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The History of the Standard Oil Company

Note 91 — CHAPTER TEN CUTTING TO KILL

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The Eighth Section of Article Second of this contract, defining the duties of the railroads reads: “To make manifests or way-bills of all petroleum or its products transported over any portion of the railroads of the party of the second part or its connections, which manifests shall state the name of the consignor, the place of shipment, the kind and actual quantity of the article shipped, the name of the consignee, and the place of destination, with the rate and gross amount of freight and charges, and to send daily to the principal office of the party of the first part duplicates of all such manifests or way-bills.”—Proceedings in Relation to Trusts, House of Representatives, 1888. Report Number 3,112, page 360.

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