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offer on the part of the Company to agree Joan

abakment of £10,000 per annum from the mail. Monty from the date of the discontinuance of the reduced stoale of passage moncy referred 10

So that offer the dercolors, had not

Teccwed a

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reply, but this circumstance may probably be attributed to the subsequent- transfer of the boness of the mail Contracts from the

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Samvially to four Lordship's

department: they have

They have however fully

des cou

ontinuance

of

the

calculated upon a shpotem in the proposals they have recently submitted to your Ladship for the continuance of the Mail Services question being this brought to it's Hage the Directors would

and the

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the terms of the Contract, as being entitled to passages at the reduced rates;

Directors, having the data and experience of their previous Contract to guide them, naturally supposed they would be safe mp

calculating that the

contract passengers. would be limited to those proceeding so- and from the Mediterrean Stations, Ceylon and Chma, as theretofore and that the gross amount of the abatervents to rohol they would be subject under the new

that which they had

would not

exceed

aveerformed would be the average)

The

old one

present.

the

urge careful consideration of the following percises, post That when the Company tendered for The Contract of 10753, the Content of, & Indici was under

the government of the

East India Company; and as all Officers

Military Naval a bivil, proceeding to and s from the ports of India and this

Country

Company were in the Sesrce of that trautry There was no power to bring them within

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beast

auder the

namely about £ 2000 por

unexation

The formal and revention of the Continent of India to the possessions of the brown in 10:58 brought about new state of things -

a

Officers serving in India' became the servants of

the keroven and from that time to the m present, the number of Contract Passengers to and from Malcutta and Bombay by each

Heamer hat rarely been below the maximam

specifre à

an

the Contract -

H has

Directous as the

been the practise of the

records of the Admiralty