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Vessels to be furnished
8cc.
And manned with
under 13 & 14 Vict, c. 93. or other Acts as to certificates;
and a medical officer to supply medicines gratis to those con- veyed under the contract.
tained in the said Tables shall form part of this Contract, and be observed, kept, and performed by the said Company accord- ingly; and, subject to such stipulations, clauses, matters, and things, and to the other stipulations of this Contract, the said vessels shall depart from and arrive at the several places as men- tioned in such Tables on the days and at the hours or times of the day or night therein respectively mentioned or specified.
That all the vessels employed under this Contract shall with machinery, tackle, be always supplied and furnished with all necessary and proper machinery, engines, apparel, furniture, stores, tackle, boats, fuel, oil, tallow, provisions, anchors, cables, fire pumps, and other proper means for extinguishing fire, lightning conductors on Sir Snow Harris's or other approved principle, charts, chro- nometers, proper nautical instruments, medicines, medi- caments, and whatsoever else may be requisite and necessary for equipping the said vessels, and rendering them constantly efficient for the service hereby contracted to be performed; and also manned and provided with competent officers officers with certificates with appropriate certificates, granted pursuant to the act 13 and 14 Victoria, cap. 93, or to the act or acts in force for the time being relative to the granting certificates to officers in the merchant service, and also a medical officer, to be approved of by the said Commissioners, and who shall give medical attendance, medicines, and medicaments gratis to all persons conveyed under or by virtue of this agreement, or whose passage money may be paid for, in whole or in part, by the public, and with a sufficient number of efficient engineers, and a sufficient crew of able seamen and other men, to be in all respects, as to vessels, engines, equipments, engineers, officers, and crew, subject in the first instance, and from time to time and at all times afterwards, to the approval of the said Com- missioners, and of such other persons as shall at any time or times or from time to time have authority under the said Designs, &c. of vessels Commissioners to inspect and examine the same; and the said Company shall, previously to any vessel being built for or which is intended to be employed in the performance of this Contract, submit the designs, plans, and sections of each and every of such vessels to the said Commissioners, and be bound to adopt such fittings, scantling, and such dispositions of hatchways as the said Commissioners shall declare in writing to be necessary for carrying and firing the following armament, that is to say,
Vessels, officers, and crew subject to Admiralty approval.
to be submitted to Admiralty.
Armament of vessels.
BOW AND STERN PIVOT. F
And
upwards.
BROADSIDE.
Tons. No.
1,100 {
10-inch
Cwt. No.
85
Cwt.
4 32-pounder 40
1 32-pounder
Vessel
56
with
1 8-inch
65
800
4 32-pounder 25
1 32-pounder 56
paddle-
600
1 32-pounder
wheels.
4,5 4 32-pounder 17 carr
Tons.
Cwt.
And
1,100
8 32-pounder 40
Vessel
800
upwards.
8 32-pounder 25
with
600
8 32 pounder 17
screws.
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of vessels.
That all the vessels which are to be employed under this Contract shall be tried under the direction of an officer to be
As to trial and speed appointed by the said Commissioners; and unless it be shown to the satisfaction of the said Commissioners that each of such vessels of one thousand one hundred tons burthen or upwards, on being tried for a measured mile, attains the speed of twelve knots an hour, with coals on board, and loaded so as to float down to the load line of the hull, and without the aid of sails, and that each of such other vessels with coals on board and loaded as aforesaid, and without the aid of sails, attains the speed of ten and a half knots an hour, the same shall not be employed in the several services hereby contracted to be performed.
Mails to be conveyed
at not less than 10 knots an hour, except between Singapore and Sydney; those to be at average of 8 knots.
One vessel to leave
20 January 1855, one another the middle of every succeeding month, as Admiralty appoint, from South-
the beginning and
That the said Company shall and will, at their own cost and charge, at all times during the continuance of this Contract, at a speed which on the average of each voyage of each vessel shall not be less than ten knots an hour, convey Her Majesty's mails; excepting those to be conveyed between Singapore and Sydney, which shall be conveyed at a speed which on the average of each voyage of each vessel shall not be less than eight and a half knots an hour.
That one of such vessels of not less than one thousand one hundred tons burthen, so approved of and equipped and manned as aforesaid, and with Her Majesty's mails on board, shall, on the twentieth day of January one thousand eight hun- dred and fifty-three, and also one of such vessels in the begin- ampton or other port. ning and another of such vessels in the middle of every suc-
Vessels to proceed from United Kingdom
to Gibraltar, and arrive within 121 hours from Southampton.
Admiralty may sub-
stitute other port for
ceeding month, on such days and at such hour as shall at any time or times or from time to time be appointed by the said Commissioners, put to sea from Southampton, or from such other port in the United Kingdom as the said Commissioners shall at any time or times or from time to time appoint, so that an interval of about a fortnight is left between the days of the departure of the two vessels.
That each and every of the said vessels leaving the United Kingdom shall put to sea from Southampton, or from such other port in the United Kingdom as the said Commissioners shall at any time or times or from time to time appoint, and proceed direct to Gibraltar, where she shall arrive within one hundred and twenty-one hours from the time of her departure from Southampton, when Southapmton is her port of departure from the United Kingdom.
That the said Commissioners for the time being shall be at Marseilles and Malta. liberty and have full power, on giving three calendar months notice in writing under their hands, or the hand of their Secretary, to the said Company, to substitute any other ports or port in the Mediterranean for Marseilles and Malta, or either of them, on payment of a reasonable compensation to the said Company, for any additional expense, if that
any, curred by such substitution.
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