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entered into between the Postmaster General and the
Superintendent of this Company in May 1888.
If you will refer to the attached copy of a
letter from the Postmaster General to the Superintendent
of this Company dated 2nd June 1888, it will be seen that
the arrangement entered into provided for the payment for
Indian correspondence by both Contract and non-Contract
steamers under the then existing contract, and the arrange-
ment in force by which the Commanders of both Contract
and non-Contract vessels received payment for the carriage
of Mails ceased from 1st April 1888.
This arrangement, so far as I can gather, has
never been cancelled and I maintain was in existence up to
the termination of the 1888/97 Contract.
Supposing, however, your contention that the
carriage of the Indian Mail, via Tuticorin, is allowed to
cancel the agreement entered into with the Postmaster
General by the Superintendent of this Company in 1888 so far
as the Contract steamers are concerned, there would still be
an amount due for the carriage of Mails by non-contract
steamers during the years 1895/6 upon which we are at any
rate entitled to remuneration in the terms of clause C of
the