For first 10 days or fraction thereof beyond period of free storage, 1 cent per 100 pounds, including handling in and out, and for each succeeding 10 days or fraction thereof, 1⁄2 cent per 100 pounds. Storage will be computed up to the date vessel to which shipment is to be delivered begins taking aboard cargo at the first port in Hampton Roads.

In computing free time, Sundays and legal holidays are excluded and when a holiday falls on Sunday the following Monday is excluded. Complete details are contained in Chesapeake & Ohio Railway's I. C. C. No. 10039.

Shipments, except grain products and grain by-products, consigned to Newport News for domestic delivery and reconsigned for export after arrival at Newport News, are subject to the domestic rates as per tariffs on file with the Interstate Commerce Commission. In effect July 1, 1926.

TRANSIT PRIVILEGES

The railroads serving the ports and points included in the Hampton Roads group publish numerous tariffs containing rates, rules and regulations covering this subject. At the present time there are more than 300 commodities on which transit privileges are accorded, many of which are published and applicable in this territory generally. The usual privileges on grain and grain products are generally permitted on all lines in this territory. The following examples, representative of this territory, reflect the nature and scope of these privileges.

The Norfolk Southern Railway provides in its I. C. C. No. A467 for milling and creosoting lumber while at Norfolk in transit to and from published points and under published rules and conditions. A transit charge of 221⁄2 cents per 100 pounds is assessed. The time limit is 12 months from date of paid freight bill covering inbound shipment.

The Norfolk & Western Railway in its I. C. C. No. 7902 provides for the fabrication of iron and steel bars in transit at Norfolk when for reshipment to ports and interior points in southeastern territory generally. Shipments must be way-billed from point of origin to Norfolk via the Norfolk & Western Railway at published tariff rates. When reforwarded from Norfolk, shipments will be way-billed at published tariff rate from Norfolk to destination plus a fabrication charge of 3 cents per 100 pounds. This privilege also is limited in time to 12 months from date of paid freight bill covering the inbound shipment.

The Virginian Railway in its I. C. C. No. 1589 provides that iron and steel bars from Youngstown and Struthers, Ohio, may be stopped at Norfolk for bending and cutting. When reshipped, in carloads lots

to various points in Carolina and southeastern territories, within 12 months from date of paid freight bill covering the inbound shipment, the through rate from point of origin to final destination, plus a transit charge of 3 cents per 100 pounds, will apply.

The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in its I. C. C. No. 9618 provides rates, rules, and regulations governing the assorting, concentrating, dressing, planing, grading, etc., of lumber, carload (except mahogany and other woods of value) at Newports News when to be exported to foreign countries direct from railroad terminal, at the through rate from original shipping point to final destination, plus a transit charge of 22 cents per 100 pounds, minimum charge $10 per car. If transit yard is located on a connecting line the inbound and outbound switching charges of such connecting line are in addition to the rate.

On manufactured tobacco shipped from Carolina territory to Newport News for export, this company accords the privilege of storage in transit at Morrison, Va., for a period not to exceed 18 months. This point is the site of a number of public tobacco warehouses and, while situated about 6 miles distant from the Newport News water front, is included within its switching limits. When the tobacco is exported, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway will transport it from the warehouses to its piers without assessing any additional line-haul or switching charge. A charge of 25 cents per hogshead, or 2.5 cents per 100 pounds in cases, is assessed for handling between cars and piers. In addition, there is a charge for wharfage amounting to 10 cents per hogshead, or 1 cent per 100 pounds in cases. (In effect July 1, 1926.)

The following are representative provisions and charges governing the handling of leaf tobacco for export from warehouses at Norfolk, Pinners Point, and Portsmouth, Va.

Unmanufactured leaf tobacco, hogsheads, tierces, or cases, shipped via the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to Norfolk, Pinners Point, and Portsmouth and there stored in warehouses located within the switching district on the tracks of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad or Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad or on water-front terminals within lighterage limits of Norfolk Harbor, awaiting delivery to vessels for export, will be subject to the following rules:

(1) The movement to Norfolk, Pinners Point, or Portsmouth is subject to the rates applying to these points proper and to the switching and absorption rules and rates as provided for in this company's tariff and the lighterage rules as published by Agent J. J. Cottrell in his I. C. C. No. 577, all charges due thereunder to be then paid and delivery accomplished in the usual manner.

(2) When the tobacco has been loaded by the warehouse company, receiver or owner from storage into cars or from storage to lighters (furnished by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad) and such tobacco, in quantities of 16,000 pounds or more in each car or lighter, is ready for delivery to shipside for export movement, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, upon surrender by the receivers or owners of original paid freight bills, covering the inbound movement to

Norfolk, Pinners Point or Portsmouth, will, upon request of receivers or owners, effect delivery of such tobacco to ship side at piers within lighterage limits of Norfolk Harbor, or within switching limits of Norfolk, protecting, without additional charge, the rate from point of origin to ship side at such piers in effect on the date of shipment from point of origin as per tariffs lawfully on file with the Interstate Commerce Commission. Where the rates from points of origin to Norfolk, Pinners Point, or Portsmouth do not include wharfage or handling charges to ship side, the said wharfage and handling charges will be collected from receivers or owners before deliveries to ship side are effected. (3) On tobacco delivered to ship side under provisions of these rules, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad will pay to the warehouse company 25 cents per hogshead or tierce or 10 cents per case for loading the tobacco from storage to cars or lighters.

