in transit or 
claim of right thereto, fire or water on board vessel or on wharf or land or pier or 
in hulks or lighters or warehouses, or collapse of or destruction of, or damage to, 
wharf or pier or its coverings, present or future latent defects in, or breakage or 
fracture of, hull, shaft, propellers, fittings, fixtures, valves, pipes, machinery, boil¬ 
ers or appurtenances, or from explosion, bursting of boilers or pipes, collision 
with vessels or structures or objects stranding or wrecks or accidents of navi¬ 
gation ; nor of Carrier and/or Charterer and/or Owner shall have exercised due 
diligence to make the vessel on which said merchandise is shipped in all re¬ 
spects seaworthy and properly manned, equipped and supplied, shall the vessel, 
Carrier, Owner, Charterers or Agents become, or be held, responsible for any 
loss or damage that shall result in whole or in part from unseaworthiness of 
the vessel, whether existing at the time of shipment, or at the beginning of the 
voyage, or. on the voyage, fault or error in navigation or management of ves¬ 
sel, or of its engines, boilers, winches, hoisting gear, fittings, fixtures, equip¬ 
ment, ports, hatches, dead lights, valves, cocks, pipes tanks and their connec¬ 
tions, and this whether such fault or error be before or after sailing or be in 
port or at sea, or from any other causes of what kind soever, ejusdem generis 
herewith or otherwise. Any omission to exercise such due diligence shall not 
be presumed, but the same must, if claimed or alleged, be proved by the Ship¬ 
per or Consignee. 
3. Carrier shall not be liable for loss in weight, blowing, drainage, leak¬ 
age, seepage, breakage, chafage to goods in bales, splits in lumber, torn or 
soiled covers, wrappers or bags, broken cords or hoops, wastage or loss of con¬ 
tents of any package, cask or receptacle; nor for loss or damage by breakage, 
drainage, seepage or leakage from any other package, cask or receptacle, change 
of climate, weather, floods, contagion or moisture received from such or other 
merchandise, effects of chafing, cutting of packages or contents, use of hooks, 
pressure, heat, whether internal or external, steam, ice, cold, frost, freezing, 
weather, sweat, decay, deterioration, putrifaction, fermentation, mould, evapo¬ 
ration, rain, water, spray, wetting, dampness, rust, vermin, rats, twisting or 
bending of metal shipped loose or in bundles; nor for loss or damage resulting 
from any burning or explosion of cargo, or from inaccuracy or omission of 
proper marks or description; nor for any loss or. damage resulting from the 
nature of the goods, or incident to the transportation of same, or insufficiency 
of packages or cases; nor for injury or staining of wrappers, labels, cases or 
packages or contents of same.however caused, or from stowage or contact with 
or smell or evaporation or taint from other goods, as all vessels carry general 
cargo and any lawful merchandise; and in no event shall Carrier be liable for 
loss of, or damage to, any such contents, not specified herein, or for loss from 
package, or damage to merchandise shipped in tierces, casks, crates, sacks, 
bundles, bales, or which shall consist in whole or in part of glass, crockery, 
queensware, porcelain, holloware, pictures, picture frames, stoves or other cast¬ 
ings. . Each package shall be by shipper legibly marked, and, if not so marked, 
a delivery of full number of packages of like supposed contents, without regard 
to quantity or actual contents, shall be a full discharge of Carrier’s obligations 
hereunder, and if any of such packages shall be delayed or go astray, or be 
elsewhere landed because not properly marked, or contents not properly de¬ 
scribed, Carrier shall not be liable therefor. Live stock, all perishable property, 
all live freight and all merchandise packed in second-hand or weak cases, and 
all cargo carried on deck shall be at all times at owner’s risk. Neither fault nor 
failure nor improper loading, nor bad stowage nor improper custody nor want 
of due care nor improper delivery of merchandise by Carrier shall be presumed, 
but same must, if alleged, be proved by shipper or consignee. 
