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Baggage,
Wives and farallies.
Officers in Her Majesty's Service to have preference of other passengers.
Admiralty packages to be conveyed.
Postmaster General may delegate bis powers.
Company not to con-
vey dangerous articles.
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having been landed at the place of destination and of having been properly accommodated and messed during the voyage and specifying the dates from and to which they were so messed computed from the first to the last dinner meal.
35. The Company shall convey for every Government pas- senger free of charge the quantity of baggage (whether such quantity shall be estimated or ascertained by bulk or weight) to which he is entitled under the Regulations of Her Majesty's Transport Service for the time being in force and freight shall be payable for any extra baggage of a Government passenger after the same rate as the freight payable according to the Regulations of the Company for the time being for extra baggage of an ordinary passenger of the same class.
36. The passage-money for the wives and families of com- missioned and civil officers when not ordered to be conveyed at the public expense shall be paid to the Company by the officers themselves.
37. In all cases where an officer in the civil naval or military service of Her Majesty who may not be entitled to a passage at the public expense shall require a passage on board any of the vessels employed in the performance of this Agreement the Company shall be bound to provide a passage for such officer in preference to any private passenger and shall charge no higher rate for such passage than is chargeable for an ordinary
passenger.
38. The Company shall receive on board each of the vessels employed in the performance of this Agreement and shall convey on behalf of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and any small packages which may be ordered for conveyance also (on receiving from the Postmaster General or his officers or agents or from the British naval officer in command of any naval station two days previous notice) shall receive on board any naval or other stores not exceeding 10 tons weight or 15 tons of 40 cubic feet each in measurement at any one time in any one vessel and shall convey and deliver such small packages and stores at the lowest rate of freight charged by the Com- pany for private goods of a similar character or description and the Company shall give immediate notice to the Post- master General and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty of any alteration in such rate of freight and shall in all cases be responsible for the custody and safe and speedy delivery of such packages and stores.
39. It shall be lawful for the Postmaster General at any time and from time to time to delegate any of the powers vested in him by virtue of these presents to such person or persons as he
shall think fit.
40. The Company shall not convey in any vessel employed by them in pursuance of this Agreement any nitro-glycerine or any other article which shall have been legally declared specially dangerous.
41. The
EAST INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.
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41. The Company shall undertake for themselves all arrange. Quarantine, ments relative to quarantine.
of
to purchase or charter
42. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty shall at any Power to Admiralty time during the continuance of this Agreement if they shall vessels. consider it necessary for the public interest so to do have power and be at liberty to purchase all or any of the vessels for the time being employed or intended to be employed under this Agreement at a valuation or to charter the same exclu- sively for Her Majesty's service at a rate of hire to be mutually fixed and agreed on by them and the Company or in case of difference be determined by arbitration and every or any dif ference as to the amount of valuation or hire or rate of hire so to be paid shall be determined by arbitration in manner here- inafter provided And the said Commissioners in the case of hiring any such vessel shall return the same to the Company in the same state and condition as the same was in at the time any such hiring reasonable wear and tear excepted And if any difference should arise upon that point the same shall be determined by arbitration in manner hereinafter provided And it is further agreed that in the case of such purchase or hire the services hereby contracted to be performed shall be performed by other vessels of the Company of a similar descrip tion to the vessel or vessels purchased or hired if they can in due and proper time furnish them And in the event of the Company being allowed by the Postmaster General to continue to perform only a portion of such services there shall be paid to the Company such annual sum of money as shall be agreed upon by the Postmaster General and the Company and in case of their differing as to the amount the difference shall be determined by arbitration in manner hereinafter provided.
43. In consideration of the due and faithful performance by Subsidy. the Company of the services hereby agreed to be performed by them there shall be payable to the Company during the continuance of this Agreement (out of such aids or supplies as may from time to time be appropriated by Parliament for that purpose) a yearly subsidy or sum after the rate of 370,0007. per annum or (in the event of any such default or failure as hereinafter mentioned) so much of the said subsidy or sum as shall remain payable in respect of any year after making such deductions therefrom (if any) as hereinafter in that behalf mentioned in respect of any such default or failure.
providing vessel.
44. If at any time the Company shall fail to provide an Deductions for not efficient vessel at Brindisi Bombay or Shanghai ready to put to sea on and at the appointed day and hour then and so often as the same shall happen there shall be deducted from the subsidy which would in the absence of such default be payable to the Company for the current year the sum of 500 7. and also the further sum of 100 1. for every successive 24 hours which shall elapse until such vessel actually proceeds to sea on her voyage in pursuance of this Agreement Provided
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