'XXII/8 Baghdad Railway' [‎38v] (75/194)

Supplementary Ch arges.
In addition to the tariff rates, there shall be levied on each consignment: (l) A
registration fee of 20 paras; ( 2 ) porterage charges of 10 piastres per vehicle; (3) a
warehousing fee of 5 piastres per day per carriage. These warehousing fees shall be
levied only on carriages which are not claimed by the consignees forty-eight hours after
the arrival of the train. In addition, if the articles in the carriage weigh more than
50 kilog. there shall be levied on the excess over these 50 kilog. the rate per 50 kdog.
or part of 50 kilog. fixed for second class goods transported in ordinary goods trains
(“ petite vitesse ”).
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Per head
per kilometre.
Express Goods Train
(“grande vitesse”).
Ordinary Goods Train
(“ petite vitesse ”).
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Paras.
Paras.
1. Oxen, cows, bulls, buffaloes, camels, horses, and beasts of
burden..
2. Calves, asses, and pigs
3. Sheep, ewes, and goats
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Supplementary Charges.
In addition to the tariff rates, there shall be levied on each consignment. (I) A
registration fee of 20 paras ; ( 2 ) a porterage fee of 100 paras per head m the first
category, a porterage fee of 40 paras per head in the second category ; (3) a pound fee
of 5 piastres per diem for every head of cattle not removed by the consignee within
twenty-four hours and lodged at his risk and peril and without prejudice to the
forage charges which are to be claimed in addition.
Tariff IX.—Goods transported in ordinary Goods Train ( u petite vitesse ”), per ton
per kilometre.
1st Class.
Arms cabinet wood, wood for stoinmg nnd other valuable wood, candles, spirituous
liquors, copper, cotton, coffee, isinglass, materials for carriage-building, leather, drugs,
colonial produce, down, stuffs, groceries, ironwork, earthenware, fruit, castings, raw or
worked metal, madder, looking-glasses, olive and other oil, herbs, musical instruments,
furniture, materials for the book trade, leadwork, steel pens, porcelain, plants, furs,
tallow, silks, sugar, plate-glass, stearine, vinegar, wines, table-glass, paving-tiles, woollens,
books, tea, tobacco, poppy-seed, dyes, sesame, aniseed, &c., 35 paras.
2nd Class.
Slate timber, bitumen, coke, charcoal, hemp, unwrought iron and cast iron, bar
iron and iron plates, cloths, ore, planks, marble in the rough, joists, dressed stone,
salt fish, pig lead, salt meat, preserved vegetables, 27 paras.
3rd Class.
Potter’s clay, bricks, tiles, straw, bran, wood fuel, flint, rice, cereals, lime, coal,
ashes, flour, manure, stones for masonry, clay, plaster, lime-stone, paving and other
stones, salt, sand, and fresh vegetables, 22 paras. ,
Notwithstanding, cereals transported in truck-loads over distances ot not less than
900 kilom. shall not pay more than 6 paras per ton per kilometre. ..... . ..
The rate to be levied shall be calculated per 50 kilog. or part of aO kdog. and for
a distance of not less than 8 kilom.
Su pplemen t ary Ch arges.
In addition to the tariff' there shall be levied on each consignment . (f) A registra
tion fee of 20 paras; (2) 9 piastres per ton, viz, 18 paras per 50 kdog. or part ot