CO129-083 - Public Offices - 1861 — Page 226

Relating to this last dubject, crccompanied

which they addressed

by the Copy of one

to the [1dinirally on the 30th Annie 1859 pir preference

ence to the same question, In theser letter, the Company represent- that, then they tendered for the device in 1853, they had no reason, to suppose that the numbers of Government Passengers to be conveyed, would swuch exceed the tumber which had previously been carried and which were for the most part limited to those proceeding to and from the Mediterranean Stations, Ceflow and Chinia, burning, however, to the formal aunexation to the Crown in 1858 of the Indine poss- the Military Naval

-essions, the buck of

Mr. Civil Officers serving sis India becamo tre servants of Her Majesty, and, as such were entitled, when proceeding to or prom India, to a passage at the reduced Nate. - The consequence has been that the Company liave been required to

Packet every Convey by Alinost motimum number of passengers of this class specified in the Contract, and that the abatements to which the Ccompary have been there by subjected, have, increased

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from A 3726 the extinakd amount in 1853 to £21, 642, to which they are stated to have amounted during the pust spear,

The figures here given are those of the Company, but, pidging from a statement

on the same subject received from the Admiralty there is no reason to suppose that they contain any material error,

The Company now ask that they may be relieved altogether from this obligation of curryping, passenger, below the ordinary. fares, and they offer, of their application. be complied with, to reduce the amount of their subsidy by the sum of £15,000 per annum,

I sonder stanet that they are quite willing that the existing privilege off sending, what are called Admiralhp) Packager and a certain quantity of

Goven

mirment Stores free of charge, should be continued and they will also agree to the Government having the power of ordering, the same number of Pasinge. by each placket as at present, but on the understanding that such passages are to be paid for at the ordinary plates

Couples.