659434-1889-Mail-Contract-Canadian-line — Page 13

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21st SEPTEMBER, 1889. 787

4. Returns of the embarkation and disembarkation of all Government passengers shall be fur- nished to the Director of Transports immediately after the departure and arrival of each vessel.

5. Payments for passage money, for Government passengers shall be applied for by invoices according to a form, to be obtained from the office of the Accountant-General of the Navy and shall be made by such Accountant-General or some other officer of the Admiralty only upon such applica- tions and upon the production of the orders for the passage together with a certificate under the hand of the commanding officer specifying the number of the third-class passengers (men women and children) conveyed with the ages and sexes of the latter and stating the periods during which they have been respectively regularly supplied while travelling with provisions and also a certificate under the hand of eachdrat and second-class passenger of his or her having been landed at or conveyed to the place of desstation and of having been properly accommodated and messed during the voyage or journey and specifying the dates from and to which they were so messed computed from the first to the last dinner meal.

6. The Company shall convey for every Government passenger free of charge the quantity of baggage (whether such quantity shall be estimated or ascertained by bulk or weight) to which he is entitled as regards steam vessels under the Regulations of Her Majesty's Transport Service and as regards trains ander the Regulations of the Company for the time being in force and any extra baggage of a Government passenger shall be paid for according to the Regulations of the Company for the time being applicable to extra baggage of an ordinary passenger of the same class.

7. The passage money for the wives and families and servants of commissioned and civil officers when not ordered to be conveyed at the public expense shall be paid to the Company by the officers themselves.

8. In all cases where an officer in the naval military or civil service of Her Majesty who may not be entitled to travel at the public expense shall require to travel by any train or vessel employed in the performance of this Agreement the Company shall be bound when they have room in such train or vessel to provide accommodation for such officer in preference to any private passenger and the amount payable by such officer for such journey or passage if such journey or passage is required in consequence of any order of any department of Her Majesty's Government shall upon presentation by such officer to the Company or their agents of the requisite documents be the rate chargeable for a similar journey or passage to any ordinary passenger less a special reduction to such officer of 25 per cent. thereof.

9. The Company agree to convey troops on service from Halifax or Quebec to Hong Kong and from Hong Kong to Halifax or Quebec at cost The word "troops" is understood to include naval and military officers (whether commissioned non-commissioned or warrant officers) seamen marines soldiers or artificers in Her Majesty's Service and cost is assumed to be (a) for seamen marines sol- diers and artificers (including accommodation in Colonist sleeping carriage by rail) 167. 48. per man to or from Halifax and 141. 8 s. 8 d. per man to or from Quebec (b) for non-commissioned and warrant officers entitled to second-class accommodation by land and sea 207. 13s. 11 d. per man to or from Halifax and 131. 19 s. 7 d. per man to or from Quebec and (c) for commissioned officers entitled to first-class accommodation by land and sea (including sleeping saloon on the railway) 317. 4 s. 8 d. to or from Halifax and 287. 15 s. 5 d. to or from Quebec. The above-named rates are to apply to detach- ments of 50 or upwards and to include all such accommodation by land and sea and meals and rations s are specified in relation to Government passengers in preceding clauses of this Schedule but not to provide for rations in the event of the detention of the vessels after arrival in port owing to quarantine or other causes beyond the control of the Company.

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10.-(1.). The Company shall receive on board each of the trains and vessels employed in the performance of this Agreement and shall convey on behalf of the Admiralty any small packages which may be ordered for conveyance and shall convey and deliver such small packages at the lowest rate of freight charged by the Company for private goods of a similar character or description and the Com- pany shall give immediate notice to 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.

(2.) The Company shall convey Government stores not exceeding 50 tons in weight in any one consignment from Halifax or Quebec to Hong Kong and from Hong Kong to Halifax or Quebec at cost the cost Brailway being estimated at one halfpenny per ton weight per mile and the cost by sea at nothing beyond the charge of 4 s. per ton for loading and discharging and shall convey between the points aforesaid Government stores exceeding 50 tons in weight at the lowest tariff rates charged to the public at the time of shipment.

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(3.) Provided always that the Company shall not be called upon under this clause to convey stores by passenger train or to convey by any train stores which cannot be conveyed by their ordinary rolling stock except on payment of such special rate as may be agreed on between the Admiralty and the Company or in case of difference be determined by arbitration.