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or volume, based on a stated classification. The general rule is that 
goods which weigh more than 500 kilos to the cubic meter (850 pounds 
to the cubic yard) are privileged to pay by weight. If a cubic yard 
does not reach that weight the charges are made by volume, as is 
the case in tonnage measurement for freight. Fractions of 100 
kilos (220.46 pounds) or 100 cubic decimeters (3.53 cubic feet) are 
charged as 100 kilos or 100 cubic decimeters, except in the case of 
indivisible masses weighing more than 2 tons or measuring more than 
2 cubic meters (70.6 cubic feet), for which special arrangements can 
be made. 
Storage and insurance charges are made by months of thirty days 
or fraction thereof, dating from (he entry of the first installment of 
the goods. All expenses must be paid when the packages are with 
drawn, and the company has the right to demand security. The 
company publishes in the tariff, forwarded under separate cover.“ 
a complete list in four categories of most of the articles likely to be 
stored, denoting in each category what is charged by weight and what 
by volume; but the general rule appears to be a sufficient guide. 
Thus in the first category marble statuary is charged by weight and 
wood by volume; in the second category ironmongery by weight and 
feathers by volume, and so on. Hence it is hardly necssary to enu 
merate here some three hundred articles. 
The scale of charges, as well as the facilities for and cost of the re 
moval of goods from boat to warehouse, will be sufficiently clear from 
the following analysis of the company’s conditions: 
For taking charge of goods at the landing place, loading them on 
the trucks, and conveying them by the company’s Decauville railway, 
and unloading them at the doors of the warehouse, and vice versa, 20 
cents per ton or cubic meter (35.3 cubic feet), the minimum charge 
being 10 cents. For heavy packages of from 1 to 2 tons, 40 cents 
per ton. 
For taking delivery of the goods at the door of the warehouse, 
classifying and storing them without weighing, 30 cents per ton, and 
if packages of 1 to 2 tons, 60 cents, the minimum charge being 20 
cents. 
For unstoring goods and delivering them at the doors of the ware 
house, 30 cents per ton, the minimum charge being 20 cents; for 
heavy packages of 1 to 2 tons, 60 cents. 
For unstoring and conveying goods from one place to another in 
order to classify and store them, 50 cents per ton, the minimum 
charge being 3Ò cents; and for heavy packages of 1 to 2 tons, $1 
per ton. 
For storekeepers’ charges and supervision, not including insur 
ance against fire, from 60 cents to $1.20 per ton or cubic meter, ac 
cording to the class of goods, the minimum charge in any case being 
30 cents. 
There is a special tariff for merchandise of a bulky and cumbrous 
character, such as pig iron and coal, which pay 20 cents per ton 
weight, and others, such as lime and cement, 50 cents; coke goes by 
ton measurement at 40 cents. 
Another special tariff deals with dangerous and combustible sub 
stances, such as petroleum, turpentine, etc., the warehouses for 
a On file in the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor.