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or other precious stones, or any gold or silver in a manufactured or un-
manufactured state, watches, clocks, or timepieces of any description,
trinkets, orders, notes, or securities for payment of money, stamps, maps,
writings, title deeds, printings, engravings, pictures, gold or silver plate or
plated articles, glass, china, silks in a manufactured or unmanufactured
state, and whether wrought up or not wrought up with any other material,
furs, or lace, or any of them, contained in any parcel, or package, or trunk,
shall lade the same as freight or baggage on any airship or other aircraft
engaged in interstate or foreign commerce, without at the time of such
lading giving to the master, clerk, agent or owner of such airship or other
aircraft receiving the same a written notice of the true character and value
thereof, and having the same entered on the bill of lading therefor, the
master and owner of such airship or other aircraft shall not be liable as
carriers thereof in any form or manner, nor shall any such master or
owner be liable for any such goods beyond the value and according to the
character thereof so notified and entered

An Code 1924 sec 40 1931, ch 403, sec 39

47. No owner of any airship or other aircraft engaged in interstate
or foreign commerce shall be liable to answer for or make good to any
person any loss or damage which may happen to any merchandise what-
soever, which shall be shipped, taken in, or put on board any such airships
or other aircraft by reason or by means of any fire happening to or on
board such airship or other aircraft unless such fire is caused by the design
or neglect of such owner

An Code, 1924, sec 41 1931, ch 403 sec 40

48 The liability of the owner of any airship or other aircraft engaged
in interstate or foreign commerce for any embezzlement, loss, or destruc-
tion, by any person, of any property, goods, or merchandise shipped or put
on board of such airship or other aircraft, or for any loss, damage, or in-
jury by collision, or for any act, matter, or thing, loss, damage, or forfeit-
ure, done, occasioned, or incurred, without the privity or knowledge of such
owner or owners, shall in no case exceed the amount or value of the in-
terest of such owner in such airship or other aircraft, and her freight then
pending.

An Code, 1924, sec 42 1931, ch 403 sec 41

49 Whenever any such embezzlement, loss, or destruction is suffered
by several freighters or owners of goods, wares, merchandise, or any prop-
erty whatever, on the same voyage, and the whole value of the airship
or other aircraft engaged in interstate or foreign commerce, and her freight
for the voyage, is not sufficient to make compensation to each of them,
they shall receive compensation from the owner of such airship or other
aircraft in proportion to the respective losses, and for that purpose the
freighters and owners of the property and the owner of such airship or
other aircraft, or any of them, may take appropriate proceedings in any
court of equity of this State, for the purpose of apportioning the sum for
which the owner of the aircraft may be liable among the parties entitled
thereto.