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5.—The Company will not undertake either the collection or delivery of the
milk.
6 —The senders and consignees must assist in the loading and unloading of
the cans when the milk is carried at the Reduced Rate.
7.—No milk cans capable of containing more than 17 imperial gallons of milk»
except cans in use prior to 1st January, 1893, will be accepted for conveyance.
8.—The officials of the Company shall have the power to open any cans during
transit and, if necessary, to detain the same for a reasonable time, in order
to ascertain if the quantity of milk therein agrees with the quantity
declared.
9.—Senders must in each case sign consignment notes, showing the actual
quantity of milk to be forwarded, the name of consignee and the station
to which it is to be sent. The Company reserve the right to refuse to
accept milk, if and whenever the consignment note does not contain this
information, or is not so signed.
10.—Two rates are in operation for the carriage of milk. One, the ordinary
rate when the Company accept the ordinary liability of a Railway Company
with the respect to the carriage of perishable merchandise by passenger
train ; the other, a reduced rate adopted when the sender agrees to relieve
the Company, and all other Companies or persons over whose line the
traffic may pass, or in whose possession the fame may be during any
portion of the transit, f rom all liability for loss, damage, mis-delivery, delay
or detention, either with respect to the milk or the milk cans when
full or empty, except upon proof that such loss, damage, mis-delivery,
delay or detention arose from wilful misconduct on the part of the
Company's Servants.
11.—The carriage of milk must be prepaid.
The Great Northern Railway Company replied on the 21st January, 1893, that
this Company does not prohibit milk cans being fastened in such a manner as to
prevent anyone except the possessor of the key from opening them, and while not
going into the question as to whether the churns are locked or otherwise, state that
the lids are fastened with a pin and hasp, and that while the milk is on hand it ia
left in someone's charge the whole time, and no one except the owner or his representative
is allowed to interfere with it.
In accordance with their Regulations the Company has power to open any churn
during transit for the purpose of ascertaining whether the quantity of any milk
therein agrees with the quantity declared.
The London and North Western Railway Company replied on the 14th February,
1898, that their conditions for the conveyance of milk require that their officials
shall have the power to open the churns, the object being that they should be in a
position to test the amount of milk with that stated in the declaration made by the
sender.
As regards the question raised of precautions adopted against any tampering with
the milk whilst upon their premises, the Company state that the bulk of the milk
is conveyed in special vehicles where no one has access to it during transit, the odd
lots being loaded in the Guards' Vans, where they remain under the eye of the