A record of passengers and baggage on a stage-coach; now applied to a record of goods carried in a freight-train.
1821. Packages of the larger kind, belonging to any passenger, were always entered on the way-bill, and the profits of carrying them went to the [stage] proprietors.—Mass. Spy, May 23.
1826. He could not utter his name, to be placed on the way bill, and was compelled to point to it on his trunk.—Id., Feb. 15.
