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as Government passagers and also by
reason of the growing mis apprehensions on theve part of the nature duct extent of those privileges.
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Much confusion crisis likeursé from }) the circumstance that the Clustration fintracted de to
• provision for the lowveyance of Passengers at reduced rakes, and this fact-- appears to afford, another string ground) in favor of the ilemination of the (lauses from the India and Achina Av erbracÁ5. The Directors may perhaps bep excused for alluding to a circumstance dohich it is scarcely their provinces to point out, and which certainly would not on weupe the consideration, of your Lorethief.
namely, that by so much as the Company are writing to abak from the mail Mercy
M'consideration of the abolition of the System, the revenue of the Port
Post Office is made applicable to the payment
of the Travelling Expences of the servanté of other departments of the Government__
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This brings the & Directors to the offer they
have agreed to makes and they trust that, after
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careful consideration of the foregoing observations Your Lordship may
be enabled to accept at
once the sum of £15,000 (Arifter shonsand.
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commutation of the Contract
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