Report of the Railway Accounting Officers' Association, Volume 11 |
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adopted the following American Railway Accounting annual meeting Assistant Auditor Asso Association adopted Auditor Disbursements Auditor Freight Receipts Auditor Passenger Receipts Baltimore & Ohio Boston Burlington Cedar Rapids Chicago Chicago & North-Western Chief Clerk Freight Cincinnati clearing house Clerk Freight Accounts Cleveland Comptroller conductor Denver Erie R. R. Evansville Executive Committee following resolution Fredericksburg & Potomac Freight Auditor Georgia R. R. interline Interstate Commerce Commission Kansas City Line Louisville Michigan Central R. R. Milwaukee & St Minn mittee Norfolk Northern Ohio Central Railway Ohio R. R. Ohio River Omaha Pacific R. R. Paul Pennsylvania Co Pennsylvania R. R. Philadelphia Pittsburgh Railroad Resolved Richmond road Secretary and Auditor Southern Pacific Co Southern R. R. Special Committee Standing Freight Standing Passenger Committee Terre Haute Texas Ticket Accounts Ticket Auditor tion Toledo Topeka Traveling Auditor Valley R. R. Vice-President way-bill York City
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Page 107 - In every case of loss or damage of goods or parcels which has not been reported by the receiving company within twenty-four hours after it has been ascertained, the liability rests exclusively with the company failing to report.
Page 107 - Returns are prepared monthly showing the comparative number of errors made in the accounts of traffic sent to the clearing house by the station clerks of the respective companies, and pointing out the companies who are late in sending their abstracts. A return of the errors against each station is also prepared monthly, and these returns are transmitted to the companies concerned.
Page 45 - Answer —Expenses for grade crossings of electric and steam railways (provided they are not street railways) should be charged to MW and S. account No. 1, "Repairs of Roadway." Query 7—To what account should be charged the purchase price paid for lever cars for the use of section foremen?
Page 106 - The Railway Clearing Act, 1850," and shall be deemed to be a public act, and as such shall be judicially noticed.
Page 106 - The committee shall cause notes, minutes or copies, as the case may require, of all appointments made or contracts entered into by them and
Page 107 - accepted as correct the distance tables supplied by the companies, but when the clearing house committee takes steps to test the correctness of the tables the measurements approved by them rule in every doubtful case. CLASSIFICATION.
Page 62 - LOCAL PASSAGE TICKET. A passage ticket covering transportation between stations on the lines only of the company issuing the same. (c) INTERLINE PASSAGE TICKET. A passage ticket covering transportation between stations on the lines of two or more transportation companies.
Page 99 - be spread upon the minutes of this meeting and a copy thereof be transmitted to the family of the deceased.
Page 104 - of January, 1842, the system of the railway clearing house came into operation on the railways extending from London to Darlington in one direction and from Manchester to Hull in another.
Page 36 - adopted: Resolved, That a special committee of five be appointed by the President to investigate the matter of