4. The shipment is subject to all the terms and provisions of the Act of 
Congress of the United States, approved February 13, 1893, entitled “An Act 
relating to the navigation of vessels”, etc., and of Sections 4282 to 4287, inclu¬ 
sive, of the United States Revised Statutes. The Carrier shall not be liable for 
gold or other precious metals, precious stones, bills, notes or securities, docu¬ 
ments, pictures, glass, china, silk, furs, lace or any of the articles enumerated 
in Section 4281 of the United States Revised Statutes, except in accordance with 
such statute, and after written notice of the character and value thereof at the 
time of loading and entry thereof. Shipper shall be liable for any loss or dam¬ 
age to ship or cargo caused by inflammable, explosive or dangerous goods 
shipped with or without full disclosure of their nature, and such goods may be 
thrown overboard or destroyed at any time without compensation. 
5. The said packages shall be received by consignee at vessel’s tackle im¬ 
mediately on her arrival at said first mentioned place of delivery without re¬ 
gard to weather; if consignee be not on hand to so receive packages as dis¬ 
charged, Carrier may deliver same to any lighterman or wharfinger or other 
party or person believed by Carrier to be responsible and who will take charge 
of said packages or the same may be kept on board or be landed on wharf or 
beach or bank or stored in hulks or put in lighters for the owner and at own¬ 
er’s risk and expense. 
6. Advance charges shall be repaid to Carrier whether vessel or merchan¬ 
dise be lost or not lost at any stage of entire transit, and if all freight and 
charges due Carrier be not paid within thirty days after arrival of vessel at 
said .first mentioned port or place, Carrier may sell said merchandise at either 
public or private sale and as agent for and fdr account of owner and apply pro¬ 
ceeds in payment of freight and all other charges, and if sum so realized be not 
sufficient to pay all such charges or if such sale be not made, the shipper shall 
on demand pay all such charges or make good such deficiency as the case may 
be ; and shipmaster may at any time sell or dispose of perishable property when 
in his opinion same would become decayed or worthless before it could be de¬ 
livered as herein provided and if same be so sold or disposed of full freight 
thereon and all charges shall be paid by shipper. 
7. Carrier shall never be liable for any loss of, or damage to, said mer¬ 
chandise, nor for any damage or loss suffered in connection therewith, unless 
its neglect or willful default is shown to have been the sole cause of the same. 
If Carrier becomes liable for any damage or loss to said merchandise, it shall 
have the benefit of all insurance on said merchandise, and of any payments 
made by or on behalf of the insurer thereof whether under the guise of ad¬ 
vances, loans or otherwise; and shall also have the benefit of all loans, the 
amounts of which have been determined by the total amount or part of any 
loss or damage to said merchandise, made the owner by the insurer thereof, 
and induced by the existence of insurance upon said merchandise. The right of 
any such insurance, advances or loans may be offset in the amount thereof by 
Carrier against a claim or suit for said loss or damage. 
8. NOTE PARTICULARLY: No claim arising under this Bill of lead¬ 
ing is valid unless made in writing by consignee to Carrier’s agent at the port 
of discharge, if for matters discoverable in all or in part without opening the 
packages, before removing the goods from the dock, or, if for matters discover¬ 
able only by opening the packages within ten days from the delivery thereof, 
or, if for nondelivery of the goods, within twenty days after the discharge of 
the vessel or her departure from the port at which it is claimed delivery should 
have been made. No suit on any such claim so presented or to recover for any 
such loss or damage, etc., shall be maintained unless such claim be so presented 
and such suit be thereupon commenced and summons, or other process, be 
served on Carrier, or steamer be attached, within ninety days from and after 
the day and date that the cause of action therein alleged accrued, and every 
suit not so commenced within said ninety days shall be and by every court be 
held to be barred, and all claims and demands against Carrier or steamer al¬ 
leged by complaint or libel therein shall be so held to have been released by 
shipper, owner and consignee, and to be abandoned and barred; provided, that 
for shipments moving under the jurisdiction of the Federal “Acts to Regulate 
Commerce” the periods of limitation for the presentation'of claims and the com¬ 
mencement of suits as above provided for shall be those prescribed by said 
Acts; and on such shipments, every such claim not so presented and every suit 
not commenced within the respective periods prescribed therefor in said Acts 
shall be and be held by every court to be abandoned and barred. 
