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[Ch. 55.] 16. For a fraction of a mile the company may charge according to the number of quarters of a mile in that fraction, and a fraction of a quarter of a mile may be charged for as a quarter of a mile.

17. Article's sent in large aggregate quantities, although made up of separate parcels such as bags of sugar, coffee, and the like, shall not be deemed to be small parcels.

18. For any quantity of merchandise less than a truck load which the company either receive or deliver in one truck on or at a siding not belonging to the company, or which from the circumstances in which the merchandise is tendered or the, nature of the merchandise the company is obliged or required:, to carry in one truck, the company may charge as for a reasonable minimum load having regard to the nature of the. merchandise.

19. The term "terminal station " means a station, or place upon the railway at which a consignment of merchandise is loaded or unloaded before or after conveyance on the railway, but does not include any station or junction at which the merchandise in respect of which any terminal is charged has been exchanged with, handed over to, or received from any railway, company, or a junction between the railway and a siding let by or not belonging to the company, or in respect of merchandise passing to or from such siding, any station with which such siding may be connected, or any dock or shipping place the charges for the use of which are regulated by Act of Parliament.

The term "siding" includes branch railways not belonging to a railway company.

20. In this Schedule the word "company" means a railway company with respect to which a schedule of standard charges is in operation, and the word "trader" includes any person sending or receiving or desiring to send or receive merchandise by railway.

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