These rules will not apply in any case where the steamers receiving the tobacco for export dock at water-front terminals of which the storage warehouse is an integral part and delivery of tobacco is there made to said steamers (except the allowance above shown will be made when the tobacco is loaded from storage to cars for movement to ship side at Norfolk Tidewater Terminal).

These rules will not apply to shipments of tobacco that have remained in storage warehouses in excess of 18 months from date of delivery to warehouse.

Under these rules no charge for Atlantic Coast Line switching and lighter service is made and the switching charge of the Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line on tobacco from warehouses located on that line will be absorbed by the Atlantic Coast Line (except no absorption of switching charges will be made from storage warehouses of the Norfolk Tidewater Terminal to ship side when ship is docked at that terminal).

The foregoing provisions are published by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in its I. C. C. No. B2352, effective July 1, 1926. The same or similar provisions are published by other carriers entering Norfolk.

DIVERSION AND RECONSIGNMENT

All carriers publish separate provisions governing diversion and reconsignment of carload freight in transit or at destination. Special rules and charges apply on fresh or green fruits and vegetables, hay, straw, seeds, coal, and coke. On other traffic no charge is made for delivery to other than consignee, when no extra movement is involved, or for change in the name of the consignee, if order is received before the car leaves initial point. When car has left initial point the following charges apply for the various changes:

Change in name of consignor...

Diversion or reconsignment in transit.

Stopping in transit___

Diversion or reconsignment to points outside switching limits:

On order given before arrival at billed destination._

Before placement

Before placement on orders received

Within 24 hours...

After 24 hours_

Per car $1.35

2. 70 2.70

2. 70

6. 30

2. 70

6. 30

Diversion or reconsignments to points outside switching limits after placement are subject to local published rates plus $6.30 per car. The foregoing is but a partial list of the charges under this phase of the subject. The charges are uniform throughout this group of ports and are published by all carriers in tariffs covering this subject. More complete information may be found in Agent F. L. Speidens I. C. C. No. 1001, issued for account of the Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Air Line Railways.

It is the practice of all carriers in southern territory to make no charge for a single diversion or reconsignment of fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, or melons except that when cars are held more than 48 hours on shipper's orders or awaiting forwarding instructions a hold charge of $5 per car per day is assessed.

In affect July 1, 1926.

GRAIN ELEVATION, STORAGE, ETC.

Norfolk

The following charges are in effect at the Norfolk & Western Railway grain elevator at Norfolk, Va.

Local grain

Unloading, weighing, and first 20 days of storage, including reloading into

cars.

For first additional 10 days' storage.
For each succeeding 10 days' storage-

Cents per bushel

1

14

1/2

The above applies to local dealers, but subject to Norfolk & Western Railway Co.'s convenience, and will not apply on grain brought into Norfolk by connections of the Norfolk & Western Railway.

Local or export grain

Cents per bushel

Unloading, weighing, and storage, from cars (except as otherwise provided

in preceding paragraph):

For the first 10 days' storage.

For each additional 10 days' storage.

For each succeeding 10 days' storage

11/2

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Mixing in store (to apply to total quantity mixed) –

Screening and blowing--.

Maximum charge for both mixing, blowing, and screening of part or all of
any parcel (rate to apply to the entire parcel)
Transferring in store...

Reloading or trimming cars, per car

1/8

1/8

곯 1/8

$2.50

This company reserves the right to decline to receive in store unsound or unmerchantable grain or grain from vessels. No grain will be received in store until it has been inspected and graded by authorized inspectors. All grain placed on storage in elevator wili be at owner's risk of fire or loss by heating from time received in elevator until actually delivered therefrom. More complete information is contained in Norfolk & Western Railway I. C. C., No. 6706. In effect July 1, 1926.

Rates and charges for services rendered at the Norfolk municipal grain elevator will be found in the section on Grain elevators (p. 150).

Newport News

The charges at elevator B of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway at Newport News, Va., are as follows:

EXPORT GRAIN

For receiving from cars, weighing, and storing, including storage for first period of not to exceed 20 days, a charge of 1 cent per bushel is assessed for each kind of grain. Excess storage to be charged at a rate of one twenty-fifth of 1 cent per bushel for each succeeding day or part thereof, so long as such grain remains in storage and in good order. The above charges cover spouting grain to vessels. On grain reshipped from elevator via rail an additional charge of $1 per car is made to cover loading into cars.

Charges for other services:

Transferring grain while in storage..

Screening and blowing..

Mixing in storage (to apply to total quantity mixed).
Maximum charge for mixing, blowing, and screening...

All grain placed on storage in elevator is at owner's risk of fire or loss by heating while in elevator. This company will, on request of owners, procure fire insurance at a rate of 25 cents per annum per $100 of value. Unless otherwise instructed by owner it will also cause to be insured against loss by explosion all grain while in elevators at an annual rate of 15 cents per $100 of value for account of whom it may concern. Loss and damage on grain not so insured is at owner's risk.