The result is that the railroads are compelled to discriminate against Interstate Commerce and against commerce in the states that have no demurrage penalties.
Indiana long since fixed the demurragepenalty at one dollar a day for each car which a railroad failed to furnish a shipper; North Dakota made it two dollars; while Kansas and North Carolina fixed it at five dollars a day.
Though under the Federal law there is no demurrage penalty for failure to furnish cars to a shipper, several states have penalties running from one dollar to five dollars per car per day.
The Proctor and Gamble Company, well-known soap manufacturers, had complained of certain regulations concerning demurrage upon their tank cars.
Special cars, suitable only for seasonal business; and especially demurrage delays, often forty-eight hours or more, adversely affect the result.
If it is desired to give the shipowner a lien for demurrage (see below) or other charges, it must be expressly provided for.
When the claim is for detention and not demurrage the actual loss is recoverable, which may be more or may be less than the agreed rate of demurrage.
The rate of demurrage (if any) will generally be accepted as the measure of the damages for detention, but is not necessarily the true measure.
Sometimes the number of days during which the vessel may be kept on demurrage at the agreed rate is fixed by the charter-party.
That the ship was delayed, at a demurrage of an hundred dollars a day, for upwards of three months, waiting in vain for a better market.
Formerly, before demurrage was introduced, carriages were frequently detained on lines to which they did not belong, for weeks, and even months, until sometimes they were lost sight of altogether!
For a waggon or carriage from Edinburgh to London, mileage and demurrage accounts are sent out by the Clearing-House to four companies.
The quicksilver in the veins of the patient Mercutio of railroad rates and demurrage charges lightened his work for himself and others.
The Commission set itself to finding a way out of the ancient quarrel between shippers and railroads in the matters of rebating and demurrage charges.
The same amount of demurrage is charged if the trucks, which are to be loaded by consignors themselves, are not ready within the appointed time.
To prevent this ship's coming on demurrage while her cargo was delivering, the convicts worked in their own hours, as well as those allotted to the public, under a promise of having the extra time allowed them at a future day.
I reckoned maybe fifty dollars would pay demurrage and repairs on Mac.
You don’t think there’ll be any such bill as that for repairs and demurrage on McLaughlin’s hulk, do you?
The Butte Terminal Association was superseded by the Montana Demurrage Bureau in May, 1908.
Matt, why don't you save the demurrage and take her out yourself--eh?
Unfortunately the baby appears to be held up on demurrage and I think we've spent at least fifty dollars cabling to Landry that the youngster has failed to report.
It makes the profit all the greater, and since they expect to pay a reasonable demurrage I see no reason why I should disappoint them.
Are you going to stick me for any demurrage on the vessel, Cappy?
Five of the seven - Hartman, Leavitt, Reily, Weed and Wolfe - had voted against reciprocal demurrage in 1907.
This was finally corrected by the passage of a separate reciprocal demurrage bill, which had been introduced by Miller.
At the session of 1907, however, the machine, in complete control of the Senate, defeated a reciprocal demurrage bill.
And the Republican whose place he took in the Senate had voted against the Reciprocal Demurrage bill of 1907.
And since the one-time Senator Lynch voted against the Reciprocal Demurrage bill, the farmers have seen tons upon tons of their products rot in the fields because they could not get cars to move their crops.
Thus the unanimous vote by which the Reciprocal Demurragebill passed the Senate cannot be regarded as a test, although the machine fought the demurrage principle viciously in 1907.
And in this connection there is a story told which unquestionably had its bearing upon the fate of the Reciprocal Demurrage bill at the 1909 session.
But the influence of Lynch's vote against the Reciprocal Demurrage bill was not confined to San Luis Obispo and San Benito Counties.
The second important railroad measure passed was the Reciprocal Demurrage bill, introduced in the Senate by Miller, and in the Assembly by Drew.
And you'll have enough left over to pay thedemurrage and repair charges at Luna.
Then he'll whoop it up long enough for you to get that demurrage mess straightened out.
Acme Interplanetary Express 147 Z Street New York Your atomic-converted ship Number 7 is hereby grounded at Luna City, Moon, untildemurrage bill paid.
Run her in the lumber trade and the demurrage would break a national bank.
If demurrage results through my failure to get new skipper there in time, that is no skin off your nose.
In France demurragebegins the moment a ship stops outside of port.
The net result was that these vessels were held up for nearly two weeks and the high price of transportation coupled with the very large demurrage practically wiped out all the profits.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "demurrage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
