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From INDIAN RAILWAY COMMERCIAL MANUAL
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"" Ice containers.
(a) On receipt of requisition from first class passengers,Ice in containers for use during the hot weather will be supplied by Station Masters and...
more... Train Conductors at the starting as well as at intermediate stations, by certain specified trains which will be notified by each railway administration. The hire charges and the cost of ice must be recovered in cash.
Station Masters and Train Conductors must take arrangements for the supply of ice to passengers for refilling ice containers on the run when demanded by them.
(b) Hire charge receipts, which will be supplied to stations in sets of three foils (Accounts/Passenger/Record) in bound books, will be prepared by carbon process for each ice container supplied to a passenger. The hire charges will be accounted for as 'Miscellaneous receipts' in the daily trains cash-cum-summary book. Ice containers on release, must be returned to the station which originally supplied them, duly booked under a free service way-bill.''''
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