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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST SEPTEMBER, 1889.

6. On the outward voyages from the port of Vancouver aforesaid to the port of Places of call. Hong Kong the vessels to be provided by the Company shall call at Yokohama and Shanghai and on the homeward voyages from the port of Hong Kong to the port of Vancouver the said vessels shall call at Shanghai and Yokohama and at the option of the Company at the port of Hiogo (Kobi).

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7. All mails to be conveyed under the provisions of this Agreement by such trains Periods of transit. and vessels respectively as aforesaid from Halifax or Quebec (as the case may be) to the port of Hong Kong or from Hong Kong to Halifax or Quebec (as the case may be) shall be so conveyed by the Company during the continuance of this Agreement within the com- plete and entite periods next hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) between the 1st day of April and the 30th day of November (both inclusive) in each year within a total period of 684 hours and between the 1st day of December and the 31st day of March (both inclusive) in each year within a total period of 732 hours which said periods respectively shall be calculated in the manner hereinafter mentioned or specified and shall respectively include all stoppages of the said vessels and trains.

8. The periods of 684 hours and 732 hours hereinbefore mentioned are hereinafter Calculation of called periods of transit and shall in all cases be reckoned from the time of the despatch periods of transit. of the train or vessel by which respectively the first part of the transit shall be per- formed to the completion of the voyage of the vessel or the journey of the train by

which the last part of the transit shall be performed.

questions.

9. The times of the commencement and completion of every such journey and Postmaster-General voyage comprised in each such period of transit as aforesaid shall be ascertained and to decide as to such recorded by officers of the Postmaster-General in pursuance of arrangements to be from time to time made by him for such purposes and the decision of the Postmaster General as to all questions relating to periods of transit shall be final and conclusive,

and end of service at Hong Kong.

10. A voyage from Hong Kong shall be deemed to commence so soon after the time Commencement appointed by the Postmaster-General for the commencement thereof or after the com- pletion of the embarkation of the mails on board the vessel by which the voyare is intended to be performed whichever shall last happen as (having regard to practical considerations) the anchor of the vessel can be weighed or the vessel can be loosed from her moorings and a voyage to Hong Kong shall be deemed to be completed when the vessel by which the voyage has been performed has arrived at a position in the port of Hong Kong from which the mails can be conveniently delivered and has dropped her anchor or been attached to her moorings.

RAILWAY SERVICE,

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be provided for land service.

11. The Company shall and will at all times during the continuance of this Agree- Railway trains to ment or so long as the whole or any part of the services hereby agreed to be performed by means of railway trains ought to be performed in pursuance hereof and at the cost and charges of the Company provide furnish and keep in complete repair and readiness to the satisfaction of the Postinaster-General for the purpose of conveying the mails as herein provided between Halifax or Quebec (as the case may be) and the port of Vancouver a sufficient number of good and substantial railway carriages with all pro- per internal and external fittings and appliances for the conveyance of the mails therein and also a sufficient number of suitable locomotive engines of adequate power capacity and speed for the expeditious and punctual conveyance of the said mails in accordance with this Agreement and all such other accommodation for the purposes of the due and proper conveyance of the mails by railway as herein provided as the Postmaster-General his deputies officers servants or agents may from time to time reasonably require.

12. If the Postmaster-General shall at any time consider any of the railway car- Unfit carriages to riages to be provided and furnished by the Company for the purposes of this Agreement be taken off. as aforesaid unfit for the conveyance of mails under this Agreement the Company shall upon being required so to do either by the Postmaster-General or such other person or persons as he may at any time or times in that behalf authorise substitute another carriage or other carriages for the conveyance of mails in the place of the carriage or carriages so considered unfit for the purposes aforesaid.

13. The Company shall to the satisfaction of the Postmaster-General at their own Place for the cant provide in each train to be provided under this Agreement a separate and suitable deposit of mails, arriage compartment of a carriage or other place for the convenient and secure deposit of the mails under lock and key and take and adopt all such other proper measures and precautions as may be necessary or expedient for the safety of the mails during their conveyance by train under this Agreement.