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Any infringement shall be dealt with in accordance with the decree of the 27th. prairial Article IX and in case of a second offence committed by an agent of the contractor, the said agent shall be dismissed at the request of the Consul for France at Canton.
A movable letter box shall be placed on deck in a place accessible to the passengers, and brought to the French Fost Offices situated on the subsidised line, as well as to the Hongkong Fost Office. The said box shall be put on deck at the disposal of passengers only an hour before the departure from the terminus.
Article 16th. : On each departure, the Government Commissioner
can verify whether nothing prevents the sailing, both with regard to the security of passengers and to Postal Service.
Should he deer it advisable to prevent the depar- ture, the Government Commissioner would take such steps as he should think necessary to secure the departure of the mail on the fixed date.
CHAPTER V.
Transport of Passengers and Cargo.
Article 17th.': The Contractor shall have the right to carry on
his ships passengers and cargo. The general tariff for freight shall not in any case exceed the tariff of the British Company or the Japanese Company.' He shall be bound to carry according to a fixed tariff and in agreement with the Consul for France, the civil and military passengers travelling "on service*, as well as the cargo shipped on behalf of the administration. Government cargo and pas- sengers shall be entitled to a reduction of 30% on the ordinary tariff.
Article 18th. : The Contractor shall have to undertake, under the
ordinary conditions of the tariff agreed upon, the transport of civil and military prisoners. These transport will take place under contract conduct of special agents paid by the administration.
Article 19th.: Civil and Military passengers travelling "by order"
shall be admitted on board the subsidised steamer at rates fixed later on by the contractor together with the Consul for France.
CHAPTER VI