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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 30, 1910.
25.-Demurrage is charged on vehicles on which goods are Demurruge carried at the following rates:
Circumstances.
Time allowed Free.
Rate per truck per day or part of
a day in excess of free allowance.
On vehicles ordered and waiting to be loaded by senders or detained for con- signment note OF otherwise owing to the default of or at the request of the sender.
On loaded vehicles waiting to be dis- charged by owners.
On vehicles waiting to be loaded at private siding.
On loaded vehicles waiting to be dis- charged in a private siding.
24 hours from the time at which vehicles are placed in position for the purpose.
4 Wheeled Bogies
$3.00 $5.00
36 hours from the time at which the vehi- cles are placed in position for unloading.
Ditto.
Ditto.
As above.
As above.
Ditto.
If the amount which has accrued for wharfage is less than 5 cents it must not be collected. Sundays, Good Friday and Christmas Day must not be taken into account in reckoning the time for which demurrage or wharfage should be charged.
25A. The charges for ground rent for firewood, timber, Ground rent stone of any description, and gravel is $1 per thousand square feet for one mouth or portion thereof.
26.--It must be distinctly understood that the weight and Information in description of goods as given in the Railway Receipt and forward- railway receipts ing note are for the purpose of estimating the railway charges.
26. The Railway does not thereby admit the actual weight as therein shown has been received, or that the description of goods as furnished by the Consignor is correct, and therefore the Railway reserves the right of re-weighment, re-measurement, re-classifica- tion and re-calculation of charges at destination or at any station en route.
Correction of
weights
27.--Invoiced charges will not be corrected when the differ- ence, greater or less, between the invoiced weight and the weight invoiced found on re weighment does not exceed two per cent., provided that in no case shall a discrepancy of 3 piculs or over be passed.
28. The Railway hereby gives public notice that it will not Railway b responsible for articles of any description, whether booked as Responsibility parcels, as luggage, or as goods, unless they shall have been properly packed, marked. directed and described, and shall have been signed for as received by one of the authorised clerks or agents of the Railway.
29.- The Railway does not accept responsibility for loss. injury, or damage in respect of goods brought on to the Railway premises to be despatched by train, unless they shall have been weighed and accepted and a printed receipt granted for the same, by a duly authorised employe of the Railway.
30. The Railway further disclaims responsibility for---
(a) Loss or damage arising from the Act of God, fire, or
Civil commotion.
Loss of, or damage to, goods put into returned wrappers,
boxes or packages described as empties.
Disclaims of railway responsibility
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