Railway Rates: English and Foreign

by James Grierson

from _______________________________________

to  _______________________________________

between ____________________________________

on the one hand, and the General Goods Manager of the

Railway Company, at ______________________________

contracting in the name of the Direction of the above-named

Company (or Companies), on the other hand.

ART. I.

The first-named contracting party binds himself to have all the goods to be
despatched or received by him during the current year, estimated at ______________________
truck loads ( ____________________ kilogrammes), from _____________________________
to ____________________________________________
carried over the lines of the ________________________________
Railways, in accordance with the conditions in Article IV. of the Law of Railway
Companies (General Rules and Regulations), of 9th January 1876 (Gazette No. 7), and
with the Special Bye-Laws in force for local traffic, as set forth in the tariff, for the
conveyance of fast and slow goods over the lines of the ________________________________
________________________________ Railway Company, approved by order of the Minister of the
Interior, dated 1st March, 1877, and which tariff came into force on the 1st April, 1877.
On the other hand the last named contracting parties bind themselves to carry the
goods of the first-named contracting parties during the year 1885 at the reduced rates
shown in the circular of the ________________________________
Railway Company, dated  ________________________________ 1885.
No use may be made of these rates for the re-despatch of goods at intermediate
stations, so as to obtain a cheaper rate than the direct rate.
Agreed to and signed in dupl. at
________________________________ th ________________________________ 188_
Contracting party No. 1.
________________________________ th ________________________________ 188_
Contracting party No. 2.

[Copy of Circular.]