TERMS AND 
1. The provisions of this 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. In consideration of the rate charged for carrying said property, which is dependent 
upon the value thereof and is based upon an agreed valuation of not exceeding fifty dollars 
for any shipment of 100 pounds or less and not exceeding fifty cents per pound, actual 
weight, for any shipment in excess of 100 pounds, unless a greater value is declared at 
the time of shipment, the shipper agrees that the company shall not be liable in any event 
for more than fifty dollars for any shipment of 100 pounds or less, or for more than fifty 
cents per pound, actual weight, for any shipment weighing more than 100 pounds, unless 
a greater value is stated herein. Unless a greater value is declared and stated herein the 
shipper agrees that the value of the shipment is as last above set out and that the liabil¬ 
ity of the company shall in no event exceed such value. 
3. Unless caused by its own negligence or that of its agents, the company shall not be 
liable for — 
a Difference in weight or quantity caused by shrinkage, leakage, or evaporation. 
b The death, injury or escape of live freight. 
c 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. 
4. 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 the property, or defect or inherent vice therein. 
c Improper or insufficient Racking, securing, or addressing. 
d The Act of God, public enemies, authority of law, quarantine, riots, strikes, perils 
Of navigation, the hazards or dangers incident 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. 
f Delivery under instructions of consignor or consignee at stations where there is no 
agent of the company after suGh shipments have been left at such stations. 
5. 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 transportation by express with ordi¬ 
nary care. 
6. When consigned to a place at which the express company has no office, shipments 
must be marked with the name of the express station at which delivery will be accepted 
or be marked with forwarding directions if to go beyond the express company’s line by a 
carrier other than an express company. If not so marked shipments will be refused. 
CONDITIONS 
7. As conditions precedent to recovery claims must be made in writing to the originating 
or delivering carrier within nine months after delivery of the property <vr. in case of 
failure to make delivery, then within nine months and fifteen days^aftey date of shipment; 
and suits shall be instituted only within two years and one day after tlie' data when notice 
in writing is given by the carrier to the claimant that the carrier has disallowed the claim 
or any part or parts thereof. 
8. If any C. O. D. 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. 
9. Free delivery will not be made at points where the company maintains no delivery 
service; at points where delivery service is maintained free delivery will not be made at 
addresses beyond the established and published delivery limits. 
Special Additional Provisions as to Shipments Forwarded by Vessel from 
the United States to Places in Foreign Countries 
10. 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, bo 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 carriers 
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 foroign 
carriers, custodians, and governments, their employees and agents. 
11. The company shall not be liable for any loss, damage, or delay to said shipments 
over ocean routes and their foreign connections, the destination 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. Claims for loss, damage or delay 
must be made in writing to the carrier at the port of export or to the carrier issuing this 
receipt within nine months after delivery of the property at said port or in case of failure 
to make such delivery then within nine months and fifteen days after date of shipment; 
and claims so made against said delivering or issuing carrier shall be deemed to have bean 
made against-any carrier which may be liable hereunder. Suits shall be instituted only 
within two years and one day after the dato when notice in writing is given by the carrier 
to the claimant that the carrier has disallowed the claim or any part or parts thereof. 
Where claims are not so made, and/or suits are not instituted thereon in accordance with 
the foregoing provisions, the carrier shall not bo liable. 
12. It is hereby agreed that the property destined to such foreign countries, and assess¬ 
able 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 become a lien on the property. 
