The roads comprising the Seaboard Air Line System, to-wit: The Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad Company, The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad Company, The Durham and Northern Railroad Company, Raleigh and Augusta Air Line Railroad Company, Carolina Central Railroad Company, Pittsboro Railroad Company, Palmetto Railroad Company, Louisburg Railroad Company, Roanoke and Tar River Railroad Company, in applying the above tariff and all other tariffs shall conform to Rule 1 of the Rules Governing the Transportation of Freight, as follows:

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All connecting railroads which are under the management and control by lease, ownership or otherwise, of one and the same company, shall for purposes of transportation, in applying this tariff, be considered as constituting but one and the same road, and the rates shall be computed as upon parts of one and the same road."

That is, upon a continuous mileage basis.

The roads comprising the Atlantic Coast Line System, to wit: The Wilmington and Weldon Railroad Company and its branches, Petersburg Railroad Company, Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company, Norfolk and Carolina Railroad Company and the Cheraw and Darlington Railroad Company, shall likewise conform to Rule 1 in applying the above tariff and all other tariffs.

The various roads and branches of roads comprising the Southern Railway System in North Carolina shall in applying this tariff and all other tariffs, conform to said Rule 1 of the Rules Governing the Transportation of Freight.

By order of the Commission.

H. C. BROWN, Clerk.

FRANKLIN MCNEILL, Chairman.

PART TWO.

ASSESSMENT OF RAILROAD PROPERTY, TELEGRAPH, STEAMBOAT AND CANAL COMPANIES,

FOR THE YEAR 1899.

11.25

2,000

22,500.00

1,200.00

1,200.00

24,900.00