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ment

entered into between the Postmaster General and the

Superintendent of this Company in May 1888.

If you will refer to the attached copy of a

letter from the Postmaster General to the Superintendent

of this Company dated 2nd June 1888, it will be seen that

the arrangement entered into provided for the payment for

Indian correspondence by both Contract and non-Contract

steamers under the then existing contract, and the arrange-

ment in force by which the Commanders of both Contract

and non-Contract vessels received payment for the carriage

of Mails ceased from 1st April 1888.

This arrangement, so far as I can gather, has

never been cancelled and I maintain was in existence up to

the termination of the 1888/97 Contract.

Supposing, however, your contention that the

carriage of the Indian Mail, via Tuticorin, is allowed to

cancel the agreement entered into with the Postmaster

General by the Superintendent of this Company in 1888 so far

as the Contract steamers are concerned, there would still be

an amount due for the carriage of Mails by non-contract

steamers during the years 1895/6 upon which we are at any

rate entitled to remuneration in the terms of clause C of

the