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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST SEPTEMBER, 1889.
As to other matters.
Substitution of altered days and hours.
Admiralty clauses.
Substitution of other vessels in certain events.
he shall be at liberty so to do on giving to the Company three calendar months' notice in writing of such his desire provided such alterations do not necessitate any increase in the respective rates of speed which under the provisions hereinbefore contained will have to be maintained by the respective vessels and trains to be employed under this Agreement for the conveyance of the mails within the respective periods of transit hereinbefore prescribed.
29. The Postmaster-General may from time to time on reasonable notice to the Company modify the services hereby agreed to be performed in other respects than as aforesaid (as for example by increasing or decreasing the frequency of the conveyance of mails between any of the ports or places between which mails are to be conveyed under this Agreement or by extending the conveyance of mails to any other ports or places not specified in this Agreement or by discontinuing the converance of mails to or from any port or place specified in this Agreement) and from and for the expira- tion of any such notice the modified services thereby required to be ported shall be accordingly performed by the Company in lieu of the services hereby agreed to be performed and in every such case if such notice cause an increase of the services hereby agreed to be performed the Postmaster-General shall in respect of such increase pay to the Company in addition to the subsidy hereinafter agreed to be paid such sum of money as may be agreed upon between the Postmaster-General and the Company or failing such agreement as shall be determined by arbitration or if such notice use a decrease of the services hereby agreed to be performed the Postmaster-General shall in respect of such decrease deduct from the said subsidy such sum of money as may be agreed on as aforesaid or failing such agreement as shall be determined by arbitration.
30. Any days and hours appointed under the last two preceding clauses hereof or either of them shall for the time being be deemed to be the days and hours appointed under this Agreement and shall be observed and kept by the Company accordingly.
ADMIRALTY CLAUSES.
31. During the continuance of this Agreement the several stipulations and con- ditions specified in the Second and Third Schedules hereto shall be binding upon the Company and the Admiralty respectively.
32. In the event of the Admiralty at any time during the continuance of this Agreement considering it necessary for the public interest to purchase under the power in that behalf contained in the Third Schedule hereto any vessel for the time being employed or intended to be employed under this Agreement or to charter the same exclusively for Her Majesty's service the services hereby contracted to be performed shall if possible be performed by another vessel to be provided by the Company to the satisfaction of the Postmaster-General and the Admiralty. And in the event of the Company in consequence of any such purchase as aforesaid being unable (wholly or in part) to perforin such services the subsidy hereinafter mentioned shall cease to be paid or (as the case may be) there shall be paid to the Company instead of such subsidy such annual sum of money as shall be agreed upon between the Post- master-General and the Company or in case of difference shall de determined by arbitration.
Subsidy.
Penalties for not providing train or vessel.
SUBSIDY AND DEDUCTIONS.
33. In consideration of the covenants and agreements herein contained and on the part of the Company to be observed and performed and of the due and faithful performance by the Company of all the services under this contract there shall be payable to the Company during the continuance of this Agreement (out of such aids or supplies as may from time to time be appropriated by Parliament for that purpose) a yearly subsidy or sum after the rate of 60,000 l. per annum or (in the event of any such default or failure as hereinafter mentioned) so much of the said subsidy or sum as shall remain payable in respect of any year after making such deductions therefrom (if any) as hereinafter in that behalf mentioned in respect of any such default or failure.
34. If at any time the Company fail to provide a proper and suitable railway train as hereinbefore specified at Halifax or Quebec (as the case may be) ready to start on and at the appointed day and hour or an efficient vessel at the Port of Hong Kong ready to put to sea on and at the appointed day and hour or if such train or vessel fail