CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12] — Page 143

" that I embarked on board the Contract

"racket in July, and the reduced rate is

"only applicable to home passages during the "mouths of Auquet, September, betober,

November and December".

The principle on which I founded my objection - namely, that having left china during the hot mouths, when the

rate

of passage moncy was lower than during the cold season, I ought to be charged two-third of the lower and not tion-thirds of the higher rate _ is thus, I

Alu

happy to find, fully admitted; but it is subjoined that the reduced rate now not applicable to the mouth of dig, in which I embarked, and that therefore

the higher face...

I must

pay

If this

140

were so, I could not with

any chew of Justice make the claim:

but Irespectfully call

your

attention to

the fret, apparently overloked, and which the enclosed letter of this date from Mr Walker, the Agent of the Peninsular aud Oriental Company at this place, will prove, that although the reduced rates from Indin to bugland during the

were, as

only, those

Your

1852

year letter states, applicable

to the months from August to december from China to burglared included

England the mouth of July, in which I left. That such was the case, I had full experience, having paid passage surney at the reduced rates for my wife, three children and an European Servant, who all accompanied