9. All liability for loss or damage to goods shall be determined by their 
invoice cost at original point of shipment plus freight, and it is expressly agreed 
that the goods named iu this Bill of Lading are hereby valued at not exceeding 
$100.00 per package, and unless a different or other value is expressly written 
and declared herein, the liability of the Companies'therefor, in case of the total 
loss of all or any of the said goods from any cause,, shall not exceed $100.00 
per package. 
10. On the. happening of any of the contingencies excepted In this bill of 
lading, or if vessel be disabled, or if navigation be obstructed and/or vessel be 
prevented from proceeding to destination in the usual course of navigation it 
customary dispatch/Carrier mhy forward said merchandise to port of delivery 
by other conveyances or vessels at option of its shipmaster or officers or agents 
and shall receive additional compensation for such service when rendered, 
whether performed by its own vessels or those of strangers ; and if salvage serv¬ 
ices be rendered to shipper or said merchandise by servants of said vessel or 
other vessels of Carrier, such service shall be as fully paid for as if rendered 
by strangers. 
11. Carrier Is not and shall not be required to deliver said packages at 
port of delivery at any particular time or to meet any particular market or in 
time for any particular use. 
.12. If by quarantine steamer be prevented from discharging said merchan¬ 
dise or any thereof at said place of delivery, Carrier may then discharge same 
at any port and into any lazaretto or other receptacle therefor and such dis¬ 
charge shall be a proper, final, delivery; all quarantine charges and expenses 
on said merchandise shall be borne by shipper and be a lien thereon. Carrier 
shall not be liable for deterioration or damage to cargo caused by fumigation 
or disinfectant ordered by authorities. 
13. If said packages need be lightered at any time or port or place all 
lighterage services rendered shall be and be deemed to have been rendered by 
an independent carrier or person; if such services be procured by Carrier they 
shall be deemed to be and to have been so procured by it acting as agent there¬ 
for of shipper, and Carrier’s liability as carrier at any port or place where such 
lighterage be needed. shall end immediately vessel be anchored at or near to 
said port or place. Carrier’s liability after steamer be at anchor at or near to 
said port of delivery shall be that of warehouseman only, and said packages 
after* unhooked from ship’s tackles at such anchorage shall be at owner’s risk. 
14. If vessel be prevented by stress of weather, obstructions to navigation, 
war, blockade, seizure, restraint, riot, lockout, interdict, disease, fire, disable¬ 
ment of vessel, or any other cause of whatsoever kind from proceeding in the 
usual course of navigation to the port of delivery, and/or from entering said 
port on her arrival at or near the same, or from there discharging any or all 
of said merchandise, or .if, in the judgment of master, carrier or agent, it be 
impracticable to there discharge all or any of said merchandise while the ship 
be at said port, or for the same to be there safely landed if discharged, then, 
first, all merchandise not delivered and/or discharged may be retained on board 
said vessel and returned to her port of original shipment, or same may, at op¬ 
tion of ship’s master or agent, and at owner’s cost and risk, be conveyed upon 
such or any vessel to said port of delivery either directly or indirectly or via 
other port or ports ; or second, same may be forwarded to and landed and de¬ 
livered or stored at any other port at owner’s cost and risk and Carrier shall 
have a lien on said merchandise for all expenses so incurred, provided, how¬ 
ever, that if said merchandise or any thereof be so returned to such port of 
original shipment no additional freight shall be charged, and that delivery or 
storage of such merchandise at any such other port or on such return to said 
port of original shipment shall be a final and sufficient delivery. In case any 
part of the merchandise cannot be found for delivery during vessel’s stay at 
port of discharge, same may be forwarded at Carrier’s expense, but no liability 
shall exist for any loss or damage resulting from delay. 
