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Company and their
agents, &c. to attend
to orders of Admiralty
&c. mails.
opened in their hulls whenever the said officers may require; and if any such vessel or any part thereof, or any engines, machinery, furniture, tackle, apparel, boats, stores, or equip- ments, shall on any such survey be declared by any of such officers or agents unseaworthy, or not adapted to the service hereby contracted to be performed, or if the said Commis- sioners shall deem it necessary or expedient that alteration
any or improvement shall be made therein or any part thereof, in order to keep pace with the more advanced state of science, every vessel which shall be disapproved of, or in which such deficiency, defect, or want of improvement shall appear, shall be deemed inefficient for any service hereby contracted to be performed, and shall not be employed again in the conveyance of Her Majesty's Mails until such defect or deficiency shali have been repaired or supplied, or the alterations or improve- ments, as the case may be, shall have been made to the satis- faction of the said Commissioners; and if employed before such defect or deficiency shall have been supplied, or such altera- tions or improvements, as the case may be, shall have been made, to the satisfaction of the said Commissioners, the said Company shall forfeit and pay to Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, the sum of five hundred pounds.
That the said Company, and all commanding and other officers of the vessels to be employed in the performance
or officers as to landing, of this Contract, and all agents, seamen, and servants of the said Company, shall at all times during the continuance of this Contract punctually attend to the orders and directions of the said Commissioners, or of any of their officers or agents, as to the landing, delivering, and receiving Her Majesty's mails.
On requirement by Admiralty or agent a limited number of
officers in the Navy, Army, or Civil service,
received on board as chief cabin passengers;
That the said Company shall and will, when and as often as in writing they or the masters of their respective vessels shall be required so to do by the said Commissioners, or by such with wives, &c., to be naval or other officers or agents acting under their authority, (such writing to specify the rank or description of the person or persons to be conveyed, and the accommodation to be pro- vided for him or them,) receive, provide for, victual, and convey to and from and between any of the places to which any of the vessels are to proceed in the performance of this Contract, on board each and every or any of the vessels to be employed in the performance of this Contract (in addition to the naval officer authorized to have charge of the said mails), any number of naval, military, and civil officers in the service of Her Majesty, not exceeding eight in any one ship, with or without their wives and children, as chief cabin passengers, and any number of non- commissioned and warrant officers, not exceeding four in any one ship, with or without their wives and children, as fore cabin pas- sengers, together with the servants of both chief and fore cabin passengers, and any number of seamen, marines, soldiers, or artificers in Her Majesty's service, not exceeding ten in any one Ship, with or without their wives and children, as deck passengers, to be always provided with effectual protection from rain, sun, and bad weather, and not exposed on deck without such com-
and of non-commis- sioned and warrant
officers, with wives,&c., as fore cabin passen-
gers, together with servants;
and of seamen, m-a- rimes, soldiers, or
artificers, &c. as deck passengers, with effec-
tual protection from rain, &c.
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Company also to
petent shelter, due notice being given, if practicable, to the said Company, or to their agent at the port of embarkation.
That the said Company shall in like manner, and whenever convey between Eng and as often as required, as aforesaid, in addition to the passengers
land and Alexandria additional military officers and soldiers, wives, &c., not exceeding & officers and 40 men.
Commissioned officers &c. chief cabin pas sengers.
Non-commissioned
hereinbefore mentioned, also cause to be conveyed, provided for, and victualled, between England and Alexandria, on board the said vessels, any number of military officers and soldiers, with their wives and children and servants, that shall be required, not exceeding 8 officers and 40 men in each vessel.
That commissioned officers, their wives and children, shall be considered as chief cabin passengers, non-commissioned, and war- rant officers, their wives and children, as fore cabin passengers, Officers, &c. fore cabin and seamen, marines, private soldiers, artificers, and their wives and children, as deck passengers, and the said servants (in respect of accommodation) as the servants of chief cabin passengers.
passengers. Seamen, &c. deck passengers,
Each field and naval officer allowed 90 cubic feet measure- ment for baggage not exceeding 18 cwt.
All other officers 60 cubic feet not exceed- ing 12 cwt.
Engineers same measurement, but to extend in weight to 27 ewt. for fleld offi- cers, and 18 cwt. for other officers.
Soldiers of Artillery and Sappers, 6 cubic feet each for baggage, Married officers, when
accompanied by wives or families, further allowance not ex- ceeding that before mentioned.
Field pieces for Artillery to be re- ceived on board, and
hammocks and bedding to be brought to England free.
As to victualling of Admiralty passengers.
That each field officer, and every naval officer of equal or superior rank, shall be allowed ninety cubic feet of space in measurement for baggage, provided (except in the case of the Royal Engineers) such allowance shall not exceed eighteen hundredweight in weight, and all other officers in Her Ma- jesty's naval and military service, and officers in the civil ser- vice, sixty cubic feet each, and that (except in the case of the Royal Engineers) such allowance shall not exceed twelve hun- dredweight in weight.
That the Royal Engineers shall be allowed the same measure- ment, but to extend in weight to twenty-seven hundredweight for field officers, and eighteen hundredweight for every other officer of the Royal Engineers.
That soldiers of the Royal Artillery, and Sappers and Miners, and their wives, shall be allowed six cubic feet each for bag- gage, and all married officers, when accompanied by their wives or families, a further allowance not exceeding one half of that before mentioned, according to their rank and corps.
That for every company of the Royal Artillery embarked there shall be conveyed, free of all charge, the proper pro- portion of light field pieces and ammunition, if required; and that any hammocks and bedding which may be sent out for the use of troops or other persons embarked shall be placed in charge of the officer authorized to have charge of Her Ma- jesty's mails, and be brought back to England, if required, free from any charge for freight.
That the victualling of officers, their wives and children, conveyed as chief cabin passengers, shall be the same as is usually allowed by the said Company to chief cabin passengers,
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