Railway Accounting ProcedureThe Association, 1927 Beginning with the edition of 1926, there is a bibliography compiled by the Bureau of Railway Economics, Washington, D.C. |
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Abstract accounting department advances and prepaid agent American Railway Association amount Arbitration Committee audit office auditor baggage balance sheet bill of lading bureau cards cash charges coal collection column conductors Consignee copy correction accounts coupons covering Daily Report Date debit Deductions Demurrage depreciation destination carrier division employees engine fare forwarded freight accounting freight bill Freight Claim furnished handled inches NORTH interested carriers Interline Freight interline ticket Interstate Commerce Commission issued junction machines material ment mileage miles month monthly Name NORTH & SOUTH NORTH AND SOUTH operating expenses original overcharge papers payroll printed punch R. A. O. A. Standard Form Railway Accounting Officers Railway Age Railway Gazette receipt record rendered Report of Interline revenue road route rules scrip settlement shipment shipper showing shown Slabtown SOUTH RAILROAD station Summary switching tariff tion tons Total traffic train transportation U. S. Interstate Commerce voucher weight
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Page 234 - It is mutually agreed, 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 (including conditions on back hereof) and which are agreed to by the shipper and accepted for himself and his assigns.
Page 853 - The Commission may, in its discretion, prescribe the forms of any and all accounts, records, and memoranda to be kept by carriers subject to the provisions of this Act, including the accounts, records, and memoranda of the movement of traffic as well as the receipts and expenditures of moneys.
Page 825 - Commission is hereby authorized to require annual reports from all common carriers subject to the provisions of this Act, and from the owners of all railroads engaged in interstate commerce as defined in this Act, to prescribe the manner in which such reports shall be made, and to require from such carriers specific answers to all questions upon which the Commission may need information.
Page 853 - The Commission shall, as soon as practicable, prescribe, for carriers subject to this Act, the classes of property for which depreciation charges may properly be included under operating expenses, and the percentages of depreciation which shall be charged with respect to each of such classes of property, classifying the carriers as it may deem proper for this purpose.
Page 232 - ... agrees to carry to its usual place of delivery at said destination, if on its own road or its own water line, otherwise to deliver to another carrier on the route to said destination.
Page 853 - Act shall not charge to operating expenses any depreciation charges on classes of property other than those prescribed by the Commission, or charge with respect to any class of property a percentage of depreciation other than that prescribed therefor by the Commission. No such carrier shall in any case include in any form under its operating or other expenses...
Page 234 - ... to its usual place of delivery at said destination, if on its own road or its own water line, otherwise to deliver to another carrier on the route to said destination. It is mutually agreed, 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...
Page 450 - This unit is the heat required to raise the temperature of 1 pound of water at its maximum density, 39.2 degrees Fahr.
Page 825 - An act to regulate commerce," approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all acts amendatory thereof, and to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission...
Page 837 - At a General Session of the Interstate Commerce Commission, held at its office in Washington, DC, on the 19th day of May AD 1914.