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EASTERN MAIL SERVICE.
Division of Cost in accordance with the principles embodied in the Award of Lord Balfour of Burleigh.
Payable by-
Ceylon.
Straits Settlements.
Hongkong.
Percentage Amount. of Total
Cost.
Percentage Amount. of Total
Cost.
Percentage Amount. of Total
Cost.
£
£
£
"Cost of Section" as Settled by para-
graph 21 of Award,
4,700
2.00
6,600
2-80
11,500
4-88
Cost of Sea Sorting,
500
1
500
Incidental Expenses (£3,806)
shared rateably on basis of
Total Cost of Sections,
76
2.00
106
2-80
186 4.88
Gross Contribution payable,
4,776
7,206
12,186
Deduct:Extra Receipts (£12,921)
shared as above,
258
2.00
362
2-80
631
4.88
Net Contribution payable,... 4,518
·
6,844
11,555
Pooling Account :- Allow one-half of excess collected in the United King- dom,
Annual Contribution,.......
Add:-For Sea Postage at Postal Union Rates on Colonial Mails charged in the Division of Cost against the United Kingdom-which would be payable in any case, viz. :-
(a.) On mails from Ceylon, &c., to places east & south (e.g., Singapore,China,Australia), v. § 1 of Colonial Office Case. (b.) On mails from Hongkong Agencies in China (prepaid in Hongkong
stamps).....
postage
(c.) Collected by the Colonies from Foreign Countries, &c.,
320
98
230
4,198
6,746
11,325
966
183
65
600
on behalf of the United Kingdom.....
56
61
180
Total Annual Contribution in respect of P. & O. Service.
5,220
6,990
12,170
December 21, 1904.
B. OF B.
Appendix X.
COLONIAL OFFICE DESPATCH TO GOVERNOR SIR M. NATHAN.
No. 26.
DOWNING STREET,
10th February, 1905.
SIR,-With reference to my confidential despatch of December 22nd and to previous correspondence, which need no longer be regarded as confidential, I have the honour, to forward to you 12 copies of the award given by the Arbitrator in the matter of the contributions payable by the Eastern Colonies towards the cost of the Peninsular and Oriental mail service.*
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Appendix VIL.