(seq. 49)

RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY
INCORPORATED
UNIFORM EXPRESS RECEIPT — NON-NEGOTIABLE — TERMS AND CONDITIONS

1. The provisions of this receipt shall inure to the benefit of and be
binding upon the cosignor, the cosignee and all carriers handling this
shipment and shall apply to any reconsignment, or return thereof.

2. In consideration of the rate charged for carrying said property,
which is dependent upon the value thereof and is based upon an agreed
valuation of not exceeding fifty dollars for any shipment of 100 pounds or less and not exceeding fifty centers per pound, actual weight, for any ship-
ment in excess of 100 pounds, unless a greater value is declared at the
time of shipment, the shipped agrees that the company shall not be liable
in any event for more than fifty dollars for any shipment of 100 pounds
or less, or for more than fifty centers per pound, actual weight, for any
shipment weighing more than 100 pounds, unless a greater value is
stated herein. Unless a greater value is declared and stated herein the
shipper agrees that the value of the shipment is as last above set out
and that the liability of the company shall in no event exceed such value.

3. Unless caused by its own negligence or that of its agents, the
company shall not be liable for —
a. Difference in weight or quantity caused by shrinkage, leakage,
or evaporation.
b. The death, injury, or escape of live freight.
c. Loss of money, bullion, bonds, coupons, jewelry, precious
stones, valuable papers, or other matter of extraordinary value,
unless such articles are enumerated in the receipt.

4. Unless caused in whole or in part by its own negligence or that
of its agents, the company shall not be liable for loss, damage, or delay
caused by —
a. The act or default of the shipper or owner.
b. The nature of the property, or defect or inherent vice therein.
c. Improper or insufficient packing, securing, or addressing.
d. The Act of God, public enemies, authority of law, quarantine,
riots, strikes, perils of navigation, the hazards or dangers in-
cident to a state of war, or occurence in customs warehouse.
e. The examination by, or partial delivery to the consignee of
C O D shipments.
f. Delivery under instructions of consignor or consignee at sta-
tions where there is no agent of the company after such ship-
ments have been left at such stations.

5. Packages containing fragile articles or articles consisting wholly
or in part of glass must be so marked and be packed so as to insure
safe transportation by express with ordinary care.

6. When consigned to a place at which the express company has no
office, shipments must be marked with the name of the express station
at which delivery will be accepted or be marked with forwarding direc-
tions if to go beyond the express company's line by a carrier other than
an express company. If not so marked shipments will be refused.

7. As conditions precedent to recovery claims must be made in
writing to the originating or delivering carrier within nine months after
delivery of the property or, in case of failure to make delivery, then
within nine months and fifteen days after date of shipment; and suits
shall be instituted only within two years and one day after the date
when notice in writing is given by the carrier to the claimant that the
carrier has disallowed the claim or any part or parts thereof.

8. If any C.O.D. is not paid within thirty days after notice of non-
delivery has been mailed to the shipper the company may at its option
return the property to the cosignor.

9. Free delivery will not be made at points where the company main-
tains no delivery service; at points where delivery service is maintained
free delivery will not be made at addresses beyond the established and
published delivery limits.

Special Additional Provisions as to Shipments Forwarded by Vessel from
the United States to Places in Foreign Countries

10. If the destination specified in this receipt is in a foreign country,
the property covered hereby shall, as to transit over ocean routes and by
their foreign connections to such destination, be subject to all the terms
and conditions of the receipts or bills of lading of ocean carriers as ac-
cepted by the company for the shipment, and of foreign carriers partici-
pating in the transportation, and as to such transit is accepted for trans-
portation and delivery subject to the acts, ladings, laws, regulations, and
customs of oversea and foreign carriers, custodians, and governments,
their employees, and agents.

11. The company shall not be liable for any loss, damage, or delay
to said shipments over ocean routes and their foreign connections, the
destination of which is in a foreign country, occurring outside the bound-
aries of the United States, which may be occasioned by any such acts,
landings, laws, regulations, or customs. Claims for loss, damage or delay
must be made in writing to the carrier at the port of export or to the
carrier issuing this receipt within nine months after delivery of the
property at said port or in case of failure to make such delivery then
within nine months and fifteen days after date of shipment; and claims
so made against said delivering or issuing carrier shall be deemed to
have been made against any carrier which may be liable hereunder.
Suits shall be instituted only within two years and one day after the
date when notice in writing is given by the carrier to the claimant that
the carrier has disallowed the claim or any part or parts thereof. Where
claims are not so made, and/or suits are not instituted thereon in ac-
cordance with the foregoing provisions, the carrier shall not be liable.

12. It is hereby agreed that the property destined to such foreign
countries, and assessable with foreign governmental or customs duties,
taxes or charges, may be stopped in transit at foreign ports, frontiers or
depositories, and there held pending examination, assessments and pay-
ments, and such duties and charges, when advanced by the company shall
become a lien on the property.

To Destination Office Boston, Mass
Consignee Barbara Brown Enter Date Shipped 11-2 1943
Street Address or Non Agency Destination 30 Commonwealth Ave Receipt Number 57-31-46 Advances
Name of Forwarding Office (754-L) Framingham, Mass. (E) Declared Value 50 — Value Charges DO NOT
Piece's Article Description 1 [ch?] Weight Express Charges USE THESE Total SPACES
Shipper EM Kelley Class Paid in Part C.O.D
Shipper Street Address Box 99 COLLECT (original) Scale or Rate Verified By C.O.D Service Charge Write in Yes or No X

SHIPPER'S COLLECT RECEIPT
Note — The company will not pay over $50, in case of loss, or 50 cents per pound, actual weight, for any shipment in
excess of 100 pounds, unless a greater value is declared and charges for such greater value paid.

RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY
INCORPORATED

Received shipment described hereon, subject to the Classifications and Tariffs in effect on the date hereof, value
herein declared by Shipper to be that entered in space hereon reading "Declared Value," which the Company
agrees to carry upon the terms and conditions printed hereon, to which the Shipper agrees and as evidence
thereof accepts this receipt.

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