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10. The passenger fares and the registration charges for baggage are rounded up to full 5 copees and 5 sen.
11. The surplus resulting from the rounding up of the passenger fares and the registration charges for baggage remains in favour of the railway which has sold the coupon-book or forwarded the baggage.
12. The passenger fares, for adults as well as for children, indicated in the tariff include the cost of printing of the coupon-books at the rate of 20 copecs for a passenger travelling to Japan and 20 sen for a passenger travelling from Japan, which sum goes to the credit of the carrier who sold the coupon-hook.
13. The settlement of the amounts of balances shall be effected by the Returns Department of the Chinese Eastern Railway according to the following rulings :--
(a) All the debit or credit balances (in roubles and yen) of the Chinese Eastern and the Ussuri Railways and the Russian volunteer fleet are settled in rouble currency, and the corresponding accounts are forwarded to the carrier coucerned.
(b.) All the debit or credit balances (in yen and roubles) of the Imperial Japanese Railways and the "Osaka Shosen Kaisha" Steam-shipping Company are settled in yen currency, and the corresponding accounts are forwarded to the carrier
concerned.
14. The Russian volunteer flect pays to the Chinese Eastern Railway the shares of other carriers, and receives from the said railway its own shares in rouble currency through the Russo-Chinese Bank.
The Japanese carriers receive from the Chinese Eastern Railway their own shares in yen currency, and pay to the said railway the shares of other Russian carriers in rouble currency, in both cases through the Russo-Chinese Bank, whereby the Imperial Japanese Railways pay and receive their own shares through the South Manchuria Railway.
Any possible differences of the rates of exchange resulting from the above-shown manner of settlements of accounts the Chinese Eastern Railway and the Japanese carriers charge to their own accounts.
15. The Government tax for the Russian section has been calculated as three and passengers twenty-third parts of the total amounts realised for the conveyance of baggage along the Ussuri Railway.
16. The Government tax is not levied on the Chinese Eastern Railway and on the steamers of the Russian volunteer fleet.
17. The shares of the Ussuri Railway, the working of which has been temporarily handed over to the Chinese Eastern Railway, shall be placed to the credit or to the debit of the Chinese Eastern Railway, showing separately the shares for the conveyance of passengers and baggage and the shares of the Govern-
rent tax.
Enclosure 4 in No. 1.
Agreement relating to the Passenger and Baggage through Traffic between the South Manchuria and the Chinese Eastern Railways.
1. THIS "agreement relating to the passenger and baggage through traffic" is concluded between the South Manchuria and the Chinese Eastern Railways, and is to serve as a supplement to the "convention relating to the through traffic" between the said railways.
This agreement concerns---
(1.) The conveyance of passengers and baggage; and
(2.) The settlement of accounts between the contracting railways in connection with that conveyance.
2. The stations to be included in the through traffic are fixed by mutual agreement of the contracting railways, and are indicated. in the tariffs,
3. The passenger fares and the rates for the conveyance of baggage are fixed by mutual agreement of the contracting railways, and are indicated in the tariffs.
4. The conveyance of passengers is effected in virtue of passenger through tickets of the Edmanson's card system issued by the departure stations.
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The tickets are printed by the departure railway for its own stations, of separate series for each station and for each class.
5. The tickets are printed for the account of the departure railway, not excluding cases when an alteration of the tariff or of the distances takes place.
6. During the journey the passenger tickets are checked by the guards of the trains or by the controlling agents, and are nipped by means of control nippers, whereby the control marks have to be placed, if possible, on the circumference of the ticket and in a consecutive order. Before or at the destination station the tickets are collected from the passengers in conformity with the existing to that effect on the destination railway regulations, and are forwarded to the controlling department of the railway.
7. For the baggage tendered for through conveyance a receipt is issued to the passenger as per Form appended to this agreement (Appendix No. 1). The counterfoil of the baggage receipt remains at the departure station, and the baggage way-bill accompanies the baggage as far as the destination station.
During the delivery of the baggage the receipt is collected from the passenger, pasted on to the baggage way-bill, and forwarded on to the Controlling Department of the destination railway.
When in calculating the charges for the conveyance of baggage an allowance of weight to be conveyed free has to be made, the corresponding passenger tickets have to be presented to the agent who issues the baggage receipt. The word "baggage must be stamped on the face of such tickets.
The declared value of the baggage must be entered in the baggage receipt in words.
8. The charges for the conveyance of baggage, and in certain cases for the declared value as well, entered on the baggage receipt by the departure railway cannot be altered, and the departure railway is held responsible for all the consequences of wrong calculations.
9. The departure railway must affix to each package of baggage a label indicating the stations of departure and destination and a printed number of the baggage receipt issued to the passenger.
Baggage without a label cannot be accepted by the transferring station of the receiving railway, whereby in case of loss of the label of the departure station the same has to be affixed by the agent of the delivering railway, who makes a necessary note to that effect on the baggage way bill and on the delivery note.
10. Baggage receipts and labels are printed by each railway for its own stations
and for its own account.
11. The departure railway prepares monthly detailed accounts of all through tickets sold and of all baggage forwarded, and communicates these accounts to the other railway not later than the last day of the month following the one during which the tickets were sold.
The accounts are prepared according to the new calendar,
12. The account of the departure railway relating to through tickets sold must contain the following particulars :-----
The departure station (ie., the station where the ticket was sold).
The destination station.
The class of the ticket.
The beginning and ending No. No.
The number of tickets sold for adults and children.
The share of the destination railway for each class separately.
The total amount due to the destination railway.
The accounts are prepared on the Form appended to this agreement (Appendix No. 2).
13. The monthly accounts of the departure railway must be accompanied by all the spoiled tickets, for the verification of the correct sale of tickets of the consecutive series numbers. The departure railway must pay for a spoiled ticket not appended to the account, the share of the destination railway as for a ticket sold.
14. The baggage accounts are prepared by the departure railway, separately from the passenger traffic accounts, on the Form appended to this agreement (Appendix No. 3). The account must contain the following particulars--
The departure station. The destination station.
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