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[Report of the Industrial Commission, 1900. Volume I, pages 663-666.]

Memorandum of a traffic agreement, made this twenty-second day of August, 1884, between the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, hereinafter designated the railroad company, and the National Transit Company, hereinafter designated the transit company, Witnesseth:

That for consideration mutually interchanged, the parties hereto agree, each with the other, as follows:

First.—The transit company owns an extended system of local pipes in the Oil Regions of Pennsylvania and New York, which are grouped into a separate division, known as the United Pipe Lines Division of the National Transit Company. This division will be hereinafter designated as the Transit Company's Local Division.

The business of this division is to collect oil from producer, store it in tanks, and deliver it, as may be desired, to any through carrier of petroleum, which will transport the same to where it is to be refined or otherwise disposed of.

The transit company also own certain through or trunk line pipes, extending from several points of connection with the aforesaid local pipe division to various refining and terminal points.

With these latter pipes, which will be hereinafter entitled the Transit Company's Trunk Line Division, it competes in the through carriage of petroleum with all other through carriers, whether pipe or rail.

The business of its local division is therefore entirely distinct from the business of its through trunk line division.

It undertakes and agrees that its local division will deliver into cars furnished by the railroad company at any of its regular delivery points and under its regular delivery rules whatever petroleum the owners thereof may desire to have so delivered, and as the railroad may furnish cars to transport, and will make no discrimination in its local charges for carriage, storage, and other services, or in the use of any of its local facilities, against such oil, but will at all times treat it in the said respects as favour-