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Rates of passage money which is to

be in full for mess, wines, &c. and what the mess is to include.

Children under 3 carried free, male servants, female servants rates for employers.

Certificate for passage money.

Passage money for families and wives of officers to be paid by

rate is to be.

their wives and children; the victualling of non-commissioned officers, their wives and children, conveyed as fore cabin passengers, shall be the same as is allowed to the boatswain and carpenter of the said Company's steam ships; and the victualling of seamen, marines, soldiers, and artificers, their wives and children, conveyed as deck passengers, shall be the same as is allowed to the seamen of the said Company's steam ships; and the victualling of the servants of officers, whether chief or fore cabin passengers, shall be the same as the servants of other chief and fore cabin passengers.

That the passage money shall be paid in full of all charge for mess, including a pint of port of good foreign white wine and one bottle of malt liquor per day for each officer conveyed as a chief cabin passenger, and half a gill of spirits per day, or an equivalent, if not issued, for each warrant officer, non-com- missioned officer, seaman, marine, soldier, artificer, and servant conveyed as a fore cabin or a deck passenger, at and after rates amounting only to two thirds of the rates charged by the said Company for ordinary passengers of a similar description, the said Company carrying children under three years of age free, and charging for male servants one half, and for female servants two thirds of the rates charged for their employers.

That the payment for the passage ordered at the expense of the public for any person shall only be made on the produc tion of the order for the passage, and of a certificate from the person, in the following form, viz. :

"I hereby certify, that on the

at

packet

at

I embarked

as a passenger on board the mail steam for passage to

and landed

on the

To this certificate the following addition is to be made in every

case of a male cabin passenger, viz. :

2

"I further certify, that the first dinner meal taken on board was on the

and the last dinner meal on

day of

the

"Dated this

And the correctness of the dates must be corroborated by the master of the packet, adding underneath the passenger's sig- nature,

"The dates inserted in this certificate are correct.

"

(Signature.)

"Master of the Packet."

That the passage money for the families and wives of officers shall be paid to the said Company by the officers themselves, at

officers, and what the rates never exceeding two thirds of the rates charged for ordinary passengers of a similar description, their children under three years of age being conveyed free of charge.

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Passengers, exclusive of men under 11 G. 4.

c. 20.

All soldiers as deck passengers to have adequate protection from rain, &c.

Sums forfeited to be stipulated damages, and may be deducted or enforced as a debt to Her Majesty.

As to deductions from service money to be

wise conveyed from accident to any con-

tract vessel.

That the passengers herein-before mentioned or referred to are to be exclusive of any men to be sent home under the pro- visions of the Act 11 Geo. IV. c. 20, the rate of passage for whom is to be and to be paid for in accordance with the pro- visions of that Act.

That whenever the said Company shall convey any soldiers as deck passengers, other than those specially provided for by this Contract, the said Company shall provide them with ade- quate protection from rain, sun, and bad weather, and they shall not be exposed on deck without such competent shelter.

That all and every the sums of money hereby stipulated to be forfeited and paid by the said Company unto Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, shall be considered as stipulated or ascertained damages, and shall and may be deducted and retained by the said Commissioners out of any monies payable or which may thereafter be payable to the said Company, or the payment may be enforced as a debt due to Her Majesty, with full costs of suit, at the discretion of the said Commissioners.

That in the event of any accident occurring to the hull or made if mails be other machinery of one or more of the said contract vessels, arising from circumstances over which the said Company and their servants had not and could not have had any control, and that in consequence thereof the mails should be carried on or con- veyed by any of Her Majesty's or of the East India Company's vessels, a deduction or abatement is to be made from the contract service money at the rate of six shillings and two- pence per nautical mile while the annual payment is one hun- dred and ninety-nine thousand six hundred pounds, and at the rate of five shillings and sixpence per nautical mile while the annual payment is only one hundred and seventy-nine thousand six hundred pounds, for the distance which the mails may have been so conveyed, such distance to be ascertained and deter- mined by the hydrographer of the said Commissioners, or such amount shall be recoverable as a debt due to Her Majesty, with full costs of suit.

Small packages to be received on board as

directed by Admiralty, and conveyed free of charge.

That the said Company shall and will receive on board each and every of the said vessels employed in the performance of this Contract any number of small packages containing astro- nomical instruments, charts, wearing apparel, medicines, or other articles, and convey and deliver the same to, from, and between all or any of the said ports or places to or from which the said mails are to be conveyed in the performance of this Contract, and also convey across the Isthmus of Suez such packages, when and as often as directed by the said Commis- sioners or their Secretary as respects articles which may leave England, and as respects other articles conveyed when and as often as directed by the British naval officer in command at any port where the vessel may touch, free from all costs and

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