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Certificate for passage money,
The passage money for officers and families to be the ordinary rates; children under three years to be free.
The passengers to be exclusive of any men sent home under the Act 17 & 18 Vict. c. 104.
Small packages to be received on board and delivered at the places where the Mails are delivered as often as the Postmaster-
General, or the officer
in command at the
port, may require, free
from all charge.
That the payment for the passage ordered at the expense of the public of any person shall only be made on the production of the order for the passage, and of a certificate from the person in the following form; namely,--
at
"I hereby certify, that on the
steam packet
and landed at
as a
I embarked
passenger on board the mail for a passage to on the
To which certificate the following addition is to be made in any case of a male cabin passenger, namely:-
"I further certify, that the first dinner meal taken on board was on the
and the last dinner meal on
the
"Dated this
2
day of
And the correctness of the dates shall be corroborated by the master of the packet adding underneath the passenger's signature
"The dates inserted in this certificate are correct."
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(Signature.) "Master of the Packet."
That the passage money for the families and wives of officers shall be paid to the said Company by the officers themselves, at the rates charged to ordinary passengers of a similar descrip- tion, their children under three years of age being conveyed free of charge.
That the passengers herein-before mentioned or referred to are to be exclusive of any men to be sent home under the provisions of the Act 17 & 18 Vict. c. 104, the rate of passage for whom is to be and to be paid for in accordance with the provisions of that Act.
That the said Company shall and will receive on board each and
every of the vessels to be employed in the performance of this agreement any number of small packages not exceeding twenty cubic feet in measurement, containing astronomical instruments, charts, wearing apparel, medicines, or other articles (which small packages shall not contain liquids or chemicals, oil, grease, or other articles of a dangerous or damaging cha- racter), and convey and deliver the same to, from and between the said ports or places to or from which the said mails are to be conveyed in the performance of this agreement, when and as often as directed by the said Postmaster-General, or by the British naval officer in command of the station, or at any port where the vessel may touch, free from all costs and charges, and also shall and will receive on board each and every of the said vessels, and convey and deliver to, from, and between all or any of the said ports or places any naval or other stores (which stores shall not consist of liquids, chemi- cals, oil, grease, or any other article of a dangerous or damaging
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Naval stores not exceeding 10 tons, to be conveyed at the same rate as private goods.
The sums payable by the Company to be considered as stipu- lated damages.
l'ayments to the
280A.
character), not exceeding ten tons in weight at any one time in any one vessel, at the rate of freight charged by the said Company for private goods, on receiving from the said Post- master-General, his officers, or agents, two days previous notice of his intention to have such stores so conveyed, and that the said Company shall in all cases be strictly responsible for the due custody and safe delivery of the said packages, articles, and stores.
of
And it is hereby further agreed that all and every the sums money hereby stipulated to be paid by the said Company unto Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors, shall be considered as stipulated or ascertained damages, whether any damages or loss have or hath, or have not or hath not, been sustained, and shall and may be deducted and retained by the said Postmaster- General out of any monies payable or which may thereafter be payable to the said Company, or the payment may be enforced as a debt due to Her Majesty, with full costs of suit, at the discretion of the said Postmaster-General.
And in consideration of the duc and faithful performance by Company for services. the said Company of all the services hereby agreed to be by them performed the said Postmaster-General doth hereby covenant and agree that there shall be paid to the said Company (out of such aids or supplies as may be from time to time provided and appropriated by Parliament for the purpose), so long as they perform the whole of the said services in the manner and with such vessels as herein respectively provided, a sum after the rate of one hundred and thirty-four thousand six hundred and seventy-two pounds per annum, in equal quarterly payments, on the first day of January, the first day of April, the first day of July, and the first day of October, and with a proportionate part thereof, should this agreement be determined on any other day than one of those herein-before mentioned, which said rateable sum it is hereby agreed and declared shall be paid to and received by the said Company. as full compensation for all costs and expences which they may incur or be put unto, by reason or on account of all and singu lar the services hereby contracted to be performed, subject, however, to the abatement of any sums of money in respect of forfeitures which the said Company may have incurred, or to the addition of any sums in respect of premiums (as the case may be), as herein provided, and which payments shall be made on the production, by the said Company from time to time to the Secretary for the time being of the General Post Office, of certificates from the proper Officers that the terms and conditions of this agreement have been strictly and punc- tually performed, or so soon thereafter as the accounts sent in for the then last quarter can be checked and examined.
Disputes to be referred to arbitration.
And it is hereby further agreed and declared between and by the said parties to these presents, that if at any time during the continuance of this agreement, or after the determination
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