from the mere matter of carting the freight, is not less than one-third of the sum which respondent pays. Seventh. Respondent therefore claims and submits that in view of its own interest and the interest of the people of said city of Grand Rapids, and in view of the business relations between said city and the city of Ionia, the free cartage complained of is not an undue or an unreasonable preference or advantage to said city of Grand Rapids or to its merchants or shippers as against said city of Ionia or its merchants or shippers, and particularly as against said Mary O. Stone and Thomas Carten; and that it does not subject said city of Ionia or its merchants or shippers, and particularly said Mary O. Stone and Thomas Carten, to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever, within the true meaning and intent of the interstate commerce law, and that it is not in conflict with the long and short haul clause (so called) of said law. E. W. MEDDAUGH, THE DETROIT, GRAND HAVEN AND By W. J. SPICER, Its general manager. Solicitor for Respondent. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Western District of Michigan, Southern Division, ss: I, Charles L. Fitch, clerk of the circuit court of the United States for the western district of Michigan, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and compared copy of the answer of the respondent filed in the proceedings of said court in said entitled cause and of the whole thereof. Witness my official signature and the seal of said court, at Grand Rapids, this 6th day of January, in the year of our Lord, 1892. CHARLES L. FITCH, [SEAL.] Clerk. The property described below, in apparent good order, except as noted (contents and condition of contents of packages unknown), marked, consigned, and destined as indicated below, which said company agrees to carry to the said destination, if on its road, otherwise to deliver to another carrier on the route to said destination. It is mutually agreed, in consideration of the rate of freight hereinafter named, as to each carrier of all or any of said property over all or any portion of said route to destination, and as to each party at any time interested in all or any of said property, that every service to be performed hereunder shall be subject to all the conditions, whether printed or written, herein contained, and which are hereby agreed to by the shipper and by him accepted for himself and his assigns as just and reasonable CONDITIONS. 1. No carrier or party in possession of all or any of the property herein described shall be liable for any loss thereof or damage thereto by causes beyond its control, or by floods or by fire from any cause or wheresoever occurring; or by riots, strikes, or stoppage of labor; or by leakage, breakage, chafing, loss in weight, changes in weather, heat, frost, wet, or decay; or from any cause if it be necessary or is usual to carry such property upon open cars. 2. No carrier is bound to carry said property by any particular train or vessel, or in time for any particular market, or otherwise than with as reasonable dispatch as its general business will permit. Every carrier shall have the right, in case of necessity, to forward said property by any railroad or route between the point of shipment and the point to which the rate is given. 3. No carrier shall be liable for loss or damage not occurring on its own road or its portion of the through route, nor after said property is ready for delivery to the next carrier or to consignee. The amount of any loss or damage for which any carrier becomes liable shall be computed at the value of the property at the place and time of shipment under this bill of lading, unless a lower value has been agreed upon or is determined by the classification upon which the rate is based, in either of which events such lower value shall be the maximum price to govern such computation. Claims for loss or damage must be made in writing to the agent at point of delivery promptly after arrival of the property, and if delayed for more than thirty days after the delivery of the prop. erty, or after due time for the delivery thereof, no carrier hereunder shall be liable in any event. [When subrogation clause is used insert it here.] 317 4. All property shall be subject to necessary cooperage and baiing at owner's cost. Each carrier over whose route cotton is to be carried hereunder shall have the privilege, at its own cost, of compressing the same for greater convenience in handling and forwarding, and shall not be held responsible for unavoidable delays in procuring such compression. Grain in bulk consigned to a point where there is an elevator may (unless otherwise expressly noted herein, and then if it is not promptly unloaded) be there delivered, and placed with other grain of same kind, without respect to ownership, and if so delivered shall be subject to a lien for elevator charges in addition to all other charges hereunder. No carrier shall be liable for differences in weights or for shrinkage of any grain or seed carried in bulk. 5. Property not removed by the person or party entitled to receive it within twenty-four hours after its arrival at destination may be kept in the car, depot, or place of delivery of the carrier, at the sole risk of the owner of said property, or may be, at the option of the carrier, removed and otherwise stored at the owner's risk and cost, and there held subject to lien for all freight and other charges. The delivering carrier may make a reasonable charge per day for the detention of any car and for use of track after the car has been held forty-eight hours for unloading, and may add such charge to all other charges hereunder, and hold said property subject to a lien therefor. Property destined to or taken from a station at which there is no regularly appointed agent shall be entirely at risk of owner when unloaded from cars, or until loaded into cars; and when received from or delivered on private or other sidings, shall be at owner's risk until the cars are attached to, and after they are detached from, trains. 6. No carrier hereunder will carry, or be liable in any way for, any documents, specie, or for any article of extraordinary value, not specifically rated in the published classifications, unless a special agreement to do so, and a stipulated value of the articles, are indorsed hereon. 7. Every party, whether principal or agent, shipping inflammable, explosive, or dangerous goods, without previous full written disclosure to the carrier of their nature, shall be liable for all loss or damage caused thereby, and such goods may be warehoused at owner's risk and expense or destroyed without compensation. 8. Any alteration, addition, or erasure in this bill of lading which shall be made without the special notation hereon of the agent of the carrier issuing this bill of lading shall be void. 9. If the word "order" is written hereon immediately before or after the name of the party to whose order the property is consigned, without any condition or limitation other than the name of a party to be notified of the arrival of the property, the surrender of this bill of lading properly indorsed shall be required before the delivery of the property at destination. If any other than the aforesaid form of consignment is used herein, the said property may, at the option of the carrier, be delivered without requiring the production or surrender of this bill of lading. 10. Owner or consignee shall pay freight at the rate below stated, and all other charges accruing on said property, before delivery, and according to weights as ascertained by any carrier hereunder; and if upon inspection it is ascertained that the articles shipped are not those described in this bill of lading, the freight charges must be paid upon the articles actually shipped, and at the rates and under the rules provided for by published classifications. 11. If all or any part of said property is carried by water over any part of said route, such water carriage shall be performed subject to the |