Ordinance
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Lato,

Talbot lad-
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conclusive
evidence of
shipment,

CHAPTER 31. No. 6.

BILES OF TADING.
AN ORDINANCE RELATING ro Bus or LADING.
[ist Qelober, 1804. |

1. This Ordinance may be cited the Bills of Lading
Ordinance

2. Every consignee of goods named ina bilbof lading, aud
every indorsee of a bill of lading to whom the property in
the goods therein mentioned shall pass, upon or by reason
of such consignment or indorsement, shall have (ransferred
to and vested in hint all rights of suit, and be subject to the
same liabilities in respect of such goods, as if the contract
contned in the bilbof lading had been made with hinsell,

3. Nothing herein contained shall prejudice or affect any

ight of stoppage we transitu, or any right to claim freight
against the original shipper or owner, or any lability of the
consignee or indorsee by reason or in consequence of his
being such consignee or indorsee, or of his receipt of the
goods by reason or in consequence of such consignment or
indorsement.

4. every bill of lading in the hands of a consignee or
indorsee for valuable consideration represe ting # roods lo
have been shipped on board a vessel shall be conclusive
evidence of such shipment as against the master or other
person signing the same, notwithstanding that such goods
or some part ther eof may not have been so shipped, unless
such holder of the bill of lading shal] have had actual notice