15. “Carrier” Includes owners, stockholders and vessels and masters there¬ 
of ; “packages” and “merchandise” mean all property mentioned or referred to 
on face hereof; “shipper” and “owner” mean shipper and all owners of said 
packages and merchandise and all pledges thereof other than Carrier ; “Own¬ 
er’s risk” and “O. R.” mean that shipper has agreed that Carrier shall not be 
liable for any loss or damage unless it be shown to have entirely resulted from 
its negligence or willful default. 
16. Carrier’s liability hereunder shall be several and its liability, excepting 
that imposed by statute if it be the initial carrier, shall end and its rights de¬ 
pendent on delivery accrue immediately it has made delivery as above provided, 
and if freight be prepaid to Carrier beyond said first mentioned place of de¬ 
livery Carrier shall be shipper’s ager.ii: for the payment to other carrier of such 
freight as may be so paid for such carrier’s use;, and freight of every carrier of 
said packages by water “other than Matson Navigation Co.” shall, at option of 
such carrier, be deemed earned when said packages shall be laden on board 
other carrier’s vessel and shall be payable by shipper whether such other car¬ 
rier’s vessel or said packages be thereafter lost or not lost at any stage of the 
entire transit. No carrier, save as by statute it may be made liable as the ini¬ 
tial carrier, shall be liable to shipper or consignee for delay or misdelivery or 
conversion or loss or damage unless it be shown that the same occurred while 
said packages were In its possession. 
17. The rights and liabilities of all carriers by water shall be determined 
hereby; if Carrier deliver said packages to other carrier for carriage such de¬ 
livery shall be made as shipper’s agent and not as carrier, and if such delivery 
be to any carrier by land, shipper agrees to be bound by the stipulations and 
conditions of such bill of lading as may be in use for such transfer or by such 
carrier for like transfer or carriage at place of such transfer. 
18. Carrier shall have a lien, on said property for all fines Imposed on It 
and for all expense to it resulting "from shipper’s failure to furnish proper Con¬ 
sular or Custom House papers in due time or resulting from other errors or 
omissions of shippers, and all such fines and expenses hi all be reimbursed to 
Carrier by consignee before said, property shall be delivered to him. 
19. If the owner of the vessel on which said packages be laden shall have 
exercised due diligence to make said vessel in all respects seaworthy, and prop¬ 
erly manned, equipped and supplied, it is hereby agreed that in case of danger, 
damage or disaster resulting from fault or negligence of the pilot, master or 
crew, in the navigation or management of the vessel, or from, latent or other* 
defects, or unseaworthmes.s pi the , vessel, whether existing at time of shipment 
or at the beginning of the voyage, but not discoverable by due diligence, the 
consignee or owners of the cargo shall not be exempted from liability for con¬ 
tribution in General Average, or for any special charges incurred, but with the 
Shipowner, shall contribute in General Avenge, and shall pay such special 
charges, as if such danger, damage or disaster had not resulted from such fault, 
negligence, latent or other defect or unseaworthmess. General Average payable 
according to York-Antwerp.Rules of 1890, an 1 Antwerp Rule of 1903, and as 
for matters not therein provided for, according to the law.and usage at the 
Port of San Francisco. General average at the option of carrier shall be settled 
at San Francisco. 
20. It is agreed that if said packages be hereon consigned otherwise than 
“to Order” or “to Order of Shipper” that this instrument, whether Receipt or 
Bill of Lading, shall not be negotiable nor Carrier be required to secure a sur¬ 
render hereof as a condition of delivery to consignee hereon named or as above 
msigned “to Order" or 
to Order 
e 
fiipper” the 
sry to be notified of arrival shall be given by 
provided and that when 
name of party at place 
shipper and be written •ficreun. 
21 . State Harbor tolls at San 
minal charges, together with all expenses of cooperate aiul rep. u to freight 
packages shall be at the cost of and for accoun. ©f owner and/or consignee. 
i ncisc 
o, trackage, demurrage and all ter- 
22. Live Stock to be carried on deck at the sole risk of ( 
rier will not be accountable for mortality or accidents of any 
any kind of Live Stock to be in every instance according to 
inally shipped. 
jwners. The Car- 
kind. Freight on 
the number orig- 
