Women’s waists and dresses will be laundered at owner’s risk of damage, 
The Laundry will not be responsible for shrinkage; for fastness of color; for valuable containers, such 
as suitcases; for damage to pillowcases used as laundry bags; or for jewelry or valuable articles left in 
clothing. 
Exception Slip, Form 7054, will be pasted to all laundry lists of bundles received at the Laundry in 
an incomplete or damaged condition and Shortage Notice, Form 7273, will be enclosed in all bundles 
that check short on leaving the plant. 
Laundry not claimed within 125 days will be sold to pay charges, or destroyed. 
CLAIMS.—Hotel guests should promptly take up claims with the hotel management; claims of 
steamship passengers should be taken up promptly with the laundry manager at Ancon, or with the 
manager of the nearest Commissary, or with the General Manager’s office at Mt, Hope. You will find 
any of these agencies anxious and willing to adjust the claim to your satisfaction. Handling of the 
claim will be facilitated if you will submit at the same time the laundry list covering, and state the 
value of the articles, as well as the date you acquired them. Promptness in submitting claim will assist 
materially. 
If an article is lost or damaged, the right is reserved to make adjustment based upon the amount 
of service the article has had. 
Men’s flannel or woolen suits will be handled as wash goods only at owner’s risk, and only when speci¬ 
fically requested on face of list. 
Dry cleaning and dry cleaning and pressing should be listed on Form 7898, provided for that purpose. 
MR 34522—Panama Canal—9-30-49—5,000 
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