Surplus stores remaining on board, viz. :

Number of alien passengers (if any)

Pilot's name

At what station ship is lying

Agent's name and address

Biscuit, paste, wine, oil, coffee, sugar, tobacco, salt,

meat, etc.

FRED COCK.

None.

(Signed) CHARLES OBERTI, Master.

Signed and declared this 18th day of September, 1891. In presence of

JOHN LOCK, Collector.

CHAPTER VII.

CARRIAGE BY LAND AND SEA.

Common Carrier's Liability-Contracts for Conveying Merchandise by Sea-Charter Parties and Bills of Lading-Parties to the ContractVoyage and Cargo-Lay Days and Demurrage-Loading and Unloading-Freight-Delivery-Shipping Acts.

Carriers. A common carrier is one who undertakes for hire to transport from place to place the goods of those who choose to employ him. Such are owners of stage-coaches which carry goods; lightermen; bargeowners; canal boatmen; owners of ships which transport goods for hire, and owners of similar public conveyances; also railway companies, except so far as they are limited by the Acts of Parliament constituting them.

The common carrier's duty is to take proper care of the goods entrusted to him, and to deliver them safely without undue delay. As an insurer of the property entrusted to him, he is answerable for all loss or damage to goods in his custody, unless caused by act of God, tempest, or the King's enemies.

The common carrier by land is not liable for loss exceeding £10 on parcels containing gold or silver, precious stones, bank-notes, etc., etc., unless the value and nature of such articles are declared beforehand, and an increased charge made for carriage. Persons sending such parcels to a common carrier are bound

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by the scale of charges made for such, which is affixed in the office of the carrier.

If a carrier receive goods on the understanding that he will only be liable for particular risks, he will only be liable for them; or if the owner takes all the risk of consequences, the carrier is discharged from every responsibility.

Every special contract for carriage must be in writing, must be just and reasonable, and signed by the person delivering the goods.

When forwarding parcels by carrier, the parcel is entered in a parcel book, and signed for by the carrier's carman. One of the following forms should then be filled in as required, and given to the carman with the parcel. The weight is generally filled in by the carriers themselves.

TOWN CARTAGE CONSIGNMENT NOTE.

London, 9th June, 1891.

PICKFORD & CO.,

Receive and forward the undermentioned Goods from CHAS. E.

PICKFORD & CO.,

London,

18...

Please receive and forward the undermentioned Goods, on the

This Form is to be used ONLY for Carriage Paid Consignments.
Signature of Owner, or on his behalf,

PICKFORD & Co. GIVE PUBLIC NOTICE

That they will not be accountable for any Article, unless it be entered and signed for as received by them or their Agents. Nor will they be responsible for the loss of, or damage done to, Money in Cash or Bills, or Promissory Notes, or Securities for Money or Jewellery, Trinkets, Rings, Precious Stones, Bullion, Gold and Silver manufactured or unmanufactured; Gold and Silver Plate or Plated Articles, Clocks, Watches, Time-pieces, Marbles, Lace, Furs, Silks in a manufactured or unmanufactured state, and whether wrought up or not wrought up with other materials; Writings, Title Deeds, Prints, Paintings, Maps, Engravings, Pictures, Stamps or other valuables; nor for loss of, or damage to, China, Glass, Earthenware, Wearing Apparel, Musical Instruments, Furniture, Toys, Perambulators, Castings, or any other such hazardous or brittle Articles, in Packages or otherwise, unless the same be insured according to their value, and paid for at the time of delivery, and the same will be carried entirely at the Owner's risk. Nor for the loss or damage of any Goods by fire, the act of God, or civil commotion, or of any Goods put into returned Wrappers or Boxes, or packages described as Empties; nor of any Goods left until called for, or to order, or left or warehoused for the convenience of the parties to whom they belong, or to or by whom they are consigned or left with PICKFORD & CO. Nor for the loss or damage of any Packages insufficiently or improperly packed, marked, directed, or described, or containing a

variety of Articles liable by breaking to damage each other; nor for Leakage from Casks. PICKFORD & CO. will not be liable for the loss or damage of Goods carried on any Navigable River, or across any arm of the Sea; nor will they be liable for Sea Risk of any description on any Goods shipped by them, whether as Carriers or Agents. PICKFORD & CO. will not be accountable for loss of Aqua Fortis, Oil of Vitriol, or any other Ardent Spirit or dangerous Article. Senders of such Articles will be held accountable for any damage arising therefrom, unless the contents are described on the direction, that due care may be observed in loading. And all such dangerous Articles can be received and carried only under the Regulations from time to time laid down by the various Railway Companies. All Goods received for the purpose of being carried, or otherwise, will be considered as subject to a general lien, and also to a right of detention for Money due for the carriage of such Goods, and upon any general balance, or otherwise, due from either the Owners or Consignees of such Goods to PICKFORD & CO., and for any unsatisfied claim or demand which PICKFORD & CO. may have against such Owners or Consignees. If, in Fourteen days after Notice has been given that such Goods are detained for the above purposes, the Money due be not paid, they will be sold. Fish, Fruit, or other perishable Articles will be immediately sold to secure the Freight, if it be not paid directly such Articles arrive at the Railway Terminus, or are offered for delivery. No claim for loss or damage (for which PICKFORD & CO. hold themselves accountable) will be allowed, unless made within Three Days after the delivery of Goods. The delivery of the Goods will be considered complete when the same are unloaded out of the Waggon, Dray, or Cart, and placed at the door of the Consignees; the cellaring or warehousing them afterwards will be at the Owner's risk. Where Goods are consigned to places beyond the limits of PICKFORD & CO.'s own conveyances, they will not be answerable for the loss, damage, detention, or otherwise, in respect of them, beyond such limits where the Goods will be forwarded to their destination by the usual conveyance, unless ordered by any particular Carrier. All Empties not taken away within ONE MONTH after their arrival will be sold to defray expenses.

N.B.-The above conditions apply to all Goods received by PICKFORD &CO, at their respective Offices and Warehouses, or elsewhere.