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Excerpt from The Railway Rates and the Carriage of Merchandise by Railway: Including the Provisional Orders of the Board of Trade, as Sanctioned by Parliament, Containing the Classification of Traffic and Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges to the Railways of Great Britain and Ireland In compiling this book the object of the Author has been to set forth in a convenient and accessible form the Law relating to the Carriage of Goods by Railway. With this view the book has been divided into Two Parts. The First Part deals with the statutory enactments and decided cases relating to the carriage of goods, while the Second Part comprises the Provisional Orders of the Board of Trade as to Railway Rates and Charges on the Railways of Great Britain and Ireland as they have been confirmed by the various Acts of Parliament of the years 1891 and 1892. The chapters on the general Law relating to the Carriage of Goods have been kept as concise as possible, and although it is hoped that the main points of principle have been fairly covered, an exhaustive treatise has not been intended. The last chapter in the First Part of the book deals with Arbitrations under the Board of Trade Arbitrations Act, 1874, and the Arbitration Act, 1889. This has been introduced in consequence of the number of compulsory references to arbitration provided for by the general conditions of the Provisional Orders. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.