And make declara- tions &c.
Company not to convey letters other than Her Majesty's mails.
Company and officers to obey orders of Postmaster General.
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required by the Postmaster General or his agents without any remuneration other than the subsidy herein provided to be paid to the Company take due care of and the Company shall be responsible for the embarkation and delivery of the mails.
27. Each of such masters or commanders shall make the usual declaration or declarations required or which may here- after be required by the Postmaster General in such and similar cases and furnish such journals returns and information to and perform such services as the Postmaster General or his agents may require and every such master or commander or officer duly authorised by him having the charge of mails shall himself immediately on the arrival at any of the said ports or places of any such vessel deliver all mails for such port or place into the hands of the Postmaster or other person at such port or place whom the Postmaster General shall authorise to receive the same receiving in like manner all the return or other mails to be forwarded in due course.
28. The Company shall not nor shall any of the masters or commanders of any of the vessels employed or to be employed under this Agreement receive or permit to be received on board any of the vessels employed under this Agreement any letters for conveyance other than those contained in Her Majesty's mails and such letters as are not required by law to pass through the Post Office nor shall the Company or any such master or commander receive or permit to be received on board any of such vessels any mails for conveyance on behalf of any colony or foreign country without the consent of the Postmaster General.
29. The Company and all commanding and other officers of the vessels employed in the performance of this Agreement and all agents seamen and servants of the Company shall at all times punctually attend to the orders and directions of the Postmaster General his officers or agents as to the mode time and place of landing delivering and embarking mails.
30. The Company shall and will when and so often as they or the Masters or Commanders of their vessels shall be required in writing so to do by the Postmaster General or by any officers or agents acting under his authority (such writing to specify the rank or description of the person or persons to be conveyed and the accommodation to be provided for him or them) receive provide for victual and convey to from and between any of the ports or places to from and between which any of the said vessels are to proceed in the performance of this Agreement in addition to any officers of the Post Office employed in connection with the mails conveyed or to be conveyed under this Agreement any number of naval military or 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 or first class cabin pas- sengers and any number of non-commissioned and warrant officers not exceeding four in any one ship with or without their
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wives and children as fore cabin or second class passengers together with servants of both chief and fore cabin passengers and any number of seamen marines soldiers or artificers in Her Majesty's service not exceeding 10 in any one ship with or without their wives and children as deck or third class passen- gers to be always provided with effectual protection from rain sun and bad weather and not exposed on deck without such competent shelter and to have hammocks or bunks (subject to the approval of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty) placed between decks.
31. The passengers who shall be conveyed in pursuance of Their accommodation. the last preceding clause (who are hereinafter designated Government passengers) with their families shall be treated in no respect whether as regards food cabin or other accommoda- tion or aught else in a way inferior to that of ordinary pas- sengers of the same class or that required by the Regulations of Her Majesty's Transport Service. The messing of the first and second-class Government passengers shall include in each day an imperial pint of good sound bottled or draught ale or beer and that of the first-class in addition an imperial pint of good foreign wine. The several classes of passengers shall mess in separate places and medical attendance medicine and medical comforts mess utensils and fittings cooking utensils articles for table use and mess places fuel lights requisite articles of bed- ding and all other necessaries shall be provided for them in like manner as for ordinary passengers of the like classes respec- tively.
32. The passage-money for Government passengers and Passage money. their families respectively shall be the same as that charged by the Company for ordinary passengers for the same class and shall include all the particulars mentioned in the last preceding clause and whenever any alteration of rates for ordinary pas- sengers may be made the Postmaster General and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty shall be immediately apprised of such alteration.
33. Returns of the embarkation and disembarkation of all Returns to be Government passengers shall be furnished to the Director of furnished. Transport Services immediately after the departure and arrival of each vessel.
34. Payments for passage-money for Government passengers Payments how made. shall be applied for by invoices according to a form to be obtained from the office of the Director of Transport Services and shall be made upon the production to such Director of the orders for the passage together with a certificate under the hand of the Commanding Officer specifying the number of the third-class passengers (men women and children) conveyed with the ages and sexes of the latter and stating the periods during which they have been respectively regularly supplied while on board with provisions and also of a certificate under the hand of each first and second class passenger of his or her
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