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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST SEPTEMBER, 1889.
THE SCHEDULES.
THE FIRST SCHEDULE HEREINBEFORE REFERRED TO
PLACES BETWEEN WHICH MAILS are to be Conveyed.
In either direction between Halifax or Quebec (as the case may be) and Hong Kong.
In either direction between Halifax or Quebec (as the case may be) and any port or place at which
any vessel employed under this Contract may touch or call between Vancouver and Hong Kong. In either direction between any place which is situate between Halifax or Quebec (as the case may be) and Vancouver and at which any train employed under this agreement shall stop and Hong Kong.
In either direction between any such place as last aforesaid and any port
which any
vessel employed under this Contract may touch or call between Vancouver and Hongong.
In either direction between Vancouver and any port or place at which any vessel employed under this Contract
may touch or call between Vancouver and Hong Kong.
In either direction between any two ports or places between Vancouver and Hong Kong.
THE SECOND SCHEDULE HEREINBEFORE REFERRED TO.
STIPULATIONS and Conditions as to CONVEYANCE OF GOVERNMENT PASSERER
TROOPS AND STORES.
1. The company shall when and so often as they or the masters or commanders of their vessels to be employed under this Agreement shall be required in writing so to do by the Admiralty or by any officers or agents acting under their authority (such writing to specify the rank or descrip- tion of the person or persons to be conveyed and the accommodation to be provided for him or them) receive provide for victual and convey between any of the ports or places between we any trains or vessels are to proceed in the performance of this Agreement (a) any number of naval military or civil officers in the service of Her Majesty not exceeding eight in any one train or ship with or without their wives and children as first class or chief cabin passengers (together with their servants male and female who are to have the same accommodation as that provided for the servants of other passengers or of officers of the Company) and (b) any number of non-commissioned and warrant officers not exceeding four in any one train or ship with or without their wives and children as second class or fore cabin passengers and also (c) any number of seamen marines soldiers or artificers in Her Majesty's service not exceeding 10 in any one train or ship with or without their wives and children as third- class or deck passengers to be always provided with effectual protection from rain sun and bad weather and not exposed on deck without such competent shelter and to have in the trains of the Company accommodation in the Colonist sleeping carriage and in the vessels of the Company hammocks or bunks (subject to the approval of the Admiralty) placed between decks The accommodation provided for. first-class or chief cabin passengers is (if the passenger so desires) to include the use of a sleeping saloon berth in the trains of the Company upon payment of the usual extra charge therefor.
2. The passengers who shall be conveyed in pursuance of the last preceding clause (who are hereinafter designated Government passengers) with their families shall be treated in no respect whether as regards food cabin or other accommodation or aught else in a way inferior to that of ordinary passengers of the same class or to that required by the Regulations of Her Majesty's Transport Service The messing of the second-class Government passengers shall include in each day an imperial pint of good sound bottled or draft ale or beer and that of the third-class an imperial pint of draft beer or one-half gill of spirits The several classes of passengers shall mess in separate places and medical attendance medicine and medical comforts mess utensils and fittings cooking utensils articles for table use and mess places full lights requisite articles of bedding and all other necessaries shall be provided for them in like manner as for ordinary passengers of the like classes respectively.
3. The passage money for Government passengers and their families and servant respectively shall unless otherwise agreed between the Admiralty and the Company be the same s that charged by the Company for ordinary passengers of the same class and shall include all the particulars men- tioned in the last preceding clause and if and whenever any alteration of rates for ordinary passengers shall be made by the Company the Admiralty shall be immediately apprised of such alteration.
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